Flood warning as UK braced for storms

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People are being warned to stay inside on Sunday night and avoid unnecessary journeys, with winds of up to 80mph expected to tear through parts of the country.

A band of exceptionally low pressure was forecast to bring heavy rain and severe gales across the country, forecasters say.

The unsettled weather is expected to climax on Monday morning when the deepening low-pressure system swings east across the UK, with severe weather warnings being issued.

Brian Golding, head of forecasting at the Met Office, said: "The arrival of this exceptionally deep area of low pressure is expected to coincide with spring tides on Monday, bringing the risk of flooding to western coasts stretching from southern England to northern Scotland."

The storm also brings the risk of disruption to transport and power supply networks, with winds strong enough to uproot trees and damage buildings, according to forecasters.

But at this stage they are not predicting the weather will be as severe as the devastating storm of October 1987.

MeteoGroup senior meteorologist Stephen Davenport said: "This could well be the strongest storm of the winter."

Pressure in the centre of the low could fall as low as 935mb west of Ireland. The lowest pressure yet recorded over the UK was 925.6mb at Ochtertyre, near Stirling, in Perthshire in 1884.

However, the storm forecast for Monday was unlikely to be quite that deep when it crosses the country.