Hello and welcome to bbc news. The army have been called in to help shore up flood defences across West Yorkshire, with large parts of the uk expected to be hit by severe rain and wind from storm dennis. The regular troops and reservists have been deployed to ilkley and calderdale. The Highways Agency has warned of hazardous driving conditions and north wales police has urged people not to go out unless its absolutely neccessary. Matches in the scottish premiership at rangers and motherwell have been called off. There more than 250 flood warnings and alerts in place across the uk, and wind speeds are forecast to reach 70mph along coastlines. There is also travel disruption with British Airways and easyjet cancelling flights across the country with easyjet confirming they have cancelled 234 flights in and out of the uk. Helena wilkinson reports. A relative calm before the storm. Still clearing up from storm ciara last weekend, residents in the Calder Valley are bracing themselves for an
Jersey a stormy sea front in st helier and some snow as the rain move northwards. We saw recovering across parts of north east england and southern scotland, all down to this area of low pressure moving on before another one moves in for late on friday and then we see storm dennis over the weekend. That low pressure system is clearing away into the north sea. Its taking the heavy showers with some rumbles of thunderfrom heavy showers with some rumbles of thunder from the south east away with it although stays windy across the south west and through the channel but those winds will ease down. Sunshine and showers elsewhere, stays rather damp for scotla nd elsewhere, stays rather damp for scotland and england. The temperatures in single figures for both, just about double figures in the south east. The area of low pressure clears away. A brief winch of low pressure which turns things cold and the next area of low pressure m oves cold and the next area of low pressure moves in on friday s
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Well. The main reign band moving away from the south east, behind it lots of showers compacting in, they are going to be heavy as well. Storm dennis, the centre of stormed the ohus dennis, the centre of stormed the onusis dennis, the centre of stormed the onus is getting closer to northern scotla nd onus is getting closer to northern scotland overnight, so we make it a strengthening of the wind across here as well. Lots of showers overnight, some heavy and one day for most of us as well, but cooler thanit for most of us as well, but cooler than it has been up late for england and wales. It is going to be a day of sunshine and blustery showers, some of the showers are heavy and potentially thundery, weather pushing across. Frequent showers in scotla nd pushing across. Frequent showers in scotland and Northern Ireland. Decent temperatures, perhaps as perhaps as high as nine or 10 degrees. It will be a windy day, not as windy as it has been. A Major Incident is declared by police in south
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