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STORM Agnes is “intensifying quickly” and will hit Scotland with damaging winds and big stormy seas, the Met Office has said.
It issued a string of weather warnings ahead of the arrival of the first named storm of the season tomorrow.

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Scots are set to be battered by winds of up to 75mphCredit: Getty

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Storm Agnes is “intensifying quickly” and will hit Scotland with damaging winds and big stormy seasCredit: Getty

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The Met Office issued a string of weather warnings
It is expected to generate winds of up to 75mph and cause dangerous conditions along coastlines.
Earlier today, weather boffins escalated Storm Agnes’s wind speeds, warning that strong gusts arriving tomorrow could be greater than first feared.
Anticipating wind speeds of 75mph on the coast, the reason for the updated warning was given as: “Likelihood of impacts has been increased, particularly in southwest Scotland.”
Storm Agnes is the first named storm of the autumn, originating on the eastern coast of the United States as Tropical Storm Ophelia.

The rest of the country will be hit hard too, with winds reaching anywhere between 40-60mph.
Meteorologist Tom Morgan told the PA news agency: “Storm Agnes is now very much intensifying quickly about 1,000 miles or so away from the south-west of England, in the Atlantic Ocean, and it’s moving quickly north-eastwards towards the UK.”
He said the storm’s main impact will be strong winds and large waves.
“We are likely to potentially see some damaging winds, the possibility of some brief power interruptions, particularly in Irish sea coastal areas,” Mr Morgan told PA.
“So Northern Ireland, north-west England, west Wales, and south-west Scotland, that’s where we’ll probably see gusts of up to 75mph tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening, that’s when the peak of the winds will be and then Storm Agnes will move across Scotland clearing away from Shetland through Thursday morning.”
He added: “In addition to the winds, there’s going to be some large waves as well, so some big stormy seas, and therefore there might well be some coastal flooding where the waves break on to promenades and on to coastal roads.”
The storm will make landfall on the west coast of Ireland and winds will start to pick up for the UK around midday.
He warned of potential disruption to ferry services across the Irish Sea, bridge closures, power cuts and “small amounts” of damage to buildings.
He described Storm Agnes as “more widespread” than the last named storm to hit the UK – Storm Betty – but said it will not produce “significant widespread and long lasting travel disruption”.
By Thursday, most parts of the UK are poised for a “much calmer” forecast and further spells of wet and breezy weather should peter out by the end of the week for a drier weekend.
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