The 'bomb cyclone' that caused temperatures to plummet in the United States is bringing wet and windy weather to the United Kingdom, the Met Office has warned. On Wednesday, the forecaster issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain from 3am on Friday for 15 hours for much of Scotland, including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling.
The Met Office said heavy rain could bring some flooding and travel disruption. Meteorologist Simon Partridge said the wet and windy weather was being caused by the bomb cyclone in the US.
“The UK weather is going to remain unsettled with further spells of wet and windy weather due to the strengthening of the jet stream because of the weather in the US,” he said. He said that the impact on the UK would be “nowhere near” as significant as it was on the US.
