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Robert Dex

UK facing ‘heaviest rain and strongest winds’ of autumn with severe gales forecast for Friday

Showers and possibly thunderstorms are forecast for Saturday and Sunday

(Picture: REUTERS)

The UK is set to experience some of the “heaviest rain and strongest winds” it has seen so far this autumn on Friday – when “severe gales” of up to 55mph could hit parts of the country.

The Met Office said wet and windy weather blowing in on Friday will have started on the other side of the Atlantic, but it does not expect these conditions to be the remnants of Hurricane Fiona, which unleashed devastation in Canada after it came ashore as a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday.

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