A police officer holds his helmet to stop it flying away as Bournemouth Pier is battered by winds an (Image: BNPS)
Herminia is poised to unleash havoc across with , hot on the heels of which lashed parts of the nation with record-breaking 100mph gusts just 48 hours ago.
As Britain was still grappling with the aftermath of Storm Eowyn, Sunday morning welcomed a fresh weather system in Cornwall.
The South West is currently under more than 18 flood warnings and 123 flood alerts, as issued by the Environment Agency. Predannack in south Cornwall experienced winds reaching 82mph on Sunday morning.
The has put out yellow warnings for large areas, cautioning that the heavy rain and winds could present a “danger to life”. Power outages have been reported across the south-west, impacting thousands of homes and businesses.
A cluster of warnings are in place for England and Wales overnight and into the start of the week (Image: Met Office)
Flooding and fallen trees have caused further turmoil, with locals advised to steer clear of coastal areas due to enormous storm waves.
Named by the Spanish meteorological service where it originated, Storm Herminia has activated three yellow weather warnings for wind and rain across much of England and Wales, expected to last until late tonight or early tomorrow, and a separate warning for wind in Northern Ireland concluding at 7pm.
meteorologist Tom Morgan told : “It’s also going to be wet and windy over the next few days in southern parts of the UK in particular.”
He added: “In most parts of the UK we’re going to have some very wet and at times also very windy weather over today and Monday.
“Certainly tonight in the south east of the UK, we could see some briefly very strong winds, and we could also see some very strong winds across Cornwall and Devon tomorrow in particular”.
Waves crash against the seafront at Sidmouth in Devon as Storm Herminia sweeps through the UK (Image: Mark Eburne/LNP)
Tonight, the south east of the UK may experience brief periods of very strong winds, while Cornwall and Devon can expect strong winds tomorrow.
On Monday, the wet weather is expected to move north, with heavy winds continuing to hit coastal areas in the south and west.
Yellow weather warnings will remain in place across much of England and all of Wales on Monday, before being reduced to a band across the south of the country on Tuesday, with weather conditions expected to improve later in the week.
According to meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey: “This is certainly going to be a notch down compared to Eowyn, whilst there is the potential for 60 to 70mph gusts of wind across the very far south west generally, we’re not going to be seeing the same strengths of winds as we have seen over the last couple of days.”
Following an emergency COBRA meeting on Saturday, government ministers are overseeing recovery efforts, with engineers from England being dispatched to Northern Ireland and Scotland to assist areas severely affected by Storm Eowyn.
As Mr Vautrey noted: “Obviously places maybe currently have a bit of a lower threshold for wind strengths at this stage, following all the disruption and damage that’s been put in place.
“It is something that people certainly need to be wary of, and still taking care of, as we head into Sunday and into the start of the new working week as well – the risk of localised flooding, further flying debris and travel disruption is possible as a result of all of this.”