Met Éireann have named Storm Kathleen for Saturday, with wind gusts widely hitting 50mph and 60mph to 70mph in some exposed areas.

My Mum's name is Kathleen

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My Mum's name is Kathleen

And Mine was !

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Both of my grandmothers were Kathleen as well. 

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Let's not forget as well that before we even get to that, we have Storm Olivia on its way for tomorrow which has been officially named by the Portuguese Met Service.

Just recently, the south of England was impacted by Storm Nelson which had been named by the Spanish Met Service.

Since Spain and Portugal both make up the Iberian Peninsula, they share the same storm naming system as each other just as the UK and Ireland do.

Storm Olivia is therefore the next name on that list after Storm Nelson, and that is what is responsible for tomorrow's yellow warning for yet more rain here in Edinburgh.

As for Storm Kathleen (which was officially named by Met Eireann this time), that is yet another named storm on our own list to impact this country and of course, there has already been more named storms during this season on our list than in any other season since this system was first introduced back in 2015.

The main thing which it is expected to do is to bring a surge of warm air for a time over the UK.

SE England might get its first temperature of the year of over 20°C although even in this era of climate change and global warming, that is no big deal.

If that was going to be the first 30°C, I would be more concerned with that. However, April is often a month when we start to look for temperatures of over 20°C even here in Edinburgh just for those same reasons that we would expect to be looking for the first air frosts of any autumn/winter season in October.

Up until now though, Edinburgh hasn't even had a temperature of 15°C or higher just yet during this year but the latest models suggest that Storm Kathleen might just bring that over the weekend, so that would at least be something which I would welcome, albeit not the really strong winds which are forecast for then (Edinburgh is after all, under a yellow Met Office warning for wind during that period).
 

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Another extreme bore fest and phantom temperatures. Rather have real warm up sunny days to reach 20C than this unusable weather.   

The forecast for here is for several hours of gale force winds on Saturday - but pretty much bone dry and mostly sunny. Not very usual!

Winds easing off overnight then ramping up again through Sunday - which will be much more showery

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My Mum's name is Kathleen

Storm Kathy to spawn a nasty little devil child runner across the south on Tues early hours Surprised not more interest, looks quite worrying
 

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Storm Kathy to spawn a nasty little devil child runner across the south on Tues early hours Surprised not more interest, looks quite worrying
 

Indeed, was just looking at that. For the far south at least, that looks potentially more windy overnight Mon/Tue than at the weekend 😳

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I've just heard that a Scottish League 1 (which is the third tier of Scottish football in the men's game) match which was being played between Edinburgh City and Montrose at Meadowbank Stadium in NE Edinburgh has been abandoned just 24 minutes into that game due to the high winds which are now gusting up to 55 mph at Edinburgh Gogarbank on the opposite city of the city from there as at 3pm BST (14:00 UTC) this afternoon.

Storm Kathleen was reported in the actual headline for that as being the main culprit.
 

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Nothing untoward here in the west of Ireland at least. Winds are more of a nuisance factor than anything else. The only thing remarkable about Kathryn is the time of year she arrived in. 

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Now it's England's turn, on Tuesday, from son of Kathleen
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings# 
An unusually narrow band but covering virtually all the W & S coasts of England

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a bit blustery West of Scotland but nothing much out if ordinary. Temp 13dc broken cloud, gusty winds   #DampSquib

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Today has been a worse day here. Yesterday was generally quite bright, but blustery, whereas today has been windy with rain and heavy showers. It's one of those cases where the worst of the weather has actually been at the back end of the low, rather than at the leading edge of it.

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My time-lapse for today. A blustery day as Storm Kathleen retreats away. In terms of wind, it wasn't anything unusual, apart from the fact that it was strong winds in April.

https://youtu.be/dj4ayKytkro 

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