https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2026/storm-austen-named 

There are still some differences between the models. Below is the output from today's ECMWF IFS 00Z.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Amy 

Amy's central pressure dropped to 942mb, against that predicted for Austen of 980mb - but Austen will cross a much more heavily populated part of the UK, with far more trees at risk of being blown over, and moreover a part of the UK not used to severe storms. Amy passed over Shetland.

Interesting to see the potentinal for a short spell of snow and the NW edge of that low. 

I imagine flights will also be disrupted.  

0000 Friday arriving off Cornwall with a spiral of rain wrapped around it (that rain has reached East Anglia by that time)

0800 the storm centre reaches Isle of Wight (heavy showers in south, main rain band has reached Glasgow)

1300 the storm centre has got to Kent (more heavy showers in south, main rain band lying down west coast)

1900 it's moved on to Holland (main rain band down east coast)

0700 Saturday fading out over Denmark (but a new front for Britain from the west)

I hope Darren decides to surface for Storm Austen - are you there Darren???? 

And for sure lot of sunshine to come after this which will be more sunnier than the recent cloudy wet HP had gone.   I am looking forward to see the sun more than the boring storm itself.

The high pressure brought copious amounts of sunshine for many places closer to its influence. The coming days look like bringing large amounts of rain and potentially damaging winds, but yes there will no doubt we sunny periods between the spells of rain.

Consensus seems to be for the centre to stay just offshore, maybe making landfall in Sussex/Kent, which will mean we miss the worst of the wind.

Yes that what I was after the sunny bit I am interested than the bog standard wind and rain.  I also was under very strong influence of 1030mb but bought dull and wet weather instead.  

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings&ved=2ahUKEwiB5fjj4MqXAxVwhv0HHcl1CbkQFnoECCQQAQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw20L3v6GHFOFlx8khlv7AIB 

As I mentioned and showed before, you were affected by the weather fronts from the low pressure over France. In that situation cloud and rain was to be expected. We were away from that and had loads of sunshine. Had the positions been reversed, as is often the case, you would have had the sunshine and I would have been impacted by the fronts.

Yes fronts not supposed to enter or allow to enter any HP zone above 1015mb so I was totally not expected to be here with ths 1030mb which is very strong pressure to deliver cloud adn rain.  That the reason why I was glad the models had dropped the idea of 2 weeks HP fest and now we getting this on Friday Low pressure instead.  This coming LP seem to bring rain here tomorrow night so probably good timing to see the sun a lot on Friday as the rain exit by daylight hours.

The frogs in for a battering, at least it will stop the looting and rioting!

There is now a warning for heavy rain for eastern parts of Scotland for Friday/Saturday, which reflects the current model output very well.