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Areas hit by 'danger to life' weather warning mapped after Storm Boelo

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page The Met Office has issued new yellow weather warnings for wind, stressing that one of them could present a ‘danger to life’. Storm Boelo is now moving away from the UK, bringing calmer weather after days of rain and wind over the weekend. But this won’t last, as another deep area of low pressure is moving in from the Atlantic.

This is set to hit the northwest of the country on Monday and Tuesday, bringing with it yet more rain and gales. One warning, which comes into effect at 6pm today, affects parts of northwest England, Northern Ireland, southwest England, southwest Scotland and west Wales. This will expire at 3am tomorrow morning. Monday’s weather warning affects Great Britain’s west coast and eastern Northern Ireland (Picture: Met Office) The second warning, in place on Tuesday, could present a ‘danger to life’ (Picture: Met Office) The second yellow weather warning covers all of Scotland and northern parts of Northern Ireland from 3am until 9pm on Tuesday.

This one, the forecaster stressed, could present a ‘danger to life’. ‘There is a small chance that injuries and danger to life could occur from large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal roads and properties,’ it said. ‘There is a small chance of injuries and danger to life from flying debris.’ The Met Office also said the weather system could cause power cuts, ‘longer journey times or cancellations’, road and bridge closures and ‘damage to buildings, such as tiles blown from roofs, as well as damage to trees’.

The incoming weather system is not expected to be as severe as Storm Boelo, which caused widespread power outages, flooding, and several deaths over the weekend. The inclement weather is far from over (Picture: Maja Smiejkowska/Press Association) Storm Boelo brought rain and wind to much of the country this week (Picture: Maja Smiejkowska/Press Association) However, its effects could be amplified with it following hot on the heels of the previous storm.

It is unclear whether the weather system will become a named storm, but the Met Office have predicted that midweek will bring calmer conditions as an area of high pressure builds close to the UK. Rain will continue into Wednesday, but most of the country is expected to be dry by the end of the day. It comes after Storm Boelo blew through the UK, causing multiple injuries and fatalities. Two pedestrians were rushed to hospital after being crushed by falling scaffolding on Streatham High Road, south London, on Sunday.

Meanwhile, a 60-year-old man was killed by a falling tree in Dumfries, Scotland, just after 10am on the same day.

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What we found (1)

Metro reports the Met Office's new yellow wind warnings after Storm Boelo, including a Tuesday warning for Scotland and Northern Ireland that could present a danger to life. It sources the warnings carefully and states plainly that a man was killed by a falling tree. Its account of the Mill Hill driver says only that he was crushed in his car. It does not say he died, though Metro had reported that the day before.

  1. Drops what it reported before

    Minor

    “Another man in London was crushed in his car as he drove through Mill Hill at 12.40am.”

    Why this matters
    The words "was crushed in his car" say only that the man was crushed. They do not say that he died or what crushed him.
    The impression it gives
    A reader may take the Mill Hill driver to be one of the injured, like the two pedestrians rushed to hospital in the sentence before, and not one of the dead.
    The context
    Metro reported the day before that this driver, in his 20s, was killed when a tree crushed his car. That makes him Storm Boelo's second victim.

    How we know

    Show it in the article

What it gets right

  • “There is a small chance that injuries and danger to life could occur from large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal roads and properties”

    It quotes the Met Office's own wording, so the headline's 'danger to life' is sourced and keeps its 'small chance' qualifier.

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