The government has sent out an emergency alert to phones all over the UK tonight as the weather worsens, with Storm Darragh causing high winds and life-threatening conditions.
An alert was scheduled to be sent out to millions of Brits‘ mobile phones at 6.45pm today (6 December), to warn of the unsafe weather conditions that could hit certain areas overnight.
Flooding is expected in some areas (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
A Cabinet Office spokesperson stated: “The Met Office has issued a red warning for wind across parts of England and Wales from 3am until 11am on Saturday 7th December. In light of the damaging winds and associated disruption, the Cabinet Office will issue an Emergency Alert at 18.45pm on Friday December 6 to people in areas covered by the red warning in parts of Wales and the South West.
“The Emergency Alert system will send a message to every compatible mobile phone in the impacted areas, containing information about the red warning and guidance on how to stay safe into Saturday. This will be the largest ever use of the system outside a test scenario. Mobile phones will make a loud siren-like sound even if they are set on silent. The sound and vibration will last for about 10 seconds,” they concluded.
Residents in Devon, Bath and North East Somerset, the City of Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Somerset, Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Monmouthshire and Newport will have received the alert.
More to follow.
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