By Courtney Spamer, AccuWeather meteorologist
By Eric Leister, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Following a weekend of strong winds, rain and snow, another storm will bring the risk for flooding and damaging winds to parts of the British Isles in the coming days.
The storm will also bring the risk for damaging winds to parts of Belgium, Netherlands and Germany from Tuesday into Wednesday.
If this storm is given a name by the Met Office or Met Éireann, it would be called Gareth, and become the seventh-named windstorm of the season.
Locations from western Ireland into western Scotland will be the first to be impacted by the storm as rain and increasingly strong winds arrive Monday afternoon.
"The heaviest rain is expected from western Scotland into northwest England and northern Wales and from Monday evening into Tuesday," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys.
"Rainfall amounts of 25-50 mm (1-2 inches) are expected in these areas, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 75 mm (3 inches)," added Roys.
Recent rainfall in addition to the downpours from this storm will elevate the risk for flooding.
In addition to heavy rain, winds will become gusty during the day on Monday before becoming locally damaging from Monday night into Tuesday and Wednesday across Ireland and the United Kingdom.
After slamming Ireland and the United Kingdom, strong wind gusts will stretch to France, as well as parts of Belgium, Netherlands and northwestern Germany from Tuesday into Wednesday.
The highest wind gusts, at a magnitude of 95-110 km/h (60-70 mph), are expected in western Scotland, Northern Ireland, western Netherlands and far northwest Germany.
These winds can produce widespread power cuts and travel disruptions with a localized risk for damage to homes and businesses.
Wind gusts 65-80 km/h (40-50 mph) are expected in London and Paris while Brussels and Manchester could see a wind gust as high as 95 km/h (60 mph).
Winds of this magnitude are likely to lead to travel disruptions, including crosswinds on the roads, flight delays at airports and possible delays for boat or ferry travel across the English Channel and Irish Sea.
Another storm will quickly approach bringing the risk for more rain and strong winds to parts of Ireland and the United Kingdom on Thursday.
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