Met Office warns of travel chaos as hundreds of trains cancelled on New Year’s Eve

The Met Workplace has forecasted heavy and thundery rain of their newest forecast for New Years Eve.

One yellow climate warning is at present in place throughout southern Wales and England whereas one other for rain is due in northwestern England at 6pm tonight.

The UK braces itself for a tumultuous begin to 2024, marked by blustery showers, gale-force winds, and continued journey disruptions.

The Met Workplace’s climate forecast units the stage for a rollercoaster journey of climate phenomena, as folks can face damp fireworks shows.

Learn the complete report on what the climate will probably be like right here:

Thameslink, which runs the road between Bedford, Luton, central London, Gatwick and Brighton, is warning fo “extreme disruption” for travellers on New Yr’s Eve and 1 January.

The rail agency says: “There will probably be a considerably diminished service on Thameslink north of London and south to Brighton within the afternoon and night [of 31 December], and no Thameslink trains throughout the community in any respect in a single day.

“Clients aspiring to journey again from London in the course of the night time in direction of Bedford or Brighton/Three Bridges will probably be unable to take action.

“Sutton, Rainham and Sevenoaks Thameslink trains will proceed to run. Southern and Gatwick Categorical trains should not affected and Gatwick Airport will proceed to be served.

“Clients for Luton Airport will be capable to use EMR trains and Luton Categorical, though these end earlier on Sunday.”

Britons are gearing up for a moist and windy begin to 2024 because the Met Workplace warns them to carry a raincoat to their celebrations.

“As we start to strategy midnight for a lot of components, Northern Eire, England and Wales we proceed to see some additional showers, so definitely suggest a rain jacket in case you are planning to be about round midnight,” Meteorologist Craig Snell mentioned.

“For Scotland it ought to flip a little bit however drier right here and with some lighter winds, it would flip fairly chilly too, so perhaps a thicker jacket right here as we strategy midnight.”

A French household who feared they’d not be capable to get house till January 2 after Saturday’s Eurostar chaos noticed their prepare cancelled have hailed their surprising tickets house on Sunday as a New Yr’s Eve “miracle”.

Isobel Ram, 49, her associate Amaury Ferrero, 52, and daughter Lee Ram, 20, stay in Toulouse however their prepare house was cancelled on Saturday as a consequence of flooding in a tunnel in Kent.

Amid the chaos, they booked the primary obtainable return tickets, for January 2.

Ms Ram instructed the PA information company: “We spent the night time in a resort, we got here again this morning and a miracle occurred and so they gave us three tickets for at this time’s Eurostar (12.30pm prepare). We had been apprehensive we might be right here till January 2.

“We had been tremendous joyful however a bit embarrassed as a result of there was an enormous queue of individuals ready behind us and we didn’t wish to present we obtained tickets, make it too apparent, in case different folks didn’t. However we mentioned an enormous thanks to the girl who did the tickets for us.”

She mentioned her daughter is very happy they are going to be house for New Yr’s Eve, including: “She has obtained an enormous social gathering in Paris tonight. It’s wonderful, unbelievable, good, a miracle.”

The Met Workplace has issued a brand new yellow climate warning for rain within the North West this night.

It can come into place on 6pm on New Yr’s Eve and stay in place till 6am on New Yr’s Day.

Some areas are anticipated to see as much as 40mm of rain.

The Met Workplace has issued one other climate warning this night for rain.

The brand new yellow climate warning spans north west England and is ready to return into place at 6pm on Sunday.

Frequent heavy showers might result in some flooding and disruption to journey within the space, based on the forecasters.

The warning is ready to stay in place all through New Yr’s festivities and expire at 6am on Monday.

In the meantime, one other yellow climate warning is in place throughout southern England and Wales.

As Eurostar resumes their providers from London after 30,000 passengers had been left stranded in yesterday, The Impartial’s Journey Correspondent explains what the newest scenario is from St Pancras:

Rain and gale power winds proceed within the far northeast of Scotland. Elsewhere blustery showers, though drier additional north and east. Temperatures nearer to regular, however tempered by robust winds.

Blustery showers in a single day, with longer spells of rain in northern England. Showers might flip wintry over any excessive floor in Scotland. Colder than latest nights with frost within the north.

Drier to begin New Yr’s Day, though scattered showers within the north. Cloud thickening from the southwest as rain spreads northeast later. Delicate within the south, however common temperatures elsewhere.