After the powerful storm once known as Hurricane Lee traveled 3,000 miles across the Atlantic toward New England and Canada, where it made landfall on Saturday, the storm’s remnants have one more journey to make: to the coasts of Britain and Ireland.
The storm system will help usher in traditional autumn weather across Britain this week with cool, wind-swept rains on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The rains will be heaviest and most persistent across parts of Wales and northwest England, according to the Met Office, Britain’s national weather service. Some flooding is possible in those areas.
The rain is going to fall in areas that are used to wet weather, Alex Deakin, a Met Office meteorologist, said, but because tropical air is mixed into this storm, it will be more moist than usual. “It’s more laden, and so it’s more rain than you get in a usual low-pressure system,” he said.
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