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Marina Powell (Environment Agency , Flood Resilience Team Leader, Cumbria)

Today is looking a little less windy than suggested yesterday, with only the exposed coastal sites (St. Bees Head, Walney Isle) currently reporting gales and winds inland not quite as strong as expected. Nevertheless throughout the rest of today and overnight there remains the potential for gusts along the coast and over exposed higher level routes to reach 60+mph, mostly in and around showers. At low levels inland whilst winds for much of the time may stay below 40-45mph occasional gusts to around 50mph or a little above may occur, again mainly in association with showers. We may experience blustery showers moving through northern England, these will fall as rain/soft hail at low levels with sleet/snow more likely above around 300m although overnight and tomorrow this level could dropt. The combination of brisk winds and showers, wintry higher up, will continue through today, tonight and tomorrow morning.

Along the coast there remains the ongoing risk of minor disruption today from waves and spray overtopping in association with the strong winds. 
 
Developments later tomorrow and overnight into Friday continue to pose us problems. Further bad weather will move quickly across the middle of the UK tomorrow evening and overnight, clearing to the east early Friday morning. This may bring more persistent rain. To the north of there is potential for some snow, even to low levels, for a time, and with cold air following on behind, ice could become a renewed hazard on Friday morning.

We are not expecting to issue any further alerts for the coast after this lunchtimes tide.  A flood alert remains in place for the Lower Eden.