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| Red warning of winds gusting up to 90mph in Scotland | Red warning of winds gusting up to 90mph in Scotland |
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| The Met Office has issued its highest level of warning over severe winds expected to affect parts of central and southern Scotland on Thursday. | The Met Office has issued its highest level of warning over severe winds expected to affect parts of central and southern Scotland on Thursday. |
| The red warning covers Central, Tayside, Fife, Strathclyde, south west Scotland, Lothian and the Borders. | The red warning covers Central, Tayside, Fife, Strathclyde, south west Scotland, Lothian and the Borders. |
| There could be gusts of up to 90mph in exposed places in the areas affected. | There could be gusts of up to 90mph in exposed places in the areas affected. |
| The Met Office said there were "some uncertainties" about the exact location of the most damaging winds and said the public should monitor its forecasts. | The Met Office said there were "some uncertainties" about the exact location of the most damaging winds and said the public should monitor its forecasts. |
| A red warning advises people to take action to prepare for the severe weather and they are only issued "a few times a year". | |
| A rapidly deepening area of low pressure moving towards Scotland has provoked the alert which is valid from 10:00 on Thursday until 06:00 on Friday. | |
| Much of northern and central Britain is also covered by an amber warning for high winds. | |
| A Met Office statement said: "Winds will increase during Thursday morning with severe gales developing across many northern and central parts of the UK. | |
| "Some particularly damaging storm force winds are likely to affect parts of the north, including some major population centres in Scotland. | |
| "The risk of disruption is considered highest across central and southern Scotland where the police are advising that conditions for travel will be extremely poor and that travellers are likely to experience significant delays." | |
| It added that winds should tend to ease from the west on Thursday night with severe gales becoming confined to north east Scotland by the early hours of Friday. | |
| A lower-scale yellow warning of snows covering more northerly parts of the Scotland is also in place for Thursday. |