All the latest news, updates, maps and forecasts on UK storms. Named by the Met Office, the storms are typically associated with high winds and heavy rain, and can lead to infrastructure damage, transport delays and flooding.
'Although we've indicated there could be flooding associated with the reasonably high levels of rainfall, that's not something anticipated to be widespread.'
The Big Bend usually does not see direct hits from hurricanes, leading to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee to call the storm 'unprecedented.'