UK weather map reveals areas worst hit by Storm Henk as 94mph winds rips up trees & sends scaffolding plummeting

UK weather map reveals areas worst hit by Storm Henk as 94mph winds rips up trees & sends scaffolding plummeting

A UK WEATHER map has revealed the areas worst hit by Storm Henk tonight – after 94mph winds ripped up trees and toppled scaffolding.

Brits have been told not to leave home after a woman was reportedly crushed by the storm.

This Met Office map shows the areas worst affected by Storm Henk
This Met Office map shows the areas worst affected by Storm HenkCredit: Met Office
A hero saved a three-year-old child from a submerged car in Birmingham
A hero saved a three-year-old child from a submerged car in BirminghamCredit: BirminghamLive/BPM
The storm brought down scaffolding in Greenwich, south east London
The storm brought down scaffolding in Greenwich, south east LondonCredit: George Cracknell Wright

Now a Met Office map has revealed that the Home Counties, East Anglia and the south Midlands were worst affected by the storm.

Forecasters issued an amber weather warning for these regions, warning of flying debris and a “danger to life”.

But all of Wales and much of England from Cornwall to Yorkshire were also caught in punishing gales and downpours.

Overlapping yellow warnings for wind and rain were in place until 9pm today.

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Paramedics and firefighters scrambled to a road in Orpington, south London after a woman was crushed by a tree.

The London Fire Brigade is now urging people in the capital to stay indoors and to only travel if they need to.

In Birmingham a brave passer-by rescued a three-year-old child and a driver from a car submerged in flood water.

The hero then secured the vehicle to the bridge to prevent it being washed away, local cops said.

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A father also rescued an unresponsive woman from the freezing River Severn in Worcester after spotting her “floating like a mannequin”.

Colin McGarva, 31, waded into the fast-flowing river to save the motionless 50-year-old woman.

Families were even forced to abandon their caravans in the Billing Aquadrome in Northampton, this afternoon, thanks to the torrid conditions.

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