Flood warning for south Scotland as amber weather warning issued
"If you are planning to travel by rail, please check with your operator ahead of your journey to see if your service is affected."
"If your journey is essential, please plan ahead by making sure you have sufficient fuel and supplies in your vehicle, a charged mobile telephone and always drive as the conditions allow," he added.The Met Office has also updated a yellow weather warning for heavy rain on Friday which now runs from midnight and expires at 14:00 GMT on Friday. The alert covers Central Scotland, Tayside and Fife, south west Scotland, Lothian and Borders and Strathclyde.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has also issued flood alerts for Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, CentralScotland, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee and Angus, Edinburgh and Lothians, Fife, the Borders, Tayside and west central Scotland.Met Office Meteorologist Simon Partridge linked the winter storm in the US - known as a bomb cyclone - to the weather hitting Scotland.Mr Patridge said the impact in Scotland would be "nowhere near as dramatic".
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