. >> we're joined now by meteorologist john hammond. good morning john.he weather kept you awake all night? i could hear a sort of storm raging all night. >> i know i could hear it outside all night long. and the good news is. or should i say the bad news is that the forecast is going exactly according to plan . so, yeah, the according to plan. so, yeah, the height of the storm over the next few hours. in fact, just over the last hour or two, we've had those 90 mile an hour gusts slamming into the west coast of wales, 91 miles an hour at one station, actually. but yeah , station, actually. but yeah, winds quite widely over 70 miles an hour now across a good chunk of west wales and funnelling up the bristol channel as well . so the bristol channel as well. so some places which aren't normally impacted by gusts that ferocity are getting hit right now with 70 mile an hour gusts, for example, in and around the cardiff area, bristol badly affected as well. this is where the red warning is in force , but the red warning is in force, but more widely across the c

meteorologist john hammond spoke to us earlier and warned people not to underestimate how fast the weatherill change, because the weather will change, because the weather will change, because the weather is set to turn nasty just about everywhere across the country, particularly, as you say, across western areas. >> all courtesy of storm dara, which is winding itself up now just to the west of the uk . it's just to the west of the uk. it's already bringing heavy rain across northern ireland and despite a fine day across many other areas that will change later on this afternoon into tonight. rain will sweep across all of us now in scotland, a farm has been placed under lockdown after a cow tested positive for atypical mad cow disease. >> the scottish government has imposed strict movement restrictions on affected animals, although it says there is no risk to public health and the cow did not enter the food chain. the case in dumfries and galloway was detected through routine surveillance, and investigations are now underway to determine its origin. authorities have assured that the public t

meteorologist john hammond spoke to us earlier and warned people not to underestimate how fast the weatherill change. >> don't be fooled because the weather is set to turn nasty just about everywhere across the country, particularly as you say across western areas, all courtesy of storm dara, which is winding itself up now just to the west of the uk. it's already bringing heavy rain across northern ireland and despite a fine day across many other areas, that will change later on this afternoon into tonight. rain will sweep across all of us in scotland. >> a farm has been placed under lockdown after a cow tested positive for atypical mad cow disease. the scottish government has imposed strict movement restrictions on unaffected animals , although it says there animals, although it says there is no risk to public health and the cow didn't enter the food chain. the case in dumfries and galloway was detected through routine surveillance, and investigations are now underway to determine its origin. authorities have assured the pubuc authorities have assured the public that stringent control mea