Tomorrow, Scotland’s Railway will enforce speed limitations as storm Gerrit is forecasted to bring strong winds, heavy rain, and snow across the country. The Met Office’s warnings cover most of Scotland, predicting rainfall of 20-45mm within 24 hours and wind gusts of 60-70mph in certain regions.

Parts of the UAE is under heavy rain and thunderstorms from Friday morning. They are Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah, Sharjah and Ajman.

In Spain a woman died when a tree fell on her and three people were injured. Two people died in Belgium, being hit by falling branches from trees.

Met Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said various warnings have been in force across the UK and “plenty more” will be issued for the next couple of days.

Blue Anchor Station on the heritage West Somerset Railway flooded, damaging a signal box and all services are suspended on the route for the rest of the day.

Taiwan cancels hot air balloon festival in Taichung, several outdoor concerts, art events, baseball festival; closes roads to National parks amid Typhoon Haikui.

A localised storm with hail and heavy rain swept over the area, and the city’s fire brigade was called out more than 120 times to assist, in many cases to free people trapped in their cars.

In the town of Litija, the high school remained closed Tuesday after the storm damaged its roof. In Ljubljana, several houses were flooded and a car was stuck under an overpass.

The potential of landslides at Pandoh and other susceptible portions remains a day after traffic on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway was resumed, as the meteorological department issued an orange alert warning of heavy to very heavy rain in ten districts …

The heavy precipitation has helped California’s drought, but has not been enough to reverse decades of water shortages.