The Met Office has issued a rare Red Weather warning for Winds covering the Vale of Glamorgan, ahead of Storm Darragh on Saturday.
The Met Office has issued a Red Weather warning covering the Vale of Glamorgan along with much of South and West Wales.
The agency says extremely strong winds will develop during the early hours of Saturday morning, with gusts of 90mph or more possible over coasts and hills in south and west Wales.
The strongest winds will begin to ease from late morning - with the red warning expiring at around 11am, although it will remain very windy with an amber warning for strong winds in force across the Vale until 9pm, with gusts of up to 70-80mph around exposed coasts and headlands.
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