The bad weather due to batter Berkshire at the weekend has been officially named as Storm Brian.
The area is braced for gusts up to 50mph as the second storm of the season makes its way across the UK on Saturday, October 21.
Officials at the Irish Met Office- Met Eireann - have christened the storm after latest forecast models indicated it was likely to cause major disruption.
The bad weather will result from a ‘weather bomb’ which will develop in the Atlantic before being dragged towards the UK on a series of fronts.
An explosive cyclogenisis, or weather bomb, occurs when pressure drops by 24 millibars in 24 hours.
This forces very strong winds to emerge from the area of low pressure when dry air from high above the Earth cascades into an area of low pressure.
Air then rises extremely quickly deepening the pressure and allowing extra energy to be picked up by the storm system.
However, the area of low pressure is expected to weaken by the time it reaches the UK, but weather warnings are still in place.
Brian will cause gusts of up to 80mph along southern coastlines and heavy downpours are predicted to saturate large parts of Wales and south-western England on Saturday.
High winds are also forecast to hit inland areas.
Storms are named alphabetically in the UK and Ireland and Storm Brian will follow September’s Storm Aileen.