‘SURREAL’ scenes remain in Minehead after Storm Darragh dumped tonnes of sand on the main road which passes the seafront.
People visiting, living or working in the area should continue to take care as the affects of Storm Darragh are being felt 24 hours after strong winds raged over South Wales and West Somerset.
Somerset Council said on X (formerly Twitter) in the wake of the storm: “Surreal scenes from Minehead. Please take care out there, a lot of debris and trees on the network.”
Sand continues to block parts of Seaward Way after the storm brought winds of 80 to 90mph along the Exmoor and West Somerset coastline. The Met Office issued a rare red weather alert signalling danger to life and warning people to stay indoors.
Butlin’s holiday resort in Minehead was forced to close on Sunday because of extensive damage, although it hoped to open for guests arriving on Monday afternoon.
Minehead’s sea front roads were turned into a landscape of desert dunes as thousands of tonnes of sand was washed and blown over the sea wall.
The Met Office has warned the weather is expected to remain breezy along coastlines this evening which is expected to continue into tomorrow (Tuesday, December 10), with brighter spells.
High pressure will continue to dominate, bringing light winds, scattered cloud and sunny spells by day, and frost and fog by night, with it expecting to turn a little cooler and increasingly cloudy by Friday.
