The exact times Storm Austen and Storm Boelo are due to hit Edinburgh as weather warnings issued across weekend

Edinburgh is set to be battered by high winds and heavy rain over the next few days as Storm Austen and Storm Boelo hit the UK.

The Met Office has issued two weather warnings affecting Edinburgh over the next couple of days, with a yellow warning for rain in place today, Friday, October 23, until midnight, and an amber warning for strong winds from 6pm on Saturday, October 24 until 9pm on Sunday, October 25.

Storm Austen will hit Edinburgh with heavy rain and strong winds and gusts of up to 60mph this weekend. | Jane Barlow/ PA

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Friday, October 23

Heavy rain will lash down for most of the day in Edinburgh, easing to light rain from 8pm, before stopping at 10pm, with cloud forecast into the night. The temperature will rise from 6C at 10am to 7C at midday. It will then drop to 6C at 5pm, and then stay at that temperature into the night.

Wind speeds are expected to vary throughout today during Storm Austen, doubling from 7mph to 14mph by 1pm, hitting 16mph at 3pm before easing off to 10mph by 8pm. However, strong gusts are forecast, particularly this afternoon, with the strongest gusts of the day hitting 36mph at 3pm.

Saturday, October 24

The Met Office is currently forecasting a dry start to the day, with light rain from 10am until 12pm, followed by heavy rain from noon until 6pm, when it will ease back to light rain, partly cloudy at 7pm, and then light rain until 10pm, followed by heavy rain into the night.

The temperature will rise from 4C at 7am up to 8C at 12pm, rising again in the afternoon to 11C by 4pm. It will then drop from 5pm to 7C by 9pm.

With a yellow weather warning for wind from 6pm, wind speeds will rise throughout the day, with winds of 7mph and gusts of 20mph at 9am rising to winds of 14mph and gusts of 36mph by noon, rising again in the afternoon to 24mph and gusts of 49mph by 3pm. The wind will stay at that level into the evening, before rising again at 11pm to winds of 28mph and gusts of 60mph.

Sunday, October 25

Those strong winds will continue on Sunday in Edinburgh, with a wind speed of 29mph forecast all day, as well as gusts of between 53mph and 68mph. The winds will ease when the weather warning ends at 9pm, dropping to 19mph winds and 41mph gusts by 11pm.

The temperature will be between 7C and 9C throughout the day, with light showers currently forecast to last from 7am on Sunday into Monday morning.