‘We were told to leave work early because of the storm’published at 16:52 GMT
16:52 GMT
Will Vernon
Reporting from Birmingham
I’m at Birmingham New Street train station, where changes and cancellations are expected after 19:00 due to the storm.
Hoping to avoid disruption, many passengers tell me they’ve changed their travel plans to get earlier trains.
Chiny, a 39-year-old government worker, is heading home to Leeds a day early to try and beat the weather.
“We were having a work meeting but it was ended early and everyone was told to go home because of the storm,” he says.
University of Oxford student Kat, 22, was passing through Birmingham on her way home to Leicester and had to get an earlier train after hers was cancelled.
“My mum has offered to pick me up from the station which she normally doesn’t do, so maybe that’s an indicator of the seriousness of it,” she said.
Also at the station today was The Traitors presenter Claudia Winkleman, who was filming an episode of Channel 4’s The Piano, alongside commuters waiting anxiously for news of their cancelled journeys.