A YELLOW warning for wind and rain has been put in place across Oxfordshire for next week.

As well as wind and rain, Oxford is predicted to get snow from 9pm on Tuesday to midnight on Wednesday, with temperatures dropping to 2degC. 

The Met Office has issued a warning for winds reaching 50-60mph and heavy rain from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning. 

Chief forecaster Eddie Carroll said: “This has the potential to produce 20-40 mm of rainfall in the warning area.

“These rainfall amounts are likely to lead to standing water and also the risk of localised river flooding.

“This is still open to some doubt, so this warning will be reviewed in the coming days to adjust areas as confidence increases.”

It comes after fire crews had 20 call-outs on Friday because of the stormy weather in Oxfordshire.

Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said most of the calls were an increase in alarms going off during power cuts.

A control room officer for the service said: “We can’t say definitively that they are all because of the weather but we always see an increase in alarms at homes and businesses going off when there’s bad weather.”

The service also had three calls because of the strong winds causing damage in the Vale of White Horse.

In Wantage a tree fell in Downsview Road blocking the road, which fire crews cut up using chainsaws, and a satellite dish was blown off a house in St Mary’s.

Meanwhile in Abingdon High Street a sign was damaged by the wind and had to be removed by fire crews because it was hanging precariously over the footpath.

More than 500 people in and around Abingdon and Bampton were left without power from 5.30pm on Friday because of two separate faults, including when an overhead line came down, but it was back up by 7.30am on Saturday.

In Oxford a tree was knocked down in Alma Place, Cowley, hitting a car and garden wall, and another came down in Valentia Road, Headington.

Fire crews had to take down the sign of the New Dancing Dragon restaurant in Banbury Road on Saturday because it was at risk of falling onto the footpath.  

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