Winds as high as 80mph were recorded across parts of north and north east Scotland today.
SOME PEOPLE IN Britain been warned they could be without power for more than 48 hours after Storm Otto swept across the country, leading to travel disruption and school closures.
SSEN said it expects its teams to continue to make significant progress in restoring power to customers into Friday evening.The UK Met Office had issued yellow weather warnings for wind covering the whole of Scotland and a stretch of north and north east England, running from Sheffield to the Scottish border, which expired early on Friday afternoon.
“We continue to work closely with our resilience partners to support our customers as required, particularly those on our Priority Services Register, and are now ramping up our welfare provisions, including deploying food vans to the main areas still affected. In Angus, schools are closed for the mid-term break but the council tweeted that the roof of Burnside Primary School in Carnoustie had been damaged by the high winds and the school will remain closed to pupils next week.
Phil Campbell, ScotRail’s head of customer operations, said: “ScotRail services on routes across the country have been impacted by the severe weather conditions of Storm Otto.
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