Storm Boelo leaves 90,000 without power as Met Office issues new wind warning

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Around 90,000 properties are without power after Scotland and north England is battered by strong winds.

Storm Boelo leaves 90,000 without power as Met Office issues new wind warning

A clean-up cognition is nether mode successful parts of the UK aft Storm Boelo caused flooding and spot damage, leaving thousands without power.

The Energy Networks Association (ENA) said astir 90,000 properties are inactive without powerfulness arsenic of Monday.

Two men were killed by falling trees during the tempest connected Sunday - a antheral successful his 20s whose car was deed successful northbound London and a 60-year-old successful Mid Kelton, Dumfries and Galloway.

The Met Office has issued a yellowish informing for beardown winds from 18:00 connected Monday to 03:00 connected Tuesday crossed the westbound seashore of England, Wales and Scotland and eastbound parts of Northern Ireland.

The Met Office has warned that further powerfulness cuts successful areas covered by the informing are apt and radical should marque definite they person essentials prepared, including torches and batteries.

Coastal communities could besides beryllium affected by spray oregon ample waves, portion question delays are expected.

Boelo is the 2nd tempest to person deed parts of the UK successful caller days, pursuing Storm Austen.

Leo Slade, CEO of the ENA said it had been "a pugnacious weekend" and that efforts to reconnect immoderate properties were being hampered by the weather, with sustained winds of 50-85mph crossed parts of Scotland and bluish England.

"Until that upwind strategy passes, we can't safely get engineers retired to regenerate poles, to get wires backmost up, truthful contiguous is going to beryllium a hive of enactment successful getting engineers retired into the field," Slade told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

He stressed that the UK's powerfulness web was precise resilient and wealth was spent to hole for these sorts of scenarios, but said a statement was needed implicit however overmuch much concern was required to mitigate for further storms brought by clime change.

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