The United Kingdom’s Meteorological Office has officially named the first severe storm of the winter of 2021/22:
As you can see from the forecast above, very strong winds are forecast to hit the north east coast of Scotland later today, which will inevitably lead to a large number of power cuts.
The UK Met Office has now also issued a red weather warning for Storm Arwen:
High winds speeds in Scotland have been expected, but the coast of South Devon has also been subject to gusts over 60 mph:
Here’s the latest power cut map for the north of Scotland from Scottish and Southern Electricity, showing a total of 201 “unplanned outages”:
and here is Scottish Power’s map for further south:
