Britain battered by storm Gertrude with 144mph winds and power cuts

#StormGertrude Storm Gertrude is playing havoc with its 144mph winds accompanied by power cuts. Thousands of homes and businesses were left without power following the rampage of Storm Gertrude, it recorded wind speeds of up to 144mph recorded in Cairngorm mountainous and eastern Highlands areas. As a result, nearly 8,500 properties in Scotland had to lose electricity, apart from thousands across Ireland.
This has been reported in sky.news.com dated 30 January 2016.

Subsequently, power had been restored to 14,000 properties in Scotland. However, the engineers had been hampered by flooding and the high winds as indicated by the Scottish Hydro power company. The Met Office issued a red weather warning - the most severe - for Shetland because the gusts reached 105mph in Lerwick. Moreover, Inverbervie in Aberdeenshire and Orlock Head in Northern Ireland experienced 80mph gusts.
Incidentally, rare multicolored nacreous clouds that one usually sees in polar areas, were spotted in Aberdeenshire. The Environment Agency have informed people in southern England and parts of the North about the risk of renewed flooding over the weekend. The level of the River Ouse in North Yorkshire and the Severn at Shrewsbury are expected to be particularly high.


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