Two More Wind Warnings, and a Correction to This Morning
About 22,600 properties were still without power on Monday afternoon, down from 90,000 in the morning. Two further yellow wind warnings follow: one from six this evening until three tomorrow morning on western coasts, and a second across much of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland through Tuesday. This morning we called the coming storm Chloe. It has no name, and we were wrong to give it one.
The correction first, because a named storm is the kind of thing readers act on. Boelo was the second named storm of the season, after Austen, and the forecaster has not named a third. The warnings now in force are unnamed. The warning we described this morning was real and its timing and area were right — much of Scotland, parts of northern England and Northern Ireland, from three on Tuesday morning — but the name attached to it was not in any source, and it should never have reached print. We are not giving an end time for it tonight: our two sources differ, one saying just before midnight and one nine in the evening. Gusts are forecast to reach 65mph on exposed coasts overnight and up to 70mph in the far north on Tuesday, with further power cuts thought likely and advice to keep torches and batteries to hand. Both power figures come from the Energy Networks Association a few hours apart, so the fall is repair work, not a revision; about 700,000 customers were reconnected across the weekend.