Overview
- Two people were killed after trees fell during the weekend storms, with one death in London and a 60-year-old man killed in Dumfries and Galloway.
- Two women in Scotland were treated in hospital for storm-related injuries.
- The UK saw two named storms in quick succession, with Austen mainly hitting southern England and Wales and Boelo affecting Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.
- Power cuts dropped from about 90,000 customers on Sunday evening to roughly 39,000 by Monday morning as local network operators worked to restore supplies but faced blocked roads and fallen trees that slowed access.
- Flooding forced road closures and caused rail and flight cancellations in parts of Scotland, and the scale of damage underlines how autumn storms can cascade into prolonged transport and recovery problems for communities and crews.