Storm Malik and Corey: The turmoil extends for the fourth day | UK weather

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Thousands of people are facing another night without power in Scotland and north-east England after a storm hit parts of the UK.

Some schools in Scotland will remain closed on Tuesday after winds of up to 92 mph were recorded in northern parts of the UK over the weekend as Storm Malik and Corey swept from the Atlantic.

Northern Powergrid said about 80,000 of its customers in the Northeast were affected by the outages over the weekend, and about 1,800 of its customers remained without power Monday evening.

In Scotland, about 38,000 households experienced power outages, largely in Aberdeenshire and the Angus border, as well as parts of Perthshire, the Highlands, the Western Isles and the Moray Coast.

SSE, which supplies much of Scotland with electricity, said: “Restore efforts from Storm Corrie will continue into Tuesday with the possibility of this extending for small groups of customers into Wednesday, according to today’s damage assessment.”

In Aberdeenshire, food carts were serving hot meals to families without electricity all day Monday, while entertainment centers were open all day for people to shower and charge their phones. The local council said 12 schools in the area will remain closed on Tuesday due to problems with heating, hot water and restaurants.

“It’s fair to say Storm Cory hasn’t helped. But we’re making good progress and we have more teams coming in to help later in the day,” said Andy Belkloof, Director of Field Operations at Northern Powergrid, Monday night. In progress now. Some are quite large and therefore will be up and running through this evening and into tonight. Our entire team commitment is to get as much done as possible tonight – and to get all of our customers back into supply as soon as possible.”

Back-to-back storms were linked to two deaths over the weekend, after a nine-year-old boy in Staffordshire and a 60-year-old woman in Aberdeen died after being hit by fallen trees on Saturday.

The Storm Malik has been named by the Danish Meteorological Institute and Corrie by the UK Met Office. The Bureau of Meteorology lists storms alphabetically but skips Q, U, X, Y, and Z to comply with international storm naming conventions and to maintain consistency in official storm naming in the North Atlantic.

On Monday night, two flood warnings remained in effect for parts of England’s southeast coast, with the Environment Agency warning to expect flooding along the Waveney and Yare tidal rivers due to exceptionally high tides in Great Yarmouth.

There was significant disruption to travel across England and Scotland as operators including ScotRail, London North Eastern Railway, CrossCountry and TransPennine Express canceled or suspended their services on Monday morning.

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