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Storm Gertrude has battered much of the country. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
From Shetland to Saltcoats, storm-force winds and heavy rain | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
have caused transport disruption and damage to property. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Dozens of schools were closed and thousands of homes | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Around 1,200 properties in the north remain without power tonight. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
The country woke up to a battering as Storm Gertrude made her presence | :00:25. | :00:43. | |
felt. Cyclist and joggers were undeterred in Glasgow. How is your | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
cycle to work this morning? Is going very well, despite the strong winds | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
today. You are committed. Not really, mad! Others found the walk | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
to work a struggle and diversions because of unsafe buildings made the | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
commute even more miserable. Across the country, there was travel | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
disruption. The Forth Road Bridge was closed all morning. In Orkney, | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
it was just too stormy for these ferries to brave the journey. An | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
overturned lorry cause delays here near Stirling, and it was a big | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
operation to write this lorry. Throughout the day, people had been | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
working to get train services back to normal but when I was there at | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
the morning rush hour, it was a front picture. At this time of the | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
morning, you'd expect this station to be far busier than it is and that | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
is because trains are cancelled on the west Highland line so you can't | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
get to open or Fort William. If you're trying to get to Inverness, | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
you can get as far as Perth beef for the services are cancelled. And the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
usual every 15 minute Glasgow to Edinburgh train is running every | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
half an hour. Outside Central Station, taxis picked up people | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
running late. I'm coming from Paisley but it has taken me twice as | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
long as it normally would. It hasn't been ideal. The queues have been big | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
for the taxi. Normally there are a lot of taxis here, but Barack many | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
about. Are you late? Yeah. At the height of the storm, 12,000 people | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
were without power. Our weather forecasters have been monitoring the | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
development of Storm Gertrude through the week, and we have moved | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
resources, engineers, support staff, mobile generators into position | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
right across the Highlands and Islands to be ready to respond as | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
quickly as possible. On the Shetland, where winds reached over | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
100 miles an hour, as will as Orkney and the Western Isles, schools were | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
closed. Pupils in other schools, like this one in Edinburgh, got a | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
day off, too, and the scaffolding at this building site toppled over. The | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
worst of the winds might have passed us, but it'll take time to repair | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
damage that has caused. Shetland has borne the brunt | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
of the gales, with a red "danger to life" weather warning | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
in place throughout the afternoon. The gusts have been | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
among the highest ever It has been an exceptional day of | :03:14. | :03:26. | |
wind here in Shetland. We have had hurricane force winds battering the | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
islands most of the day, the strongest winds up at 105 miles an | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
hour. The Met Office says that even though Shetlanders were used to | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
strong winds, this has been exceptional. We have hurricane force | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
12 storms in January, but these gusts are pretty unusual, it is | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
pretty close to the highest gust speeds ever recorded. It has been | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
surprising there's been relatively little damage in Shetland. There was | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
a fan blown off the road earlier today, a few roof slates have, but | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
according to the place that's because the people of Shetland have | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
been prepared and they saw this coming. The decision was made to | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
close all the schools to make sure no children were danger. The public | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
seem to be staying at doors and setting the event out. There are | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
been no reports of significant damage so far, no injury to anybody. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Shetland seems to have been relatively unscathed by these | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
exceptionally strong winds. Around 400 properties were left without | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
power for a short while. There have been no interisland ferries, no | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
interisland flights, either. Flights from Shetland down to mainland were | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
called off at 1pm. The worst of it is passed although we understand it | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
will be another blustery weekend and Monday we are warned they could be | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
strong winds returning again. Hopes are high in Shetland it won't be | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
quite as strong and we won't have 100 mile an hour winds again. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Ferries serving the islands on the west coast have experienced | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
disruption for days now, thanks to the weather. | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne said all of its 26 routes had been | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
affected either by cancellations or delays because of today's storm. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
With wind and snow to come, many services are now cancelled | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
It is going to be particularly bad tomorrow and it won't improve until | :05:11. | :05:23. | |
Sunday, so, at the moment, most of the services will be subject to | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
cancellation and delay extending into tomorrow, and then, hopefully, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
once the weather improves, we will look to make additional sailings on | :05:32. | :05:32. | |
Sunday. Every council in Scotland | :05:33. | :05:33. | |
which isn't run by the SNP has branded the Scottish Government's | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
deal on council funding Council leaders on the Convention | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
of Scottish Local Authorities voted by 21 to seven today to reject | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
the government's offer. Four councils which aren't part | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
of Cosla are exploring Finance secretary | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
John Swinney called the offer Councils have until a week | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
on Tuesday to respond. Andy Murray is through to his fifth | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Australian Open final. To win it for the first time, | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
he'll need to defeat the man who's beaten him three times | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
in previous Melbourne finals, They've never known a Grand Slam | :06:05. | :06:20. | |
quite like it. They came to support Andy Murray. They arrived on court | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
knowing two other Scots had already reached Melbourne finals. Could he | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
make it a tartan trouble? The big serving Canadian did his best to | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
spoil the Scottish intake by breaking Murray straight away. First | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
set, Milos Raonic 6-4. The Murray metal was well and truly tested but | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Heath picked a fine time to break his opponent's serve and levelled | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
the match. A titanic tussle in the third took us to a tie-break with | :06:51. | :07:03. | |
Raonic revelling in the arena. There were two kinds of pain for the now | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
reeling Raonic. The physical one in his right leg, and the mental one | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
when Murray broke again right at the start of the deciding set. Not the | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
only thing that got broken. Having sat to his spirit, the Scot served | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
for the match. A place in his fifth Melbourne final assured and a place | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
in history with the Murrays of the first brothers to make finals at the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
same Grand Slam. It is something that is going to be extremely rare, | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
you're not going to see it often. So we should enjoy it and be proud of | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
it because it is a tough thing to do. The brothers aren't the only | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Scots in the finals. It is a tartan trio thanks to Helen Weed who is in | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
the finals of the wheelchair singles and doubles. Two days, three Scots | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
going four four Australian Open titles. | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
Christopher has the weather outlook for the weekend for us. | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
Brace yourselves! Good evening and what date it has | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
been with Storm Gertrude sweeping through. Weather watchers sending in | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
pictures of felled trees. Here's a snapshot of some of the highest wind | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
gusts we've seen. 105 miles an hour, the highest winds, in Lerwick. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Staying windy tonight. We have a wide scale yellow be aware warning | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
and an be prepared warning for the northern and southern parts of the | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
mainland with the risk of gales and snow. To stop the weekend, pretty | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
windy conditions from the West and frequent snow showers to all levels. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Away from the immediate north-west coast. There will be disruption on | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
the roads if you're driving of a higher parts of the road network. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Across the UK, the Lions share the sunshine across England and Wales. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
The temperatures, but add on the winds, it will feel bitterly cold. | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Let's take a look at mid-afternoon. The showers going through, but there | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
be some dry weather, even some sunshine. The showers are hit and | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
miss, but if you catch one, it will be snow. The winds in Aberdeenshire | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
still strong to gale force. And potentially up to severe gale in | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
exposure. The showers easing down through the evening, the winds | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
easing back, but then there's the risk of ice. To Sunday, we are | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
bringing in some milder air from the south. This were the front bringing | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
rain across the West and south-west. For the north-east, drying up. | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
Temperatures slightly up and the winds lighter. Monday, though, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
another deep area of low pressure with the potential of further | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
damaging winds. That is the forecast for now. | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
Our next update is at 5:50pm tomorrow evening. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
But, from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around | :10:00. | :10:03. |