Saturday’s issue is the stable account of Tuesday, and it is already a yellow with a narrow job. The further detail says strong west to south-westerly winds are expected to spread across much of Scotland, the north of Northern Ireland and northern England on Tuesday. Gusts of 50 to 60 mph are possible quite widely. Some coastal or exposed places could see 70 mph or more. The same paragraph says there is uncertainty about where the peak gusts fall, and how strong they are. The strongest of the winds ease from the south-west later on Tuesday. The far north of Scotland is the last to ease. The warning is marked as a low likelihood, 10 to 25 percent, of significant impact. That is a reason to fasten what you can reach today. It is a poor reason to book a scaffold for Tuesday morning.
The same national page, read on Monday, also says the warnings service is having trouble and that warnings may be out of date. The gust paragraph does not, by itself, print a start and end clock. The Daily Record and Glasgow Live, reporting that warning, put it in force from 3am until midnight on Tuesday 27 October. The clocks went back at 2am on Sunday, so the country is on GMT for that night. Use the live warning for your postcode as the clock. If that warning is already in force when you read this, the pavement part of this page is over.
Which addresses Tuesday’s yellow actually names
Open the warning before you decide your street is in it. On Monday 26 October the national page’s council list was wide in Scotland and tight in England. It included Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, the Western Isles, Orkney, and the Highland, Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Central, Strathclyde, Lothian and southern Scotland council areas printed there. Shetland was under the Orkney and Shetland heading and was not in the list of places. In England the list named Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland and Cumbria. It did not name Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, York, Hull or London. In Northern Ireland it named County Antrim, County Down and County Londonderry. It did not print the word Belfast, so a Belfast postcode still needs the live map.
A house in Newcastle or Sunderland can use Monday for a ground look and a fasten. A house in Glasgow, Edinburgh or Aberdeen can do the same, with the far north keeping the wind latest on Tuesday. A house in Manchester, Leeds or London can still look for what the weekend already did. Tuesday’s yellow, on the Saturday issue, does not give those cities a gale checklist. Cumbria is named, and this site has no Carlisle page. If the live warning includes you and you want a number, open roofing and use a business that states it covers your town. The contact-details page shows how that call stays yours.
Write the numbers down while the lights are on. In England, Scotland and Wales, 105 is the free power-cut line. In Northern Ireland, NIE Networks publishes 03457 643 643. The National Gas Emergency number on the Met Office power-cut page is 0800 111 999. A router that died with the street cannot look them up.
What Sunday already changed
Boelo is the damage you may already be looking at. The Guardian’s Sunday report said the Met Office had recorded gusts widely of 60 to 70 mph inside the amber zone, 82 mph on Tiree, 84 mph in Argyll and Bute, and 83 mph in Snowdonia. It reported two people killed by falling trees on Sunday, one in south-west Scotland and one in Mill Hill in London. It also reported, from the Energy Networks Association, 161,400 customers without power across Great Britain, and about 53,000 homes in Scotland still off at 5pm on Sunday. Earlier on Sunday the same paper quoted an ENA figure of 82,600 customers still disconnected after 344,900 had been restored. Those totals are Sunday’s. They are a stale count by Monday morning. If your street is dark, call 105, or 03457 643 643 in Northern Ireland. Quoting Sunday’s total does not switch the lights on.
Scotland’s social justice and housing secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville, told people on Sunday to expect travel disruption into Monday, some respite during Monday, and the possibility of more severe weather early in the week. That sentence is the shape of this page. Monday is the respite, where the national page agrees there is no warning. Tuesday is the next yellow, where the Saturday issue agrees there is one. Network Rail, in that same Guardian report, had already shown a trampoline under a train and a shed by the tracks, and asked people near the railway to secure garden objects. If your fence backs onto the line, that is the object to deal with from your own side. Stay off the tracks.
Trees are still in leaf. The London death and the Scottish death were both falling trees, on a weekend when the amber zone was the north and the wider wind still reached other cities. A hung-up branch over a path, a car or a roof is a reason to stay out from under it. It is a poor reason to fetch a ladder. Leaves on a wet path also hide a gully. The gully page is that job, and only when the cover is yours, the water is shallow, and you can see the bottom. Water at a door you can see from inside is the surface-water page. Water through a ceiling is the roof-leak page, from a dry room, today.
What Monday is still for
One circuit, in daylight, from inside and then from your own path or the opposite pavement. You are writing down what Boelo left, and you are latching what already has a fastening, if Tuesday’s list includes you. You are not surveying the roof. Missing tiles, seen from the ground, belong with the ground-level roof check. A ladder against the wall is something Tuesday’s wind can throw. Bring it in if it is already on the ground, and leave it there.
- Read the live warning for your postcode. If Monday still shows no warning, you have the gap. If a warning is already in force, or the page tells you to stay in, stop at the jobs you can finish from the hall.
- If the street is dark, or a cable is down or hanging lower than usual, stop the walk. Call 105 in Great Britain or 03457 643 643 in Northern Ireland. Keep people away from the cable. Dial 999 if someone is in immediate danger. The Met Office after-storm advice is to leave blown-down electrical and telephone cables alone.
- From a spot that is not under the eaves, look once for a tile, slate or ridge piece on the ground or in a gutter you can see from below. Photograph it. Leave the piece where it lies if picking it up puts you under the roof edge.
- Look at trees from a distance. If a limb is hung up over the path, the car or the roof, stay out from under it. Move the car only if you can do that without walking under the limb. Trees are still in leaf.
- Latch the windows and the doors you can reach from inside, including the garage door if you have one. Close the loft hatch and shoot the bolt if it has one. The fasten page has the detail from Friday’s southern gales. If Tuesday’s yellow does not name your council, you can still close what is open. You do not need a second gale checklist.
- If the path is safe and no warning is in force, bring in or secure bins, pots, furniture and a trampoline, and lock the shed, using the garden page. If you back onto a railway, do that from your own garden. A trampoline already on the tracks is a rail matter, not a retrieval.
- Charge a phone, put batteries in a torch, and keep the written numbers with the torch. The government’s Prepare page on power cuts says a torch is safer than candles, and that a phone torch runs the battery down.
- If the heating programmer is still on summer time, do the clock-change check from the clock page while the power is on. Two o’clock on Sunday morning has already passed. Learning the buttons in a Tuesday power cut is the wrong hour.
| What you can see | Do on Monday | Who you ring |
|---|---|---|
| A tile, slate or ridge piece on the ground, or a gutter you can see from below | Photograph it from a safe spot. Leave it if lifting it puts you under the eaves | A roofer, after any warning for your postcode has cleared. Say the piece was down after Boelo. Water indoors now is the leak page, today |
| A chimney pot off square, seen from the opposite pavement | Move beds from the room below if you can do that from inside. Stay off the stack | A roofer, or a builder if they tell you the failed part is the masonry. Describe the lean. Ask them to come when the wind has eased |
| A cable on the ground, or hanging lower than usual | Keep clear. Do not pull it, and do not pick up a dish that has landed beside it | 105 in Great Britain, or 03457 643 643 in Northern Ireland. Dial 999 if someone is in immediate danger |
| A fence panel loose, or a bin still in the side return | Secure it only if you can do that without standing where the panel would fall | A builder after the wind, if the wall has already failed. The garden page covers the fasten list |
| The lights back, and the boiler still dead | Leave the case shut. Use the power-cut boiler page once the street is lit | A plumbing and heating business, and check the card shows Gas Safe before you book gas work |
| Shingle, a promenade, or waves on a coastal road | Stay indoors and well back. Do not clear beach material while it is blowing | After the warning, a builder if the fabric of the house is damaged. On the shore in an emergency, 999 and ask for the Coastguard |
A piece already on the lawn changes the later call from a routine booking to as soon as they can attend safely. It does not make a ladder safe on Monday afternoon, and it does not make a climb sensible because half term means someone is at home. Say you have stayed on the ground. Ask whether the visit is after Tuesday’s warning if your postcode is inside it. Ask whether the figure is plus VAT, using the quote page for what to read before you accept it. If the live warning covers you, open the city list and use the number on the card: roofing in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle and Sunderland. If the live map puts your Belfast postcode inside the named counties, the Belfast roofing list is there. Anywhere else, use the same pattern under roofing. Pound ranges for a whole new roof, where this site has them, sit on the new-roof cost note. That note is a range for a replacement roof. A single slipped slate is a different job, and the note is not a call-out fee.
Tenants can latch windows, close the hatch, charge a phone, move a bed and photograph what they can see from the pavement. A new bolt, a garage-door spring or a chimney repair belongs to the landlord or the owner. Tell them what you could see, in daylight, and leave the tools alone. Owner-occupiers on a short terrace still fasten their own door. A shared close does not make the loft hatch a neighbour’s job.
If the lights are still off
Sunday’s outage figures are the reason to assume some streets are still dark on Monday, especially in Scotland. The useful split is whose power has failed. The Met Office power-cut page says to look at the neighbours. If they are dark as well, call 105. That line connects you to the local distribution operator, the company that owns the cables, which is not the company named on your bill. In Northern Ireland the published loss-of-supply number is 03457 643 643. Internet routers and some digital landlines stop when the power stops.
If the neighbours still have lights, and you already know the board, it is dry, and there is no smell of burning, one reset of the switch that has tripped is the check. If it trips again, stop. If you have never opened the board, or you can smell burning, or the cupboard is wet from a leak, leave it closed. An electrician is the right call once it is safe to be at the door. The number is on a card under electrical, with city lists such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle and Sunderland. You ring. This site does not pass the job on.
While you wait, switch off appliances that would be dangerous if the power returned while you were out of the room: irons, ovens, electric fires and fryers. Leave one light switched on so you can see when the supply returns. Keep the fridge and freezer shut. Torches, not candles. If someone in the house depends on electricity for medical or mobility equipment, the same Met Office page points to the Priority Services Register. Joining it on Monday is preparation. It does not switch the street back on. If you smell gas, leave the house, avoid switches, and use 0800 111 999 from outside. A power cut does not make a gas hob a safe heater. A combi boiler stops when the power stops. Restarting it is the power-cut boiler page, and if it still will not fire, ring a plumbing and heating business and check the card shows Gas Safe before you book gas work. City lists include Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Sunderland, or plumbing and heating for anywhere else. The carbon monoxide alarm check is the page for the alarm itself. The Gas Safe note is the legal boundary for gas work, and it is a different page from this walk.
Do not go outside to catch a tile, a bin or a swinging aerial once the warning for your postcode is in force. Repairs wait until the wind has passed. Keep away from the sheltered side of a wall or fence that is failing, and keep away from the shore.
If half term means you leave, or you drive north
Many English schools are off this week. A published calendar list at whenishalfterm.co.uk puts 26 to 30 October 2026 as the break for most English councils, with pupils back on Monday 2 November. The same list gives Bromley, the Isle of Wight, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Surrey a longer break, 19 to 30 October. Academies can differ, Scottish councils set their own October holiday, and that list puts Northern Ireland’s days off on 29 and 30 October. Check the school before you treat Monday as a free day. The useful part for the house is simple. If you are at home, you can do the ground circuit in daylight. If you are leaving a house inside Tuesday’s council list, do the fasten list before you go. If you are leaving a house in Manchester or London, look once for weekend damage, then read the live warning rather than fastening the house for a gale that list does not name.
A drive into Glasgow, Edinburgh, the Highlands or the north-east on Tuesday sits inside the warning the press has timed from 3am. The warning text expects a chance of longer journeys, cancellations, and some roads and bridges closing. Move the journey if you can. Do not set off because Monday feels quiet and assume the gap lasts past midnight. On the coast, stay back from the shore. Large waves can throw beach material onto seafront roads, and they can knock you off your feet from the edge. The worked example for clearing shingle in a gale, written for Storm Austen, is the shingle page. The instruction does not change because this yellow has no storm name yet. If someone is in the water or on a cliff in trouble, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard.
When this check is over
Some findings end the list. Put the torch down and use the other instruction.
- The live warning for your postcode is already in force, or it has been raised above the yellow you read on Monday morning. Stay indoors. Follow that warning, not a pavement walk written the day before.
- Water is coming through a ceiling, a light fitting or a roof window. Move to the roof-leak page. Closing the front door does not stop that water.
- You smell gas, or you smell burning at the consumer unit. Gas is 0800 111 999 from outside. Burning at the board is an electrician when you can safely meet them, and 999 if the house is on fire or someone is in danger.
- The only way to see the fault is a ladder, a roof window you would have to climb out of, or a walk along a parapet or a sea wall. Stop. Photograph from the pavement if you can do that without standing under the eaves.
- A cable is on the ground or hanging lower than usual. Stay clear and use 105, or 03457 643 643 in Northern Ireland.
- A branch is hung up over the place you would need to stand. Leave it. A tree surgeon is the later call, from a distance, once the warning has cleared. Do not stand under it to point.
- You are on the coast and the waves are already on the road or the promenade. Go indoors. Do not clear shingle. Coastguard emergencies are 999.
After the wind, be careful near walls, buildings and trees, because they can have been weakened. Check on neighbours who may need help arranging a repair. That repair is still their phone call or yours. A cleared warning in Leeds is a different map from a warning that is still easing over the far north of Scotland. A tile in the garden once your own warning has ended is a roofer. A house that is dark when the rest of the street is lit is an electrician. A street that is dark is 105.
What to say when you do ring
On a roofing call, say which elevation, what was on the ground on Monday, and that you have not been on the roof. Say whether water is indoors now or only a piece is missing. Ask them to attend after Tuesday’s warning if your postcode is inside it and nothing is coming in. Ask whether the first figure is plus VAT. On an electrical call, say whether the neighbours have power, whether you reset a switch once, and whether there is a smell of burning. If the aerial is down and clear of any supply cable, say that too. If it is not clear of a cable, you are still on 105, not on a directory card.
A builder is the right conversation when the chimney stack itself is the failed part and a roofer has told you the job is masonry, or when a fence wall has come down, or when a coastal door has been hit by beach material and the warning has cleared. Say what you could see from the pavement. A heating engineer is the right conversation when the power is back and the boiler still will not fire. Say the street is lit, you have not opened the programmer in the dark, and you want someone who is Gas Safe for gas work. Prices on this site, where a page exists, are ranges for whole jobs such as a new roof. They are not a quote for your stack, and they are not a call-out fee for Tuesday.
Questions that change the call
Has Tuesday’s wind been named Storm Chloe?
The warning issued at 09:40 (UTC+1) on Saturday 24 October 2026 is a yellow wind warning. That issue does not give the low a storm name. On Sunday, ITV News and the Scottish Daily Express reported that a further system might be called Storm Chloe if it met the naming threshold. Until the Met Office publishes a name, use the yellow warning and the live page for your postcode. A name added later does not pull Leeds, Manchester or London into the council list printed on Saturday.
Does Tuesday’s warning include Leeds, Manchester or London?
The council list on the national warnings page on Monday 26 October did not include Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, York, Hull or London. In England it named the North East, including Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham and Northumberland, and it named Cumbria. Scotland’s list was wide, including Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, plus Orkney and the Western Isles. Shetland was not on that list. Northern Ireland named County Antrim, County Down and County Londonderry, and the list did not print the word Belfast. If your postcode is missing, Monday is still the day to look for damage Storm Boelo already did. It is a poor reason to fasten the house for a gale the warning does not cover.
The street is still dark on Monday. Should I inspect the roof?
Stay off the roof. If the neighbours are dark as well, call 105 in England, Scotland and Wales, or 03457 643 643 in Northern Ireland, and keep away from cables. A ladder and a garden circuit wait until you can see, and until the live page still shows no warning for your postcode. If only your house is dark, the board is dry, and there is no smell of burning, one reset is the check on the Met Office power-cut page. If it trips again, or you smell burning, leave the board closed and meet an electrician when it is safe. Restarting a boiler after the lights return sits on the power-cut boiler page.
Need a number after you have looked?
Open the list, pick the city, and contact the business yourself.