The same national page says the warnings service is having trouble and that warnings may be out of date. Read it again for your own postcode before you treat the yellow as finished, and before you treat a bright gap as a roof hour. The further detail on the updated warning says strong west to south-westerly winds are expected to spread across much of Scotland and fringe the north of Northern Ireland during Tuesday. Gusts of 50 to 60 mph are possible quite widely. Some coastal or exposed areas in the northwest and far north of Scotland could see gusts of 70 mph or more. The same paragraph says there is still uncertainty about the peak gusts. The highest winds are expected in the far north and northwest, most likely over the Hebrides. The strongest winds reduce from the southwest 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 stay in if your council is named. A yellow colour is a poor reason to put a ladder against the wall.
The further-detail paragraph does not print a start clock or an end clock. The update reason says the end time was brought forwards, so a line from the weekend that ran the warning until midnight is the wrong clock for this issue. A later press line that picks a different hour is the wrong clock as well if the live page still shows the warning, or if it is still blowing hard enough to move a ladder. The national forecast, updated at 04:00 UTC on Tuesday 27 October, says tonight stays windy across the northwest, with further showers and perhaps longer spells of rain, and turns drier towards the southeast with winds easing. Use the live warning for your postcode as the clock.
Which councils the Monday update still names
Open the warning before you decide your street is in it. On the list attached to the 08:41 UTC update, Scotland is wide and England is absent. Central, Tayside and Fife names Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Falkirk, Fife, Perth and Kinross, and Stirling. Grampian names Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. Highlands and Eilean Siar names Na h-Eileanan Siar and Highland. Orkney and Shetland names the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands. Shetland was missing from Monday morning’s list. It is on this one. Strathclyde names Argyll and Bute, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire. The south-west Scotland, Lothian and Borders heading names East Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, the Scottish Borders and West Lothian. Dumfries and Galloway is not in those lines. If a later update adds it, the live page wins.
No English council appears on this update. Monday morning’s list had named Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland and Cumbria. Those names are absent here. Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, York, Hull and London were absent on Monday morning and they are absent now. Wales does not appear on this updated list either. An earlier yellow, which the Met Office described on Monday as covering Wales, parts of western England, south-west Scotland and eastern parts of Northern Ireland, was given a window of 18:00 Monday to 03:00 Tuesday. That is a different issue from the warning still described for Tuesday daytime. In Northern Ireland this update names County Antrim and County Londonderry. County Down, which Monday morning’s list included, is not on it. The word Belfast is not printed, so a Belfast postcode still needs the live map.
A house in Glasgow, Edinburgh or Aberdeen treats today as an indoor day. A house in the Highland council area, on Orkney or Shetland, or on the Western Isles keeps the wind latest, and the Met Office news published at 12:12 UTC on Monday says gales could continue for a time in the far north even after Wednesday’s high pressure starts to build. A house in Newcastle or Sunderland does not inherit Tuesday’s yellow from a list that this update replaced. People there can leave the gale checklist. They still leave the ladder in the shed today, because the national forecast calls Tuesday cool and windy for all. A house in Manchester, Leeds or London was never on this warning. If the live map puts a Belfast postcode inside the named counties, the Belfast roofing list is there for after the wind. If you want a number in a named city, use roofing in Glasgow, Edinburgh or Aberdeen, and ring the business yourself. The contact-details page shows how that call stays yours. This site does not pass the job on.
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 to do from indoors if the warning names you
The expected impacts on the warning are travel delays and cancellations, roads and bridges that may close, a slight chance of tiles leaving roofs and of damage to trees, a chance of power cuts, flying debris, and large waves or beach material thrown onto seafronts, coastal roads and properties. None of that is a job you finish by stepping outside to catch a slate. Met Office news from 12:12 UTC on Monday, quoting Deputy Chief Forecaster Steven Keates, says people in the warning areas, particularly northern Scotland and western high ground, stay exposed to strong winds and heavy rain until the more settled spell arrives. The national forecast for today adds sunny spells and showers, heaviest and most frequent in the north, severe gales across northern Scotland, and large waves along the coasts. A bright half-hour in Glasgow is still inside that day.
- Read the live warning for your postcode. If it is in force, or the page tells you to stay in, the outdoor jobs are finished. Monday’s fasten list was for Monday, while that page showed no warning.
- Stay in a room that is not under a tree or under a chimney you already know is damaged. Keep clear of a window that something is already hitting. Leave the loft hatch shut. Looking into the loft does not tell you whether a ridge tile is loose, and an open hatch is a wind path if a tile has already gone.
- If the street goes dark, or a cable is down or hanging lower than usual, stop. Call 105 in England, Scotland and Wales, 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.
- Leave one light switched on so you can see when the supply returns. Switch off irons, ovens, electric fires and fryers so they do not start again while the room is empty. Keep the fridge and freezer shut. Use a torch, not candles. The government’s Prepare page on power cuts says a phone torch runs the battery down.
- Leave the bin, the tile, the trampoline and the swinging aerial where they are. Securing loose items is the advice for before a warning. Once this one is in force, repairs wait until the wind has eased. The garden page is the list you should already have used.
- 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, after the lights are back.
- On the coast, stay indoors and well back from the shore. Large waves can throw beach material onto seafront roads, and they can knock you off your feet from the edge. If someone is in the water or on a cliff in trouble, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard. The worked example for shingle in a gale is the shingle page. The instruction does not change because this yellow has no storm name.
- If half term means a drive into Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen or the Highlands today, move the journey if you can. Many English schools are still off through Friday, as the Monday page noted, and Scottish councils set their own October dates. A quiet street in Leeds is a poor reason to set off into a warning that names the city you are driving to. Check rail and bus times before you leave a named area, and expect some roads and bridges to close.
Do not go outside to catch a tile, a bin or a swinging aerial while the warning for your postcode is in force. Keep away from the sheltered side of a wall or fence that is failing, and keep away from the shore. A sunny spell does not cancel the warning.
If your council dropped off the list
Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead and the rest of that Monday-morning England list are the awkward case. The house may already be fastened, because yesterday’s page asked for that while those councils were named. Today’s update has taken them off. You do not need a second gale checklist, and you do not need to spend the day indoors for a yellow that no longer names you. You also do not spend the sunny spells on a ladder. The national forecast still calls Tuesday cool and windy for the whole country, with showers, and with large waves along the coasts. A tile that Storm Boelo already shifted can still move in that wind. Photograph it from a window if you can see it without standing under the eaves. The pavement circuit waits until the wind has eased.
Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, York, Hull, London and the other English cities on this site were outside Monday morning’s list as well. Cardiff, Swansea, Bristol, Plymouth, Exeter, Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton are outside this update. A ground look for weekend damage is still Wednesday’s job, in daylight, from your own path, once you can stand clear of the eaves. Water that is already coming through a ceiling, a light fitting or a roof window is not a Wednesday job. That is the roof-leak page, from a dry room, today. Closing an upstairs door does not stop that water.
Coasts outside the council list still have today’s national forecast of large waves. A promenade is a poor place to clear beach material while those waves are running, whether or not your council is on the yellow. Stay back, and use the shingle page once it has eased. In an emergency on the shore, 999 and ask for the Coastguard. County Down and a Belfast postcode that the live map leaves outside the named counties follow the same rule as Newcastle: the gale checklist for this warning is over, the ladder stays down today, and Wednesday is the look.
When a ground look can start
The week strip on the national warnings page shows no warning on Wednesday 28 October, and none through Monday 2 November. The national forecast for Wednesday says showers tend to become confined to Scotland as high pressure builds from the south, with a dry and bright day for most, sunny spells, lighter winds, and temperatures a little above average. That is the first day a pavement circuit is sensible for most of England and Wales, and for Scottish cities whose live page has cleared and whose local wind has actually eased. It is a poor day to book a scaffold because the banner has gone. One circuit, in daylight, from inside and then from your own path or the opposite pavement, is the job. The ground-level roof check is how to look. A ladder against the wall can still go over if the far north is the place where gales linger.
Thursday’s outlook on the same forecast, updated at 04:00 UTC on Tuesday, says fog patches may be slow to clear, then most places dry with sunny spells. The Monday Met Office news says mist and fog are likely across parts of England and Wales on Thursday morning and may be slow to clear. Ask a roofer to come when they can see the ridge. A dawn slot on Thursday that cannot see the stack is a wasted visit. From Friday, the same outlook allows patchy rain back into the north, with the south more likely to stay dry. Book the look for a dry daylight gap after your own warning has cleared. Do not wait all week if water is already indoors.
| What you can see | Do once the warning has cleared | Who you ring |
|---|---|---|
| A tile, slate or ridge piece on the ground, or a gutter you can see from below | Photograph it from a spot clear of the eaves. Leave the piece if lifting it puts you under the roof edge | A roofer, in daylight, when they can see the roof. Say you stayed on the ground. Water indoors now is the leak page, today |
| Water through a ceiling, a light fitting or a roof window | Move what you can from a dry room. Kill the power to that circuit only if you can reach a dry switch without standing in the water | A roofer today. If water is on electrics, an electrician as well, once it is safe to meet them at the door |
| 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. Ask them to come when the wind has eased and the ridge is visible |
| 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 branch 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 | A tree surgeon, from a distance, once the wind has eased. Do not stand under the limb to point |
| 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. Check the card shows Gas Safe before you book gas work |
| Shingle, a promenade, or waves still on a coastal road | Stay indoors and well back until the waves have dropped. Do not clear beach material while it is blowing | After it has eased, 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 call from a routine booking to as soon as they can attend safely. It does not make a ladder safe on Tuesday 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 figure is plus VAT, using the quote page for what to read before you accept it. 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. If your city was on Monday’s England list and is off today’s, the same roofing pattern still applies after the wind: Newcastle and Sunderland. Anywhere else, open roofing and use a business that states it covers your town.
Tenants can close internal doors, charge a phone, move a bed and photograph what they can see from a window. A new bolt, a garage-door spring or a chimney repair belongs to the landlord or the owner. Tell them what you could see, and leave the tools alone. Owner-occupiers on a short terrace still keep their own door shut. A shared close does not make the loft hatch a neighbour’s job while the warning is in force.
If the power goes while the warning is in force
The warning allows for power cuts, and for those cuts to affect mobile coverage. Sunday’s outage totals from Storm Boelo are a stale count by Tuesday. If your street is dark, call 105, or 03457 643 643 in Northern Ireland. Quoting an old total does not switch the lights on. The Met Office power-cut page says to look at the neighbours. If they are dark as well, 105 connects you to the local distribution operator, the company that owns the cables, which is not the company named on your bill. 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 on that page. 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 and Aberdeen. You ring. This site does not pass the job on.
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 today does not switch the street back on. When the lights return and the boiler does not, leave the case shut and use the power-cut boiler page. 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 and Aberdeen, 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 wait.
When this check is over
Some findings end the indoor list. Put the torch down and use the other instruction.
- The live warning for your postcode has been extended, or it has been raised above the yellow you read this morning. Follow that warning. A page written against the 08:41 UTC update does not outrank a newer issue.
- Water is coming through a ceiling, a light fitting or a roof window. Move to the roof-leak page. Staying in the hall 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 indoors 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 wind has eased.
- 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 Newcastle is a different map from a gale 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 you could see from indoors or from the pavement, and that you have not been on the roof. Say whether water is indoors now or only a piece is missing. Ask them to come after the warning if your postcode is inside it and nothing is coming in, and ask them to come when fog will not hide the ridge. 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 waves have dropped. 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 Met Office storm centre list for 2026–27 shows Austen named on 20 October 2026 and Boelo named on 22 October 2026. Chloe is the next name on that list, and the date-named cell is empty. The centre says a storm is named in the UK when it has the potential to cause disruption or damage which could result in an amber or red warning. Tuesday’s warning on the national page is yellow, with a low likelihood of significant impact. Until that table shows a date for Chloe, use the yellow warning and the live page for your postcode. A headline that borrows the next name does not pull Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester or London onto the council list.
Does the updated warning include Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester or London?
The council list last updated at 08:41 UTC on Monday 26 October does not name any English council. Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, the rest of that North East list, and Cumbria were on Monday morning’s list and are absent from this update. Leeds, Manchester and London were absent then and they are absent now. Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen are still named, and Shetland has been added. County Antrim and County Londonderry are named. County Down is not, and the word Belfast is not printed. If your postcode is missing, Tuesday is still a windy day on the national forecast. It is a poor reason to fasten the house again for a gale this list does not cover, and it is a poor reason to climb.
A sunny spell has opened up. Can I check the roof?
Stay off the roof while the warning for your postcode is in force, including during a bright gap. The national forecast updated at 04:00 UTC on Tuesday 27 October still calls today cool and windy for all, with severe gales across northern Scotland and large waves along the coasts. The week strip shows no warning from Wednesday 28 October. A ground look waits until the live page has cleared your postcode and you can stand clear of the eaves in daylight. Water coming through a ceiling is the roof-leak page, from a dry room, today.
Need a number after the wind eases?
Open the list, pick the city, and contact the business yourself.