Storm Jocelyn is set to batter Britain tomorrow after Isha’s 100mph gales left a trail of destruction across the country.
Fresh ‘danger to life’ warnings have been issued for the UK and Ireland as 80mph winds hurtle towards the British Isles.
The strongest winds are expected to affect western and northern Scotland from Tuesday evening, while yellow warnings for heavy rain have also been put in place for much of England.
The new warnings comes less than 24 hours after Isha hammered the country – leaving cars crushed under trees, roofs ripped off buildings, 70,000 homes without power and an 84-year-old man dead.
Thousands of people have been left without power as the storm brought disruption to the electricity and transport networks across the UK.
A Met Office map shows how the latest storm is expected to batter large parts of the country, leading to more disruption to travel and utilities.
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Fallen trees have affected transport with Traffic Scotland reporting stretches of the M9 and M74 were among roads closed throughout the night, while the A1 southbound was closed at Thorntonloch due to an overturned lorry.
In Scotland, an 84-year-old man was killed after a Hyundai car crashed into a fallen tree on the A905, Beancross Road in Grangemouth at around 11.45pm last night. Police said he was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other occupants of the vehicle were not injured.
In Appleby, haunting sirens wailed across the Cumbria town as flood waters surged through the streets.
High winds forced the closure of the Tay Road Bridge, M48 Severn Bridge and the A66 in Durham and Cumbria between the A1(M) and the M6, while the Humber Bridge, A19 Tees Flyover and A628 Woodhead Pass in Derbyshire were among stretches closed to high-sided vehicles.
After a ‘difficult night’ Network Rail has cancelled all passenger and freight trains across the country until they can inspect rail routes and repair the damage of the storm.
Britons are today facing commuter hell with rail services across the country cancelled after Storm Isha’s 100mph gales and heavy downpours barrelled down on the nation overnight.
A highways boss has warned that it could take days for Britain to get back to normal as workers battle to clear the roads.
Nick Raymond, senior manager for highways, told of how his staff put their lives on the line in the face of flying debris as they worked to clear the backlog.
The National Farmers’ Union’s Peter Gade, speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today, said: ‘The whole field should look like winter wheat growing, as you can see at the top end of the field. But at the bottom end of the field we are competently overwhelmed by flood water as a result of the original Storm Babet and it has never gone away all winter.
‘I would say of all of my cereals, my wheat and barley in the ground, probably some 40 per cent are affected and comprised. Either completely written off, which are un-insurancable losses off the bottom line and we don’t know what we can retrieve in the spring.
‘Of course, there is a shortage of seed across the country. We are just in a real pickle and its across the whole of the east side of the country from what I can see.’
Workmen who were attempting to clear a fallen tree which was blocking the A833 at Belladrum near Inverness
Workers used chainsaws to take apart the huge trunks as they tried to remove the enormous tree
The tree was felled by Storm Isha as it raced across the country, wreaking havoc for the UK
Shocking images show a tree felled by the storm on Gristhrope Road, in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham
Cars were left stranded under rising flood waters in shocking photos taken at Warwick Bridge, Cumbria
The submerged vehicles have been left by their owners as the waters engulfed them
Engineers equipped with chainsaws will have to clear the fallen trees and debris in at least 20 locations across the lines before the lines can get going again.
This included the remains of a garden shed, which had been blown onto the line at Bellgrove station in Glasgow, and a small fire had broken out after a tree fell on overhead wires in Gartcosh, Cumbernauld.
One woman told of her devastation after her new Tesla and husband’s BMW M3 were crushed under a tree felled by Storm Isla.
Nicki Catterick, 45, said the storm was so loud she only found out about the huge damage after her high-tech car’s app said it had detected something wrong.
The couple, from Kingswood, Surrey, thought their biggest problem this morning would be how to navigate cancelled trains, but now they are now battling to try and contact their insurance.
Nicki, who works in the pharmaceutical industry, said: ‘I went and looked out of the window and you couldn’t see my car because it was under a tree.
‘They’re expensive – it’s devastating because my car is relatively new and I love it.
‘I just feel devastated. We depend so much on our cars and I just feel really overwhelmed.
‘Who do you call in this situation? There’s a massive tree on both our cars, and right outside our front door. We feel like prisoners, really.’
Network Rail Scotland added to their customers: ‘Given the number of issues dealt with last night, and damage to infrastructure we already know of, such as fallen trees, and overhead wire damage in at least 20 separate locations, reopening Scotland’s Railway is going to be a challenge. We’ll keep you updated on progress.’
LNER has said that high winds between Doncaster and Berwick Upon Tweed mean all trains will run at reduced speeds today. They added that the Scottish railway is closed and there will be no trains north of Dunbar is closed until midday.
Network Rail imposed 50mph speed restrictions across most routes to keep passengers and trains safe from falling trees and debris blown onto tracks, with disruption expected into this morning.
An entire greenhouse was picked up by Storm Isha and thrown onto railway lines at Westgate-on-Sea, near Ramsgate in Kent, while there were also reports of a trampoline blocking the line at Rainham.
A spokesman said: ‘The railway has recovered quickly this morning following Storm Isha with trees and debris cleared across routes in England and Wales, and route proving trains reporting lines clear.
‘Passenger and freight services have restarted and a good service is expected in most areas. Passengers should still check before they head out for the latest travel news on trains operators’ websites.
‘The exception is Scotland where we do not expect to be able to restart services until around midday with dozens of lines shut due to fallen trees and flooding.
‘Hundreds of engineers are already out, armed with chainsaws and cherry pickers to remove and repair. Once done, route proving trains will be dispatched before passenger services can restart.