Leeds residents left without power after Storm Boelo as wet weather to continue
Storm Boelo is continuing to cause disruption in parts of Leeds
Residents in Leeds have been left without power after the city was battered by Storm Boelo over the weekend.
Northern Power Grid’s online power cut map shows there are outages in parts of the city on Monday (October 26). It includes in the LS9 6AN postcode in Harehills, as well as in Scarcroft’s LS14 3JL area and the LS15 9SL postcode.
Power cuts hit 838,700 properties across the country during Boelo and its predecessor by hours, Storm Austen. By 7pm on Sunday (October 25), 90,600 customers were still without power, said the Energy Networks Association, which represents operators in the UK and Ireland.
On Sunday evening, Northern Powergrid, which distributes electricity across Yorkshire and the North East, said 13,000 customers in the region were expected to be without power beyond Sunday night.
The energy company added that electricity had already been restored to 102,000 customers.
Storm Boelo caused disruption on the rails as well as at Leeds Bradford Airport yesterday. Flights were diverted from landing due to the high winds yesterday and there were cancellations as well.
Yellow warnings were issued by the Met Office across Leeds over the weekend. However, while fresh alerts are in place for parts of the country today (October 26) and tomorrow (October 27), the city is not expected to be impacted - at the time of writing.
PA reports that across the UK, two men died during two storms in three days. It includes a man in his 20s in London and a man in his 60s in south-west Scotland.
The Met Office’s forecast for Leeds on Monday is for heavy rain to fall throughout the morning, but that will give way to overcast skies for the rest of the day. Highs of 16C are expected by around 5pm.
It might start to get windy again later in the day with gusts of over 30mph expected from 8pm onwards. The speeds will pick up over night and reach speeds of 41mph by 3am on Tuesday.