The stormy conditions have forced the closure of dozens of schools, mostly in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Highland Council in northern Scotland says 38 primary and secondary schools are closed, impacting more than 4,500 students, external.

Glasgow City Council drew the ire of parents on social media when it posted , externalthat all schools would be open "unless we tell you otherwise", at 08:26 GMT.

"Notification an hour ago would have been helpful," one parent replied. Others said they'd already decided to keep their kids at home.

Five schools in Northern Ireland are closed due to power outages, according to the NI Direct website., external

England, Scotland and Wales don't have central databases for school closures, so it's best to check your council's website for updates. We know at least one school in England - Hull's Archbishop Sentamu Academy - has been closed after sustaining damage.

Putting Isha into context, a senior meteorologist from the Met Office has explained that the "more intense" storms the UK is experiencing are caused by climate change.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast, Claire Nasir said: "In 2023, we began on a rainfall deficit and had two intense heatwaves, yet the UK saw the 11th wettest year on record."

She explained this shift between extremes in weather patterns in the UK would continue in the future.

If you'd like to read more about climate change and how it is affecting our weather, here's a simple guide we've written.

Here's BBC Weather's Carol Kirkwood with latest forecast on what we can expect from Storm Isha today and tomorrow:

Ciaran McCauley
BBC News NI

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About 40,000 homes and businesses are still without power in Northern Ireland this morning.

People trying to make their way to work have woken up to find many routes are blocked, with more than 1,000 obstructions reported across the road network since yesterday afternoon.

Trees at a major tourist attractions, the Dark Hedges (as made famous by Game of Thrones), are among those to have come down under the winds, external.

The clear up is more complicated, and may take a lot longer, because road workers are on strike. Officials responsible for the roads say they've implemented contingency plans using private contractors and staff who are not on strike.

In terms of air travel, things appear to have returned to normal for Belfast's two airports and City of Derry Airport in the west.

However there's a warning some flights could suffer knock-on delays after last night's chaos, which saw some Northern Ireland-bound flights end up in Manchester, Liverpool and even Paris.

It's a similar picture across the entire island of Ireland, with more than 235,000 homes and businesses without power in the Republic of Ireland.

Dublin Airport reports its operations are returning to normal although 29 flights have been cancelled so far today.

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James Cook
Scotland Editor, BBC News

Winds in Scotland did not turn out to be quite as strong as forecast by the Met Office - which issued a red warning for gusts of up to 100mph (160 km/h) in the far north and northeast of the mainland - but they were still very strong.

The highest gust recorded at a low altitude in Scotland was 84mph at the village of Salsburgh next to the M8 in North Lanarkshire, according to the Met Office.

At dawn, some 13,000 properties were without power in the north of Scotland, where another 12,000 had been reconnected, according to Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN). Scottish Power Energy Networks, which covers southern and central Scotland, has not yet provided an update of its own.

Fallen trees and other debris closed a number of trunk roads including the A1 in East Lothian and the M9 between Grangemouth and Bannockburn.

As we've been reporting, all passenger and freight services on Scotland's railways have been suspended until later in the day as crews clear debris - which include 10 trees on one stretch of line alone, between Garrowhill and Easterhouse in Glasgow.

There was widespread disruption to ferries and many planes were diverted - including an easyJet flight from Edinburgh to Bristol which landed in Paris - and Ryanair flights from Tenerife and Seville to Edinburgh, which ended up at Cologne Bonn airport in Germany.

There are 50 flood warnings in place across Scotland, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

This dramatic video shows a driver having a narrow escape after a roof was blown off a building in Belton, north Lincolnshire.

Security cameras on a house captured the incident on Sunday night, as high winds battered the region.

The road has been closed while repairs are carried out.

Video courtesy of Woollas security camera.

Image source, Philip Walker

Philip Walker got stranded on the Isle of Man along with 200 fans and players of Kendal Town FC, who’d been visiting the island for a match against FC Isle of Man (a game which finished 1-1).

He tells BBC Radio 5 Live that they may not be able to make their return journey until Wednesday or Thursday – but that easyJet has managed to book some families into hotels.

“There’s an upbeat feel,” he says, but there’s also “a lot of anger". He continues: “It’s been disappointing but that’s just how it is."

Walker explains that planes attempted to land from Aberdeen and Liverpool, but were unsuccessful.

While he’s holding out hope for a flight, he’s also booked himself on the ferry “in case”.

BBC Wales presenter Jennifer Jones was caught up in the disruption when her flight from Geneva to Bristol Airport was diverted more than 300 miles (480km) to Edinburgh.

"We were told on the runway in Geneva that it was very stormy in the UK and that all UK airports were being affected and that there would be a crosswind landing in Bristol, so we'd been forewarned that it could be quite bumpy," she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.

"But when we started the descent into Bristol, it was incredibly turbulent and the plane was lurching from side to side and it was pretty harrowing I have to say.

"I've never been in that kind of turbulence."

The Bristol landing was aborted, but landing in Edinburgh was also "quite harrowing", she added.

"When we landed, everyone on board just burst into applause and my friends and I just burst into tears. It sounds dramatic but I was thinking of my husband and my children, it was pretty pretty hair-raising."

As we've been reporting, Storm Isha has led to flight delays and cancellations across several parts of the UK.

This video shows the moment heavy winds blew a suitcase across a ramp at Edinburgh Airport, causing amusement among those watching from the terminal.

It was posted on X (formerly Twitter) by James Hampson, a passenger whose flight was delayed several hours.

Image source, James Cheyne/BBC

The BBC's James Cheyne has sent this image from Glasgow's Queen Street station, where rocks have been blown off the wall towards the train tracks.

Network Rail says: "At Glasgow Queen Street low-level, a nearby building’s boundary wall and fence has blown onto the railway, with one part hanging above the track precariously.

"This needs rope-access staff and mobile work platform to remove safely, which will take time."

Katy Scott
BBC Scotland

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ScotRail's customer operations director Phil Campbell tells BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme train services are expected to reopen gradually between late morning and early afternoon.

He says services will remain suspended until Network Rail has inspected all the routes across the country for safety issues.

Teams worked through the night clearing debris from the lines. The work continues this morning.

“What they’ll be looking for is whether the overhead lines have been damaged, whether the track is safe and whether any debris has blown onto the rail estate,” says Campbell.

“Between Garrowhill and Easterhouse, there’s over ten trees alone that need to be cleared from the line - and those trees are also blocking the overheads.

“So, there’s a significant volume of work for our colleagues at Network Rail to work through this morning.”

Some services could run at reduced speeds and Campbell urges customers to check their journeys before travelling.

He adds: “As soon as routes become open, we’ll of course put that on our website and social media.

“The routes will open as it becomes safe to do so in stages this morning.”

Our previous post gave a sense of the power cuts in north-west England - and across the UK, more than 70,000 homes are without electricity this morning.

While power companies are prepared for damaging storms - particularly at this time of year - there are concerns over the severity and spread of Isha, says Lawrence Slade who is the head of the Energy Networks Association.

"The worrying aspect of this particular storm is that it has hit almost nationwide," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a short time ago, adding that Isha was thought to be the worst storm Northern Ireland has seen in a decade.

In some cases, power can be restored within hours as connections can be diverted past affected areas remotely, Slade said. However, others could be without power until tomorrow as engineers must wait until it is safe to conduct repairs.

Sharon Barbour
Reporting from Blackpool

I’m on the promenade in Blackpool. The sea is about 100 metres away, but you can hear it roaring – it’s pretty rough.

Here in north-west England, about 8,000 homes are still without power.

Earlier, we heard that the people who were meant to be doing the repairs had been called off the job because conditions were too dangerous.

Electricity North West stood them down, and say the time to restore the power won’t be till about 17:00 tomorrow night.

Image source, Network Rail Scotland

Another look at rail travel now. Network Rail says it expects services in Scotland to remain suspended until around 12:00 GMT after "a wild night".

Dozens of lines remain shut across the country 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," Network Rail says in a statement.

Meanwhile, the railway has "recovered quickly" in England and Wales this morning, with a "good service" expected in most areas.

Passengers should still check before they head out for the latest travel news on trains operators' websites, Network Rail advises.

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It's thought that tens of thousands of people are waking up this morning somewhere they didn't expect to be.

Many of those were on flights that were cancelled due to Storm Isha. But there were also tales of "extraordinary diversions", which travel expert Simon Calder details to our colleagues on BBC Breakfast.

One Ryanair flight, making the short hop from Manchester to Dublin, was unable to land and eventually diverted to Beauvais, a small town in northern France.

"Ryanair insists all passengers crossing the Irish Sea have passports, even though the law doesn't. Therefore, they were allowed to get out of the airport and into hotels," Calder explains.

And it wasn't too rosy for passengers on an easyJet flight from Edinburgh to Bristol yesterday, which was diverted to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

"Now for a domestic flight, you do not need a passport. So loads of passengers spent the night at the terminal," Calder says.

"Those who did [have a passport] could get to the hotel. The rest of them are waiting for a plane to take them back to Edinburgh or Bristol."

Sara Girvin
Ireland correspondent

We had an update late last night that more than 48,500 homes across Northern Ireland were without power. We were told that hundreds of staff had been drafted in to help restore that electricity where it was safe to do so.

But there’s no doubt people this morning will be waking up to find electricity will not have been restored yet.

And there’s massive disruption for people travelling. There were many flight cancellations yesterday, and we also saw lots of flights not landing where they should have. We were hearing some reports of people being stuck in airports for 10 hours.

There have been ferry cancellations too - also affecting thousands of travellers. There was a ferry due into Belfast at about 18:30 yesterday that was still at sea at around 23:30 off the County Down coast because the sea was so rough it couldn’t come into berth.

It’s going to take a while to clear all that backlog, so we do expect that travel disruption to last well into today.

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Here's a selection of the best pictures showing the impact of Storm Isha that came in overnight from our community at BBC Weather Watchers.

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Sarah Keith-Lucas
Weather presenter

Isha has been the biggest storm of the season so far.

For parts of Northern Ireland, northern England and Scotland, we have seen the strongest winds recorded in 10 to 20 years.

Overnight gusts of 70-80mph (110-130 km/h) have been recorded across parts of the north and west, including through the Central Belt of Scotland, and locally more than 90mph has been recorded. The strongest wind gust report was 99mph at Brizlee Wood, Northumberland.

Storm Isha is now clearing to the east, with the strongest of the winds starting to ease now. But over the next few hours gusts could still reach 50 to 60mph inland, and up to 70 or 80mph around exposed coasts.

A yellow wind warning is in force across the UK until midday.