Schools are closed and train services disrupted after two storms battered parts of the UK and left more than 100,000 people without power.
Winds of up to 92mph were recorded in northern parts of the UK over the weekend as the storms Malik and Corrie hurtled in from the Atlantic.
Thousands of homes remained without power on Monday morning, mostly in north-east England and Scotland, while trains between Edinburgh and Newcastle were among services cancelled.
Northern Powergrid said about 80,000 of its customers were affected by power cuts across the weekend, with about 4,000 still without power.
Paul Glendinning, a director at Northern Powergrid, said: “We are within sight of the end. But we still have a lot to do to get the last 4,000 customers reconnected having confirmed that around 200 damage points remain. Restoring these smaller incidents reconnects only a small number of customers for each job.”
A further 22,450 people were without power in parts of Scotland and north-west England, according to SP Energy Networks, which said all but 230 households had been reconnected in its latest update on Sunday.
The back-to-back storms were linked to two deaths over the weekend, after a nine-year-old boy in Staffordshire and a 60-year-old woman in Aberdeen died after being hit by falling trees on Saturday.
Storm Malik was named by the Danish Meteorological Institute and Corrie by the UK Met Office. The Met Office lists storms alphabetically but skips Q, U, X, Y and Z to comply with international storm-naming conventions and to maintain consistency for official storm naming in the North Atlantic.
Several schools in Aberdeenshire and Northumberland said they would be shut or would delay opening on Monday.
The Environment Agency warned that flooding was expected along parts of the south-east coast, around Felixstowe in Suffolk and near Tilbury in Essex, owing to high tides caused by Storm Corrie.
There was major travel disruption across England and Scotland as operators including ScotRail, London North Eastern Railway, CrossCountry and TransPennine Express cancelled or suspended services on Monday morning.
Network Rail said it was carrying out safety checks in an effort to reopen the line. These include monitoring overhead electric wires to ensure they have not been damaged in the severe weather and running trains to check for debris on tracks. The organisation said its staff had faced “an exceptionally challenging weekend with two significant storms bringing severe weather”.
Storm Malik caused disruption on Saturday before the arrival of Storm Corrie on Sunday.
Passenger trains between Edinburgh and Newcastle will initially be required to run at slower speeds than normal even once the line reopens, leading to further delays to journeys. Much of the ScotRail network has been affected by the severe weather. The operator warned passengers on Monday it had been able to arrange only “very limited replacement transport”.
Storm Corrie pushed into the North Sea in the early hours of Monday, leaving cold and blustery conditions behind.
