Storm Ali officially ended at 3.00am BST this morning when the last of the winds connected to the storm reduced below gale force in the Shetland Islands leaving a vast amount of damage across Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
In Scotland Michael Matheson MSP (SNP, Falkirk West) who is the Scottish Transport Secretary has chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government’s emergency planning team to review the impact of the storm and to co-ordinate the official response with the committee reporting that they expect everything to be back to rights by this morning.
At the height of the storm some 70,000 homes were without power with only 5,000 still without power now (mostly in the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway council areas), the reason was that a lot of trees were still in full leaf and therefore there was more chance of trees falling (as seen here in Dundee)
There was also travel disruption on the railway network as well as the bus network that saw queues form at Buchanan Street bus station in Glasgow
And even the newly opened Victoria and Albert museum in Dundee had to close its doors due to safety concerns
And even a cruise liner, moored in the Clyde in Greenock, was ripped from its lines. Thankfully no one was on board at the time but as this photo shows anyone on board would have seen a marvellous sight
