{"id":514041,"date":"2026-04-05T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:30:09","slug":"power-cuts-and-travel-disruption-after-storm-dave-hits-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514041\/","title":{"rendered":"Power cuts and travel disruption after Storm Dave hits Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued three flood warnings for Tayside covering Aberbothrie, the River Isla at Couper Angus and the River Earn between Innerpeffray to Bridge of Earn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It warned that river levels were high after &#8220;heavy and persistent rainfall&#8221; on Saturday night and flooding was expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/floodline.sepa.org.uk\/floodupdates\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eight lower level flood alerts, external<\/a> have been issued for northern and western areas of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The weather is expected to improve into Monday, however some southern areas could still see high winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Met Office spokesperson said: &#8220;Storm Dave will clear northeast on Sunday morning, leaving sunshine and widespread showers across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Northern areas will see the heaviest, blustery showers and feel cold, while temperatures elsewhere stay closer to average for early April.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued three flood warnings for Tayside covering Aberbothrie, the River Isla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-514041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}