\t\t\tTens of thousands of homes were without power on Sunday as Storm Boelo battered northern parts of the United Kingdom with strong winds and heavy rain, disrupting travel services.<\/p>\n
Boelo is Britain’s second named storm of the season and quickly follows the first \u2013 Storm Austen, which brought strong gusts to southern areas of the country on Friday.<\/p>\n
More than 82,000 properties had no electricity , industry body the Energy Networks Association said in an update.<\/p>\n
It added that almost 350,000 customers had been reconnected since Austen hit.<\/p>\n
An amber wind warning was in place in Scotland, where collapsed trees, fallen cables and damaged surfaces prompted road and railway track closures.<\/p>\n
Winds gusts peaked at 135 kilometres per hour in Argyll and Bute in western Scotland, according to the Met Office weather agency.<\/p>\n
Scotland was also under a yellow rain warning, along with northern England, with up to 80 milimetres expected in some areas, bringing a chance of flooding.<\/p>\n
Also affected was Northern Ireland, where several flights out of Belfast were cancelled. There were also cancellations to some ferry services across the Irish Sea between Belfast and northwest England.<\/p>\n
The Met warned that Boelo brings a danger to life from flying debris and crashing waves and that people should stay indoors as much as possible.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, one of Europe’s busiest hubs, cancelled dozens of flights on Sunday because of Boelo.<\/p>\n
Some 90 flights were cancelled on the airport website departures page. (AFP)<\/p>\n
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