Lightning strikes have left some 27,000 homes without power for a second time in two days as Britian continues to be battered by the so-called "weather bomb".
Yellow "be prepared" alerts are in place for Scotland's western coast, the Highlands and Islands, Orkney, Shetland and Northern Ireland.
Alerts also remain in place for England's East, South East, North East, North West, northern Wales and other areas.
Just after 9am a lightning strike near Fort Augustus in the Scottish Highlands resulted in a loss of supply to Skye and the Western Isles.
Many of those affected suffered power outages on Wednesday as bad weather swept the region.
A spokesman for Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution said: "We'd like to apologise to customers for the loss of supply this morning.
"We appreciate that many of these customers also lost supply yesterday and we'd like to assure them that we are doing everything we can to get them back on as quickly as possible."
Forecasters predicted the strong winds and wild weather would ease in the late morning.
But southerly areas of the UK could be hit by stormy conditions rolling in from the Atlantic tonight.
A deep low pressure system known colloquially as a "weather bomb" caused extreme weather conditions for parts of Britain on Wednesday.
Waves of 52ft were recorded in coastal regions and thousands of homes left without power.
As well as disruption to energy supplies, the severe storm caused ferry and train cancellations and school closures in the North.
Wind speeds of 144mph were recorded on St Kilda, an uninhabited archipelago 41 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides.
According to the Met Office, the highest recorded wind speed at low level sites was 81mph on Tiree.
Off the coast of Orkney, a rescue operation was launched to help a British-registered fishing vessel which issued a Mayday call after getting into difficulties.
The 33ft trawler, with 16 Spanish crew, had one of its bridge windows smashed and some equipment damaged in the stormy conditions.
The O'Genita was escorted to Westray in Orkney by the Stromness lifeboat.
Twenty vehicles also had to be freed after becoming stuck in icy conditions on Cairn O' Mount, a high mountain pass, in Aberdeenshire.
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