Tree crushes car on Sheffield road and power outages reported as Storm Boelo leaves its mark on city
Power outages have also been reported in the S20 area of the city
Storm Boelo left its mark on Sheffield with trees ripped up at the roots - one of which landed on a car - and a series of power outages.
A grey Audi on Union Road in Nether Edge was crushed by a beech tree which had been blown over by the second named storm to hit UK shores in as many days.
A yellow warning for high winds had been in place for the majority of the north of the country and Scotland over the weekend, hot on the heals of Storm Austen on Friday, as experts warned of gust of up to 80mph.
There were certainly gales blowing through the Steel City late on Saturday and most of the day Sunday, with rain coming and going throughout the weekend too.
Elsewhere, mass power outages were recorded in the S20 postcode of the city on Sunday evening, with households throughout Beighton and around Crystal Peaks impacted.
Northern Powergrid reported almost 300 homes without power due to “bad weather”, with reports coming in around 2pm on Sunday.
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Trees were blown over in Hillsborough Park and on Psalter Lane, also in Nether Edge, as well.
South Yorkshire was right on the southern cusp of the warning, so wasn’t hit as badly as some areas further north.
Elsewhere around the UK, much of Scotland was placed under an amber warning for high winds on Saturday as gales reached up to 80mph.
A 60-year-old man died after being hit by a tree near Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway as the Scottish Government called an emergency meeting about Storm Boelo.