Fallen trees have caused injury, damage and travel disruption as Storm Pia battered parts of the UK with gusts hitting 185km/h.
Winds battered the northern half parts of the country as Storm Pia threatened to bring chaos to pre-Christmas travel plans.
Train passengers experienced significant disruption with National Rail reporting that routes across Scotland, and parts of England and Wales were affected, and speed restrictions were in place on lines within the previous weather warning area.
The UK's Met Office issued a Yellow warning for wind, stretching north from Birmingham to the Shetland Islands and including Northern Ireland, ended at 3pm.
That had been brought forward from 9pm as the Met Office said the worst of the wind was expected to be in the morning, with conditions slowly easing.
One man was taken to hospital with what is understood to be non-life-threatening injuries after a tree fell onto his car in Clifton, Derbyshire.
Derbyshire Constabulary said a number of trees had fallen on the road, which is expected to be closed for most of the day, and motorists have been advised to find alternative routes.
Also in Derbyshire, in the village of Stanley, workmen attempted to remove a tree that fell onto and damaged the roof of a house.
Further south, a fallen tree blocked a train line between Ascot, Berkshire and Bagshot, Surrey.
In Ireland, the ESB restored power to around 9,300 people across Ireland with the biggest outages in Co Wicklow and Co Donegal.
A Status Yellow wind warning remains in place for Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Cork, Limerick, Tupperary and Waterford until 8pm.
A separate wind alert for Clare, Kerry, Donegal and Connacht is also in place until 8pm.
Storm Pia, which was named by the Danish Met Institute, is gradually moving towards mainland Europe where its impacts are expected to be more severe, the UK Met Office said in a statement.
The winds are due to ease for many across the UK on Thursday afternoon with wet weather likely to persist in western areas.
