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.
Skynews
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