Elected Member Briefing Note 2025, No. 8
About this Briefing Note
Report by: Greg Boland, Strategic Lead - Planning, People and Performance
EMBN Number: 008-25
Date: 23 January 2025 - 3pm
Subject: Storm Éowyn
Details
Purpose
These briefing note provides an update on preparations for the arrival of Storm Éowyn on Friday January 24.
Briefing Information
Red Weather Warnings have been issued by the Met Office with Storm Éowyn forecast to bring disruptive winds as well as heavy rain and snow across Scotland on Friday.
An Amber weather warning for wind is in place for Perth and Kinross from 1pm on Friday January 24 to 6am on Saturday January 25, with yellow weather warnings for wind and snow in place for all day on Friday.
All schools and Early Learning and Childcare settings will be closed on Friday as a precaution. Parents and carers have been informed directly and we will share information on social media. All school lets are also cancelled.
Pullar House, 2 High Street and other council buildings will remain open but staff will be advised to work from home where possible.
Perth Crematorium will remain open for scheduled services.
We will be increasing our standby cover in Aberfeldy, Blairgowrie and Perth depots. This will ensure we have operatives available to manage any wind-related issues, when it is safe to do so, and leave winter maintenance operatives to concentrate on gritting.
Warnings have been issued on social media and we will provide further updates when necessary to alert residents to any issues.
SSEN has contacted vulnerable customers on their Priority Services Register (PSR) to advise them of potential disruption to supplies.
SSEN is also ready to share data on customers on the PSR with other agencies if required due to longer than expected power cuts.
All planned work has been suspended on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to allow SSEN staff to concentrate on repairing the network and restoring supplies, if necessary.
Outages can be reported by calling 105 or using the SSEN Power Tracker App.
After Storm Éowyn on Friday and early on Saturday, further wet and windy weather is likely on Sunday and at the start of next week, with further warnings issued.
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