London looks set to escape the onslaught of severe weather forecast for the rest of the UK.
The capital is clear of severe weather warnings right up until Sunday, with temperatures peaking at about 11°C.
Wind gusts could reach 40mph on Saturday but are not expected to reach the 90mph speeds of gale force winds predicted for Northern Ireland and parts of western Scotland.
Forecasters have dubbed the gales "Storm Emily" after the Victorian author Emily Brontë.
Thousands of people are still recovering from flooding and power disruption to their homes brought on by heavy downpours and gale-force winds this month.
Storms left 7,000 customers without electricity in Northern Ireland last night.
Another 3,500 people were affected in north-west England and almost 900 were left without power in south Wales.
A search for a missing sailor who fell overboard from a small cargo ship on the River Trent in North Lincolnshire was called off last night in "very poor" conditions, and a 23-year-old woman died in the Republic of Ireland when a tree feel on her car near Mullingar in Co Westmeath.
A 19-year-old man was also injured and taken to hospital when his car was hit by a falling tree in Warwickshire.
