Emergency alerts have been sent across the mobile network to every phone in the country urging people to stay at home.
A red weather warning has been issued for the central belt.
We’re being urged not to travel. Forecasters are predicting hurricane-force winds, some of the most intense weather to hit Scotland in recent years, with gusts of up to 100 miles per hour.
Public transport is being suspended, schools closed, and routine hospital operations cancelled.
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