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Last week two powerful storms, Isha and Jocelyn, battered the UK leaving two people dead and bringing significant disruption including power cuts, plane and train cancellations and school closures.

There's a window of calmer weather at the start of this week in terms of wind speeds and our temperatures have been well above the seasonal average, but it's likely this will be short-lived for some.

The maximum gust speeds for Storm Isha and Joceyln were similar, with a 99mph (159km/h) gust recorded from Isha at Brizlee Wood in Northumberland, and 97mph (156km/h) gust from Jocelyn in Capel Curig, Conwy.

However, Storm Isha was generally far more powerful with much stronger gusts and the extent of these damaging winds was also much more widespread affecting all areas of the UK.

Thirteen of our observation sites recorded gusts of 80mph (129km/h) or more for Isha, but only two from Jocelyn. Similarly, there were 49 weather stations that recorded gusts of 70mph (112km/h) or more for Isha, compared with 12 for Jocelyn.

Both storms brought travel disruption but it was Isha that damaged the power networks to a much greater extent with power supplies cut to more than 70,000 properties across the UK.

The next name in the 2023-24 storm list is Kathleen. If Kathleen is named we will equal the 2015-16 record for the most named storms in any season. and don't forget there are still more than seven months left in this current naming season.

High pressure will frequently influence the weather in the south of the UK, so there will be some dry and sunny weather here with only brief spells of rain. Low pressure systems will influence the north of the UK at times.

On Wednesday a deep area of low pressure near Iceland could bring some very windy weather to northern Scotland. Although wind speeds aren't expected to be as high as they were with last week's storms, gusts could reach 85mph (137km/h).

Keep up-to-date with the latest forecast to see if the storm will be named.

There are hints that cold northerlies could return in mid-February, increasing the risk of seeing snow showers. Cold weather also looks likely to return to the US mid-February and it is conceivable these cold outbreaks strengthen the Atlantic jet stream to fire up more stormy weather late in February - but there are no clear signs this far ahead just yet.

You can read more about that in the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Weather monthly outlook.