A weather warning remains in place across Scotland today after a weekend of severe gales and snow.
Three people were rescued in separate incidents amid blizzard conditions in the Cairngorms.
On Saturday the Cairngorms Mountain Rescue team was called out to help a man who had fallen in the Northern Corries.
With the conditions near white-out the team were preparing to carry the injured man by stretcher from the area but an RAF search and rescue helicopter from Lossiemouth was able to reach the man and airlifted him to hospital.
A statement from the rescue team described the pilot’s flying as “superb in very challenging flying conditions”.
Yesterday Braemar Mountain Rescue were sent to find two people who had been stranded overnight after heavy snowfall and equipment failure in the central Cairngorms.
They managed to contact the rescue team yesterday who led them to safety.
The pair were described as “safe but cold” by the Braemar team.
The MET Office issued a yellow “be aware” warning for snow and ice across most of the country as well as Northern Ireland and the north of England.
Thousands of people in the north of Scotland were still without electricity yesterday after storms brought down power lines on Friday.
Parts of Perthshire were among those knocked off the grid, however the majority of them had power restored by late afternoon as Scottish Hydro Electric worked to reconnect them.
Alan Broadbent, director of engineering, apologised for the loss of power but said workers faced challenging conditions.
The worst affected areas were Inverness-shire, the Western Isles and rural parts of Wick and Dingwall.
Trains between Inverness and Perth have been replaced by buses.
Meanwhile, a Fife couple had a lucky escape after a tree crashed down on their house in the storms on Friday.
Ian and Mary Gourlay were asleep when the 150-year-old sycamore was uprooted and blown on to the roof of their home in Kirkcaldy’s Whytebank Gardens in the early hours.