A donation from Tomintoul Distillery has allowed the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team (CMRT) to purchase new equipment which will help save lives this winter.
Yellow alerts for rain and wind have been issued for southern Scotland and Northern Ireland, while a separate alert covering Wales, the Midlands and northern England came into force at 9am today.
Parts of Devon and Cornwall were left underwater with a number of roads being forced closed following the onslaught of showers, with fields across the counties left saturated.