Police have been warned motorists to drive with care due to snow and ice in some parts of Northern Ireland.
Several roads that were blocked by fallen trees during gale force winds on Thursday remain closed on Friday.
They include the Hillsborough Road, Lisburn, County Antrim, where a man was killed when his van was hit by a fallen tree on Thursday morning.
A full list of road closures is available on Transport NI's Trafficwatch website.
The severe weather has created dangerous conditions in several parts of Northern Ireland, especially for motorists and pedestrians.
Two teenage girls were blown in front of a bus in Belfast during high winds on Thursday morning. They were taken to hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
In the east of the city, three people including a child of three and a 75-year-old woman were injured when a pallet blew off a lorry in Connswater.
Meanwhile, emergency repair crews have worked throughout the night to restore power to customers who lost their electricity supply during Thursday's storm.
A total of 7,000 homes and businesses experienced power cuts over the last 24 hours as gale-force winds caused damage to the electricity network.
Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) said incident centres in the affected areas stayed open to co-ordinate the effort.
By 07:00 GMT on Friday, only a handful of customers were still without power.
A NIE spokeswoman said about 12 households were waiting on repairs, but their supply was expected to be restored shortly.
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