The alert for wind is one of two new warnings issued. Heavy rain is also being forecast on Saturday, with the gales on Sunday into Christmas Day.
The Met Office is forecasting up to 15cm in parts of the Highlands overnight Friday into Saturday as people prepare to travel for Christmas.
More than two dozen schools and nurseries across the Highlands were closed on Thursday after Storm Pia brought gales and widespread disruption.
Services will be suspended on Thursday on the Far North and Kyle lines, as well as between Inverness and Inverurie.
Skipinnish have announced a very special guest for their 25th anniversary concert in Inverness next summer.
The forecaster is predicting wintry showers and colder temperatures in the north as this weekend gives way to Christmas Day.
The brand new festival is coming to the Black Isle next year.
Sofas and other upholstered furniture will soon no longer be accepted at some smaller Highland recycling centres – but doorstep uplift will continue.
Highland residents have been urged to "take extra care" as we head into winter.
Highland rail passengers have been warned to expect possible disruption after speed restrictions were announced following an amber weather alert.
Torrential rain could bring up to 200mm of precipitation this weekend and may trigger landslides, the Met Office has warned.
Isobel Murray, who died last week, was a volunteer with the hospice for more than 30 years and was part of the Golspie Area Fundraising Group.
Police have urged Highland residents to be on the alert after the force received reports from locals who had received scam callers.
Lairg's mothballed police station, which has been empty for several years, is to be permanently axed and sold off, the force has announced.
As much as 175mm of rain could fall in places this weekend, the Met Office has warned after it issued a yellow alert for large areas of the Highlands.
A pair of railway stations in Sutherland and Caithness are among the 10 least used in the whole of Great Britain, new figures have revealed.
The Highlands is one of Scotland's worst hot-spots for drink-driving, new data has revealed as police gear up for their annual festive crackdown.
Temperatures in the Highlands fell well below freezing overnight , with the mercury bottoming out at -18C near the A9 in the Cairngorms National Park.
Warnings for snow have been issued for large swathes of the Highlands – especially in the east – with up to 10cm possible in hilly spots
Highland residents were waking up to what is likely to have been the coldest night of the winter so far after the mercury plummeted as low as -15C.