SATELLITE imagery has revealed Storm Éowyn over the UK as 114mph gales killed a man and left over a million left in dark. Three red “danger to life” wind warnings have issued for today
Flights and trains have been cancelled and red weather warnings are in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland as Storm Eowyn hits the UK.
Millions of people have been urged to stay at home on Friday as Storm Éowyn is set to bring potentially life-threatening winds to the north and west of the UK.
Winds reached 100mph as Storm Eowyn caused travel disruption and left thousands without power across the UK and Ireland. Rail services, flights and ferries have been cancelled across the country as rare red weather warnings are in place on Friday in Scotland.
Damage and power outages have been reported Friday as energy from a storm system that produced record snowfall along the Gulf Coast is bashing Western Europe with heavy precipitation and powerful wind gusts.
Hundreds of thousands of homes lost power as gusts of 183 kilometers per hour lashed the western coast of Ireland. In Scotland, hundreds of schools were closed and train operator ScotRail suspended all services.
Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport.
Despite the disruption and devastation wrought by the storm, it was nowhere close to record-breaking for Northern Ireland.
Flights, rail services, sporting fixtures and hospitals were all affected on Friday after Storm Eowyn slammed into the UK, with disruption expected into the weekend. More than a thousand flights to or from the UK and Ireland on Friday were cancelled,
The snow depth map reveals large portions of Scotland and northern England will bear the brunt of heavy snow. Inverness, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh are expected to see significant accumulation, with depths exceeding 10cm in some areas.
Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. were urged to stay at home Friday as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions. Ireland was hit with wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour overnight,