Storm Eowyn Friday continued to cause power outages for hundreds of thousands, knocked down trees and disrupted transportation as it moved across Scotland and Northern Ireland into Britain's West Midlands region.
A teenager whose car was struck by a falling tree during Storm Éowyn has died of his injuries. The 19-year-old was driving a blue Ford Focus on the B743 in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, at about 06:45 on Friday when the accident happened.
Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. have heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home
Emergency crews are cleaning up after a storm bearing record-breaking winds left at least one person dead and more than a million without power across the island of Ireland and Scotland
A TEENAGER has tragically become the second killed in Storm Eowyn after 100mph winds caused a tree to fall on his car. The 19-year-old’s vehicle was struck in Mauchline, East Ayrshire. The
THE first of the Status Red weather warnings across the country have expired as the eye of Storm Eowyn barrels towards Scotland. The record-breaking weather event has so far left over 700,000
Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving one man dead and almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the UK heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home overnight in the face of hurricane-force winds that disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions.
Storm Eowyn has hit Britain and Ireland with “once in a generation” hurricane-force winds, cancelling more than 1,000 flights and leaving 600,000 homes and businesses without power as forecasters warn more is to come.
The state electricity company, ESB Networks, said that more than 300,000 properties in Ireland still had no power on Sunday, down from 768,000 on Friday. The Irish military was also helping out, but the company said that it could be two more weeks before electricity is restored to everyone.
Winds reached 100mph as Storm Eowyn left one person dead, more than a million people without power and caused significant travel disruption 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.
These striking weather maps show the intensity of the big chill set to freeze parts of Britain later this week.