At least 420,000 still without power in UK and Ireland after Storm Éowyn
At least 420,000 still without power in UK and Ireland after Storm Éowyn
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Repair efforts hampered by strong winds and rain as Met Office issues new storm-related weather warnings. More than 400,000 properties across the UK and Ireland remain without power after the battering by Storm Éowyn, with repair efforts hampered on Sunday by continuing strong winds and rain.
In Northern Ireland about 101,000 households and businesses were without power while in Scotland the figure was 20,000. The Republic of Ireland’s electricity supplier said about 300,000 properties had no power on Sunday and that it could take until Friday to restore it to everyone.
As the authorities attempt to clean up after Éowyn on Friday, the Met Office issued new warnings for wind and rain across the UK until Tuesday as a result of Storm Herminia hitting Spain. Éowyn was one of the strongest storms in a generation with record-breaking wind speeds that brought widespread travel problems, power cuts and significant damage to infrastructure.
At its height, the storm left more than 1 million people without power as hurricane-strength gusts battered Ireland and the UK. The strongest gust, 114mph, was recorded in Mace Head, County Galway, while a gust of 100mph was recorded at Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire.
A man who was killed in the storm in Ireland has been named as 20-year-old Kacper Dudek. Dudek who was born in Poland but brought up in Lifford, County Donegal, had been travelling home from work at 5.30am when a tree his car. He reportedly had been carrying out a U-turn after coming across a road accident when Storm Éowyn uprooted a tree and crushed his car.
