Storm Éowyn: nearly 1m properties without power across island of Ireland
Storm Éowyn: nearly 1m properties without power across island of Ireland
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More wind and rain forecast for Ireland and UK, with snow and ice warnings also in place. Nearly a million properties are without power across the island of Ireland after Storm Éowyn swept in strong gusts that damaged buildings and blocked roads. A man died after a tree fell on his car in County Donegal on Friday and fallen trees and debris blocked a number of main roads across Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.
A record-breaking wind speed of 183kmh (114mph) was measured in Mace Head, County Galway in Ireland, Met Éireann said. Further wind and rainfall is forecast. Some places could get up to 80mm of rainfall while 10mm to 20mm should fall quite widely and 30 to 50mm could fall over high ground. The Met Office has issued several amber and yellow weather warnings over Saturday and Sunday.
Yellow snow and ice warnings are in place in Northern Ireland until 10am on Saturday and in Scotland until 11am. Up to 10cm of snow could develop on high ground in Scotland throughout the morning. A yellow ice warning covering parts of south-west England, the Midlands and southern and mid-Wales will be in place until 10am.
ScotRail said all services across Scotland would remain suspended until midday on Saturday at the earliest. About a million homes, farms and businesses in the Republic and Northern Ireland were left without power on Friday. ESB Networks said 725,000 customers were affected in Ireland and NIE Networks said 283,000 were hit in Northern Ireland at the height of the outages.
