Strong winds and heavy rain approaching UK as Eowyn dies down
Strong winds and heavy rain approaching UK as Eowyn dies down
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More strong winds and heavy rain are approaching the UK as Storm Eowyn dies down. The last of Eowyn is pushing across the UK overnight and producing snow and ice warnings in parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland. Around 35,000 properties in Scotland were still without power on Saturday evening, a spokesperson for the Scottish Government said.
Sunday will start “fine and dry” with a “decent amount of sunshine” in many parts of the country. But a new low-pressure system is moving in from the south west bringing further strong winds and heavy rain. Spanish meteorologists have dubbed it Storm Herminia, as the European country will feel the strongest winds.
It is forecast to hit the south west of England and Wales first and then move into Northern Ireland and northern England on Sunday afternoon, reaching parts of Scotland by the evening. Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: “This is certainly going to be a notch down compared to Eowyn, whilst there is the potential for 60 to 70mph gusts of wind across the very far south west generally, we’re not going to be seeing the same strengths of winds as we have seen over the last couple of days.”.
However “there are a lot of sensitivities around” following Eowyn, he said. More than a million people in the UK were without power during the storm, and there was significant travel disruption across the UK and Ireland. Ministers from across the UK held an emergency Cobra meeting on Saturday to co-ordinate recovery efforts, and extra engineers were dispatched from England to Northern Ireland and Scotland.
