Winds top 100mph as Storm Eowyn causes travel disruption and power cuts
Winds top 100mph as Storm Eowyn causes travel disruption and power cuts
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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.
A previous red warning covering Northern Ireland has been downgraded to amber. A gust of 100mph was recorded at Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, the strongest gust so far today in the UK, the Met Office said. In Ireland, a record-breaking wind speed of 183kmh (114 mph) was measured in Mace Head, Co Galway on Friday morning, Met Eireann said.
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill urged people to stay at home, adding “we are in the eye of the storm now”, in an interview with BBC Radio Ulster. The storm forced hundreds of schools and nurseries across Scotland to close on Friday as First Minister John Swinney warned people not to travel.
A driver was seriously injured following a single-vehicle collision in Mauchline, East Ayrshire while another driver was injured when a tree fell on their van in the Balmore Road area of Glasgow on Friday morning, Police Scotland said. Almost one million homes, farms and businesses in the Republic and Northern Ireland are without power as record-breaking wind speeds swept across the island.
