High winds continue as nearly a million without power

Practically a million properties are with out energy within the UK and Eire whereas trains and ferries have been cancelled as emergency responders work to repair the injury brought on by Storm Éowyn.

The storm introduced gusts of greater than 100 mph (161 km/h) on Friday, leaving one man useless after a tree fell on a automotive in Eire.

Whereas the fiercest gusts handed on Friday, Storm Éowyn – pronounced AY-oh-win – is anticipated to deliver sturdy winds into the weekend.

An amber warning for wind is in place for elements of Scotland till 06:00 GMT on Saturday, and all trains in Scotland stay cancelled till 12:00. Yellow warnings for rain, wind, snow and ice will final so long as till Monday morning in different areas.

A whole bunch of timber have fallen, inflicting injury to properties, blocking roads and disrupting practice strains.

Eire’s Electrical energy Provide Board mentioned it is going to take a “vital variety of days” to deliver again energy, whereas Northern Irish officers warned it could possibly be as much as 10 days earlier than all these affected are reconnected.

In Eire, 625,000 properties and companies had been nonetheless with out energy on Friday night and round 138,000 folks with out water.

About 214,000 properties had no energy in Northern Eire, 106,000 in Scotland and 20,000 in north-west England.

Northern Eire’s infrastructure division mentioned it might take days to evaluate the storm’s injury, with greater than 1,800 fallen timber, branches and different particles blocking roads.

Northern Irish Training Minister Paul Givan mentioned 60 colleges had reported “vital injury to some buildings”.

A key focus was figuring out colleges unable to open on Monday and offering data to oldsters, he mentioned on X.

“Public companies and society has been considerably impacted by the storm that can require a collective and co-ordinated effort within the days forward to repair,” he added.

Whereas the strongest winds have handed, the storm remains to be anticipated to deliver gusts of greater than 80mph (128km/h) throughout the coast and hills of Scotland and Northern Eire.

Mark Jones, who lives in Coldingham within the Scottish Borders, described Storm Éowyn hitting his space like “an earthquake”.

On Friday morning, he noticed his corrugated iron carport being lifted out of the bottom and tipped into an space of woodland.

“I did not really feel significantly alarmed as a result of there was about 30ft between me and the carport and it simply lifted up fairly steadily and tilted over,” he recalled.

“I simply suppose the phrase ‘storm’ is simply too gentle for what we’ve witnessed right here. Solely a hurricane might try this.”

Liam Downs, an electrician from Cardross on the north aspect of the Firth of Clyde, has been driving up and down the coast serving to the area people, together with eradicating timber from the highway.

Whereas going to test on a consumer in close by Rosneath, he noticed “about 10 timber” fall throughout the house of 10 minutes which “utterly blocked us within the one-way highway”.

“As we had been driving alongside the coast earlier, waves had been developing onto the highway and my van actually went from being in the correct lane to being up on the curb,” he mentioned, including: “Fortunately, we’re in fairly a giant van”.

9 UK warnings stay in place:

• Amber warning for wind throughout elements of Scotland from 13:00 on Friday to 06:00 on Saturday
• Yellow warning for wind throughout a lot of the nation from midnight on Friday till 23:59 on Sunday
• Yellow warning for snow in elements of Scotland from 06:00 till 23:59 on Friday
• Yellow warning for snow and ice for Northern Eire from 19:00 on Friday till 10:00 on Saturday
• Yellow warning for wind in elements of Scotland from midnight till 15:00 on Saturday
• Yellow warning for snow and ice in elements of Scotland from midnight till 11:00 on Saturday
• Yellow warning for ice for Midlands, east and south-east England and Wales from 03:00 till 10:00 on Saturday
• Yellow warning for rain for Wales and most of England from 08:00 on Sunday till 06:00 on Monday
• Yellow warning for wind for south-east and west England, Wales, Northern Eire and south-west Scotland, from 08:00 till 15:00 on Sunday