London – Record winds beat Ireland, Northern Ireland and certain parts of the continent in the United Kingdom on Friday, the serious gusts that should spread in the region, including all the width of Scotland, then that the islands wore the brunt of Storm Eowyn.
Put Éireann, the national meteorological service of the Republic of Ireland, said that the country was shaken by gusts of wind up to 114 mph in the county of Galway – the highest ever recorded on the island.
The Republic of Ireland was under a “red warning” of its meteorological body – which means that the public was warned that the storm was “extremely destructive and dangerous”.
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ESB Networks, the organization managed by the government responsible for the majority of the Irish electricity network, said on Friday morning that more than 715,000 houses, firm and companies had been left without power because of the storm. Other power outages were expected throughout Friday, said ESB.
More than 230 flights scheduled for leaving or arriving at Dublin airport were canceled on Friday morning following the serious weather, and all public transport was suspended across Ireland, government officials warned the public to stay inside.
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The UK MET OFFICE said on Friday that red warnings were in place in parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Gusts of more than 90 MPH were recorded in Northern Ireland and in certain parts of the northern Wales, while Storm Eowyn moved to the United Kingdom. Many trains and other public transport options have been locked in the north of the United Kingdom and there have been initial reports of certain wind lesions to trees and buildings.
“Storm Éowyn now brings very strong winds in certain parts of the United Kingdom, there is a burst potential of 100 MPH in places exposed in the red warning zone,” the chief meteorologist of the kingdom said on Friday-Friday- Uni, Jason Kelly. “Anyone in these red and amber warning areas should listen to the advice of local stakeholders and keep up to date with meteorological warnings for their region.”
The most serious red warnings in the United Kingdom, indicating a possible threat to life, covered Ireland in the north and the north of northern England and the southern and the center of Scotland, but the area of Amber warning, which probably indicates a disturbance to travel and a possible risk of steering wheel debris, covered a much wider area, extending south to Manchester and Liverpool.
