A series of fresh weather warnings have been issued across the country and into next week after what forecasters said was “probably the strongest storm” to hit the UK in at least 10 years.
More than a million people in the UK were without power while many suffered significant travel disruption across the UK and Ireland following Storm Éowyn.
The weather has been “pretty exceptional”, the Met Office said, pointing to some of the most intense conditions in “more like 20 or 30 years” for some parts of the country and Ireland on Friday.
Moving into the remainder of the weekend, two yellow weather warnings for wind over Scotland and Northern Ireland are due to stay in place until Sunday morning, along with another yellow alert for snow and ice over Scotland.
Two further yellow alerts have been issued on Sunday and Monday morning for wind – stretching from the South West to the west coast of Scotland – and for rain, covering much of the south of England, the West Midlands and Wales.
Another yellow warning for rain, prompting fears of flooding, is expected to remain over parts of Wales until Monday night. Up to 80mm of rainfall is expected to fall on parts of the UK.
On Tuesday, until 6am, a yellow warning for wind will cover most of the south of England and Wales.
Storm damage in Dechmont in West Lothian (Photo: Marilyn Higham/PA Wire)Workers clear debris from the roof blown off a leisure centre in Helensburgh, Scotland (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)In Scotland, where winds of up to 100mph blasted across the country on Friday, the first minister called for people to be “patient” as work continued over the weekend to restore power and transport services.
“It will take some time to complete and I appeal for the patience of the public,” John Sweeny posted on X. “Power company staff and our public servants are working at speed to restore services”.
By Saturday afternoon, SP Energy Networks had reconnected power for more than 192,000 of its customers in Scotland, but 28,000 were still cut off.
The energy operator has taken 52,000 calls since Storm Eowyn hit – a month’s worth each day.
Storm damage means it could take “several days” to restore power.
Along with widespread power outages, the country struggled with mass travel disruption, with trains, ferries and flights suspended and roads closed.
Network Rail Scotland said nearly 400 “incidents of damage” had been identified including more than 120 reports of trees falling onto tracks.
The train company described work to repair damaged railway lines as “ongoing”.
Avanti West Coast said no trains were running between England and Scotland on Saturday, with its routes to and from Cumbria, Glasgow or Edinburgh all shut.
In Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland – which experienced record-breaking gusts of 114 mph on Friday – an estimated 189,000 homes and businesses remained without electricity on Saturday, according to the NIE Networks power company.
The scale of the damage means it will take many days before all customers have power restored, the firm said, adding that there were more than 4,000 locations where networks had been damaged by fallen trees.
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Read More“At this stage we have been able to restore power to more than 96,000 families and will work over the weekend to assess the scale of the damage, and to update estimated restoration times on our website. We will keep going until everyone has their power back,” Derek Hynes, managing director of NIE Networks, said.
Meanwhile, police in Ireland named the man who died during Storm Eowyn on Friday as the 20-year-old Kacper Dudek. Driving in at Feddyglass, Raphoe in Co Donegal, the man was hit and killed by a falling tree.
Dudek, born in Poland, had been trying to flee a danger area when he was driving in a convoy with a friend, after they had been let out from their night shift early, when they came across a road accident and had to turn around, according to The Mirror. The tree reportedly hit Dudek’s car as he was turning around.
The police said: “The body of the deceased man has been removed from the scene to the mortuary in Letterkenny University Hospital where a post mortem examination will take place in due course. The N14 remains closed and local diversions are in place.”
Network Rail Scotland found a trampoline on its railway tracks (Photo: Network Rail Scotland/PA Wire)A gaden shed on Scottish train lines (Photo: Network Rail Scotland/PA Wire)Bed & Breakfast owner Alan Stephen, 63, told The i Paper the conditions he witnessed on Friday, in Drumalbin, south Lanarkshire, were the worst “I remember in my lifetime”.
“We had no electricity for four hours,” he said after winds of 100mph had swept through his local area. “There’s been many trees and branches that have fallen, that were blown down. It has been terrible.
“It is the worst weather I have ever seen. I am 63 years old and it is the worst weather I can remember in my lifetime.
“This [the B&B] is an old railway station and there is a huge fence with railway sleepers around it.
“Parts of that have been blown down. That just shows you how strong the wind has been.”
Helicopter crews deployed to inspect railways after Storm Eowyn found a roof on the tracks in Glasgow.
A resident in West Lothian, Scotland said her husband had tied a local bus shelter to a lamp post. Marilyn Higham, 61, told PA news agency Storm Éowyn has brought the worst damage she has ever seen to the area.
More than 1,100 flights were cancelled on Friday, with Dublin, Edinburgh, Heathrow and Glasgow airports the worst affected.
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