Major storm lashes Ireland and Scotland as hurricane-force winds down power lines and ground flights [View all]

Source: AP

By JILL LAWLESS and PAN PYLAS
Updated 8:08 AM CST, January 24, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. were urged to stay at home Friday as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions.

Forecasters issued a rare “red” weather warning, meaning danger to life, across the whole island of Ireland and central and southwest Scotland.

Ireland was hit with wind gusts of 114 ph (183 kph), the strongest since World War II, as a winter storm spiraled in from the Atlantic before hitting Scotland.

Schools were closed, and trains, ferries and more than 1,000 flights were canceled in the Republic of Ireland and the U.K., even as far south as London Heathrow, as the system, named Storn Éowyn (pronounced Ay-oh-win) by weather authorities, roared in. The storm was moving fast, though, and should have cleared Scotland’s shores by late Friday.

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