Emergency alerts will be sent to about 4.5 million people in at least 28 areas of both nations on Thursday evening, the government has said. BBC Weather says it could be the storm of the century for the Republic of Ireland.
Flights and trains have been cancelled and red weather warnings are in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland as Storm Eowyn hits the UK.
The latest named weather bomb, Storm Eowyn, has already set a wind speed record as 114mph gales were recorded in Ireland, forecasters have said.
Greggs is shutting restaurants to "protect customers" amid Storm Eowyn, the bakery giant has said. Northern Ireland is in “the eye of the storm right now” first minister, Michelle O’Neill, has said with a real threat to life and property, and more than 70 reports of trees down and almost 100,000 homes and premises without power.
The DUP use of a Stormont mechanism in a bid to prevent an EU law coming into force in Northern Ireland has the potential to disrupt post-Brexit trading systems, Michelle O’Neill has said.
Flights, trains and ferries have been cancelled across the UK as 100mph pose a danger to life in parts of the UK.
OVER 1,000 flights have been axed at airports across the UK impacting thousands of Brits as 114mph Storm Eowyn arrives. No flights at all will operate from Edinburgh Airport between 10am and 5pm
Millions of people have been urged to stay at home on Friday as Storm Éowyn is set to bring potentially life-threatening winds to the north and west of the UK.
More than four million people across Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland have received emergency alerts on their phones in the “largest real life use of the tool to date”, the Government said.
Rare red weather warnings have been issued for Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland as strong winds are expected across the whole of the UK on Friday. | ITV National News
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