Power cuts warning issued with -6C freeze to hammer UK - areas affected

The mercury is acceptable to plunge successful the UK connected Sunday (Image: /WXCharts)

Brits person been warned of powerfulness cuts arsenic Storm Eowyn batters the UK and Ireland.

Outages person deed astir 10,000 radical successful Ayrshire, East Lothian, Falkirk, the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway, SP Energy Networks reports.

Energy supplier SSEN has said that it had accrued their effect teams to "10 times the accustomed levels".

It comes arsenic 170,000 susceptible customers were sent substance messages containing proposal arsenic to however they could hole for hostile conditions.

In parts of the Borders, customers were warned of powerfulness cuts soon earlier 8am, and told that faults were improbable to beryllium repaired until astir 11.45pm today, the BBC reports.

Temperatures are acceptable to driblet (Image: Getty)

Difficult conditions are not acceptable to relent for immoderate areas of the country, arsenic upwind maps person forecast beneath freezing temperatures astatine the weekend.

Minus temperatures are owed to impact parts of northbound and mid-Wales, a representation generated by WXchart suggests, and frost could agelong to arsenic acold southbound arsenic Brecon connected Sunday.

Areas similar Prestatyn, Llandudno and Angelsey look acceptable to swerve the lowest temperatures successful the representation generated connected Friday but looking astatine Sunday's temperatures.

Almost each of Northern Ireland is covered successful foreboding airy blue.

The Scottish Highlands adjacent Ben Nevis are acceptable to beryllium the coldest areas, arsenic acheronian bluish indicates the lowest sub-zero temperatures forecasted to scope -6C. Almost each of the state is covered successful astatine slightest airy blue, excluding parts of the east, northeast, and westbound coasts.

Some areas of the UK volition acquisition a heavy freeze, forecasters person predicted (Image: Getty)

Northern England, down to conscionable supra Manchester besides look to beryllium bitterly acold connected Sunday, but the eastbound and westbound coasts look acceptable to flight the chilliest temperatures.

Yellow upwind warnings person been issued by the Met Office for Sunday. One for upwind (8am until 3pm) covers the southbound westbound of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

An alert for rainfall (8am Sunday until 6am Monday) includes astir of Wales, the southbound west, south, parts of the southbound eastbound and the Midlands of England.

The rainfall informing includes "a flimsy accidental of powerfulness cuts and nonaccomplishment of different services to immoderate homes and businesses", and winds means "some abbreviated word nonaccomplishment of powerfulness and different services is possible".