Storm Eowyn is bringing a weather weaponry of tornados, beardown winds, rain, snowfall – and question disruption.
The officially named Storm Eowyn is approaching the UK and Ireland from the Atlantic, with the Met Office informing of ‘danger to life’ winds.
The archetypal tempest of the twelvemonth is acceptable to deed the UK time greeting aft landing successful Ireland soon aft midnight. You tin travel our unrecorded updates here.
All trains successful Scotland person been suspended tomorrow. Other bid operators and Network Rail person told passengers ‘do not travel’ tomorrow, portion airports advised travellers to cheque with their hose earlier heading to the airport.
Here is simply a database of what to look retired for if you person to question by road, train, aerial oregon ferry tomorrow.
‘Do not travel’ bid warnings
Several bid operators person issued question warnings for time up of Storm Eowyn, portion ScotRail suspended
- Avanti West Coast – Do not question northbound of Preston and connected North Wales routes
- Northern – Do not question informing connected assorted routes, including Manchester-Leeds, Newcastle-Carlisle, Huddersfield-Sheffield and Blackpool North to York (via Bradford). A afloat database of affected routes tin beryllium recovered here
- CrossCountry – Do not question betwixt York, Newcastle and Edinburgh
- Grand Central and TransPennine services are affected
- LNER – Do not question northbound of York
- Lumo – Do not question northbound of Newcastle
- Merseyrail and Transport for Wales said determination could beryllium disruption, but they person not been affected contiguous
What astir UK flights?
Ryanair has said that determination could beryllium disruption to flights to and from Ireland during Storm Eowyn.
Airports successful the country covered by the reddish upwind informing said they are monitoring the concern with airlines, but the last determination to cancel oregon
Both Edinburgh and Belfast Airports told Metro passengers should proceed to cheque with their airline.
A spokesperson for AGS Airports, which owns and operates Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports, said: ‘With adverse upwind forecast for Friday and Saturday, passengers are advised to cheque the presumption of their formation with their hose earlier travelling.’
Road question during Storm Eowyn
National Highways issued its ain amber terrible upwind informing for gales successful North West and North East England and Yorkshire betwixt 7am and 10pm tomorrow.
It said winds volition summation rapidly done the greeting and wide scope gusts of 60-70mph.
By midday, astir of Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland volition spot ‘isolated gusts’ of 90mph, particularly successful the highest of the A66 Pennine way and coastal routes including the A590 and A595.
‘There is simply a peculiarly precocious hazard that high-sided vehicles and different ‘vulnerable’ vehicles specified arsenic caravans and motorbikes could beryllium blown over,’ it warned.
In Scotland, which is successful the worst of the reddish informing area, the Forth Road Bridge is apt to close, portion the Queensferry Crossing and Clackmannanshire Bridge are apt to adjacent to high-sided vehicles, motorcycles and cars with trailers oregon extortion boxes if winds scope 80mph.
Ports and ferries
Some ferry services from Ireland person already been axed.
Irish Ferries said that the 4pm ferry from Dublin to Cherbourg, France, contiguous has been cancelled ‘due to adverse upwind associated with tempest Eowyn.’ The Cherbourg to Dublin ferry time is besides axed.
Scotland’s westbound seashore ferry relation CalMac warned the forecast conditions from Storm Eowyn mean the bulk of sailings are liable to disruption oregon cancellation, with immoderate services already axed.
Northlink Ferries, serving the Northern Isles, changed its sailing times time owed to expected adverse weather, saying each sailings for Saturday are nether review, with ‘a precocious probability of cancellation’ for greeting ferries.
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