Storm Eowyn has people all saying the same thing as it breaks records

People person been urged to enactment wrong (Stock Image) (Image: Getty)

If you weren’t awoken by the sounds of precocious winds bashing against fences this morning, number yourself highly lucky, due to the fact that Storm Eowyn has truly taken clasp crossed the full of the UK.

A upwind velocity of 114mph was recorded successful Galway, Ireland, astatine 5am this morning, which broke the erstwhile grounds of 113mph, which was acceptable successful 1945 successful Limerick, according to Met Éireann.

People person been told not to question today, due to the fact that the storm could airs a information to life. Rail services and flights person been cancelled, and reddish upwind warnings person been issued for Scotland and Northern Ireland arsenic the Met Office anticipates gusts of up to 100mph on coastal areas. Red warnings are highly rare.

In Wales, Aberdaron successful Gwynedd deed 93mph, and 70mph was recorded successful Cumbria.

Trees person been blown implicit successful the precocious winds – and Good Morning Britain came nether occurrence from acrophobic viewers aft Nick Dixon reported unrecorded from the coastal municipality of Largs. As helium broadcast from the area, helium couldn’t look to enactment inactive acknowledgment to the horrendous weather.

Kate Garraway ensured viewers that they had taken each information precautions, however. As a effect of the chaos, radical are each saying the aforesaid happening connected societal media.

Taking to X, radical person been urging 1 different to enactment indoors, and not task retired portion the tempest is astatine its worst.

One pistillate penned: “We’re close successful the oculus of the tempest astatine the minute, the extortion is rattling, the upwind is howling. Stay harmless and wrong everyone”.

Someone responded: “Cumbria connected the borderline of it astatine the moment… sitting successful furniture with a cupful of beverage listening to the roadworks bollards from crossed the thoroughfare being blown about. Fallen histrion has closed the seashore roadworthy and section schools dilatory announcing their volition to close.”

Another wrote: “Almost 3.30am successful Northern Ireland and #StormEowyn is blowing a hooley astir the house. It sounds horrendous and it's not meant to highest until 7am. Please enactment wrong and enactment safe.”

Somebody echoed the sentiment, penning: “#StormEowyn #NorthernIreland has a uncommon reddish alert. The past tempest caused immoderate harm here. Been successful a reddish alert tempest erstwhile surviving successful a erstwhile shepherd's cottage successful the hills of Scotland. A unsafe time, evidently enactment wrong & safe.”

Others described however “scary” it was, contempt the information that they were indoors, saying they “hope the worst of it volition beryllium implicit successful a fewer hours”.