Storm Eowyn live tracker - follow storm to see when it will hit England, Scotland and Wales

The UK is bracing itself for 1 of the worst storms successful caller representation aft neighbouring Ireland was enactment connected lockdown aft a uncommon reddish alert - way the storm's way here

The UK is braced for what could beryllium 1 of the worst storms successful caller memory, with highly uncommon Status Red weather warnings issued crossed Ireland and Britain.

Storm Eowyn is shaping up to beryllium a multi-hazard event, with the imaginable to origin utmost destruction.

Meteorologists are forecasting terrible and damaging winds exceeding 130km/h that are expected to origin chaos overnight and into Friday, bringing with them torrential rainfall and adjacent snowfall successful immoderate areas.

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In anticipation of the storm's impact, Met Eireann has advised residents to guarantee their mobile phones are afloat charged owed to expected terrible disruptions to the energy network. The informing from the bureau was stark: "The Electricity web is expected to beryllium severely impacted, the nationalist are advised to hole for the accomplishment of the tempest including ensuring their mobile telephone is afloat charged to alteration communication."

The ferocity of the winds associated with Storm Eowyn is considered perchance life-threatening. The National Emergency Co-ordination Group has issued a stern informing for radical to enactment indoors, for schools to unopen down, and for workers to debar commuting until the tempest has subsided, which is apt to beryllium by Friday evening.

The nationalist forecaster has emphasised the danger, stating: "This level of winds person the imaginable to airs a menace to beingness and property, truthful the nationalist is advised to structure successful spot nether immoderate reddish level warning, and bounds question to indispensable lone and structure successful spot arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable nether immoderate orangish warning, arsenic determination volition beryllium highly unsafe travelling conditions, fallen trees, and powerfulness outages expected broadly."

Storm Eowyn is acceptable to batter the UK with terrible upwind warnings successful spot crossed the country. The reddish warnings, indicating the astir terrible upwind conditions, volition instrumentality effect astatine assorted times, starting from 2am and continuing done the greeting and afternoon.

The tempest volition deed Ireland astatine 2am and the UK aboriginal successful the morning, arsenic per the Irish Mirror.

A afloat database of impacts that radical should hole for include:

• Danger to life
• Extremely unsafe travelling conditions
• Unsafe moving conditions
• Disruption and cancellations to transport
• Many fallen trees
• Significant and wide powerfulness outages
• Impacts to communications networks
• Cancellation of event
• Structural damage
• Wave overtopping
• Coastal flooding successful low-lying and exposed areas