Storm Eowyn maps show UK towns and cities to be battered by 80mph wind gusts

Storm Eowyn is acceptable to smash into areas of the UK successful the coming days, with immense winds bringing the imaginable of information to beingness for millions of Brits arsenic homes could beryllium damaged

Terrifying weather maps person shown the areas of the UK which volition beryllium deed hardest by Storm Eowyn successful the coming hours and days.

The Met Office has declared reddish warnings for areas of Northern Ireland and Scotland for Friday, though the remainder of the state is nether either yellowish oregon amber alerts astatine immoderate point. It has been declared a “multi-hazard event”, meaning determination volition beryllium snow, rainfall and precise beardown winds - depending connected wherever you are.

Maps from WX Charts person shown wherever volition beryllium deed by the hardest winds. Several locations, specified arsenic Newcastle and Carlisle successful bluish England, arsenic good arsenic Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen successful Scotland could look immense winds of much than 100mph.

The worst winds volition bring information to beingness with precise unsafe driving conditions arsenic trees could beryllium felled and the imaginable of harm to homes wherever powerfulness could beryllium lost. By the coast, ample waves are feared and roads, bridges and railway lines volition beryllium closed.

Further south, cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Hull, Birmingham, Cardiff and London could beryllium deed by conscionable arsenic terrifying winds of astir 75-80mph. The northbound westbound and Wales is nether an amber alert, portion a yellowish informing tin beryllium recovered implicit the remainder of the country.

Met Office main meteorologist Paul Gundersen said: “We reserve the issuing of Red Warnings for the astir terrible weather which represents a apt information to beingness and terrible disruption, and that is the lawsuit with Storm Éowyn.

While it volition beryllium wide precise windy connected Friday, with further hazards from rainfall and snow, the strongest winds and astir important impacts are apt successful Northern Ireland and cardinal and southwestern parts of Scotland wrong the Red Warning areas, wherever winds could gust 80-90 mph rather wide for a time, and perchance up to 100 mph for exposed coasts successful particular.

“Storm Éowyn is simply a multi-hazard event, with snowfall apt for some, rainfall for galore and beardown winds for overmuch of the UK. As a result, a fig of upwind warnings person been issued, with each parts of the UK covered by 1 informing astatine immoderate constituent connected Friday.

“Storm Éowyn is expected to transverse Northern Ireland aboriginal connected Friday morning. It volition past proceed northeast crossed the bluish fractional of Scotland during Friday day and is expected to beryllium centred adjacent Shetland during Friday evening.

“It’s important to enactment that adjacent those distant from the contiguous Red Warning areas volition inactive apt spot disruptive weather, with question plans apt to beryllium severely impacted, arsenic good arsenic the anticipation of powerfulness cuts for some.”