Storm Eowyn sets wind speed record as 114mph gales recorded and deadly weather chaos begins

The top-level reddish informing for upwind is successful spot successful some Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland from aboriginal connected Friday morning

Storm Éowyn has already acceptable a upwind velocity grounds arsenic 114mph gales were recorded successful Ireland this morning, forecasters person said.

Met Éireann said the highest gust grounds of 182km/h (113mph) acceptable successful 1945 astatine Foynes successful County Limerick has provisionally been breached arsenic a gust of 183km/h was recorded astatine Mace Head successful County Galway astatine 5am. The Irish Meteorological Service said: "This is provisionally the strongest gust velocity ever recorded successful Ireland."

The top-level reddish informing for upwind is successful spot successful some the the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland from aboriginal connected Friday morning. Schools and colleges crossed Ireland are acceptable to adjacent and nationalist transport travel to a halt amid almighty gusts with warnings of information to life, fallen electrical lines, damaged infrastructure and wide powerfulness outages.

Dublin Airport announced much than 110 scheduled departures and 110 arrivals person been cancelled by airlines for Friday. The tempest has already caused extended and wide harm to the energy network, with powerfulness outages nationwide affecting 560,000 homes, farms and businesses.

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