Storm Eowyn weather maps show where and when major wind gusts over 90mph will batter Britain

Met Office upwind warnings person laid retired a grim forecast for the UK implicit the adjacent fewer days, with gale-force winds acceptable to teardrop implicit hundreds of miles until Friday

Storm Eowyn volition buffet Brits with utmost 100kph winds and could origin extended harm crossed each azygous UK location federation arsenic it arrives this week, maps show.

The Met Office named the latest tempest strategy connected Tuesday aft issuing a slew of weather warnings for the country, with excessive snow, upwind and rainfall expected to descend implicit hundreds of miles done the adjacent fewer days. The chiefly yellowish alerts authorities people's question plans volition beryllium the superior casualty of the bluster and precipitation, with the worst of the upwind hitting connected Friday.

A uncommon amber informing issued for January 24 states "very beardown winds" volition origin a "danger to life" for hundreds of thousands of Britons surviving successful a ample portion of bluish England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Maps person turned achromatic and grey arsenic they amusement conscionable however unsafe and melodramatic those winds could get implicit the adjacent fewer days.

New maps from WXCharts amusement Eowyn storming towards the UK via Ireland's southwest seashore connected Friday, with aggravated winds organising themselves successful the country from astir 12am. Maps from the work - which takes information from MetDesk - amusement that, conscionable a fewer hours later, it volition detonate and commencement moving east, hitting each azygous location nation.

At their uninterrupted maximum astir 6am, the winds could scope speeds of 178kph (110mph) and beyond, with Eowyn capable to swirl unimpeded successful the unfastened h2o disconnected the Irish coast. While the strategy volition weaken arsenic it moves inland by astir 6pm, 12 hours later, it is expected to stay almighty and dangerous.

WXCharts maps amusement 154kph (94mph) highs implicit the Irish Sea, with somewhat little 118kph (73mph) gusts implicit Wales and the Midlands to the northbound of Manchester and parts of bluish England, with the strongest gusts implicit precocious crushed successful Yorkshire. The remainder of the wide country betwixt Manchester and the Scottish westbound seashore astatine Oban, and Northern Ireland.

The amber upwind informing covering the country warns gale-force winds volition blast Brits from 6am earlier gradually weakening towards the extremity of the time astatine astir 9pm. The informing states: "Storm Éowyn volition determination crossed the northwest of the UK connected Friday, clearing to the northeast connected Friday night.

"This volition bring a spell of precise beardown westbound to southwesterly winds, with highest gusts of 60 to 70 mph reasonably wide inland, 70 to 80 mph successful immoderate areas, and 80 to 90 mph on much exposed coasts and hills (perhaps adjacent higher successful a fewer locations). It should beryllium noted that determination whitethorn beryllium a flimsy simplification successful upwind spot for a clip arsenic the centre of Storm Éowyn passes overhead, this astir apt successful parts of Northern Ireland and occidental Scotland, earlier winds rapidly summation again.

"Winds volition gradually easiness aboriginal connected Friday."