UK weather: Storm Éowyn maps show last region hit as 114mph chaos leaves Britain

Record-breaking Storm Éowyn has managed to scope utmost speeds of 114mph with ample swathes of Britain nether reddish alert for hours to come.

Brutal Storm Éowyn is unravelling crossed Britain, activating uncommon reddish upwind warnings, alerts to phones and forcing schoolhouse closures successful immoderate regions. The ferocious storm has ramped up overnight, and is acceptable to wreak havoc crossed Britain until astatine slightest time (Saturday, January 25).

New km-per-hour maps, depicting wind, shows the 114mph tempest barrelling crossed Northern Ireland this morning, a portion of Britain which is acceptable to beryllium worst-hit implicit the adjacent 24 hours. Huge numbers of homes and businesses person been without power, with urgent no-travel warnings issued. While the wrath is presently unfolding, the storm's way volition caput north-eastwards, with ample parts of Scotland successful its sights.

It volition support propelling north-eastwards until the process extremity of the tempest yet leaves British shores astatine astir 6am tomorrow. The eastbound Scottish coastline, including the cities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen volition beryllium the past places to consciousness the storm's ferocity. The Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: "Those damaging gusts of upwind volition proceed done Scotland this evening and so overnight, the amber weather informing is successful spot present into Saturday greeting here. Snow volition inactive beryllium falling on the higher routes arsenic well.

"Elsewhere it does crook a small calmer passim this evening and overnight arsenic the winds easiness with wide skies. We are apt to spot frost successful galore places to commencement the weekend, but determination is inactive immoderate rainfall lingering crossed parts of parts of Kent into Saturday greeting but galore different areas are starting Saturday with a interaction of frost." Jo Farrow, a Netweather forecaster, said successful her blog: "Travel disruption and powerfulness proviso issues are apt to past into the play arsenic the upwind stays unsettled."

Weather this weekend

Maps amusement much beardown winds, astir 60mph, are acceptable to travel successful disconnected the Atlantic this weekend, with ROI and Northern Ireland archetypal successful enactment overnight connected Saturday and into Sunday. Persistent, stronger winds volition bent astir into aboriginal adjacent week, with confederate coastlines successful England to get a blustery dose into Monday and Tuesday. The Met Office long-range forecast from January 27 to February 5 shows an unsettled play volition simply proceed passim the adjacent week.

It says successful full: "This looks similar being and unsettled play crossed overmuch of the country, but particularly for bluish and occidental parts. During Monday, different heavy country of debased unit looks apt to determination crossed the UK from the Atlantic, bringing bedewed and windy conditions to astir if not each parts. Further spells of bedewed and windy upwind look similar moving eastbound from the Atlantic to impact the UK during the remainder of the play too, with drier, brighter spells successful between.

"There is the imaginable for further upwind warnings oregon adjacent a named tempest astatine immoderate point. Temperatures wide are apt to extremity up being astir oregon somewhat supra average, though upwind and rainfall volition marque it consciousness chilly, and little chill spells with immoderate overnight frost are apt betwixt upwind systems."