An Irish man died on Friday morning after a tree fell on his car in Raphoe, the Irish police confirm. “A male driver was fatally injured during the incident. The body of the deceased is still at the crime scene at the moment, “the police said in a statement.
The Scottish police, on the other hand, investigate the death of a 49-year-old man in Irvine, Scotland, who was found lifeless on the street. According to The Daily Record, the man was fatally hit by “falling roof tiles”. Only in Scotland does a red code apply because of the bad weather. In Ireland, the water supply of more than half a million people is in danger.
The with Office, similar to our KMI, has warned the population that it is better to stay at home. “Storm Éowyn is dangerous, destructive and harmful,” said former Prime Minister Simon Harris yesterday on X. “The danger is extreme and realistic.” Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin, who was only elected on Thursday, called on the population to stay at home. On X he described Éowyn as “a historic storm”.
Life is being stopped
On the entire Irish island, about 1 million families were without electricity on Friday and in large parts of the island of the island was in Belgian time code red, the highest alarm phase. According to the Irish Electricity Supply Board (ESB), the winds have caused “unprecedented, widespread and extensive damage to the electricity network throughout the country”.
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Life is being stopped in Ireland. Schools have remained closed and people were asked to work at home. There was also no mail.
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The biggest impact was for Northern Ireland, Scotland and the north of England. Trees and traffic signs have been blown over and the road and train traffic is impressed. Aircraft are kept on the ground at various airports, according to the PA press agency, all together is about a thousand flights from the airports of Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow, but also Heathrow, accounting for 20 percent of the total number of flights.
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Users share images of the storm on social media. It shows how the strong winds managed to cause damage early in the morning on Friday. “Serious here in Mayo (A county in northwestern Ireland, ed.). Now the area has no power anymore. The sound and power of the wind is unreal, “wrote an X user. “Mother Nature makes her presence clear.
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Records
On Friday morning the record of the strongest gust of wind has been measured so far in Ireland. At the Irish west coast, a gust of wind of 184 kilometers per hour was measured at 5.50 am local time, the national weather service confirmed. The previous record was 182 kilometers per hour, which was observed in 1945.
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The average wind speed record in the country was also broken on Friday morning “subject to change”, says the Irish weather service. An average wind speed of 135 kilometers per hour was measured. Also on the Irish west coast. The previous record was 131 kilometers per hour.
In the United Kingdom, the strongest gust of wind of the day, measured in Drumalbin, is currently 160 kilometers per hour.
Due to the many warnings, it seems that most people had prepared for the arrival of Eowyn. Many schools also remained closed. No serious injuries or deaths were reported until the afternoon.
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