One of the strongest storms in decades leads to cancelled flights, suspended rail services, and closed schools.

Flights and trains have been cancelled and red weather warnings are in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland as Storm Eowyn hits the UK.

One person has died in Ireland and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power in the UK as Storm Éowyn brought record-breaking wind gusts. The man died when a tree fell on his car in County Donegal, Gardaí (Irish police) said.

SNOW and ice warnings have been issued to Brits as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the UK. THE Met Office have urged Brits to “be prepared” with a number of snow and ice

Flights have been delayed, roads closed and ferry services cancelled as strong winds pose a danger to life in parts of the UK on Friday morning.

Damage and power outages have been reported Friday as energy from a storm system that produced record snowfall along the Gulf Coast is bashing Western Europe with heavy precipitation and powerful wind gusts.

Tens of thousands of homes lost power on Friday, as gusts of 183 kilometres (114 miles) per hour were recorded early in the morning near the Galway coast in the west, the island’s Met Eireann said on

Hundreds of thousands of homes lost power as gusts of 183 kilometers per hour lashed the western coast of Ireland. In Scotland, hundreds of schools were closed and train operator ScotRail suspended all services.

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport.

Winds reached 100mph as Storm Eowyn left one person dead, more than a million people without power and caused significant travel disruption across the UK and Ireland. Rail services, flights and ferries have been cancelled across the country as rare red weather warnings are in place on Friday in Scotland.

Flights, rail services, sporting fixtures and hospitals were all affected on Friday after Storm Eowyn slammed into the UK, with disruption expected to continue into the weekend. More than a thousand flights to or from the UK and Ireland on Friday were cancelled,

Snow, ice and wind warnings have been extended through until Sunday as a frosty blast strikes parts of the UK, in the wake of Storm Eowyn’s record-breaking wind speeds. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.