Hurricane-force winds caused widespread travel disruption and power outages across Ireland and Scotland as Storm Éowyn swept through the region. Millions heeded warnings to stay home as the storm brought record-breaking wind gusts and dangerous conditions.
Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the United Kingdom heeded authorities' advice to stay home on Friday as hurricane-force winds left power lines down and caused widespread travel disruption . Meteorologists had issued an unusual red weather warning, signifying a danger to life, across the island of Ireland and in central and southwest Scotland .
Ireland bore the brunt of the storm first, as it was lashed with wind gusts of 183 kilometers per hour (114 miles per hour), the strongest since World War II, as a winter storm entered from the Atlantic before hitting Scotland. A man died when a tree fell onto his car in County Donegal in northwest Ireland, local police reported. The storm is expected to move quickly and leave Scotland's coasts by Friday night. Urban centers, such as Dublin in Ireland, Belfast in Northern Ireland, and Glasgow in Scotland, remained unusually quiet, much like the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as shops remained closed and the population heeded the advice not to go out. For those who ventured out and were greeted by one of the wind gusts, it was a struggle to stay on their feet. 'I want to thank the public for largely following Police Scotland's advice not to go out,' said Scottish First Minister John Swinney. More than a million homes, farms, and businesses in the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland were left without power as record-breaking wind gusts swept the island. Another 100,000 customers in Scotland were also reported to have lost power. Schools were closed and trains, ferries, and more than 1,000 flights were canceled in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, even as far south as Heathrow Airport in London, as the system, named Storm Éowyn by meteorological authorities, raged. Disruptions are expected to last until Saturday
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