A brave meteorologist measures hurricane-force wind gusts slamming Ireland’s western shores during Storm Eowyn on Jan. 24, 2025.
About 138,000 people in Ireland have also had water loss issues with another 750,000 at risk of losing water.
“Several water treatment plants are experiencing power outages, and where possible, backup generators are being used to operate the plants,” Irish Water officials said. “As a result of the interruption to power, water levels in reservoirs around the county have dropped to low levels.”
They warn water challenges could persist for days.
“This was an unprecedented storm event that has had a severe impact on our water and wastewater network nationwide,” Head of Water Operations at Uisce Éireann, Margaret Attridge, said in a statement. “Our crews will work around the clock where it is safe to do so to restore water service as quickly as possible, but given the extent of the damage, it may take some time before full service is restored everywhere.”
Travel has been severely impacted with nearly 20% of all flights in the region canceled, affecting about 150,000 passengers, aviation analytics firm Cirium reported to the BBC. Dublin, Ireland, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland and London’s Heathrow Airport were the most affected.
Train service cancelations and delays spread across Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, as downed trees blocked tracks. Schools were shuttered for the day, including all classes in Edinburgh and Glasgow, according to the BBC.
Calls for help from the storm have kept police in Northern Ireland very busy.
“Police have received over 2,000 calls for service so far today, which is around 50% more than we would usually expect to see on a normal Friday,” Assistant Chief Constable Davy Beck with the Police Service of Northern Ireland said. “Many roads across Northern Ireland are still currently impassable, with fallen trees, power lines and debris.”
Linda Hughes, from Met Éireann, spoke to FOX Weather about the storm system and described it as one of the strongest in recent memory.
“It’s certainly going to be a very unusual event,” Hughes stated.
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A “bomb cyclone” is an area of low pressure that has seen a drop of 24 millibars of air pressure during a period of 24 hours or less. It commonly happens in hurricanes.
While the western part of the European continent is no stranger to intense storm systems, hurricane-force wind gusts were expected to down trees and cause widespread power outages.
SCOTLAND – JANUARY 24: People walk about in the heavy rain on January 24, 2025 in Helensburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
“The models have been doing pretty good this week with forecasting this storm,” Hughes said. “So thankfully, we’ve had a few days to prepare the public for what’s coming.”
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Across Western Europe, a temporary reprieve from the hazardous weather is expected late Saturday into Sunday. However, forecasters are already tracking another significant area of low pressure that is expected to impact some of the same areas late into the weekend and into next week.
“A further area of low pressure will influence the UK’s weather from Sunday, initially in the west, but spreading further east and bringing further wind and rain from Sunday and into the start of next week, with further warnings issued,” the UK’s national weather service stated.
The storm system, aided by a powerful jet stream, over-preformed along the U.S. Gulf Coast, with record amounts of ice and snow along the Interstate 10 corridor.
New Orleans saw its snowiest day in more than 100 years with 8 inches of frozen precipitation at the Big Easy’s international airport and nearby Mobile, Alabama, smashed its 130-year-old snow record.
Climatologists are still combing through observations in Florida, but the state easily surpassed its all-time greatest snowfall event. That was on March 6, 1954, when just 4 inches fell outside of Pensacola. During the most recent event, Pensacola officially reported 8.9 inches with totals nearing double digits in nearby communities.
Following the ice and snow, a record chill overtook the region with real-feel temperatures dropping into the single digits as far south as the Gulf Coast.
Original article source: Bomb cyclone Eowyn blasts Ireland with record 114 mph gust as 1 million lose power across British Isles
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