Storm Eowyn live: New snow and wind warnings issued as travel chaos continues after 100mph gusts

Celtic’s William Hill Premiership match against Dundee on Saturday has been postponed following storm damage to the club’s stadium.

Storm Eowyn brought winds of up to 100mph in central Scotland on Friday and a Met Office red weather warning of danger to life.

The Met Office has extended its weather warnings into Tuesday, forecasting more snow, ice and powerful winds as parts of the UK reel from the damage left by Storm Eowyn.

Described by forecasters as probably the most powerful storm to hit the UK in at least a decade, Eowyn battered the country with hurricane-force winds of up to 100mph which tore roofs from buildings, uprooted trees, overturned cars, and left 1 million people without power on Friday.

Major travel disruption continued on Saturday as trees, trampolines and even the roofs of buildings were cleared from railway tracks, with power distributors warning in Northern Ireland that it could take up to 10 days to restore electricity to all of the 185,000 homes still suffering outages.

My colleague Andy Gregory reports:

While Sunday is expected to see Storm Eowyn start to die down, a new storm is set to follow immediately behind.

Named Storm Herminia by Spanish meteorologists, it is forecast to hit the south west of England and Wales first and then move into Northern Ireland and northern England on Sunday afternoon, reaching parts of Scotland by the evening, according to PA.

Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: “This is certainly going to be a notch down compared to Eowyn, whilst there is the potential for 60 to 70mph gusts of wind across the very far south west generally, we’re not going to be seeing the same strengths of winds as we have seen over the last couple of days.”

Snow, ice, and wind warnings have been extended till Sunday as several parts of the country sees widespread damage in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn.

Network Rail Scotland said it had received reports of nearly 400 “incidents of damage”, with over 120 reports of fallen trees. Signalling systems, overhead wires, stations, boundary fencing, level crossings, and train depots have all seen intense damage.

Police Scotland responded to nearly 1,900 incidents linked to the storm, they said.

Around 185,000 homes and businesses remain without power in Northern Ireland following Storm Eowyn – with NIE Networks warning that the scale of the damage means it could take up to 10 days before all customers have power restored.

Derek Hynes, managing director of NIE Networks, said they believe there are more than 4,000 locations where the network has been damaged by the wind or fallen trees, in what he described as “devastating levels of damage to the electricity network in Northern Ireland”.

He continued: “Almost one third of the people here have no power. At this early stage, we believe that there are well over 4,000 locations in Northern Ireland where our network has been damaged by the wind or falling trees. Each of these locations will need to be visited.

“Right now, we are prioritising faults which affect the largest numbers of homes and businesses. It is likely that it will take us up to 10 days to get to the final locations and restore power to those residents.

“We continue to work with government and other agencies to try to provide information to the most vulnerable in our society as we work through a long restoration effort.”

He added: “At this stage, we have been able to restore power to more than 96,000 families and will work over the weekend to assess the scale of the damage, and to update estimated restoration times on our website. We will keep going until everyone has their power back.”

January and February will see two remarkable planetary alignments, with one of them offering stargazers a chance to witness a celestial spectacle that will not be repeated for another 400 years.

On Friday 24 January and Saturday 25 January, six planets will line up in the night sky, in an event that some astronomers refer to as a planetary parade.

The planets will be together in the night sky throughout the rest of January and February, with weather conditions in the UK looking favourable for a decent viewing this weekend.

Watch the dramatic moment an entire roof appears to be torn off a building in Scotland as a result of Storm Eowyn.

A reply to the footage posted on X said the building is in Wester Hailes, south west of Edinburgh, although this has not been verified.