Ireland was hit by winds of 183 km / h, the strongest storm on record, as a winter storm in the UK on Friday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power.
Schools were closed, trains were stopped and hundreds of flights on Ireland, with the Northern nation and Scotland with the system, Any Ston éowyn with weather authorities.
Forecasters issued a rare, “red” weather warning, meaning a risk to life, for Friday across the island of Ireland and central and south-west Scotland.
“Please stay at home if you can,” said Prime Minister Michael O'Neill on BBC Radio Ulster. “We are in the eye of the storm now. We are at the time of the red alert.”
The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh closed its doors and Scottish Minister Iain Swinney: “We must be clear. People should not travel.”
More than 700,000 homes and businesses in Ireland and almost 100,000 in Northern Ireland were without power due to power damage to Ireland's electricity infrastructure, the Irish Supply Board said.
The Irish Meteorological Office said that it met its new amount at Mace Head Off Head, eclipsing the previous landmark of 182 km / ha that was established in 1945.
The storm is being moved by the Current and is fed energy by energy in the upper levels of the atmosphere. A rapid drop in air pressure is expected and I could with a Cabbone Bomb Coyclone bomb, which happens when the pressure of a 24 Mill Morbair storm falls in 24 hours.
Scientists say that pointing to the attention of climate change on a storm that is warming mostly fast because of human-made pollutants and methane.
“As the weather gets warmer, we can expect these storms to become more intense, with more northerly, professor of the effects of Climate Change at the University of Newcastle.
