Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,
Parts of Ireland were hit with storms capable of producing winds of 90 miles per hour, leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
Emergency crews are cleaning up after a storm bearing record-breaking winds left at least one person dead and more than a million without power across the island of Ireland and Scotland
Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.
Two red weather warnings are in place as winds of up to 100mph are forecast to hit Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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More rainy and windy weather battered the U.K. and Ireland on Sunday, with a gust of 82 mph (132 kph) recorded at Predannack in southwest England. It was part of a new system named Storm Herminia by weather authorities in Spain, which was bracing for severe impact.
Storm Eowyn Friday continued to cause power outages for hundreds of thousands, knocked down trees and disrupted transportation as it moved across Scotland and Northern Ireland into Britain's West Midlands region.
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.
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