6 days ago · Storm Éowyn (/ ˈ eɪ oʊ w ɪ n / AY-oh-win) was an extremely powerful and record-breaking extratropical cyclone which hit Ireland, the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom on 24 January 2025 and Norway on the night of 24 January into 25 January 2025. The fifth storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season, Éowyn was named by the UK Met Office on …

4 days ago · [ In pictures: Storm Éowyn lashes the country, with record winds and mass power cuts Opens in new window ] West of Dingle, a photographer and his wife had a lucky escape after they awoke to find ...

2 days ago · More than 1 million people in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland were left without electricity after Storm Éowyn (pronounced AY-oh-win) roared through on Friday. In Ireland, which suffered the heaviest damage, the wind snapped telephone poles, ripped apart a Dublin ice rink and even toppled a giant wind turbine.

4 days ago · Ireland was battered by Storm Éowyn on Friday, with powerful sustained winds and record-breaking gusts leaving a man dead, hundreds of thousands without power and serious damage to buildings and ...

4 days ago · Waves crash onto the shore in Bantry Bay, on the southwest coast of Ireland, on Jan. 24, 2025, as storm Eowyn brings winds over 100 mph to the U.K. and Ireland. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty

4 days ago · Sustained 10-minute winds of 84 mph are characteristic of a strong Cat 1 or weak Cat 2 hurricane. The damage being reported from Ireland and the U.K. is indeed characteristic of a hurricane, and Storm Éowyn may well end up being Earth’s second billion-dollar weather disaster of 2025, along with the Los Angeles fires.

4 days ago · Damage could be seen in Belfast in Northern Ireland on Friday as a major storm continued to lash Ireland and Scotland with hurricane-force winds. Forecasters issued a rare “red” weather warning, meaning danger to life, across the whole island of Ireland and central and southwest Scotland.

4 days ago · Wind speeds for that storm reached 93 m.p.h. in Wales. For Ireland, Eowyn is the most severe storm since 2017, when one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the northeastern Atlantic ...

5 days ago · Storm Éowyn deepened by 50 millibars in 24 hours. Explosive cyclogenesis is generally a sign of a storm that will bring extremely strong winds. It is also possible the west coast of Ireland has ...

5 days ago · Storm Éowyn, pronounced ‘Ay-oh-win’, has been advancing toward Ireland and the United Kingdom and is expected to bring gusty winds, heavy rain and some snow to the region Friday and Saturday.