London – Record winds fell on Ireland, Northern Ireland and some parts of the mainland of Great Britain on Friday, while strong storms spread throughout the region, including the entire width of Scotland, since the islands took on the main storm of the EOVIN storm.
Met éireann, the National Meteorological Service of the Irish Republic, said that the country was shaken by gusts of wind at a speed of up to 184 miles per hour in the county of Gorei-the highest of the island ever registered on the island.
The Irish Republic was under the “red warning” from its meteorological body, that is, the public was warned that the storm was “extremely destructive and dangerous”.
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ESB NetWorks, a state organization responsible for most of the power grid of Ireland, said on Friday morning that more than 715,000 houses, farms and enterprises were left without electricity as a result of a hurricane. According to ESB, during Friday new power outages are expected.
According to the affiliate network, the CBS News BBC News, Scottish Power, the electricity supplier in Scotland, said that about 15,000 of its customers were left without electricity.
More than 230 flights that were supposed to fly out or arrive at Dublin Airport were canceled on Friday morning due to severe weather, and all public transport was suspended throughout Ireland, since government officials warned the public to stay indoors.
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The meteorological bureau of Great Britain announced on Friday that similar Red warning notifications were put into effect in some parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Gusts of wind at a speed of more than 90 miles per hour were recorded in North Ireland and some parts of North Wales on Friday morning, when the EOVIN storm moved towards the United Kingdom. Many trains and other types of public transport were blocked in the north of the UK, and the first messages appeared about the damage to the winds of trees and buildings.
“Storm EOVIN now brings very strong winds to some parts of Great Britain. In open places in the red warning zone, gusts of wind are possible at a speed of 100 miles per hour, ”said Jason Kelly chief meteorologist on Friday. “Anyone who is located in these red and amber zones of warning should listen to the advice of local response services and keep abreast of the weather warnings for their area.”
The most stringent red warnings in the UK, indicating a possible threat to life, cover Northern Ireland and the extreme north of England, as well as the south and central Scotland, but the yellow warning zone indicates likely difficulties and a possible risk of flying fragments. , covered a much wider territory, stretching south to Manchester and Liverpool.
According to the partners of CBS News on Weather Channel, in the period from Thursday to Friday Storm Eovin (pronounced as ay-oh-win) turned into the so-called bomb cyclone. The cause of the storm was the recent winter storm on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the United States.
“The energy of reactive currents that helped cause historical snowfall on the coast of the US Mexican Gulf on Tuesday, provoked the development of low pressure among the southeastern coast of the United States. Bombing cyclone, ”said Weather Channel.
The bomb cyclone, also known as bombogenesis, is described by the national department of the US oceanic and atmospheric research as a rapidly developing storm that occurs when atmospheric pressure drops at least 24 million for 24 hours. According to the British meteorological service, the pressure associated with the hurricane EOVIN fell by about 50 million as it approached the western coast of Ireland.
