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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.
A service update is displayed on a screen at King's Cross railway station, as a red weather warning was issued due to Storm Eowyn, in London, Britain, January 24, 2025. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes
A brave meteorologist measures hurricane-force wind gusts slamming Ireland's western shores during Storm Eowyn on Jan. 24, 2025. About 138,000 people in Ireland have also had water loss issues ...
Storm Éowyn was "probably the strongest storm" to hit the UK in at least 10 years, the Met Office has said, with wind gusts in excess of 100mph (160km/h).
More than 140,000 properties are still without power in Northern Ireland as the clean-up from Storm Éowyn continues. It brought winds of more than 90mph and, at the peak, left 30% of homes and ...
The company said nearly 200,000 properties have been affected since the storm began, and had taken more than 52,000 calls, about a month's worth of calls in a single day.
On 21 January 2025, the UK Met Office and associated organisations in Europe used the name "Éowyn" for the fifth storm of the 2024–2025 season. Éowyn is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings and the name was taken from a list based on suggestions by the public.
A storm is considered a bomb cyclone when the barometric pressure falls at least 0.71 of an inch of mercury (24 millibars) in 24 hours. Far surpassing that measure, Storm Eowyn plummeted more than ...