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,

One of the strongest storms in decades leads to cancelled flights, suspended rail services, and closed schools.

Two red weather warnings are in place as winds of up to 100mph are forecast to hit Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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.

A powerful storm has left hundreds of thousands of homes without power and caused massive travel disruptions in the United Kingdom.

More than 1,000 flights are canceled and ground transportation is suspended as a severe winter storm sweeps across the UK and Ireland on Friday.

Storm Éowyn’s hurricane-force winds disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions in Ireland and southwest Scotland.

Thousands of schools are expected to close, with drivers also warned to stay off the roads and rail services suspended amid rare red weather warnings as Storm Eowyn gets set to batter parts of the UK.

Millions told to stay home and hundreds of flights cancelled as 100mph winds batter UK - Millions of mobile phone users got an emergency alert as people in Scotland and Northern Ireland warned to stay

Flights have been delayed, roads closed and ferry services cancelled as strong winds pose a danger to life in parts of the UK on Friday morning.

An emergency Cobra meeting was held after a series of fresh weather warnings were issued across the country and into next week ahead of Storm Herminia. More than a million people in the UK were without power while many suffered significant travel disruption across the country and Ireland following Storm Éowyn.

The Met Office has issued another swathe of yellow weather warnings covering much of the west of the UK, some which run until Tuesday, in the aftermath of the weather bomb