Weather | Storm Eowyn Leaves a Third of Ireland Without Power
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The storm brought 100 mile-per-hour winds to the island and also battered Scotland and northern England. Britain’s weather office issued a red warning, its highest level of alert.
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The storm brought record-breaking winds to Ireland, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people and leaving tens of thousands without water. Credit Credit… Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters Jan. 24, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of customers in Ireland were without power and more than 100,000 were without water on Friday, as a powerful storm moved across the island, bringing record-breaking winds and disrupting travel.
The storm, named Eowyn, brought gales to Ireland throughout Friday morning and afternoon, according to the Irish Meteorological Service. Northern Ireland, southern Scotland and the northern and western areas of England and Wales experienced strong winds, with gusts of up to 60 miles per hour, according to Britain’s national meteorological service. The agency issued a red warning, its highest-level alert indicating dangerous weather, for Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland, before downgrading it Friday afternoon.
After forecasters warned of gusts of up to 100 m.p.h. along the Irish Sea and in southwestern Scotland, a gust of 114 m.p.h. was recorded in western Ireland at Mace Head, County Galway, beating an Irish record set in 1945.
ESB Networks, an Irish state-owned power company, said that about 725,000 of its customers were without power on Friday, nearly a third of the utility’s roughly 2.4 million total customers. The power outages also disrupted the nation’s water supply, with about 138,000 people across the country without water by the evening and many more at risk of losing service, according to Irish Water.
“The widespread power outages at treatment plants and pumping stations continue to impact on supplies,” Irish Water said in a statement.
Eowyn will also bring rain showers and longer spells of rain across the north of Ireland, according to forecasters, and there was a chance of hail and snow in the hills of Scotland. Britain’s Meteorological Office warned of “very dangerous conditions with widespread disruptions and significant impacts.”
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