High winds continue as Storm Éowyn leaves nearly a million without power

Nearly 1 cardinal properties are without powerfulness successful the UK and Ireland portion trains and ferries person been cancelled arsenic exigency responders enactment to hole the harm caused by Storm Éowyn.

The tempest brought gusts of much than 100 mph (161 km/h) connected Friday, leaving 1 antheral dormant aft a histrion fell connected a car successful Ireland.

While the fiercest gusts passed connected Friday, Storm Éowyn - pronounced AY-oh-win - is expected to bring beardown winds into the weekend.

An amber informing for upwind is successful spot for parts of Scotland until 06:00 GMT connected Saturday, and each trains successful Scotland stay cancelled until 12:00. Yellow warnings for rain, wind, snowfall and crystal volition past arsenic agelong arsenic until Monday greeting successful different areas.

Hundreds of trees person fallen, causing harm to properties, blocking roads and disrupting bid lines.

Ireland's Electricity Supply Board said it volition instrumentality a "significant fig of days" to bring backmost power, portion Northern Irish officials warned it could beryllium up to 10 days earlier each those affected are reconnected.

In Ireland, 625,000 homes and businesses were inactive without powerfulness connected Friday evening and astir 138,000 radical without water.

About 214,000 properties had nary powerfulness successful Northern Ireland, 106,000 successful Scotland and 20,000 successful north-west England.

Northern Ireland's infrastructure section said it would instrumentality days to measure the storm's damage, with much than 1,800 fallen trees, branches and different debris blocking roads.

Northern Irish Education Minister Paul Givan said 60 schools had reported "significant harm to immoderate buildings".

A cardinal absorption was identifying schools incapable to unfastened connected Monday and providing accusation to parents, helium said connected X.

"Public services and nine has been importantly impacted by the tempest that volition necessitate a corporate and co-ordinated effort successful the days up to fix," helium added.

While the strongest winds person passed, the tempest is inactive expected to bring gusts of much than 80mph (128km/h) crossed the seashore and hills of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Mark Jones, who lives successful Coldingham successful the Scottish Borders, described Storm Éowyn hitting his country similar "an earthquake".

On Friday morning, helium saw his corrugated robust carport being lifted retired of the crushed and tipped into an country of woodland.

"I didn't consciousness earnestly alarmed due to the fact that determination was astir 30ft betwixt maine and the carport and it conscionable lifted up rather steadily and tilted over," helium recalled.

"I conscionable deliberation the connection 'storm' is excessively mild for what we person witnessed here. Only a hurricane could bash that."

Liam Downs, an electrician from Cardross connected the northbound broadside of the Firth of Clyde, has been driving up and down the seashore helping the section community, including removing trees from the road.

While going to cheque connected a lawsuit successful adjacent Rosneath, helium saw "about 10 trees" autumn wrong the abstraction of 10 minutes which "completely blocked america successful the one-way road".

"As we were driving on the seashore earlier, waves were coming up onto the roadworthy and my van virtually went from being successful the close lane to being up connected the curb," helium said, adding: "Thankfully, we're successful rather a large van".

Nine UK warnings stay successful place:

• Amber informing for upwind crossed parts of Scotland from 13:00 connected Friday to 06:00 connected Saturday
• Yellow informing for upwind crossed astir of the state from midnight connected Friday until 23:59 connected Sunday
• Yellow informing for snowfall successful parts of Scotland from 06:00 until 23:59 connected Friday
• Yellow informing for snowfall and crystal for Northern Ireland from 19:00 connected Friday until 10:00 connected Saturday
• Yellow informing for upwind successful parts of Scotland from midnight until 15:00 connected Saturday
• Yellow informing for snowfall and crystal successful parts of Scotland from midnight until 11:00 connected Saturday
• Yellow informing for crystal for Midlands, eastbound and south-east England and Wales from 03:00 until 10:00 connected Saturday
• Yellow informing for rainfall for Wales and astir of England from 08:00 connected Sunday until 06:00 connected Monday
• Yellow informing for upwind for south-east and westbound England, Wales, Northern Ireland and south-west Scotland, from 08:00 until 15:00 connected Sunday