Flights and trains have been cancelled and red weather warnings are in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland as Storm Eowyn hits the UK.

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

One person has died in Ireland and hundreds of thousands of homes are without power in the UK as Storm Éowyn brought record-breaking wind gusts. The man died when a tree fell on his car in County Donegal, Gardaí (Irish police) said.

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. are being urged to stay at home as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks.

Damage and power outages have been reported Friday as energy from a storm system that produced record snowfall along the Gulf Coast is bashing Western Europe with heavy precipitation and powerful wind gusts.

Hundreds of thousands of homes lost power as gusts of 183 kilometers per hour lashed the western coast of Ireland. In Scotland, hundreds of schools were closed and train operator ScotRail suspended all services.

Flights, rail services, sporting fixtures and hospitals were all affected on Friday after Storm Eowyn slammed into the UK, with disruption expected to continue into the weekend. More than a thousand flights to or from the UK and Ireland on Friday were cancelled,

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. are being urged to stay at home as hurricane-force winds disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of schools and public transport.

Winds reached 100mph as Storm Eowyn left one person dead, more than a million people without power and caused significant travel disruption across the UK and Ireland. Rail services, flights and ferries have been cancelled across the country as rare red weather warnings are in place on Friday in Scotland.

The entire rail networks in Scotland and Northern Ireland were closed all day on Friday. TransPennine Express, Northern, LNER and CrossCountry cancelled Anglo-Scottish trains. No trains ran north of Preston on the West Coast main line nor north of Newcastle on the East Coast main line.

SNOW and ice warnings have been issued to Brits as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the UK. THE Met Office have urged Brits to “be prepared” with a number of snow and ice