Rare red weather warnings issued for Scotland and Northern Ireland; more than 700,000 homes without power in Ireland
Irish meteorological service, Met Éireann, has published a map of wind observations at 7am across Ireland.
Additionally, in its post on X, the weather service noted the maximum gusts and highest mean speeds recorded at 7am. You can see those below:
This is highly unusual, this means between 7am and 2pm tomorrow there is a likelihood of widespread disruption, danger to life and damage to buildings, and our strong advice and the advice of the PSNI is to stay at home if at all possible.”