By Samantha Jones-
Millions of people have been told to stay at home as one of the worst storms in decades, Storm Eunice, hits the UK.
Rare red weather warnings , citing a danger to life from flying debris – have been issued by the Met Office covering much of southern and eastern England, and south Wales.
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Hundreds of schools are closed and travel networks are experiencing cancellations and major disruption.
Power cuts have left more than 50,000 properties in south-west England and south Wales without power.
It is the second storm in a week for the UK after Storm Dudley battered parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland, leaving thousands of homes without power.
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The Met Office has issued several weather warnings across the UK:
‘A red warning for wind – the highest level of alert – along the coastline of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset and south Wales from 07:00 GMT until 12:00 on Friday with gusts of up to 90mph
An amber warning for wind covering all of England south of Manchester and Wales until 21:00 with gusts of up to 80mph. A yellow warning for snow for much of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England from 03:00 until 18:00
A yellow warning for ice covering Northern Ireland and much of Scotland and north-west England from 18:00 on Friday to 09:00 on Saturday
Red weather warnings are rare, and mean that roofs could be blown off, power lines brought down and trees uprooted – as well as flying debris which could cause a danger to life.
This is the first red warning to be issued for either London or south-east England since the system was introduced in 2008.
The UK’s last red warning was for Storm Arwen in November last year, but before that one had not been issued since the so-called “Beast from the East” in 2018.
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