A teenager has died after his car was hit by a falling tree during high winds in Storm Eowyn.
The 19-year-old man was driving a Blue Ford Focus on the B743 near Mauchline, Ayrshire, when the car was struck at around 6.45am on Friday.
He was rushed to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for treatment, where he died on Saturday.
Sergeant Chris McColm of the Road Policing Unit said: 'Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who died.'
A rare red weather warning from the Met Office came into effect across the country from 10am on Friday, with hurricane force winds and falling debris threatening life.
A MET Office map has shown three-day weather warnings and predicted up to four centimeters of snow in parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland.
The strong winds and rain pummeling the country comes as the last of Storm Eowyn sweeps the UK after leaving a man, 20, dead after a tree fell and killed him while he was on the phone to his father.
Today started off 'fine and dry' with a 'fair amount of sunshine' in many parts of the country. A gust of 82mph was recorded at Predannack, South Cornwall this morning.
The 19-year-old man was driving a Blue Ford Focus on the B743 near Mauchline, Ayrshire, when the car was struck at around 6.45am on Friday (pictured before the storm)
Storm Eowyn arrives in Scotland with force. Irvine Harbor is flooded during the storm
Storm damage at DeChmont in West Lothian, January 25, 2025
Workers clear debris from the roof of a leisure center during Storm Eowyn on January 25, 2025 in Helensburgh, Scotland
But a new low pressure system is moving in from the southwest, bringing further strong winds and heavy rain.
Spanish meteorologists have named it Herminia because the European country will feel the strongest winds.
It is forecast to hit south-west England and Wales first, then move into Northern Ireland and northern England on Sunday afternoon, reaching parts of Scotland by evening.
About 35,000 properties in Scotland were still without power on Saturday evening, a Scottish Government spokesman said.
A massive £500 million clean-up and repair effort is underway across Scotland after the 'Storm of the Century' caused widespread damage and destruction.
Weather experts admitted Storm Eowyn's terrifying 100mph winds on Friday were more powerful than anything seen since the 1990s.
Yesterday, Northern Ireland's electricity networks said 189,000 homes and businesses had no electricity due to the damage and is expected to take several days to restore.
The MET office has said that Storm Eowyn is the strongest to hit the British Isles in at least 10 years.
Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said: 'It will also be wet and windy in southern parts of the UK over the next few days.
Storm Eowyn left more than a million people without power and caused significant travel disruption in the UK and Ireland
Ice skating rink collapses during Storm Eowyn in Blanchardstown, suburb of Dublin on January 24, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland
'We will have very wet and at times very windy weather in most parts of the UK today and Monday.
'But from Tuesday I expect it to remain fairly changeable overall, but some showers at times and quite windy, but not as disruptive as it has been – I think warnings are probably less likely from Tuesday.
'Certainly this evening in the south-east of the UK, we could see some very strong winds for a short time, and we could also see some very strong winds across Cornwall and Devon tomorrow in particular.'
Coastal parts of those areas will “very likely” see 60 mph to 70 mph wind gusts.
There may also be very localized 70 mph to 80 mph gusts in the southeast during Sunday evening.
A yellow wind warning runs between 10pm on Sunday and 7am on Monday covering the east, south-east, south-west and north-west of England.
Gusts of 55-65mph are possible overnight and there is a small chance they could reach 80mph, the Met Office said.
It also includes the West Midlands and Yorkshire.
A yellow warning for heavy rain, thundering showers and some localized flooding is active for parts of central and southern England from 8am on Sunday until 6am on Monday.
10mm to 20mm of rain is forecast to fall quite broadly, almost 30mm to 50mm on higher ground.
Further heavy rain on Sunday evening could bring up to 80mm in a few places.
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