Two men die as Storm Arwen brings 98mph gusts to the UK
two men have been killed by falling trees a storm aarwin hit parts of the uk with high winds rain and snow the storm caused damage across scotland northern england the midlands and wales with winds of nearly 100 miles an hour leaving more than one hundred thousand homes without power there are further weather warnings across the uk today as emily junior reports storm irwin brought winds of more than 90 miles an hour to pummel the coast of northeast scotland the met office issued a rare red weather warning meaning there was a potential risk to life shawn a storm chaser filmed treacherous conditions near edinburgh for social media i don't want to be hit by any fallen debris that is brutal this is portobello beach in edinburgh i have never in all my life seen a storm like this passengers traveling from inverness to aberdeen ended up spending the night on a train well i got on the train at elgin just the back of three yesterday afternoon and about five o'clock we hit huntley and we stayed there for about 17 hours trees blew down across the northeast of england and like the rest of the country there was significant disruption on the rail network near rochdale 120 lorries got stuck in snow on the m62 and there were power cuts across the northwest we've had a very high number of incidents on the network a high volume of faults about 74 000 customers have had their power supply interrupted at some time but we've restored supplies to 43 000 of those customers already on this farm near suntassaf in north wales a shed roof blew down damaging cars and the bad weather also affected itv's i'm a celebrity which had to be pre-recorded a yellow weather warning for high winds across central england scotland wales and northern ireland remains in place until six o'clock this evening emily junio
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