What damage was caused the last times red weather warnings hit the UK?
As two rare 'danger to life' warnings remain in place for Storm Eowyn, Yahoo News takes a look at some of the other severe storms to hit the UK in recent years.
Millions of people have been urged to stay at home as 100mph winds powered by Storm Eowyn pose a danger to life and cause travel disruption across the UK.
Rail services, flights and ferries have been axed, with rare red weather warnings in place on Friday in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The warnings are running from 7am to 2pm in Northern Ireland and 10am to 5pm in Scotland, while everywhere else in the UK will be affected by either amber or yellow weather warnings.
By Friday afternoon almost a million homes, businesses and farms in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland had lost power as a result of the storm.
Hundreds of schools and nurseries across Scotland have been ordered to close as First Minister John Swinney warned residents not to travel.
While red warnings are relatively rare, there have been several storms in recent years where they have been issued, resulting in roads blocked off by fallen trees, significant rail disruption, hundreds and thousands of homes losing power and the occasional death.
Here's what happened during the UK's previous red weather warnings for wind.
Storm Darragh, December 2024
Millions of people in parts of South West England and Wales received alerts on their phones advising them to stay indoors as Storm Darragh set course for the UK.
With wind speeds peaking at 96mph in Barry Head, Devon, on 7 December, Storm Darragh left well over 100,000 homes without power and brought severe flooding to parts of Wales.
Meanwhile, amber and yellow weather warnings were issued for other parts of the country, along with around 130 flood warnings and alerts.
Two people were also killed by the storm, with football coach Paul Fiddler dying after a tree fell on his Citroen van while driving on the A59 at Longton, near Preston, on the morning of Saturday, 7 December.
Later that afternoon, Kher Hussain Shahin, 55, from Aston, was killed in the same way while driving in Erdington, Birmingham.
Storm Isha, January 2024
People living by the northeast coast of Scotland were advised not to use the roads as the Met Office issued a red weather warning for 21 January last year.
Two amber warnings were also issued for most of the UK, along with a 24-hour yellow weather warning. Wind speeds reached 99mph in Northumberland.
In Scotland, an 84-year-old man died after the Hyundai car in which he was a passenger collided with a tree on the A905 Beancross Road in Grangemouth.
Another man in his 60s died in a road collision involving two vans and a collapsed tree in Limavady, Co Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Three trees that make up the Dark Hedges site in Co Antrim, made famous for its appearance in the TV show Game Of Thrones, were felled as a result of the storm, while 45,000 people in Northern Ireland were left without power in their homes.
Storm Eunice, February 2022
South West England and South Wales were hit with winds of over 100mph as a red weather warning was issued on 17 February 2022.
Wind speeds hit 122mph at the Needles on the Isle of Wight, which set a new record for the fastest gust in England, surpassing gusts of 115mph brought by the Great Storm of October 1987.
A second red weather warning was issued the following day for London and parts of the southeast and east of England. It caused at least £360m worth of damage and even "shredded open" the roof of London's O2 arena.
Over a million homes were left without power as strong winds brought down trees, while power cuts dragged on for several days.
Three people died in the UK as a result of falling trees hitting vehicles – a woman in her 30s in Haringey, north London, a man in his 50s died in Netherton, Merseyside, and a man in his 20s in Alton, Hampshire.
A 79-year-old Englishman was also been killed in Ypres, Belgium, after he was blown from his boat into the water, Sky News reported.
Storm Dudley, February 2022
Storm Dudley hit the UK within the same short timeframe as Eunice, bringing winds of over 80mph to parts of Wales and battering parts of the North of England and southern Scotland.
Thousands of people were left without power in parts of Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lancashire, while rail lines heading north to Glasgow and Edinburgh were disrupted.
One person was reported to have been killed during Storm Dudley – a man in his 60s, who according to ITV News, died after falling around twelve feet from a double-decker lorry as he attempted to unload heavy goods in the wind.
