Storm Éowyn leaves 10,000 Scots without power as five areas affected by outages

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Around 10,000 people across five areas in Scotland are without power due to Storm Éowyn. A rare red weather warning came into force at 10am this morning and is scheduled to last until around 5pm.

Central, Tayside & Fife, south west Scotland, Lothian Borders (including Edinburgh) and Strathclyde (including Glasgow) are all the areas covered by the most severe warning the Met Office can issue.

An estimated 10,000 people are without power in Ayrshire, East Lothian, Falkirk, the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway due to the effects of Storm Éowyn, according to SP Energy Networks.

Energy supplier SSEN said they had increased their response teams to "10 times the usual levels" with the central belt and south west under a red "danger to life" weather alert for wind.A statement from SP Energy said: "Storm Eowyn has caused damage to our electricity network.