This is the moment a beachfront was left covered in sea foam as Storm Herminia powered across Britain, bringing 80mph gusts.
Forecasters on Sunday night also warned of a new ‘separate threat’ that could cause equally strong winds across the south of England.
Maps shared on social media show an ‘unnamed area of low pressure’ hovering off the south-west coast.
The weather front is likely to feed in from the southwest and move north and east around the edge of the Herminia system, the Met Office said.
However, the forecaster added that there was still some uncertainty about how this ‘new threat’ will develop.
Yellow warnings for wind and rain have been issued for much of the south of the UK during Sunday and Monday following the chaos caused by Storm Eowyn.
Forecasts initially showed that Storm Herminia, which was named by the Spanish weather service, would hit the UK on Sunday.
It first battered south west England and Wales before moving into Northern Ireland and northern England and had reached Scotland by Sunday evening.
As the high winds hit the south west of England, West Bay in Dorset saw the full force as its beachfront was covered in sea foam
As the high winds hit the south west coast, West Bay in Dorset became covered in sea foam on Sunday afternoon.
Shocking footage shows the sea foam having been blown onto the beach and covering the nearby road.
It comes as an a 82mph gust was recorded around 150 miles further west in Predannack, south Cornwall on Sunday morning.
Meanwhile two men died in separate incidents where a falling tree struck their cars during Storm Eowyn.
A tree hit a 19-year-old’s blue Ford Focus at about 6.45am on Friday in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, and he died the following day, Police Scotland said.
The teenager, named online as Calum Carmichael, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow but died from his injuries on Saturday.
Paying tribute on social media, his sister Emilie said: ‘Calum you truly were one in a million.’
An amber weather warning was in place in that area at the time.
Scottish First Minister John Swinney offered his condolences to the man’s family and friends.
He said in a statement shared on X, formerly Twitter: ‘This is tragic and heartbreaking news. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the family and friends of the man who has died.’
Kacper Dudek, 20, died after a tree fell on his car at Feddyglass, Raphoe in Co Donegal, early on Friday and Irish police are investigating the incident.
A massive £600million clear-up and repair operation is underway across Scotland after the ‘storm of the century’ caused widespread havoc and devastation.
Shocking footage shows the sea foam blown onto the beach and covering the nearby road
Yellow warnings for wind and rain have been issued for much of the south of the UK during Sunday and Monday
A worker inspects damage to a partially collapsed building that was undergoing repairs before being damaged by high winds in Hale during Storm Eowyn
Hundreds of trees can be seen fallen following Storm Eowyn at Tardree Forest, Northern Ireland
A car sits in Tryst Road in Larbert surrounded by fallen trees after Storm Eowyn
Hundreds of trees likely toppled in the high winds of Storm Eowyn. Pictured are workers clearing a fallen tree in Dublin in the storm’s aftermath
Yellow weather warnings put in place across Britain are shown on a Met Office map
Aerial views as workers clear up debris blown from the roof of the Helensburgh Leisure Centre
One of the worst-hit buildings was Helensburgh Leisure Centre in Dunbartonshire, where dramatic footage showed the roof being ripped off by high winds.
Alastair Ross, assistant director of the Association of British Insurers, stressed that insurance teams were working to address the damage caused by the ‘extreme period of weather’.
He told BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show that amid the growing intensity of named weather warnings in recent years, Éowyn could prove to be the most expensive to date.
He said: ‘What we are seeing is that the scale of claims is increasing steadily. The last year we have data for was 2023. In that year we had 11 named storms, and we paid out a record £573million in weather-related damage.’
According to the Association of British Insurers, the cost of weather-related claims has spiralled by 16 per cent since 2017, while the cost of customers’ premiums has dropped by 11 per cent after inflation.
Mr Ross told BBC Scotland: ‘We’re seeing pressure in terms of the cost of repairs, in terms of the cost of alternative accommodation if you have to move out of your property, but insurers are working within that to try to deliver the best value for their customers.’
Jim Dale of British Weather Services said: ‘It’s a case of picking up the pieces, literally, and some of those without electricity may be taking a bit more time to get that back.
‘There is a lot of work to be done after the storm.’
Weather experts admitted that Storm Eowyn’s terrifying 100mph winds on Friday were more powerful than anything seen since the 1990s.
National Rail announced that flooding between Par and Newquay has blocked the line causing train cancellations between the two stations.
Meanwhile a Ryanair flight that was expected to land at Cornwall Airport Newquay at 7:35am on Sunday was diverted to London Gatwick due to the tempestuous winds.
Pictured is a car that was crushed by a fallen tree in Ayrshire
The yellow weather warnings are in place for the next two days
A crashed lorry on the A19 northbound near Seaham in County Durham in strong winds on January 24
A Nissan Micra car is demolished under a pile of bricks on Newcastle Road in Sunderland on Thursday
Met Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said: ‘It’s also going to be wet and windy over the next few days in southern parts of the UK in particular.
‘In most parts of the UK we’re going to have some very wet and at times also very windy weather over today and Monday.
‘But from Tuesday onwards, I’m expecting it generally to stay fairly changeable, but some showers at times and quite windy, but not as disruptive as it has been – I think overall, probably warnings are less likely from Tuesday onwards.
‘Certainly tonight in the south east of the UK, we could see some briefly very strong winds, 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 60mph to 70mph gusts.
There could also be very localised 70mph to 80mph gusts in the South East, forecasters said.
A yellow wind warning was in place across Northern Ireland until 7pm on Sunday, while another was active until 5pm that day in southern parts of the UK, south-west Scotland, and Wales.
A further yellow wind warning was put in place between 10pm on Sunday and 7am on Monday and covers large parts of the southern England, the north west, West Midlands and Yorkshire.
Gusts of 55-65mph were thought to be possible overnight with a small chance they could reach 80mph, the Met Office said.
A yellow warning for periods of heavy rain that could cause some flooding of roads and properties had been issued for the West Midlands and most of Wales until 11.59pm on Monday.
The Met Office expects 20mm to 40mm to fall quite widely and 50mm to 70mm on higher ground.
Another for heavy rain, thundery showers and some localised flooding is active for parts of central and southern England until 6am on Monday.
It is forecast that 10mm to 20mm of rain will fall quite widely, nearing 30mm to 50mm at greater altitude – with further heavy rain overnight potentially bring it up to 80mm in a few places.
Helensburgh swimming pool roof is ripped apart as Storm Eowyn hit Scotland on Friday
A tree which fell into a house and garden on Cyprus Avenue in east Belfast on Friday
Ben Lukey, a flood duty manager at the Environment Agency, said: ‘Spells of heavy rain mean surface water and river flooding is possible across parts of England.
‘Although not expected, impacts could include localised flooding from watercourses, drains, channels and flooding from overland flow.
‘The risk of coastal flooding remains very low. However, we urge people to stay away from exposed areas on beaches, promenades, coastal footpaths and roads where large waves and sea spray could be dangerous.’
He warned people not to drive through flood water as 30cm of flowing water is enough to float a car.
Ministers from across the UK held an emergency Cobra meeting on Saturday to co-ordinate recovery efforts, and extra engineers were dispatched from England to Northern Ireland and Scotland.
NIE (Northern Ireland Electricity) Networks said that at midday on Sunday about 75,000 of its customers remained without electricity after Storm Eowyn, and 210,000 properties had been reconnected.
By the same time more than 14,080 SP Energy Networks customers were still off-grid, though power had been restored to more than 220,000.
It has took 69,000 calls during Storm Eowyn, equivalent to two months of calls in two days.
Firemen secure a house in Belfast that was damaged by the winds of Storm Eowyn on Friday
Scotland was issued with a rare red weather warning during Storm Eowyn, with workers clearing the storm’s debris
Ice skating rink collapse during the storm Eowyn in Blanchardstown, suburb of Dublin
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, chaired an emergency Cobra meeting with ministers to discuss the response to the storm, including work to reconnect homes without power.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, the Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland and Scotland, the First Ministers of Northern Ireland and Scotland and the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland also attended the meeting.
A government spokesperson said: ‘The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden chaired a Ministerial COBR meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister, the Secretaries of State for Northern Ireland Office and Scotland Office, ministers from across government, the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and the First Minister of Scotland.
‘Ministers discussed the ongoing response to Storm Eowyn, particularly the urgent work underway to reconnect homes which have lost power.
‘To support recovery, engineers have been dispatched to Northern Ireland and Scotland, and Ministers thanked all front-line workers for their efforts to keep communities safe.
‘We continue to monitor the situation and stand ready to provide further support, working closely with the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive.’
Areas of Scotland and Ireland have already seen devastating damage, with buildings ripped apart, trees torn from their roots and tearing winds laying waste to their streets.
Train services are not expected to recover until next week such was the destruction on the railways, with over 120 trees falling on the tracks.
People view large waves as Storm Eowyn arrives at Porthcawl in Wales on Friday
Network Rail reported 400 individual incidents across the network. These included multiple trees on tracks, damaged overhead wires, power supply failures, plus other objects on the line.
ScotRail said they managed to reopen some lines, including Perth- Inverness, Inverness – Elgin, Inverness – Aberdeen, Dundee – Aberdeen, Perth – Dundee, Edinburgh – Tweedbank, Edinburgh – Dunbar, and Drem – Edinburgh.
A gust of 100mph was recorded at Drumalbin in South Lanarkshire in Scotland on Friday, the Met Office said, while a record-breaking wind speed of 183kmh (114mph) was measured in Mace Head, Co Galway in Ireland, Met Eireann said.
A 96mph wind was measured at Brizlee Wood in Northumberland, while it was 93mph at Aberdaron in Gwynedd, Wales, and 92mph at Killowen in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Some 20 per cent of all flights scheduled to or from UK or Irish airports were cancelled, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium which said a total of 1,070 had been cancelled – with Dublin, Edinburgh, Heathrow and Glasgow worst affected.
Hundreds of passengers also spent hours on flights which returned to their points of departure after being unable to land at their planned destinations.
Hundreds of schools closed in Scotland, Wales and northern England during the storm – while 715,000 homes, farms and businesses were without power across the Republic of Ireland, and a further 240,000 homes and business in Northern Ireland suffered cuts.
The Isle of Man’s Department of Infrastructure declared a major incident because of the number of fallen trees and their impact on arterial roads and emergency services.
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