of the vehicle managed to escape themselves by crawling out the windows and doors. this was northern ireland s carrickfergus castle. usually a scenic spot for a stroll by the sea but not today. 0ur camera equipment hasjust succumbed to the effects of the storm. i m now doing this on my phone. some of the strongest gusts here today have been recorded on northern ireland s east coast, up to 76 mph, and every now and again cars going past here are just getting swamped by sea water. storm barra in belfast put a dampener on festivities as the christmas market had to be closed. across the irish sea, high winds and snow battered scotland, which brought avalanche warnings in the cairngorms and travel disruption, which is likely to continue into tomorrow. i think that was the bravest selfie i ve seen this week.
another storm is sweeping in from the atlantic. this one is called storm barra, and it has already knocked out power for thousands of people in northern ireland and wales. it s not expected to be as bad as storm arwen 11 days ago, but forecasters are predicting snow blizzards and strong winds, with gusts of up to 80 mph. the island of ireland was the first to be hit. 0ur correspondent emma vardy has sent this report. before first light, the west coast of ireland began to feel the angry weather. schools were closed in 12 counties and around 49,000 homes and businesses lost power. as the storm travelled eastwards, it brought down trees across northern ireland and incredibly no one was injured as the scaffolding was ripped away from a building in londonderry landing on a passing car. fortunately the scaffolding that fell fell onto a nearby wall, which prevented more serious injuries and the occupants
the impact it s had on? it hat on. give us a flavour of what the impact it s had on? hat on. give us a flavour of what the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up until the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up until about the impact it s had on? it was quite calm here up until about 2:15pm . calm here up until about 2:15pm today when we started to get the first rain events from storm barra. that continued with squally winds up to around 4:15pm and that s when the gaels really started to kick up here at the west coast. south of the country, they have been experiencing strong gaels since early morning. but for us here, this started around apm, and what expecting is the storm will peek here at around midnight, 1am and will continuously plough into this morning. so we are under a status read because we are a coastal area, and that status read will go to status orange, and that s been issued by the irish meteorological se
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that s moving away and we continue to feed in showers and longer spells of rain around tonight. it ll still be windy, particularly over some western coasts, wales and the south west. temperature is not as low as last night because of the cloud wind and rain. it won t be as windy tomorrow but still strong winds across the northern isles, northern ireland, much of england and wales. in parts of wales and the south west, winds around 60 mph. we still have this mixture of showers, longer spells of rain, brief glimpses of sunshine perhaps, and some winter in so the higher ground in northern parts of the uk. we are still in chilly air, temperature sitting at around six, seven degrees. by the time we get to thursday, the storm is no more, it continues to weaken, the winds continues to weaken, the winds continue to drop, pressure rises, and we start to see a weather front coming in from the atlantic. this will increase the cloud in the south west of england and wales, northern ireland, and bri