London: At least two persons have died in the UK after the year’s first winter storm battered parts of the countries with gusts of nearly 160 kph.
The storm, which was named Arwen by the country’s Met Office, hit parts of the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland particularly hard, causing road causing road closures, train delays, power cuts and high waves. Cumbria Police, in northwest England, said a man died after a tree fell on him just before 11 pm on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a man was killed when his car was hit by a falling tree.
Though the worst of the storm appears to have passed, people have been advised to be wary of traveling on Saturday, as train networks reported disruption to services amid still-high winds and heavy snow. “Storm Arwen has delivered some dangerously strong winds overnight, with gusts in excess of 90 mph recorded,” the Met Office’s chief meteorologist Steve Ramsdale said.