Even though the extreme weather has abated, many journeys on Saturday are likely to be disrupted due to flight disarray, storm damage and planned rail engineering work.

No ScotRail trains will run until the afternoon, and Northern has cancelled all services on several routes in the north of England.

More than one million people have been left without power as Storm Eowyn continues to batter the British Isles.

In the Republic of Ireland around 725,000 customers have been affected, while 283,000 are without power in Northern Ireland.

Around 100,000 households in Scotland are without power, officials confirmed after a meeting of the Scottish Government’s Resilience Room on Friday afternoon.

The National Grid said early on Friday afternoon that 4,150 properties were without power in the west Midlands, south west England and south Wales regions due to the storm.

A Sky News presenter was lashed by wind and rain as a power cut hit during his broadcast on Storm Eowyn.

Ireland correspondent Stephen Murphy reported on location on Friday (24 January) as 114mph winds hit.

The broadcaster told viewers: “A few moments ago all the power went out, which is why you can’t see anything behind me.”

Temperatures are set to drop below freezing on Saturday morning, according to a Met Office weather chart.

Ranging largely from one to five degrees celsius, temperatures will drop as low as -1C in and 0C in central Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Residents in Northern Ireland have been urged not to travel unless necessary, as a snow and ice warning covers the area on Friday evening.

“We are still not out of the potential risks in respect of this storm,” assistant chief constable Davy Beck said on Friday evening.

“I ask the public to consider this and question yourself around is your journey absolutely necessary until such times as the storm has totally passed.”

He added: “Police have received in the region of 2,000 calls for service so far today, which is about 50% above what we would normally expect to receive on a normal Friday,” he said.

“Many roads right across Northern Ireland do continue to be impassable, with fallen trees debris and power lines down.”

An amber weather warning for wind has been lifted.

The warning area covered northern England and southern Scotland.

The area will remain under a yellow warning for wind until 11:59pm on Friday.

More than one million homes, farms and businesses in the Republic and Northern Ireland are without power as record-breaking wind speeds swept across the island.

ESB Networks in Ireland and NIE Networks say they expect significant further outages as Storm Eowyn continues to batter parts of the island, with 725,000 customers affected in the Republic and 283,000 in Northern Ireland.

Some homes and businesses are expected to be without power for a week as an unprecedented number of power cuts are experienced.

While the red warnings have been downgraded in some 25 counties, many homes and business have been badly damaged by fallen trees and electrical lines.

It will take days to properly evaluate the impact of Storm Eowyn, police in Northern Ireland have said.

No injuries have yet been reported in the aftermath of the storm.

Assistant chief constable Davy Beck, in charge of the storm response, said on Friday evening: “This was a really serious storm and I don’t think we yet fully appreciate the impacts of this storm.

“We’re only now starting to see the number of calls start to rise in respect of impacts, concerns for safety, and indeed, more and more reports in respect of roads blocked and issues as a consequence of that.

“So I think it’s going to be a number of days before we can fully understand the full impacts of this storm, but certainly this was a severe storm.”

Watch the dramatic moment an entire roof appears to be torn off a building in Scotland as a result of Storm Eowyn.

A reply to the footage posted on X said the building is in Wester Hailes, south west of Edinburgh, although this has not been verified.

Here is the Met Office’s forecast for the days ahead, as per chief meteorologist Jason Kelly.

“The influence of Storm Éowyn on the UK’s weather will diminish as it moves further north and east on Saturday morning, but there’s little respite in the conditions for some with the next area of low pressure arriving from the southwest on Sunday.

“While Sunday’s system doesn’t have the same strength as Eowyn, it will hamper some recovery efforts and bring further wind and rain, with the possibility of some flooding in places.

“10-20mm of rain will fall quite widely on Sunday in central and southern England, much of Wales and Northern Ireland, with 30-50mm possible over high ground. Thundery showers could top up totals later in the day for some.

“With this rain falling on saturated ground in many places, there’s a chance of flooding for some, with winds an accompanying hazard with the system.”