This is the astonishing moment a 70-year-old tree is ripped from the ground by Storm Eowyn’s terrifying winds.
Shocking footage shows the huge conifer’s roots being wrenched from the ground as it slowly topples sideways.
The earth in the garden brings the tree back briefly before giving way – as the lawn is pulled apart by the force of the gale.
Video of the tree then shows it lying across the front garden with its branches still being buffeted in the wind and its base rising high into the air.
Posting on social media, the homeowner, Sarah, said: ‘Well it tried to stay put but those gust were just too strong. Sad to see this 70 year old tree go.’
She added that as it topped the tree took out some of their hedging and their overhead internet cable. She told a commenter: ‘Kids are lost without Netflix!’
Earlier footage showed her screaming as the tree suddenly gives way – tearing up the ground as the force of the wind is made terrifyingly clear.
Ireland was hit hard by Storm Eowyn yesterday, with a record-breaking wind speed of 183kmh (114mph) being measured in Mace Head, Co Galway on Friday morning, Met Eireann said.
A shocking video showed the moment a huge tree was ripped from its roots by the storm in Ireland
Video of the tree then shows it lying across the front garden with its branches still being buffeted in the wind and its base rising high into the air
Firemen secure a house in Belfast that was damaged by the winds of Storm Eowyn yesterday
A fallen tree blown over in the wind during storm Eowyn in Donegal Road, Belfast
One person, Kacper Dudek, was killed when his car was crushed by the tree, which was uprooted in last night’s record-breaking winds.
The 20-year-old was driving in convoy with a friend after being let out early from their night shifts when he had to turn his car around, after coming across a road accident, the Mirror reports.
More than one million homes, farms and businesses in the Republic and Northern Ireland were without power, with some homes and businesses expected to be cut off for a week.
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.
Tomorrow, a yellow wind warning covering south-west England, English and Scottish coasts around the Irish Sea, Wales and Northern Ireland will be in place from 8am to 3pm, with 50 to 60mph gusts expected widely in the warning area.
A yellow rain warning covering southern and central England and Wales will also be in place from 8am on Sunday to 6am on Monday.
A danger to life warning has been imposed for fast flowing or deep floodwater while homes and businesses could face rising water.
Some could see as much as 80mm of rainfall over the weekend from two separate spells of heavy rain and thundery showers, while 10 to 20mm should fall quite widely and 30 to 50mm could fall over high ground.
People view large waves as Storm Eowyn arrives at Porthcawl in Wales yesterday
A shopper struggles to hold an umbrella due to strong wind as Storm Eowyn hit in Edinburgh yesterday
Kacper Dudek was on the phone to his father when his car was crushed by the tree, which was uprooted in last night’s record-breaking winds
The sun rises over Oxfordshire as the country prepares for another bashing from Storm Eowyn on Saturday
A Nissan Micra car is demolished under a pile of bricks on Newcastle Road in Sunderland yesterday
A vehicle drives as waves crash over the seafront in Oban as Storm Eowyn hits Scotland yesterday
The forecaster further predicted a possibility of power cuts throwing the country into darkness and difficult driving conditions.
Met Office meteorologist Jonathan Vautrey said: ‘Looking at Sunday, it’s set to be a fairly fine start for a lot of areas – another ridge of high pressure building in to keep things fairly settled, with some sunny spells in there.
‘The cloud, though, is going to be building as we see a low pressure system move into the South West.
‘This will be bringing heavy rain in for south-west England and Wales from sort of mid-morning onwards, and then that will spread into Northern Ireland and northern England as we head later on into the afternoon.
‘Winds will also be picking up with this feature. Certainly, it’s not going to be as strong as Storm Eowyn.
‘However, because it’s coming in from the South West, it’s going to be actually more southern areas of England that are going to see the strongest wind gusts compared to what has mostly been further towards the north.’
More than 1,100 flights were cancelled on Friday, with Dublin, Edinburgh, Heathrow and Glasgow airports the worst affected.
Travel mayhem will continue on Saturday, with trains in Scotland not expected to restart until at least 12pm tomorrow after every ScotRail service was axed yesterday.
A person holding their hat on their head on a windswept Tynemouth Longsands beach yesterday
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A bus stop in Galway, Ireland,was destroyed yesterday due to Storm Eowyn
Workers starting to remove a fallen tree that crashed through the wall of Phoenix Park and onto Blackhorse Avenue in Dublin
A man uses a chainsaw as he works on removing a tree which fell in Kilteel county Kildare, Ireland yesterday
Helensburgh swimming pool roof is ripped apart as Storm Eowyn hit Scotland yesterday
A satellite view of Storm Eowyn at 2.30pm yesterday afternoon as it sweeps over the UK and Ireland
An amber wind warning covering northern Scotland expired at 6am on Saturday, while a yellow wind warning covering the majority of Scotland will be in place until 3pm.
Those in the warning areas have been advised to secure loose items such as bins, garden furniture and trampolines outside their homes.
Yellow snow and ice warnings are in place in Northern Ireland until 10am on Saturday and in Scotland until 11am, with injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces possible.
Up to 10cm of snow could develop on high ground in Scotland throughout the morning.
A yellow ice warning covering parts of south-west England, the Midlands and southern and mid-Wales will be in place from 3am to 10am.
‘From daytime tomorrow onwards, the start of Saturday is quite a nice one for more central and southern areas of the UK,’ Mr Vautrey said.
‘There’s going to be a lot of sunshine around, relatively calm winds as a transient ridge of high pressure builds its way in, and so for a lot of people away from those still ongoing winds across northern Scotland, Saturday will generally be quite a reasonable day.’
ScotRail said all services across Scotland would remain suspended until midday on Saturday at the earliest, insisting it ‘would not be safe to operate passenger services due to forecast weather conditions’.
A tree which fell into a house and garden on Cyprus Avenue in east Belfast yesterday
A dog struggling in Storm Eowyn yesterday morning as it hit Blackpool in Lancashire
A fallen tree and pole on Grove Park Drive in Dublinyesterday as Storm Eowyn strikes Ireland
An aerial view of flooded fields at Axminster in Devon yesterday after the River Axe burst its banks
Men look at a fallen tree following Storm Eowyn in Leixlip, Kildare, near Dublin yesterday afternoon
Damage to car and a fallen tree through the roof of a house in Newtownabbey yesterday
A crashed lorry on the A19 northbound near Seaham in County Durham in strong winds yesterday
The railway operator later added that it will not know the full extent of the damage to its tracks and overhead lines until Network Rail carries out a full assessment, a process ScotRail says will ‘take quite a bit of time’.
Workers are expected to start clearing fallen trees and other debris that has landed on the tracks.
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.
Bit it was so severe that it knocked some weather stations in western Ireland offline, meaning the full extent of powerful winds on Friday is not yet known.
A man was killed after a tree fell on his car, in the north-west of the Republic, Gardai said.
NIE Networks said around 214,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Northern Ireland and the Scottish Government said 106,000 properties were without power in Scotland late on Friday evening.
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.
Strong waves crash into Whitehaven in Cumbria yesterday as Storm Eowyn arrived in the UK
A man finds a trampoline in a car park in Partick, Glasgow, as the storm hits Scotland yesterday
A tree is uprooted on a residential street in Walsall in the West Midlands yesterday
A member of the public battles against the wind on George Street in Edinburgh yesterday
Passengers wait for updates at London Heathrow Airport yesterday as some flights were cancelled
A plane lands in strong winds at London Heathrow Airport as Storm Eowyn hit Britain
Helensburgh swimming pool roof is ripped apart as Storm Eowyn hits Scotland yesterday
Two women brave the wind as Storm Eowyn hits the country at Cleveleys near Blackpool yesterday
Hundreds of passengers also spent hours on flights which returned to their points of departure after being unable to land at their planned destinations.
Ryanair flight RK596 from London Stansted to Edinburgh reached the Scottish capital’s airport but could not touch down safely.
After circling over the Borders it returned to Stansted, landing two hours and 44 minutes after taking off. Online systems had initially showed the flight was diverting to Cologne, Germany.
Dramatic videos showed planes struggling to land and wheelie bins blown across streets in the strong winds.
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.
The storm name Eowyn – pronounced ‘A-yo-win’ – is also found in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, where it is the name of a noblewoman from the kingdom of Rohan.
