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Storm Arwen: Third person dies as gale-force winds hit UK - BBC News
Nov 27, 2021 1 min, 28 secs
A third person has died after Storm Arwen lashed parts of the UK with high winds, rain and snow.

The 35-year-old man died after his pick-up truck was struck by a falling tree in Aberdeenshire on Friday.

The same day a head teacher died after a tree fell onto his car in Antrim and another man also died after he was hit by a falling tree in Cumbria.

In Scotland, more than 100,000 people lost power.

A rare red warning for wind was issued by the Met Office on Friday across the east coast of Scotland and north-east England, with the highest speeds of 98mph recorded at Brizlee Wood in Northumberland.

The man who died when a falling tree hit his car in Northern Ireland was named as the principal of St Mary's Primary School in Maghera, Francis Lagan.

Passengers in Aberdeenshire were stuck on a train for 17 hours as Storm Arwen swept across Scotland.

Sleet fell across parts of Scotland and northern England with some heavy snow on higher ground.

More than 100,000 homes in Scotland lost power in the storm, with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks saying electricity had been restored to 55,000 by mid-afternoon on Saturday.

There were also power outages in Northern Ireland.

Temperatures are set to fall with the storm and a yellow warning for ice, lasting until 11:00 on Sunday, has been issued for large stretches of northern and eastern Scotland, along with much of northern England.

In the early hours of Sunday, parts of north-west Scotland might receive more snow, while temperatures in Scotland and northern England could fall as low as -6C.

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