Millions of people in the United Kingdom have been asked to stay home for their own safety because Hurricane Younis It made landfall in the country, bringing hurricane-force winds that ripped off a roof and crushed a vehicle in a London suburb.
The UK Met Office on Thursday issued a rare “life-threatening” red weather alert. As of Friday morning, it reported winds above 90 mph, which is forecast to be the nation’s worst storm in three decades.
A CNN reporter watches the roof fly off a house in the south-west London area of Surbiton. The roof crushed the car parked on the road. Video footage showed a train’s power line colliding with debris.
A social media video shows a lifeboat building with a roof blown off its roof at Sennon Beach in Cornwall, where strong winds were pushing waves over the sea wall.
Officials expect delays in travel, power cuts and possible mobile phone coverage.
The UK Met Office issued its rare red weather alert for the south-west on Thursday, and early that Friday extended to the south-east, including London. CNN also saw strong winds along the southern English coast.
A red warning means there is a potential threat to life from flying debris.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet will hold an emergency meeting later on Friday to discuss the response to Hurricane Younis, a government spokesman said in a statement to CNN.
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