{"id":179375,"date":"2025-10-04T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179375\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:52:07","slug":"record-breaking-storm-amy-hits-the-u-k-with-ferocious-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179375\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking Storm Amy hits the U.K. with ferocious winds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ferocious windstorm<\/a> swept through the United Kingdom to start the weekend, snapping trees and shattering records across the region.<\/p>\n

The system formed from the remnants of Hurricane Humberto, which was once a Category 5 hurricane<\/a> in the western Atlantic basin.<\/p>\n

DON\u2019T MISS: ‘Weather bombs’: Explosive storms that create ferocious conditions<\/a><\/p>\n

Storm Amy slams the United Kingdom<\/p>\n

Humberto\u2019s remnants intensified into a very powerful low-pressure system as they approached the United Kingdom to end the week.<\/p>\n

\"Storm<\/p>\n

Storm Amy October 4 2025<\/p>\n

Storm Amy brought the U.K. its all-time lowest October air pressure on Saturday as the centre of the system clipped northern Scotland.<\/p>\n

Baltasound on Scotland\u2019s Shetland Islands saw its air pressure bottom-out at 947.9 hPa, equivalent to what we\u2019d expect to see at the centre of a formidable hurricane.<\/p>\n

Powerful winds sweep the region<\/p>\n

The storm\u2019s tight pressure gradient allowed wicked winds to blow through much of the U.K. through the day Saturday.<\/p>\n

A wind gust of 148 km\/h in Magilligan was preliminarily the strongest wind gust ever recorded in Northern Ireland during the month of October, according to the Met Office<\/a>. A stronger gust of 154 km\/h was recorded in the Scotland community of Tiree.<\/p>\n

BBC News reported Saturday evening<\/a> that more than 40,000 homes and businesses had lost power across Scotland amid extensive tree damage throughout the region.<\/p>\n

See some of the scenes and damage from Storm Amy across the U.K., below<\/p>\n

Header image courtesy NASA\/NOAA.<\/p>\n

WATCH: A region-by-region breakdown of the fall threats you can expect<\/p>\n

Click here to view the video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ferocious windstorm swept through the United Kingdom to start the weekend, snapping trees and shattering records across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79626,59,57,58,50,79404,56,54,55,79627],"class_list":["post-179375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-amy","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-storm-amy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wind-gust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}