Buildings damaged as Storm Éowyn hits Tayside
The Tay Road Bridge is closed due to the storm
Last updated 24th Jan 2025
Gusts of over 90mph are battering across parts of Tayside as Storm Eowyn sweeps in.
An amber warning for wind is in place across the region - a rare red weather warning over the central belt has been lifted.
Trees have been falling in Perthshire and Fife and Dundee because of the extreme weather.
A tree was toppled on Broughty Ferry Road in the City of Discovery.
It crashed through the garden wall of a home and on top of a nearby car.
All schools in Dundee, Angus and Perth and Kinross were also closed today.
The Tay Road Bridge is closed to all vehicles as well as the central walk way.
The bridge has been hit by gusts as high as 102.2mph.
The Friarton Bridge remains closed to high sided vehicles.
Roofs ripped off of buildings
The roof of the Dundee University Robertson Trust Medical Library at Ninewells Hospital has been damaged. In a statement the institution say they will provide an update on Monday.
The roof of a block of flats has been damaged at Gourlay Yard in Dundee.
Police say the surrounding streets, including South Victoria Dock Road from the point it meets Gourlay Yard, have been closed as a precaution.
Officers were made aware at around 9:45am and say all residents have been provided advice and should speak to officers in the area if they are looking to gain access.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We responded at 9.53am, on Friday, 24 January, to reports of detached roof panel on a building on Gourlay Yard in Dundee.
“Operations Control mobilised one fire appliance to the scene.
“Crews remain in attendance as they work with partners to make the area safe."
Fire crews have also been working to secure loose masonry falling from a building at Dundee's Commercial Street.
A spokesperson said: “We responded at 9.49am, on Friday, 24 January, to reports of loose masonry which had fallen from a building on Commercial Street in Dundee.
“Operations Control mobilised one fire appliance and a high reach appliance to the scene.
“Crews worked to make the area safe before leaving the scene.”
NHS Tayside say a small number of acute hospital appointments have been cancelled and Angus, Dundee and Perth & Kinross Health & Social Care Partnerships have stepped down some non-essential services, including routine appointments in community hospitals, clinics and community/district nursing.
Leisure and Culture Dundee have closed venues across the City of Discovery, including Broughty Castle Museum, Mills Observatory and all sports centres. They say they expect to re-open at normal times on Saturday.
Around 100,000 people across Scotland are currently without power, including multiple unplanned power outages in Perthshire.
SSEN’s Director of Customer Operations for the north of Scotland, Andy Smith, says: “Storm Éowyn is proving to be exceptional, with wind gusts the like of which we’ve not seen in Scotland for many years.
"We’d been monitoring the storm for several days and took pre-emptive steps to move extra teams to the places that are being affected by the impact of this particularly severe weather.
“These are particularly strong wind gusts, reaching over 90mph in places, and they’re already causing damage and disruption. These extreme conditions are limiting our ability to get to fault locations at the moment, but I want to reassure our customers that we’ve planned for this and have the right resources in the right places so we can start repairing any damage to the network and restoring supplies as soon as it’s safe to do so.
“The scale of what’s unfolding today means reconnecting everyone will take some time, and I’m grateful to customers for their patience and understanding while we do this.”
Scottish Government Ministers will convene a Scottish Government Resilience Room meeting with agencies to discuss the response to the storm, this afternoon.
Xplore Dundee have suspended all services.
More to follow.
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