News Desk: Rare red weather warnings – meaning there is a danger to life from flying debris – have been issued by the Met Office covering much of southern and eastern England, and south Wales.
Gusts of up to 79mph (127km/h) have been recorded in the Isle of Wight.
Hundreds of schools are closed and travel networks are experiencing cancellations and major disruption.
Power cuts have left about thousands of properties in Cornwall and Wales without power.
Forecasters warn Eunice could bring wind gusts of up to 90mph on Friday, causing significant disruption and power cuts.
Eunice is the second storm in a week for the UK after Storm Dudley battered parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland, leaving thousands of homes without power.
The Met Office has issued several weather warnings across the UK:
*A red warning for wind – the highest level of alert – along the coastline of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset and south Wales from 07:00 GMT until 12:00 on Friday with gusts of up to 90mph
*A further red warning for wind has been issued for London, south-east England and parts of east England from 10:00 until 15:00
*An amber warning for wind covering all of England south of Manchester and Wales until 21:00 with gusts of up to 80mph
*A yellow warning for snow for much of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England from 03:00 until 18:00
*A yellow warning for wind in the Midlands, north-east England, north-west England, parts of Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland from 07:00 and 18:00 with gusts of up to 70mph
*A yellow warning for wind covering London, south-east England, south-west England, Wales and parts of the West Midlands from 06:00 to 18:00 on Saturday
