Storm Éowyn, pronounced ‘Ay-oh-win’, has been advancing toward Ireland and the United Kingdom and is expected to bring gusty winds, heavy rain and some snow to the region Friday and Saturday.

A powerful "bomb cyclone" named Storm Éowyn (pronounced AY-oh-win) will pummel parts of Ireland and the United Kingdom with fierce winds and heavy rainfall on Friday, and it has roots in the historic winter storm that just hit the U.S. Gulf Coast Tuesday.

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An enormous bomb cyclone will slam Ireland late Thursday, bringing intense rain and wind on its way to delivering a separate blow to the United Kingdom. Damaging winds are expected across a wide swath of the region.

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving one man dead and almost one-third of Irish homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights.

Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island.

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,