HUNDREDS of UK schools will be shut today as Storm Eunice brings 100mph winds and torrential rain.

The Met Office has issued two rare red warnings with people urged to stay at home as the storm – likely to be the worst in 30 years – moves in.

Dozens of councils have advised schools to shut on Friday – as Brits are cautioned against travel amid wide-spread train cancellations.

In Wales, counties including Caerphilly, Cardiff and Newport are seeing closures.

Meanwhile in England, kids in parts of Cornwall, Bristol, North Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucester will have to stay home.

Brits have been warned to NOT travel on the roads after a man tragically died during Storm Dudley's unrelenting winds on Wednesday.

Met Office forecaster Becky Mitchell said: "With the wind gusts we are forecasting at the moment, we've only seen a handful of storms in the past 30 years that have brought similar gusts."

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A Network Rail spokesman said disruption is "inevitable", as the Met Office issued a red weather warning.

Up to eight inches of snow are expected to fall today – with strong winds bringing "very poor visibility, blizzard conditions and drifting of lying snow."

A man tragically died during the extreme weather front after being blown off a HGV in the horrific gales.

The man, in his sixties, plummeted from the double-decker wagon in Marston Green near Solihull, West Mids, at around 9pm on Thursday.

He is believed to have lost his balance while trying to unload heavy goods as lethal 100mph winds swept the UK.

It is thought the unnamed victim fell around 12 feet from the lorry.

What schools will close tomorrow?

DEVON

• Ilfracombe Church of England School
• West Croft School
• Holsworthy Church of England
• Winkleigh Primary School
• St Mary’s Church of England Primary School
• Parracombe Church Of England Primary School
• Hatherleigh Community Primary School
• Marwood School
• Branscombe Church Of England Primary School
• Lynton Church Of England Primary School
• Pilton Infants’ School

DORSET

• Wareham school
• The Gryphon School
• King Arthur's School
• Shaftesbury School
• Harbour Vale School
• Buckland Newton Primary
• Charlton Horethorne Primary
• Motcombe Primary
• Okeford Fitzpaine Primary
• Shaftesbury Primary
• Sherborne Primary
• Sherborne Abbey Primary
• Shillingstone CE Primary
• St Andrew's Primary, Fontmell Magna
• St Andrew's Primary, Yetminster
• St Mary's Primary, Bradford Abbas
• St Mary the Virgin Primary, Gillingham
• Thornford Primary

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

• Alexander Hosea Primary
• Charborough Road Community Primary
• North Road Community Primary School
• The Tynings Community Primary

WILTSHIRE

• South Wilts Grammar School
• Christ the King Catholic School, Amesbury
• Lavington School
• Wiltshire Council
• Dorcan Academy, Swindon

Where will schools close in Wales?

• Blaenau Gwent
• Bridgend
• Caerphilly
• Cardiff
• Ceredigion
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Gwynedd Merthyr Tydfil
• Monmouthshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• Newport
• Pembrokeshire
• Rhondda Cynon Taf
• Swansea

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