This is the terrifying moment sparks flew from power lines as Storm Ellen battered Cork, Ireland on Wednesday night (August 19).<br /><br />The clip shows the sparks flying from the electricity cables outside homes during the storm.<br /><br />Red warnings came into effect on Thursday morning after the storm hit Ireland, leaving the streets strewn with fallen trees and winds up to 66 mph.<br /><br />The Met Office said: ''Storm Ellen is currently bringing some unseasonably windy weather across the west with Wales having seen the strongest winds so far.<br /><br />''Exposed southern coasts of the Republic of Ireland have also seen gusts of 89 mph at Roches Point earlier on.''<br /><br />They said that Storm Ellen had developed from a "decayed tropical cyclone" and forecast it would sweep across Ireland before hitting the UK's west coast.
