And as they sheltered from the storm, many took up a new hobby: plane spotting.
With the storm raging across the south of the UK, over 200,000 people were tuning in to a livestream of airplanes battling the winds as they landed at London Heathrow.
Dyer's website even crashed as thousands tried to follow him.
"Whenever there's windy conditions, stormy conditions, I'm always up at Heathrow," he said at the time.
"It's a lot more exciting to watch than aircraft just landing down and touching down and all that kind of stuff. It's the battle, isn't it? It's the forces of nature against an alloy tub with wings on it that we built and we have to control it down onto the ground in Mother Nature's winds.
"It's a fantastic thing to watch."
Dyer -- who CNN was unable to reach during Storm Eunice -- also said that avgeeks go wild for his windy videos: "Whenever there are stormy conditions, we're always out there -- and it's always a great success."
But his livestream of storm Eunice has made it far beyond his usual avgeek crowd.
Meanwhile, social media was full of Dyer's catchphrases: "fair play," "easy, son," and "go on then," with his cheeky persona endearing him to thousands.
He shouted "drop it" to one Air China plane as it appeared to float just off the runway before touching down, and "go on, the Brits" as British Airways planes wobbled onto the tarmac.
Previously, he had told CNN about "armchair pilots" watching his feed.
"People will say, 'Oh that was nothing at all, I could have handled that easily,'" he said, talking about the split-second decisions that pilots have to make during landing.
"I'm like, 'Oh sod off, mate.'" He rated the BA pilot 10 out of 10 for his balked landing in February.
Sometimes, the armchair pilots don't know how to fly themselves, and sometimes they're qualified pilots criticizing their peers, he said.
"You do get qualified pilots, who are a little bit jealous [of spectacular landings], maybe because it wasn't them. I can assure you that if it was them they'd be walking around with their chests all puffed out."
Today, having taken plane spotting from a niche pursuit to a national hobby in the UK, it'll be Dyer himself puffing out his chest.
Top image: A British Airways passenger plane struggles with the high winds on approach to Heathrow Airport on February 18, 2022 in Longford, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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