80 Kt (92mph) gusts since 1958

Mothman

With the 80Knot gust at Belmullet yesterday 7th Nov,

Decided to look and see when Belmullet, or any other station had such a strong gust.
Didn't have to go back far!!
Jan 11th to be exact. A gust of 80knots was recorded then at Belmullet.

Looking further back all way to 1958, revealed that actually they do occur most years.
A couple of interesting months are Mar 1991, strongest "gust" was 12Kts at Malin Head, Belmullet had max "gust" of 5 knots, and the following month was not much better with max "gust " of 21 Kts again at Malin Head

Of the stations not mentioned below, strongest gusts are
Dublin Airport 76 in 12/1997
Kilkenny 77 in 01/1974
Mullingar 79 in 09/1961

Stats found here

1kt = 1.15mph
01/2002 Malin Head 86
12/2000 Belmullet 82
01/1999 Malin Head 83
Belmullet 82
12/1998 Malin Head 96 :eek:
Belmullet 93 :eek:
11/1998 Malin head 80
12/1997 Valentia 88
Casement 80
Rosslare 82
Shannon 83
Cork Airport 80
02/1997 Malin Head 80
11/1996 Malin Head 92
10/1995 Rosslare 96 :eek:
01/1995 Valentia 82
Claremorris 82
02/1994 Malin Head 80
01/1994 Malin Head 80
12/1993 Belmullet 85
Claremorris 81
01/1993 Belmullet 83
Casement 80
Malin Head 82
02/1992 Belmullet 82
11/1991 Roches Point 86
01/1991 Belmullet 83
02/1990 Belmullet 80
Claremorris 80
Clones 81
01/1990 Cork Airport 83
Roches Point 86
02/1989 Malin Head 86
02/1988 Valentia 88
Claremorris 85
Galway 83
Malin Head 81
Cork Airport 90
Belmullet 93
Roches Point 82
03/1986 Malin Head 90
Belmullet 84
01/1984 Malin Head 87
Belmullet 90
Roches Point 83
09/1983 Malin Head 85
01/1983 Malin Head 82
12/1982 Shannon 81
03/1982 Malin Head 90
Belmullet 88
12/1981 Casement 81
Rosslare 80
12/1980 Belmullet 89
12/1979 Malin Head 88
Valentia 82
01/1976 Shannon 82
Birr 85 :eek:
Roches Point 81
09/1975 Belmullet 84
01/1974 Claremorris 96 :eek:
Birr 85 :eek:
Valentia 87
Cork Airport 94 :eek:
Malin Head 87
Roches Point 83
12/1972 Malin Head 81
Belmullet 80
03/1972 Malin Head 81
03/1968 Malin Head 83
01/1968 Malin Head 90
Belmullet 90
12/1966 Belmullet 83
02/1966 Belmullet 87
01/1965 Malin Head 88
Belmullet 81
Clones 83
12/1962 Malin Head 80
01/1962 Roches Point 84
10/1961 Roches Point 83
Belmullet 85
Shannon 83
Rosslare 87
09/1961 Malin Head 98 :eek: 113mph
Belmullet 80
Birr 81
Valentia 88
Claremorris 91
Clones 87
Shannon 93
02/1961 Malin Head 84
01/1961 Malin Head 81
11/1959 Valentia 85
Roches Point 84
10/1959 Malin Head 81
Clones 84
01/1958 Malin Head 86

Interesting read there mothman.

I'd love to have had the anemometer here for a storm I missed when I was in the states a few years ago, I think it was in october.
It's affects were very localised in that that though other areas were particularally windy, the area between Arklow and Gorey had some kind of an unusual event.
There were trees down everywhere and 2 fields away there were 9 ESB poles in a row just snapped off
There was no electricity here for 48 hours and that was the same for areas like coolgreaney,up to croghan back in towards Gorey and across to tara Hill and Inch.
I remember driving back from Dublin airport and getting down near here and seeing telephone poles on their sides and esb trucks still out repairing.
A neighbour of mine who canoes was up in the wicklow mts the following sunday and noted clusters of trees flattened and then everything ok for a mile and then more clusters of trees flattened.
The local FBD office was busy too as many shed roofs were blown off.

That event never made the news, but it would take a very very strong wind to have snapped the ESB poles.

I'll get the exact date of it later when I've time as I've a record of when i was away, but its not more than 4 years ago.

JimmySmith

Wasnt october 2002 was it? Myslef and 2 friends decided stupidly that a hike accross the wicklow mountains to find pubs, get drunk and live in a tent for a week would be good crack (dont ask). We were about 2 days in and there was a raging storm. Tent almost got blown away. It got blown down and only us inside it stopped it from blowing away completly. Then it started raining small fish.
They were about 2 - 3 inches long and we counted about 30 of them around our tent. We called a friend and got him to collect us and went home. That was the end of our trip. And needless to say nobody believed us at all about the fish .
Makes for a great pub conversation between us though. 'Remember the day it rained fish .....' , 'Aye, it was a stormy night' ... 'shut up you lunatics we dont believe you'

I'm nearly certain it was october 2002!! possibly on a bank holiday w/end

Mothman

Earthman wrote:

I'm nearly certain it was october 2002!! possibly on a bank holiday w/end

Yes my strongest gust on record was on Oct 27th at 71mph. Had a full gale for about 2-3hrs from before 5am till after 7am. Loads of gusts in the high 60s as well.

Also strong wind the previous day with a gale as well with gust to 64mph.

Mothman

Here's a graph of my wind readings.
Blue line is mean speed, Green is max gust during an archive period which are 5 minutes long.

Dublin Airport had highest gust of month at 0620 on the 27th of 77mph, with a max 10 min mean speed of 53mph.

Other gusts in that storm, were (mph)
Rosslare 76
Casement 74 (Mean of 51mph)
Shannon 70

Wind was from a westerly direction.

Supercell

This weekend looks rather gusty, keeping a close eye on it.,

Supercell

Wouldnt rule out Belmullet or Malin Head having another massive gust or two tomorrow .

Mothman

Time to unearth this thread and add to it.

18th Jan 2007
Dublin Airport 80kts.


First 80kt gust since 7th Nov 2005

Mothman

And another! :eek:

20th Jan 2007 at Belmullet.

Gust of 81kts, 93mph during a squall in the hour to 10am

Mothman

Almost a year later.
In the hour to midnight 8th Jan 2008 Malin Head recorded gust of 94kts, 108mph 173km/h.

In the following hour, to 01am 9th Jan 2008, a mean of 62knots, gust 91kts
71mph gust 105mph
114km/h gust 167 km/h

was recorded.

This is 2 knots short of hurricane force.

3rd strongest gust in Malin Head's history (c120 yrs)

Previous (see above)
Sept 1961 98kts 113mph, 180km/h (ex Hurricane Debbie)
Dec 1998 (probably 27th) 96kts 110mph 177km/h

nacho libre

12/1998 Malin Head 96

I remember this one. i think it was late st stephens day or the day after.
it was extremely wind here for a few hours that night. The strongest winds and gusts i've ever seen in fact.

Mothman

Mothman wrote: »

Almost a year later.
In the hour to midnight 8th Jan 2008 Malin Head recorded gust of 94kts, 108mph 173km/h.

In the following hour, to 01am 9th Jan 2008, a mean of 62knots, gust 91kts
71mph gust 105mph
114km/h gust 167 km/h

was recorded.

This is 2 knots short of hurricane force.

3rd strongest gust in Malin Head's history (c120 yrs)

Previous (see above)
Sept 1961 98kts 113mph, 180km/h (ex Hurricane Debbie)
Dec 1998 (probably 27th) 96kts 110mph 177km/h

Correction to above. The gust that was reported as being 94kts at the time was in fact 84kts, so the strongest gust of the night was 91kts during the hour to 1am on 9th January.

Mothman

During the hour to midday today, 25th Feb 2008, Belmullet recorded a gust of 80kts, 92mph, 148km/h

Paddy.1

Mothman wrote: »

With the 80Knot gust at Belmullet yesterday 7th Nov,

Decided to look and see when Belmullet, or any other station had such a strong gust.
Didn't have to go back far!!
Jan 11th to be exact. A gust of 80knots was recorded then at Belmullet.

09/1961 Malin Head 98 :eek: 113mph
Belmullet 80
Birr 81
Valentia 88
Claremorris 91
Clones 87
Shannon 93

An interesting read Mothman. The stats above for 'Hurricane Debbie' look interesting. There are many legends and stories around these here parts about that storm. Would have loved to have been around for it. Apparently according my parents, who where both only kids at the time, the storm started suddenly. My father was in Tuam square and my mother was helping to bring in hay in Dunmore when a "roar" was heard about half an hour before the storm. Both my parents, and others, recal this even though in differnent parts of the county. It went from calm to storm in seconds, and many of the older people I have talked to confirm this.

Also noted was the strange "yellow glow/haze" in the atmosphere hours before the gale hit. There is still evidence of the damage today from that great day, with relics of some great oaks that were felled still around here.

Anybody else have any stories on this storm...?

Mothman

Time to being this thread up to date

94 kts recorded at Belmullet on 17th Jan 2009.

Highest gust at Belmullet in 50 years of records.