The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

Red Nissan

A comment about trees mostly down in Munster.

Munster does not experience the brunt of weather events in general, so when a big wind blows our way in ernest, we get substantial damage as the young trees may never have experienced a high wind and thus grow thinner and taller, ie, straighter.

Back in the 70's [72~73] I was a young lad training with the then FCA and our annual camp was relocated from Mallow forests as we physically could not cut our way through the fallen tress after a similar type of storm hit us.

mickmackey1

Red Nissan wrote: »

Back in the 70's [72~73] I was a young lad training with the then FCA and our annual camp was relocated from Mallow forests as we physically could not cut our way through the fallen tress after a similar type of storm hit us.

1974 I reckon:

http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/weather-events/Jan1974_Storm.PDF

daelight

I thought I read on the main thread about the storm here on boards.ie that the plentiful rainfall in previous weeks had made the trees more prone to be knocked over in these officially-2kts-from-being-classed-as-a-hurricane winds ?

testicle

mickmackey1 wrote: »

1974 I reckon:

http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/weather-events/Jan1974_Storm.PDF

His annual camp would most likely have been in the summer.