Storm Ophelia - General Discussion/Local reports - See MOD NOTE Post #1

Windier here now in mid-Louth than it's been all day

Planes on hold trying to land or heading to Shannon...
One went back to London stanstead..

This wind is much stronger now in Dublin than it was at any stage today.

Still fairly blowy in South Roscommon.

Gusts still strengthening here in North Dublin.

Big Wex fan wrote: »

There's loads of way of measuring things and use different stats to reinforce a point or try disprove someone's point of view.

But then there's there is the very nice Irish way of letting someone express an opinion based on their personal experience or how ever they decide on that opinion. In my personal opinion, Darwin seemed to be worse.

It depends where you live. In my case Darwin was worst. I got some damage on farm buildings. Some big trees on my land down and an overnight power outage. I live in Limerick where nearby Shannon recorded the top gust of the storm. Lost power with Ophelia this afternoon for a few hours. If you living on the south coast Ophelia was worse there with Roches Point recording the top gust. For power outages Ophelia was worse with max of 350,000 customers without Electricity at around 3pm. It looks like almost 300k customers are still without tonight. Only 250k customers lost power with Darwin.

Certainly more frequent, sustained and violent sounding gust here in Portmarnock the last couple of hours than there was this afternoon.

Despite what one recorded high reading may or may not say, that makes it worse now than earlier.

North County Dublin near Balbriggan, definitely worse than at any point today. Strong gusts.

"Magic wrote:

;104994967"]Yep, but UK MET predicts it will hit them harder then us.

It will still have to hit us to get there. Depressing. The hype for this made it sound a freak one off occurence. Not a new normal.

Violent at the moment in Terenure, south Dublin.

This is rough now! North Dublin. Must be gusting over 50kts

Definite step up again in D14- expected this during the afternoon, certainly not now.

Wasn't too bad in Longford today, a bit of damage in the garden but no structural damage and the trampoline's still there! But what a day for my weather station's anemometer to stop working. Luckily I got it up and running again before the storm passed over.
Still gusting and the mean wind speed is increasing still (23:30), seems to echo what people are saying about Dublin. Here's the wind chart for prosperity's sake.

The anemometer may have been slightly sheltered by the house, though it is about 15m away.