Storm Ellen - 19th/20th August 2020

Power just gone in North Longford.

Power gone west Roscommon

I'm in Carrick on Shannon and the amount of trees snapping is mad, I've a flask, torch and candles ready, this storm has brought the cold with it too

Power gone to roscommon side of Carrick on Shannon, still strong gusts

In a yellow warning county and it is quite easily an orange out there for sure. Never heard anything like it.

Horrendous in Sligo town.

Electricity gone in south longford!! Lashing down and sustained winds. Managed to keep power during Ophelia but not Ellen!!

That electrical fault in Ballygar seems to have taken out half of east Galway!

The eye is over sligo and south donegal moving in northeast direction

It's still quite windy now, but the peak of it was from 1-2 am. I thought the electricity might go out at one stage, but it did not. It was certainly the strongest sustained wind I've experienced in recent years.

I’m in a mobile home right in the Atlantic coast in Co. Clare. At 0:04, I went out in the deck to see what it was like. It was very breezy, but nothing unusual. Literally the second I came back inside, the wind picked up, and within a minute, rain was lashing in sideways, battering the front window, which faces west and has an unobstructed view of the ocean 50m away. I was half sure the window was going to come in, so I went to bed down the back, as far away from it as possible (but couldn’t sleep).

I was waiting for the wind to veer southerly, because there’s a hill to the south and I thought we’d get some shelter. It did veer southerly around 02:30, but there was no shelter, and the side of the mobile got an absolute pounding.

It finally eased off around 03:30. It’s still breezy, but it’s not rocking the mobile and it doesn’t feel like the windows are going to burst in any more. There’s a few big gusts from time to time.

Have to say, for a couple of hours there, it was pretty scary. Not going to risk it again Thursday night - windy.com is showing some more very high wind for Friday morning. Home is only a 30 minute drive away, so I’ll head after breakfast.

Good to hear from you again Graces, hope you're keeping safe out there!

Nothing notable here in Donegal , seems to be calming now.

Who is IWC?