Storm Agnes Wed 27 Sept 2023.

Play the land conditions rather than the actual wind speeds. Trees in full leaf and sodden ground, doesn't need 130kph to bring about widespread devestation. Fallen trees caused fatalities with Ophelia. This could have done the same given the time of year it occurred

Definitely been nasty for the last hour or so. It's not so much the sustained winds but the gusts that are pretty bad here in Ballincollig.

Also, it looks like the storm has taken out one of the two 110kv lines spanning the river Lee at Glenbrook. Wouldn't want to go up one of those masts in this weather to repair it...

Not to add to the Met Eireann bashing but I genuinely have no clue what to expect this evening of this storm from any of their updates or their forecast. We had an orange warning in place from 9-5 with a yellow warning continuing to midnight. The strongest gusts for the East coast were forecast between 2-5 roughly, and that was reflected in their forecast this morning. At around 2.45 or so we had a clearance in the East where the winds dropped well back, still gusting but nowhere near the strengths they said. As far as I can tell based on all of that, the worst has come and gone ahead of schedule and the forecast gives me no reason to think otherwise either.

Now I see a tweet from Met Eireann at 3.30 saying that the storm is only now starting the cross the country, and that winds are strengthening. So where is that in the forecast? Because as far as I can see from their site I should expect a steady drop in wind speeds now as the evening goes on. So I go to the Met Office website (UK) and see this

Average wind speeds and gusts increasing, more in line with what Met Eireann are saying, but seem unable to publish on their own site. It is incredibly frustrating that we can't get accurate information during a storm when the data is clearly available.

Could have! Sure just make up the criteria,a tree could fall a fine dat, just go red permanently, you never know.

Torrential rain in Galway roads all flooded with standing water

Finally got some decent wind measurements on the windward side of my apartment. 29.76 knots in a gust about ten minutes ago. The gust actually peaked out at over 30 knots, but I wasn't able to hit the save button in time.

Also, sorry for the sideways image. For some reason, this keeps happening to me. Boards and Mac don't seem to play nice with each other...

A few snaps from Poolbeg and Portmarnock/Malahide this morning and afternoon in Dublin. Nothing spectacular but pretty windy and visibility earlier from the squall was atrocious!

It's a Parkside PWM A1, a Lidl "Middle Aisle Special" that I bought on a whim a month or so back.

Or, if you're talking about the machine, it's a MacBook Pro, one of the Intel CPU models, running MacOS 13.6

Sustained high westerly to southwesterly winds here in Ballincollig now. But the sun's coming out so there's that I guess.

I'm in the dublin mountain foothills at knocklyon so maybe protected.?

Orange updated until 7pm now for the same counties as before

The wind figures as of 1700 for synoptic stations.