Storm Debi : Mon 13th Nov 2023

I woke at 4:30 in Athenry from the roar & my 2 boys woke up shortly after that too. At the time I remember people in Clare were getting the worst of it from reading here on boards. But I could see what I thought was a squall line coming on the rainfall radar. It turned into more of a hook just around the oranmore area.

The wind really went wild shortly before the rain arrived, so I take it the sting jet was just in front of the rain band. We lost power & then we all moved downstairs to be safe. I forgot to screenshot it but I got a screenshot of it a while later when the sting was probably near Athlone.

I was in Castlebar when storm eleanor happened & Debi reminded me of it with how sudden the wind speeds picked up.

Here are a few photos from Renville where the marine institute is located. You can see that the water came a few metres higher than the car park level. That car park doesnt flood as often as Salthill so it makes this sea level rise more impressive. Plenty of old trees are down near the childrens playground in the park too. They would have been over 100 years old but maybe age was weakening them too.

Edit: The black stuff is seaweed that was left several metres above the highest sea level mark that I’ve seen before.

this field is still flooded with sea water too. Not sure if grass will be able to regrow there but with plenty of fresh Irish rain I’m sure it will recover!

Brilliant, I have the name Storm K in my diary too. That storm was phenomenal and it was named Storm K by Met eireann . The satellite picture of the storm was on the front page of the Irish Independent with the caption Storm K. I think they named it because of how exceptional and widespread it was. I have it as Storm K in the 'weather memories ' thread a while back so I'm glad someone else has the name recorded.

Oh dear, I'm afraid that's true. It was just a basic record of the actual weather from the previous day . I have them from 1987 along with newspaper reports of all kinds of weather extremes. Most of them are somewhere in my parents attic but I still have access in my own home from 2008. That's the cat out of the bag!

That's the one alright.

Weather like that wouldnt be an issue for an RNLI ALB.