Storm Isha - There's no branches down in my garden / Met Éireann were too cautious/not cautious

Oh how edgy!

Some sad people in this world.

That tower clock in Galway is heavy absolute miricale it did not hit anyone very busy street

Ok, it's now not so simple, or elegant and kinda confusing. There might be something to be said for that whole red-amber-green thing after all.

It is most definitely a strong storm here in NCD, in fact it has been since early this morning.

Flights cancelled all day long and I've been out and about and it's horrible.

Don't know about the rest of country but definitely the worse storm here in NCD for a long time.

Some of other big storms never really impacted us here.

Flights started to be cancelled from early morning and continues throughout the day.

Don't be putting yourself up on a pedal stool just yet, damp squid has been a running joke for a while now

My cats are seriously pissed off and taking it out on me. They only got out for one brief window of about half an hour today. One picture frame broken so far.

It's fierce windy out now, with intermittent heavy rain, and I see some small branches from the large tree outside my house littering my front garden. South Dublin.

First time my trampoline has tried to make a run for it. Some wind.

I took a look at radar around reported time of suspected tornado in meath, inconclusive, appearance was typical of downburst straight-line winds which could also peak at F1 tornado speeds (150 km/hr). When possible and safe to do so, anyone nearby could check for evidence of debris moving either

(a) straight downwind, indicates downburst, or

(b) rotational debris paths, indicates tornado as cause.

Either way, the line squalls noted on radar were likely to have produced brief intervals of gusts in 130-150 range. Reports may come in during daylight hours tomorrow in rural areas of apparent similar damage streaks not witnessed during storm. Airport and weather station gusts can never provide a total picture of actual peak wind speeds and I always assume that some location not being measured will reach a peak gust 20% higher than grid of observations. Of course, in severe U.S. tornado outbreaks, that ratio could be 200% or more.

Just heading to bed. Still it bit of a wind but the sky is clear and the stars are shining. So glad Isha didn't blow them away and my child sacrifice work to protect us.

Hope we don't have any more storms . I'd have to resort to animal sacrifice and that would upset the vegans 😀

https://twitter.com/DavidCostelloDC/status/1749189801872425080?t=_E8cwRFd8b54qJXvlthyZA&s=19

This happened in D4. Shipping containers tumbled and caused some damage at Dublin ports south side.

I'm guessing the gusts blew right up the road by Clanna Gael Fontenoy and toppled them.

You know lines from famous poem,

"If you can lose your head while all around you

are keeping theirs,

you'll be a d1ck, my son."