Storm Darragh : Fri 6th /Sat 7th Dec 2024

It is alright. Nationwide Orange looks more than likely. Will some areas see red, I don't think they should do that but it is a possibility

Yeah its a big upgrade on the ARPEGE tonight. Here is a better view for Ireland from it. Widespread severe & Damaging gusts.

Worth remembering the direction of wind as well, a gust from the N/NW will overall do more damage than a gust of the same speed from the SW/W.

True. This pressure chart from the GFS for early Saturday morning shows this nicely. From the east of Co. Down to SW Kerry there's a pressure differential of nearly 30 millibars. That's a lot for a small country like Ireland.

Really hoping this will downgrade a little bit. I HATE the wind! Have since I was a child. It brings so much damage and hardship to people at this time of year. N

Nationwide Orange, and Red for all western counties from Donegal to Cork if that ECM is to be believed (as well as Wicklow, if for nothing else but to keep people off the mountains on Saturday AM).

As pointed out earlier, we'll let MÉ be the experts as they may be seeing something we're not but over-reliance on their model is a perilous route to take. Damned if they do and damned if they don't though really.

Same as that, fear of it as a kid drove me to want to know all about it as an adult but it doesn't help with the anxiety levels with these kinds of events.

I've been in my house for 6 years now and the worst storm we've had impact-wise was Barra, almost 3 years ago to the day from this storm. We had no structural damage here from that but it was a long storm and we had no power for 4 days after it. I remember looking out the window at some gusts bending the trees and being quite scared of it, and that was a southerly wind too. This storm makes Barra look like a strong breeze in comparison, I'm genuinely quite concerned about some of the gusts showing for my part of Wicklow there.

I nearly hope cork does go red so places will close - it’s going to be a massive night in the city, myself included due to go to the opera house at 10pm coming out after midnight. Thousands of people full of pints in that weather won’t be good!

Yeah was thinking orange definitely. For dublin, especially the mountains/foothills the wind direction will hit them hard

I think the damp squid will be fairly well blow dried by the gales tomorrow. The worst may be after midnight toward dawn so I'd say they'll not cancel. But depends on warnings.

what counties look like getting the worst of it inland? My very basic knowledge shows east Kerry north cork getting a good bashing? Or am I totally off!