⚠️ Storm Éowyn - Fri 24.01.25 (**Please read Mod Instruction in OP.**)

Good old Matty M, of course who used to be a regular here before he went Pro. I'm sure he still reads our forum on the qt.

Oh this sounds like a nasty one altogether. Thanks for the heads one everyone...I'm going to do a good top up shop in the morning. Hoping everyone will be safe and well. Our weather has been barmy recently- snow one week, mild spring like weather the next week, severe storm the next week. Mad.

Oh no i'm petrified, gonna buy a generator tomorrow and a few extra slice pans. I'm so scared.

JS, great reporting by you on the models but might I suggest you sound a little less enthusiastic about “upgrades” and about this possibly hitting the southwest? This thing is highly likely to kill people, an “upgrade” would be reduced wind speeds or it buggering off to either France or Rockall imho. Appreciate you don’t make the weather, but you get the point. Otherwise, as I said, well done on seeing how dangerous this thing was / is from far out (as obviously did a good few others, particularly Meteorite who opened the thread).

Yeah i like my weather events but this would cause widespread damage and disruption. Anyway we'll see what later today brings.

It's incredible they can track these storms so far out really.

Hate storms with a passion and people that like them. Went from 1998 to Darwin without anyone to mention/remember and been without power for 12 nights since. People need to organise how to cook and heat if without fireplace and fill any containers with water (milk cartons) etc and have power banks so you can see when power might be restored or report. Power banks are like 20-30 euros. Generator’s are luxury unless milking cows or old people. Climate is F. People that have to go out everyday already know that. Look at last summer with a wind that would cut you.

Aside from the likely incredibly strong wind speeds on Friday morning and a very wide windfield, I do believe that them coinciding with morning rush hour and people moving about will carry added weight for Met Éireann when considering what Alerts will be put in place.

By lunchtime tomorrow, I think every media outlet in the country will have this storm as the lead story.

The recent cold spell was one of the greatest misinformation weather episodes that I can remember because most people did not actually read what Met Eireann were saying and, instead, were caught up with clickbait sites posting colourful snow charts with over the top headlines. Make https://www.met.ie your primary source or if you are in Northern Ireland, refer to https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

If you have a problem with ME, stick it in the ME thread.

Right. I always thought Ophelia was ye're big one. Darwin was unreal on the Laois\Kilkenny border too. Ophelia was run of the mill for my location.

Yes, tree cutting in Ophelia was one casualty.

I've never seen anything like these charts, the agreement etc.

There is still scope for this not to be a nationwide red warning. I will be surprised if Met Eireann issue a nationwide red before tomorrow evening. There will be some warnings issued tomorrow morning but I think they will hold off on a nationwide red until they have seen the evening runs. As for the additional systems, if this storm is as severe as current guidance depicts any follow up storm might not need to be as potent to do widespread damage as a lot of trees will be in a weakened state from Eowyn

East Cork probably got it worse alright. The sting jet from Darwin might have hit my location more. People were out and about for Darwin too. Everything was shut down for Ophelia.

I think they will, there was quite a bit of trouble over the snow event and not calling a red. That was an error, will they make 2 errors in a row? Possible