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

True, however, the direction for SE is much better. The n direction of Darragh was a killer.

I have a mobile home in castlebar, it stood well in the last storm and it has fish boxes full of concrete underneath it , I setup a live stream of the kitchen just to see how it was when I wasnt there in the last storm and there was loud crashes outside but no damage what so ever. Its stood infront of an old cottage so its a good wind breaker .

This will test it.

Whole country is Orange on Friday

ORANGE WARNING

Wind warning for Ireland

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Storm Éowyn: Gale force southerly winds becoming westerly will bring severe, damaging and destructive winds with gusts of up to 130km/h widely, with even higher gusts for a time.

Impacts:
Fallen trees
Damage to power lines and power outages
Structural damage
Very difficult travelling conditions
Disruption and cancellations to transport
Wave overtopping

Valid: 02:00 Friday 24/01/2025 to 17:00 Friday
24/01/2025

Issued: 08:34 Wednesday 22/01/2025

They would be better issuing a red now for the west, encourage older residents to get off the islands etc

Ah come off it system made for this!

Economic decision. It would be red if it was Saturday morning.

Storm Eowyn is undergoing the early stages of development this morning off the southeast coast of the USA. It will appear as little other than a wave on satellite imagery for much of today.

The rapid and intensive development phase of this storm, which will take place overnight tonight and into Thursday, is known as Rapid Cyclogenesis. RaCy by name and racy by nature as the storm will deepen by 50 millibars in the 24 hours up to midnight tomorrow night at which point it will be showing up on satellite as a highly developed cyclonic cloud spiral. This process is sometimes referred to as a 'weather bomb', the criteria for which involves a deepening of a system by approx 1 millibar per hour over a 24 hour period. This system doubles this threshold.

The rapid development is driven by the Jetstream - a fast, narrow current of air flowing from west to east - which has been energised by the deep pool of cold air over the United States that brought a foot of snow as far south as New Orleans and the Louisiana coastline during Tuesday. It will take only 48 hours for the system to make the 3,500+ mile journey towards Ireland and Britain.

Latest model output shows violent storm force winds are likely in exposed coastal and in high ground locations of Ireland. The risk of damaging and disruptive winds exists for all parts of the island due to the anticipated large windfield associated with Éowyn.

The system will track northeast meaning that the strongest winds will be felt first in the southwest of the country by the early hours of Friday morning. By lunchtime Monday, the system centre will be located north of the Ulster coastline, at which point the strongest winds will affect the northernmost counties of Ireland.

Met Éireann has issued a Status Orange weather alert and associated guidance. Please take time to read the advice provided on met.ie and, for those in northern Ireland, on metoffice.gov.uk. Heed the advice provided as this storm system is likely to be a potent and disruptive one.

And what happens when posters post in the technical thread asking questions about their area,which will happen. How are mods supposed to deal with that. It's busy enough here as it is without mods having to deal with two threads.

Sorry Mods for going off topic

Orange warning issued

Boards is impossible to use or post from an android phone these last few months. Tech is so outdated.

I would love a technical discussion thread for this weather event too if mods could facilitate. I have have given up on reading this one.

'minutes'??

My goodness how do you cope?The stress for you must be unbearable.