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

’It’s going to be a Standout storm’ - Michelle Dillon on rte radio 1.

‘We will be extending the red warning along the west coast.’

Everywhere is at risk of being upgraded to red’

Michelle Dillon chatting to Claire Byrne.

Red warning coming for full west coast - met lady on the radio said they're just working on the timing.

Oh God no he's solid. Always keep an eye on his forecasts. He doesn't ramp just tells it how it is. I like that he always posts Met Eireann ensemble data as well not just pretty coloured charts.

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Thank you MT. Battening down the hatches in kinsale. Its gonna be a wild one. As for track of the system any educated guesses on which model is usually more accurate? Harmonie has it as a hit for us in the south, GFS has it more northerly and hitting midlands. Know better tomorrow?

Will wait until the data is on this by Saturday, but expect on a par with Christmas 97 storm. That was pretty bad in fairness. Hope the ESB have the French lads coming over.

I agree, unfortunately you quoted me before I updated my comment after I posted by mistake 🙂

Ya know the way people write on here "blah blah blah, neighbours trampoline is in my garden" with this one I reckon "blah blah blah neighbours house/car just blew into my garden"

Sligo still looking kind of "sheltered" by South and West taking the brunt. "Only" 135kph gust here around lunchtime Friday. Could we see a triple bullseye in the Southwest 150kph!!

Yeah I'm a fan of his so was confused.

Not looking forward to this. My job is notorious for not really caring about red warnings. And this seems like a serious storm

Hope your right on Sligo. Not looking forward to being out of power for who knows how long. Again.

In fairness...you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If I keep my children off school in an orange warning, then they'll be marked absent. They already had 3 snows days this month.

Other people would say why would you keep your children off school in an orange warning, irresponsible parenting.

I'd still be expected to go to work in school.

That's why I always get a sense of relief if there is a red warning because someone made that executive decision for me.

An orange warning here on a hill in south Donegal would be a red somewhere else and vice versa.

Looking at the model outputs this is looking like a 1 in 5-10 year event, not one in 100. Massive gusts off the west coast have people hyped up, but overland while extreme, and will do a significant amount of damage, its not unprecedented with multiple similar events over my memory.

This type of hyperbole is what creates panic. For the overwhelming majority of the country you will be able to go to the shops by Friday afternoon / evening, so no need to do a panicked supermarket sweep. If you live in a more isolated area maybe make sure to have candles and fuel in and enough food to last a couple of extra days in case roads need clearing of trees

Can we put bubble wrap on Holyhead now?

The models can be run for different timescales but that uses more computer processing power
UKV covers usually reports up to 5 days at 1.5km (but run more frequently for the 48 hour forecast)

Met Eireann uses a HARMONIE-AROME model which they can run for 54 hours into the future at a resolution of 2.5km (compared to the AROME model that resolves to 1.5km)

I was looking at west Atlantic buoy data and basically there is no data, crazy that we spend so much on so many useless enterprises but there are no working buoys or weather ships across the vast expanse of ocean (west of m6 anyway).

Satellite indicates centre is near 32N 73W.

Will see if any well-placed ship reports after 12z. A lot only report every 6 h.