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

on the RTE 6pm news they said status red until 6pm Friday but MET warnings don’t reflect this online ?

Some people will be banging on the doors of Penny's at 12.01 on Friday.

The marine warnings are until 6.

Ireland in general is orange until 5 once red expires currently

Ditto that @endainoz, Live in North Clare and I really love the wind and our house is called Windswept! I really am starting to get scared of this Storm. Fingers crossed for downgrades!!

you can tell David thinks its all aload of hogwash there on the 6.1 news with the bemused grin, discussing weather is so beneath him,init, untill his wig gets a blow tomorrow on his way into Donnybrook.

Gust: 141 km/h 12th January 1974

Sustained: 83 km/h 12th January 1974

Not withstanding probable major amount of power cuts in the locality of some schools / colleges that wont be fixed at 10.01am

High res AROME model. Core of severe winds from Clare into Galway and on into the midlands early Friday morning.

I think david ,wig or not, is a political nerd while most of us are weather nerds.

I'd say johanna on the other hand is pulling her hair out missing all the action. Bet she wish she'd even fell on her bum and had been eliminated from dancing with the stars.

Never thought I'd see a chart like this 48 hours out from the ECM. That's roofs coming off houses.

Weeks without power? They'd need to completely replace the entire power network.

IIf your house is old or compromised in any way in those zones you should probably evacuate inland tomorrow.

not direct weather related I guess………but with this storm coming, is it worth parking the car back from the house? (I live in a 2 storey) in case a slate etc was to come loose from the roof with high winds.

be a bit annoying if a slate landed on the car and damaged it, now I know a million other things can happen during a storm, but just trying to reduce potential risk where I can.

THE WIDOW OF the man who died while driving home from work during Storm Ophelia has called for guidelines to be implemented so that only emergency vehicles can travel on roads during status red weather warnings. Staff should tell Jonny to stuff his crappy job.

Regarding coasts, tides are not high this time around with only 2.5 to 3.1m or so. Storm surge will increase that that but it's the 4.1+m tides that bring the major overtopping and coastal flooding from past experience and observations.

Before everything went red on met app for Waterford, gusts were set to got as high as 117 it's now 113 and red. Where I am I'd love a weather station to read the gusts. On a hill with the south west exposed.

The highest gust on record in Ireland (records for wind go back to 1942) was 182 km/h in Limerick, on 18th January 1945 and the highest sustained/mean wind speed recorded was 131 km/h (Category 1 Hurricane Force), also on the same date and location......so it's these two records that are at risk on Friday.