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

I’d be very surprised if they back tracked and somebody gets injured or killed going to work in those counties then tomorrow morning. They called it early so people would stay put! It would be highly embarrassing for MÈ if something like that happened

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 lot of other things can happen during a storm to damage a car, but just trying to reduce potential risk

Damned if they do and damned if they don't. Completely understandable why they issued it yesterday but if they keep the red in place and it turns out to be "just a windy day" then it's more ammo for the usual moaners. The alternative is as you've suggested. It's a lose-lose for Met Eireann and I'd say they should put public safety over reputation in this instance (i.e. keep the red) unless it downgrades further today where it's a near certainty that some places won't meet red criteria

Woke first had a look at the model sites and immediately thought, wow, that’s some downgrade. Then realised it was set to mph not kph

Depends on the area one is in ….. winds seem to run the gamut from normal storm to hurricane ….. some areas have 57KPH-59KPH at the worst even as low as 50KPH in some ….. that is NOT Red level warnings ….. others have 104KPH and even up to 120KPH which is VERY MUCH a red warning ….. but err on the side of caution ….. I don't think they'll backtrack for the areas will less wind ….. in case someone goes out and gets killed due to the warning being lifted …..

I remember Storm Eunice was red in my area a few years ago ….. but did not turn out to be that bad at all ….. and the much feared Lorenzo fizzled out into nothing …. then there was Ophelia ….. which was definitely red in my area ….. at present this is looking more a Eunice than Ophelia in my area (but is looking as bad as Ophelia in other places….) but we will only know for sure when the darn thing arrives ….

The other thing I would say …. these type of things tend to be VERY unpredictable and I would not risk going out in it whatsoever no matter what you see on met.ie for your area ….. look how quickly things changed for the worse in Christmases 1997 and 1998 …. Darwin in 2014 etc ……

Woke up to fierce wind and rain in Athenry just now , for a sleepy second thought it was Friday morn it's so loud...can't imagine tomorrow ...

Mine is parked on the street across the road from my house under a tree. Now up until Darragh I wouldn't have been worried about it at all. 60 or 70 year old chestnuts but pruned every 2 years so its one of those street tree's with a wide trunk but only 20ft tall in its Winter pruned state with notty stubby branches. ie. At this time of year and pruned in 2024 means theres less surface area to catch the wind with thick trunk and branches strong given their height and with road surface and paving holding onto the root system. Nothing to worry about right?

Wrong. LOL.

This was around the corner after Darragh. OUCH!!

So this evening I'll be moving the Car up a few spaces if I can into the gap between two similar tree's.

honestly can’t remember but it did damage to my roof as it was a northerly wind! It blew my bins everywhere and damaged a few cars in my estate by more falling slates! Never happened before in the 10 years living there

Looks like a downgrade for me (on an exposed hill in Dublin) on the Met.ie app.
Yesterday it was saying wind of 72km/h and gusts of 143km/h and now it’s saying wind of 61km/h with gusts still 143km/h.

Changing the location on the app to Galway bay is really eye opening and I wish everyone facing those wind speeds a safe Friday.

The issue with storm Darragh was primarily the wind direction. The gusts coming from the NW rather than the SW did a lot of damage because trees etc are not stressed often in that direction. My part of Wicklow was hit quite hard by Darragh. Kilmacurragh Gardens was absolutely hammered by it and the road leading up to it had a load of old trees lifted out of the ground. Roads all over the place were blocked and people were without power for 3-4 days. No official weather stations to know what the highest gusts was but Wicklow was red that night. Given the current model runs this won't be as impactful as Darragh for the SE but will be much more impactful for other areas.

Thank you, I love these threads but they're my only source of weather info for "events" so I never look at models outside if here, wouldn't know what I was looking at

I know green good, light purple bad and that's about it :)

I'm seeing a good few posters here now saying it has downgraded.

I'm living on the Leitrim/Longford border…..what is it showing for that area?

What kind of speed in winds are we potentially looking at?

We all know Leitrim doesn't really exist so you'll be grand. 🫣