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

Limerick, Ennis, Galway..highly populated areas. This is unreprecedented those speeds.

I have always loved weather extremes . As a child I remember ‘Hurricane’ Charlie and my parents having no issue with me going off exploring afterwards to inspect the damage- seeing a local bridge washed away and power cables dancing across the street with a trail of blue sparks.

I must be getting old as I’d be very happy if this missed us. I more aware of the hardship that can be caused rather than my own awe of the power of nature.

Better safe than sorry everyone- by tomorrow evening there will be people who’ll be wishing they’d heeded the warnings. There will be others potentially risking their lives to help and save those who don’t take heed.

Stay safe one and all.

Red - Wind Warning for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry

Southwesterly then westerly winds will rapidly increase from west to east during the Friday morning rush hour with peak gusts of 80-90 mph fairly widely and perhaps up to 100 mph along some exposed coasts. 

Won't be any busses running anyway.

why won’t there be buses at 4pm

Looks ominous now, and the whole of Ireland, north and south now in red. I think it's the first time the UK Met has given the north a red warning?

Exactly! Warnings are over for most of the country by midday, and I'm still expected to go into work at 2pm!

It won't be warnings that stop buses later in the day, it's potentially disruption around trees falling etc that would. That won't be clear until after the storm passes.

I have spoken to a few people about this and the lack of awareness from workers and the general public is worrying but not surprising given the relatively casual coverage of it in the media. Also there's an attitude of we had Red warnings before and were grand, understandable I suppose given that when we get wind warnings, windspeeds will often not meet the criteria for a particular warning. So people equate "yellow experiences" with Orange warnings.

In this case, models are showing gusts way in excess of the Red warning minimum of 130 km/h

Maybe Met Eireann know something that us amateur model viewers don't and things will be considerably less severe.

Or the clownery in the Dail is keeping RTE distracted.

Or, conspiracy theory alert, the government know that we are fcuked if the models are correct so the only thing to do is hope that they aren't correct. Because what are we going to do, evacuate the west coast? Given the pitiful state of our defence forces etc. So pray for the best and if the worst happens, shur weather forecasting isn't an exact science and something something climate change.

Also the buses don't drive themselves, drivers could get stuck at home etc. so I imagine it'll be a 'play it by ear' sort of scenario for things getting back up and running after the red warning lapses.

That is incredible to read.

I don't understand this. I just checked around the news sites and the storm is still a secondary story as the nonsense in the Dail is a matter of life and death rather than possibly the worst recorded storm in the history of the state.

Now obviously the cancellation of transport, schools and outpatient services will reduce risk massively, but on an individual level it's not getting the message across that preparing for this takes precedence over Dail procedures which can be sorted after the weekend.

Yeah schools won't just magically reopen once red warning ends either. I presume they will just close for the day given orange continues but awaiting confirmation.

From reading what people are saying counties Wexford, Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny and possibly cork probably shouldn't be in a red warning. I imagine they will keep them in red as if they were to move back to orange it might look like a downgrade of the storms seriousness.

I agree, but also the thought that the whole of Friday is written off and everything shut the whole day is also delusional.

It will be a slow resumption of services where it is possible. Places aren't going to close all day and stay closed if the weather doesn't come to pass.

That's not to say it's not looking like a phenomenal storm, it is. I think it's just people's assumption that red warning = whole day Friday shut down - 24 hours of storm. It doesn't.