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

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    #3452
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,894 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093434#Comment_123093434

    Marine yes, don't think they changed the land reds.



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    #3453
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,937 ✭✭✭Calibos


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093418#Comment_123093418
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093430#Comment_123093430

    Yah got ta love the Wicklow Mountains. They take the sting out of the worst of the winds and the worst of the rain, a lot of the time they'll even part the clouds too (though sometimes the opposite and they can generate clouds over us on the coast on the leeward side of them in certain atmospheric conditions). Finally, they often add a couple of degrees to temperatures due to the Foehn effect. They are one of the reasons we are called the Sunny South East.

    The other side of Dublin don't get those benefits as often unless the wind is coming from due South, but in the prevailing South Westerlies, coastal Wicklow and South County Dublin do.



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    #3454
    gzoladz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093431#Comment_123093431

    Indo... Just to qualify the source.



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    #3455
    zisdead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭zisdead


    Yeah.Still bad relatively speaking in Trim.but between 3 and 5 am. It was unreal.



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    #3456
    mikep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭mikep


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093470#Comment_123093470

    Here's another link for weather observations including private ones.

    https://wow.met.ie/



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    #3457
    M.T. Cranium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,547 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    New to boards weather storm threads? Welcome but please indicate location of your observations, we get more out of your reports when we know where they refer to.

    Centre is now about 70 miles north of Malin Head. I am fairly certain it reached 936 or 937 mbs offshore near Belmullet earlier as Belmullet had 940 mbs and a moderate south wind, also M4 buoy reported 939.2 at 0500h (could have been a bit lower inter-hour as 30 km/hr north breeze at 0500).



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    #3458
    2016
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭2016


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093487#Comment_123093487

    Dublin airport - many/most early inbound flights cancelled up to around 3pm



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    #3459
    Prefect_1998
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭Prefect_1998


    Kinsale looks Calm :

    Kinsale Angling - Weather



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    #3460
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 14,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    ME seem to have nailed this storm. Thankfully, few reports of major damage, yet anway.



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    #3461
    Mr.Wemmick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭Mr.Wemmick


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093497#Comment_123093497

    Leylandii trees are as tough as old boots. Light eaters I call them

    It’s always the beautiful old trees that get damaged and newly planted ones to replace them take too long to grow. Some beautiful trees around here hoping they are okay along with all the birds & wild life that use them for shelter.

    If Baggins loses, we eats it whole..



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    #3462
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Doesn’t seem too bad in north Dublin now. Has the worst passed?

    The lifeboat has set sail



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    #3463
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,251 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093515#Comment_123093515

    As I mentioned earlier daylight isn't going to be good enough for another hour for anyone to head out and report back. Power outage affects ability to check CCTV cameras

    This too shall pass.



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    #3464
    Supercell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,019 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Outages all around here, feeling very lucky to still have power.

    ESB workers are going to be busy for a while after this.

    image.png
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/


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    #3465
    lordleitrim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭lordleitrim


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093515#Comment_123093515

    I think if most people are sheltering in place (hopefully), the extent of damage isn't as apparent yet. Also daylight will expose a lot but hopefully not as bad as anticipated.



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    #3466
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 14,002 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Ah, the missing observations can be retrieved later, that'll be interesting.

    https://twitter.com/CarlowWeather/status/1882694699989004561


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    #3467
    ffarrell7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭ffarrell7


    Horrendous wind in Dublin 9



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    #3468
    somenergy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭somenergy


    Still have a problem pronouncing storm name why are we going Welsh when we are first impact hope everyone makes it through ok not in the country but watching my cameras of my house in Dublin on and off



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    #3469
    Pa ElGrande
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,860 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093475#Comment_123093475

    Based on announcement looks like Dublin Airport will start moving air traffic after midday, cancellations and delays will affect scheduling for the day so check with airline.

    https://www.dublinairport.com/flight-information/live-departures

    https://www.dublinairport.com/flight-information/live-arrivals

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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    #3470
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,355 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Two hours into red warning and in my 60's, definitely the worst wind storm I have sat through on Monaghan Fermanagh border. Unreal gusts. Noises from the strains on the house I have never heard before too.



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    #3471
    lmk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭lmk123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093481#Comment_123093481

    I think you’re right, just very lucky judging by what I’ve read in the last half hour



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    #3472
    you_talking_to_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭you_talking_to_me


    Very powerful sustained gusts for the last 10 minutes or so, literally thought the windows were going to come in, could see them moving in the frames.
    Very strange noises throughout the house as the wind rips through.
    have definitely lost some slates on the roof.
    Thought it had eased the last hour too.

    Dublin /Meath border



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    #3473
    IQO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭IQO


    Storm names are mixed between Irish/UK/Dutch names

    https://www.met.ie/forecasts/storm-names



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    #3474
    sligeach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,116 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093477#Comment_123093477

    It may depend on what part of the country you're in. The power has been gone here for several hours and I'll be very surprised if it's restored before noon.



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    #3475
    Yvonne007
    Site Banned Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭Yvonne007


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093386#Comment_123093386

    I'm in D12 too this morning. It was very windy earlier and a bit windy now but wouldn't call it unreal. Perhaps I am lucky that the estate I am in may be somewhat sheltered from the worst of it.



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    #3476
    adocholiday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    Just woke here in Rathdrum, Wicklow. Thousands around me with no power but (knock on wood) we've kept ours. Woke a few times in the night and it didn't seem too bad out all things considered but it's wild here now and a quick look at the observations shows Oak Park and Casement had their highest gusts of the storm so far in the past hour. Hopefully the worst will have cleared this area in the next hour or so. I haven't read the thread yet but hoping that everyone is safe.



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    #3477
    bren2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭bren2002


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093410#Comment_123093410

    Look into that a little more

    Solar panels and batteries won't work in a power cut. It's a safety thing to prevent electricity going back up the lines and killing repair workers. Your only option but be totally off grid solar.



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    #3478
    lordleitrim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭lordleitrim


    600 people still turned up for cancelled flights at Dublin Airport this morning despite being notified that they were cancelled. Airport spokesman on Newstalk earlier saying its "human nature" that some people will still want to physically come in to check their flight is actually cancelled! Madness that they'd put themselves at risk travelling to the airport but I suppose madness is part of human nature...



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    #3479
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,733 ✭✭✭✭guil


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093542#Comment_123093542

    Of course, just surprised to see some fault restored icons on the map. Thankfully we never lost power but friends 1km away are on a different supply and gone since 3am or so



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    #3480
    Captain_Crash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭Captain_Crash


    Dublin 18, it’s windy but hasn’t been too bad at all. Can hear a few creeks in the roof here and there but the mountains have a good bit of shelter. I’d say Darragh was worse in this area atleast.



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    #3481
    Asdfgh2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Asdfgh2020


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123093515#Comment_123093515

    define ‘nailing a storm’…….?



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