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

Well I know there has been debate over them and they used to be against regs, but installers are now fitting them and the SEAI are signing off on those installs for grant reviews.

Fair play to you.

Power or data went down at ~3 in the part of Donegal I have something remote I can monitor in; well before the warning started there.

The 'travel journalist' on Newstalk yesterday morning saying that only turboprop flights would be cancelled and the other airlines would operate normally through it, because they have 'jets that are used to it' might not be called back.

seems a huge ramp up again in the last 5 minutes here on the Meath coast

power on and off, at the moment. sw donegal.

work from home not working well at the moment !

I just got a text and email from Kildare County Council saying Orange Warning now from 7-11am Friday. Still says red on ME and Gerry Murphy live on the radio listing warning times, still said red to 11?

Didn't think much of it at all

Ay-oh-win.

Pseudo-welsh(?) from Tolkien.

Princess of Rohan.

And according to this… in the US,

• In 2021 there were 110 baby girls named Eowyn.

https://datayze.com/name-uniqueness-analyzer?name=eowyn

New wind record for Ireland

I’m down the road in D16 - same here!

Dublin 18 update, some fairly strong gusts in the last few minutes, roof creaking again. Ventusky shows this it’s currently the worst of it for my area and will slowly start calming down from here. Doesn’t look as if the wind direction will change much which is helpful for South Dublin. The mountains do give some decent protection at times.

No power when I got up around 8:15, but I have this fantastic lttle manual espresso coffee maker, and with a half gas half induction stove, and the brioche I baked yesterday… not a bad start to the day.

Apart from baking, I spent the rest of the time yesterday prepping, rounding up loose stuff, weighing stuff down but mostly doing some rough carpentry to reinforce my lean-to wood shed to reduce the chance of the wind popping off the polycarbonate panels it's made of.

Did a walk around this morning and could hardly believe that there was no damage, and everything weighed down, stayed down. Being in north tipp on an exposed slope with large mature trees just 3m from the house to the southern side, I was really worried. I am so bloody relieved, I haven't the words.

Gave myself a big pat on the back. I'd love to know what the peak gust measured.

well done Gerry , like that Dundalk to Belmullet clarification on the sort of line below that whereby winds will begin to get lower from about 11. Very clear.

Great information in here from really educated posters and people giving their own updates. And I’m just glad we have a service like ME, lives were saved/protected tonight. Even our emergency responders and healthcare workers hopefully have less work because of these warnings.

I think people really don’t grasp what a difficult task it must be to try and make calls and manage this sort of event that is not 100% predictable.