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

Our power has been out since 6am (SW Laois), it just came back on for about 5 seconds then gone again. Very strange altogether!

A battering here in Westport.

That was the worst night of our lives from a weather point of view. Fortunately a new build so could withstand but the flex on the large windows was unbelievable. Kids are well shook. Haven't left the house yet but I'd imagine there is huge damage to property throughout the entire county.

During Ophelia, the eye of the storm went directly overhead and we had the calmest day. I remember a mate of mine down SW - a huge hulk of a man and a former knuckle boxer in London - telling me how terrified he was during Ophelia.

I understand his experience now.

Hope everyone got out of that as well as possible.

As for the whingers, no point in getting banned over your attention seeking.

Sustained wind did reach Hurricane force

Wonder was there any damage or flooding at the Quay? I alway think of properties like The Towers on these occasions.

I've blocked so many people now this thread is almost civilised

And weather stations in most impacted areas all offline during peak of the storm doesn't help either. Have to wait for met.ie providing the data at a later time. Hoping the stations were not damaged and the data is actually there. Wouldn't surprise me if Mace Head and Belmullet had more 170+ km/h gusts recorded between 4 and 6 AM.

It really baffles me why they can't make more recent data available with higher frequency. It really is not rocket science. For example this Dutch weather website updates with latest data from all official Dutch weather stations every 10 minutes: https://www.weerplaza.nl/actueel/windstoten/

@widdensushi - Why persist with this utterly pointless argument? Hurricane force wind speeds were categorically measured last night.

I have a live power line hanging down about 10 metres above ground level between my mam's house and my neighbours house this morning. It is located in the lower end of Castlebyrne Park in Blackrock in Dublin.

I rang ESB Networks about it on the phone this morning. They said to me that they couldn't give me a timescale about when this issue would be fixed. I don't know if it will get worse later on today or this evening.

I will send a picture of it later.

calming down now Dublin 7 area

Tip of the cap to Met Eireann on this one....

Theres no bigger critic of them than me.

But they got this one bang on...

Scraemongering:

Here is the pic of the live cable from my phone camera. It's the thick black cable that is hanging below the wall. It's a good thing I called ESB Networks to get it sorted this morning. I hope they come and fix it soon.

EDIT: And just in the nick of time. They're here to fix it. I am delighted to see them. What absolute legends.

Just finished a long walk around central Limerick. Some branches down, one small tree. About half the shops open. I slept through most of last night, awake for a half hour at 4am. A little windy was all. So not sure if unique geographic features protected the city or if the weather was much less than forecast. I have been through 5 hurricanes as a result of living in the Caribbean. My experience last night was nowhere near as intense as even the lightest of those hurricanes. I'm sure if you were close to the west coast it was probably much worse.

Very Gusty night in Galway City, woke me up a few times, small tree from the neighbours has fallen over but the 15ft ones behind my house are okay!

Interested to see the reports come in from Mace Head. I doubt the 183km/h was exceeded but you never know!