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

Pity Mace Head went down at 5am, other stations had their highest gust at 6/7am.

That 206kph from the Arrans is crazy.

They probably never recovered from this.

As exceptional as the Mace Head values are, and in no way am I trying to downplay them, the station was only set up in 2003. We've not exactly had many very powerful storms to compete this century so far compared to 1950s to 1990s and it is extremely exposed. Makes me wonder what it would have received in storms before 2003.

Similar to Needles Old Battery on the Isle of Wight with Storm Eunice from February 2022. Another relatively modern station that is extremely exposed and set a national record for England but what would it have recorded in the big ones of the 20th century if it had been in service then?

We'll never know.

I’m in the same boat. No contact since 2am.
can’t see any reports of how hard Athenry got hit but seeing some of the images from Galway county it’s nerve wracking

Oddly gusty shower in Kinsale which has taken the electricity out just now. After a calm sunny day.

My deck in Cork city thinks it's April, I can walk full stride on it for the first time in months. Great drying weather last night :D

athenry and surrounding seems to be have little or no phone signal, wifi etc is down.

the power is also out in the area, they got it pretty rough what what i was told a short while ago.

im not up there myself, but friends up that direction.

Well done !

Would not mind that brioche at all , yum.

Same here , battened down the hatches , moved some potential missiles out of harms way , and worst damage is a few leaves and small branches around . But I think because we face east / west we escaped the worst of the wind where I am .

I fell asleep around 4.30 am . It was very gusty before that but not directly. Did it peak earlier than predicted ?

Slept right through until other half woke me at 11 to say all good !

Would be interested to know what max gusts here were too.NCD ?

Still there is a tree down across the road so not all got through so easy .

It appears to have really hit those on the west so much worse .

Thinking of @greenpilot here , that's some damage sorry to hear .

Not bad👍 That could’ve been a fantastic original picture!

For those without power it's to be frosty in some spots tonight so keep warm , I honestly don't know how we still have power it's a miracle, stay safe guys , this storm was very historic to say the least

Any idea where it came from ?

Seems to be a UK Met Office data buoy, possibly from somewhere out west of Cork - broke it's moorings during one storm, and lost contact during Darragh

Kinda looking forward to dinner by the wireless and wine by the fire tonight.

We've no power since 2am (Limerick) but once I silenced the alarm fault and changed the dead back-up battery in the wired smoke alarm, I was happy to be without power until we are sorted. Just myselgf and the wife - and we are no strangers to tents or a campervan - so we'll survive with gas and batteries. Just happy that the house survived. Lost a few trees and have to repair the bracket on the flue for the heating. No big deal.

Until next time!

The scale of outages reported on the ESB power check website is most likely worse than reported. The outage affecting my neighbourhood wasn't even recorded on it.