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

No idea what Malin achieved yet. I never remember it going offline before .

Online for the first time since 3am or so when power went. Currently without electricity, water, mobile service and internet in my corner of west Clare so have had to go to Ennis, one of the few connected spots in the county, to check in.

Storm Eowyn has now moved on to leave a blustery evening with scattered, heavy sleet and snow showers (at least at my location). It was snowing when I left home.

Éowyn turned out to be the record breaking storm that was modelled so well in the days leading up to it. As expected, the west coast bore the brunt of the strong winds and the inland southeast escaped the more impactful winds.

In Clare, most roads were blocked with fallen trees and there are some reports of structural damage, including to the pier wall at Cappa near Kilrush.

While official verification is required, it appears Mace Head in Galway has broken the 80-year-old all-time wind gust record held by the former Foynes Airport in Limerick since 1945. The Connemara station beat Foynes by 1km/h to claim the record wind gust with 183km/h.

As was modelled, the Aran Islands bore the brunt of #StormÉowyn with an unofficial weather station there recording gusts of in excess of 200km/h.

Storm of the century? Probably not, but it certainly gave Storm Ophelia (2017) and Storm Darwin (2014) a run for its money in terms of impactfulness. It has also cemented its spot in the reference guide for storms for all weather geeks. See @BadWxStations and @SnowbieWxon twitter for the numbers on this storm.

Too soon to mention the 'spinning top' looking storm floris? 😬 Sorry...

Another deep area of low pressure will impact our weather on Sunday morning through Tuesday (see below from the 12z ICON). Just the 48-hour affair this time..

At present, it appears to have nothing on # Storm Éowyn. However, it would serve to delay response efforts to any cleanup or utilities company operations. It would also lead to further disruption due to structures and trees being already weakened by this morning's storm.

That's all for now. I will be back online when the power returns or when Elon Musk places a Starlink over West Clare, whichever comes sooner.

🙏 poor soul, RIP

waiting to see of they update the records as well. It may be a week or so

Your rural living situation is not reflective of the network at large. Ridiculous to claim the network is unreliable because of an n=1 sample size

Pat McDonagh is the richest man after this. The Galway road in Tuam is completely backed up because of people trying to get in to the Plaza

Nice surprise this morning. House at the back of mine whose trampoline was right up on its side against my back glass door. ( picture taken after I moved it). How it didn't shatter the glass I don't know. We passed it back over when the wind died down.

Should be finders keepers and possession is 9/10ths of the law. 😜

Takeaways in Donegal town doing a roaring trade I believe, according to my son who’s living up there. They’ve had no power since 9am so they’re all off to get hot food anywhere they can!

What a tramp

Hope you get the electricity back soon Wolfe.

People survived the storm but now are definitely putting their health at risk. 😁

Like thousands of others.

It feels like the North America Arctic blast that birthed the storm is coming behind as the sun set.

Athenry is not too bad I think. Didn’t see any major structural issues there. Half expected carnage at the Dexcom site but it’s clean. The problem is no light, no phone, no internet