Storm Bram , Monday night 8th / Tues 9th Dec. 2025

Amber - Wind Warning for Antrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry

1400-1900

Southerly winds, becoming southwesterly during this period, within the amber warning area may increase to gust 60-70 mph with a chance of 80 mph or more around coasts and over hills for 2-3 hours, before dropping again. However, winds will continue to be very strong for some time after the amber warning expires, with the yellow warning continuing until 2200.

Whoever knows that also knows tomorrow nights lotto numbers.

Timing for peak winds something like 1-3 pm Clare, 2-4 pm most of Connacht, 3-5 pm midlands towards Dublin.

Cork is easing off mostly because the tightest gradient has now moved inland and winds are veering to west which gives some shelter from higher ground to west, but would expect a few more intervals of brief severe gusts before it really eases after 4 p.m.

Kerry has been in that protected zone of the elongated trough for several hours, I expect perhaps one to two hours of stronger winds now to 3 p.m. but it may just jump past Kerry as the circulation pulls in tighter to the departing low (which is now about 150 miles west of Galway).

You know its a good storm when this starts appearing.

M5 buoy now gusting over 110 km/hr and Wexford will likely see peak gusts soon, spreading up Wicklow coast.

As I mentioned in last night's post it's the storm's ' rugby ball ' shape that's making it hard to predict . The center is large and elongated bringing calmer conditions. It looks like it will eventually swing the winds westerly in the coming hours giving stormy conditions to the northern half of the country. The pointed end of this storm is now tightening the isobars over us in the east at the moment from a SSE direction. It's stormy with me now in Meath and will remain so for a few hours even when the winds switch westerly, while down south you might now actually escape the worst of the winds. Interesting to see what unfolds.

It’s the opposite now again.

In a strange place right now in Oranmore, Co Galway where I am sheltered from southerly winds (usually blasted by the westerlies from these sort of storms) so it is dead quiet at the moment. Looking at the wind direction it seems like it will swirl into us around 2-3pm with 100km/hr gusts so looking forward to that.

I’m working in Kenmare,fairly wild here ,

great insight ! perhaps send a prospective Cv to Met Eireann they'll snap you up

Sligo may not be too bad as wind will be SW at its strongest so the West of Ireland shelters us somewhat from that. Breezy now but nothing extraordinary.

113kmh gust at my station in Arklow just now

Very wild

It’s arrived now, near Kerry airport.

115kph in Waterford airport with average speed of 84kph. Johnstown castle’s report will be interesting for the next 2 hours