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

After a mild but showery morning in South Dublin it's gotten noticeably gusty in the last half hour. Heading to Wicklow shortly and hoping no trees down.

Very obvious change in wind direction in the last half hour in Cork harbour from S to SW. There was something of a lull as the direction changed but strong gusting has returning from the SW.

I think I just heard a wheely bin fall over. I'm going outside, I may be some time.

1300h __ kt (km/hr)

Yella belly? No, just sensible.

How do schools play it by ear though?

Bring in the kids and then when the wind picks up summon the parents in to collect therefore getting more people out in the wind?

Calling it early allows people to get child minding arrangements in order etc if needs be. Many many people aren't in a position to react to ad-hoc calls. There's no fleet of mammies at home now to come and collect kids at the drop of a hat.

I reckon absolutely no closures unless red should be the way and let the government deal with the fallout should any occur. Or better yet people just accept the risk and hope for the best as we did years ago.

But that's not the social climate nowadays.

We saw a snippet of it here on this thread last night about Dungarvan and it wasn't someone trolling it was just someone concerned but their concerns and feelings of disagreement/blame were instantly directed at Principals.

That's the climate Principals are dealing with at the moment and God forbid anything really bad happened it'd 100% landed on their shoulders by a sizeable cohort as wrong as that is imo.

It's no wonder we're seeing these knee jerk reactions in such a situation.

Godspeed Mr Oates.

I think I just saw him passing overhead.I hope he does no damage to the greenhouse.(not too much in N Connemara yet)

It's a little windier here now, 18mph gusts (Easterly), baro dropping now at 1007, temp holding at 11C.

The wind seems louder high up if that makes sense, clouds whipping by.

East Meath.

It's very calm along the west coast. Not even yellow category winds. Maybe it's on the way but we've been in orange territory since 11am.

east Galway very calm light breeze. Confused.

Some seriously strong winds whipping up in the last 20 mins. in Limk City. Temp has dropped quickly to 12c.

Expect a sudden increase in WSW gale force winds within 30-40 minutes.

Disruption to flights and ferries has meant some cancellations e.g. the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir was supposed to be at the National Concert Hall tonight, but they can't get there.

https://www.nch.ie/all-events-listing/arvo-paert-at-90-estonian-philharmonic-chamber-choir-cancelled/

It's gotten very gusty here in East Cork over the last 20-25 minutes. I can confirm a wheely bin has fallen over.

Rough east of Waterford city, mind the roads especially the rural ones. Lots of branches down.