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

He had s few attempts at least

Things have picked up considerably in North Clare over the last 20 mins or so.

Some very strong gusts hitting Galway city now - was very quiet all morning (the odd puff here and there), we even got some sunshine.

All of a sudden, within 10-15 min, the gusts have begun and can feel the windows shaking with the large ones.

Still very calm here in west mayo so far. Winds are to the east and south so far

Just back from a school run in co wexford j infants 2 o clock pick up had to to turn around twice 2 trees down but got there and back im very confident driver probably over confident according to my wife but if your are nevous it wouldnt of been a nice drive pretty bad at the wrong time of day

Not surprised, very wild here in central Co. Wexford and must even worse further south. I lost power there only for about an hour, the first time I've lost power due to a storm since I moved here a few years ago.

many gusts above 100 kmh again the last while at my Davis station just outside Arklow

The highest remains 124khm,a new record for here

The long suffering 20 year old timber fence we "inherited" a couple of years ago has finally given up the ghost today (far SE coast).

It survived Ophelia and Eowyn amongst others although has had plenty of patch work over the years.

Definitely feels red level here on the far SE coast. On a par with the likes of Eowyn in terms of impact and damage, albeit to my untrained and unknowledgeable mind!

The schools etc. that closed today were correct to exercise caution. On SM I see reports of trees down (some on top of cars), and roads flooded. Met Eireann was taking a beating last night on SM that premises couldn't legally close unless they declared a red warning, yet schools here closed on orange. These people need to take a breath and a step back from phones and keyboards. We're all inconvenienced but if the storm doesn't kill anyone or do significant damage, both are good things to take from it.

It's quite clam here (Longford) at present after being quite wild around lunchtime. I presume the worst is still on the way. Still have power, which is the big surprise for me. We used to get cut off within minutes of the first big gust!

SW Laois, suddenly gusting again from SW direction after a lull of about 90 minutes. Accompanied by horizontal rain!

Sheesh

Yep, just picked up big time in Galway city a few minutes ago.