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

It’s turned livelier in central Dublin than I was expecting - nothing terrible but some serious howls in last 20 mins.

A very loud, windy and dark North Wicklow. Not much rain. Need to take the dog out. Note to self: always take dog out early before the weather gets bad.

Very strong gusts now in Dublin 8. No rain though so far

heavy rain and wind in Limerick for past two and a half hours.
we are out of electricity for last one hour

I've just braved it and opened the back door. Holy God. It's deceptive because there are seconds of calm and then (just as I go out of course) wild gusts. So take care. That's South Dublin.

I went out to put the bins back up from the end of the garden. I've now used bungee cords to attach them through the handles to a low branch on the tree. But the tree might fall, and then Humpty Dumpty will have no tree, no bins.

Ye have all gone soft with your amber warnings & your school closures.

In my day you'd be out working on the bog on a day like this, a bit of wind for good drying.

Now someone takes a colouring pen to a map & you're all shivering live a sack of drowned kittens, which is another thing we did back then

The worst of it seems to have passed Wicklow now. It's beginning to brighten up and the gusts have lessened in strength. It's still windy for sure but it doesn't feel like the roof is going to come off the house any more. Definitely one of the windier storms I can remember for Wicklow in the past number of years.

For all the people with the "you have gone soft / it's only breezy etc", you are not riling me, you are just going on my ignore list.

Funny how many of these are from people with less than 1000 posts.

Just got going here in the West also, but nothing like Eowyn or indeed the previous storm we had, so far.

1000 brain cells?

Its gone calm here but let's see between now and 7pm

On the Cavan/Longford Boarder here. Its windy but not bad. It was really bad last Friday and we had no warnings in place. Keep the updates coming.

very quiet here in Carrick on Shannon. We’ll see what the evening brings but looking at reports I’m not looking forward to it!