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

Definitely

Shur the half of the weather stations here in the West/Midlands lost power and their ability to measure windspeeds during Eowyn too as far as I remember maybe more knowledgeable posters can confirm that.

Wasn't there nearly a 20km/h discrepancy between a station in Monaghan and one a few minutes up the road across the border purely because the Monaghan one lost power first.

Eowyn was a monster of a storm here on the North Roscommon/Mayo border.

I wonder if salt hill was under water, I'm watching the Irish news and showed a car park and water was up to car doors

Blackrock co louth was the place where promenade and car park was completely underwater

There was a fair whack of preventative work done in the follow up to Éowyn to make sure critical lines were protected, by removing trees that had been weakened or where commercial forestry was near to power lines.

Hopefully that work will have protected more people from losing power this time around. And that those that have might be restored more quickly.

Wind never materialised here. Orange warning here and amber other side of the border which doesn’t happen that often there in comparison. Not complaining btw the warnings were justified with what the models were showing, it just goes to show we can never be sure even with all the technological advances. And I know it was a notable storm for east and se, just talking about here.

Oh wow that is a surprise 😮 glad about that

Exactly less more work them quicker power restoring.

As much of that work as is needed has to be done. It's amazing how we make rods for our own backs. Losing power because trees fall over due to wind, snow loading, or dieback in the case of Ash trees just makes problems for everyone. In Norway they invented a virtual fencing collar for goats to clear saplings under transmission lines. It's become a successful in it's own right for a number of different animals now.

Eowyn is the one to beat in the future, or not to beat whatever way you look at it. Absolute beast of a storm.

For most of the day here in North Mayo their was no wind or rain, would think at 3.30/3.45 it did get wet and windy but not as bad now.

Most of the schools around here closed due to the orange warning, we had a lot of the lads in working today which was welcome in this bust period.

Kilkenny here and it was pretty bad afternoon /late afternoon - a lot of trees and stuff down. Schools etc continued as normal so it seems like the track of the storm was probably wrong

Probably the factor that made the eastern and southern coasts windier was that a low-level southerly jet developed just ahead of the cold front (the boundary between 14-16 C air mass and 10-12 C westerly) and amplified the surface winds more so than the more pedestrian dynamics associated with the low centre and the upper low to its west. I was expecting the two areas to be about at a similar peak and one was a bit stronger, the other a bit weaker. That low level jet is inching its way further east and it is also promoting the very strong winds in Wales and the Isle of Man. First signs of this would have been those stronger marine gusts near 8 W in the Biscay region, but then the buoys around 12-15 W started to gust almost as strong later in the overnight and morning hours. Also the event is not totally past, there could still be a few strong gusts in the northwest before it pulls away. We had a pretty good discussion of potential yesterday and some contributors to that were fairly strong in their views that the south would be hardest hit, so I think they were basically correct.

UMKO youtube put out an update around 1pm today and that chart showed the winds clearing my area by 3pm today, which didn't correlate at all with their 6z model on meteociel. I thought Harmonie was pretty close for my location in terms of timing and severity. The Arome model had the main northward shift of wind pass through hours earlier, very strange!

On another matter related to the storm, I went walking around 6pm and came across a dangling stay wire that was at head height over a footpath. It was pitch black but luckily I had a decent torch. I called the ESB and they had it dealt with inside an hour, fair play to them.

Is it safe to put my bins out for collection around NOW in Dublin? 😊. They're meant to be out by 6am tomorrow and I ain't getting up THAT early ha ha. (by safe I mean will they blow over - not will they be wrecked or stolen!) Doesn't look too bad out there compared to earlier, but you'd never know.

Thanks.

Very strange storm. Have enjoyed the commentary though.

Must admit to being a long term lurker on the weather threads!

Also enjoyed this snarky statement from Gas Networks Ireland which seems kind of pointed...