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Storm Darragh W. Ireland

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petec2:
A few km inland of this storm but all the same it had some impact locally and 350,000 houses were without power for a spell:
Some of yesterday’s weather (graph starts at midnight (M)) on 5th and runs to 10pm on 7th. By noon 👎 on Dec 6th 2024 the winds are getting gusty (nice 'calm before the storm effect'):
The grey line shows barometer plunging from 9am (1010mb to 980mb by 9pm). The average wind speed suddenly picks up at just before 9pm (light blue line) and temperature drops by 3C (red line). The key one is the high wind speed (dark blue line) suddenly increasing just before 9pm reaching 80km/h gusts at 9.30pm (mains power goes out then) and gusting at 86km/h at 6am on the 7th. Mace Head, 7km to the sw of our semi-sheltered back garden (sheltered from nw-ne winds that is) recorded 141km/h gusts between 10 and 11pm on the 6th -also gusting from the nw. Must have been impressive down at the N facing coast!
.. and ps many thanks to the ESB crews who have been out there restoring the power! [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

Conchobair:
I'm based down in Co Kerry, and my station registered 101.5km/h but it had been pretty rough out there from Friday approx 1pm until the early hours of this morning. Just been out on a dog walk and its as calm as can be out there now.
We were lucky, we only lost power for about 30 minutes, but plenty of trees down and around in the area. During storm Darwin in 2014 we were without power for 3 days. The ESB crews and local councils have a done a great job in getting power back on and roads cleared from debris.

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