Storm Barra - December 7th/8th 2021

North Inishowen still relatively quiet. Some lashing rain and winds but nothing out of the ordinary. It was windier a few days back.

From what I can decipher of the Windy website, I think we will be getting stronger winds later today.

Can’t sleep with the noise of the wind in D15. I’m in a fairly sheltered housing estate too. I think I heard one of my bins go for a wander but that’s a problem for future me.

Bins took a wander in D5 so I took a wander ...yay. definitely stronger than yesterday mornings effort

Very windy out in Kildare. Have to get up and drive now to work. Not looking forward to it

This is a bizaare take from someone who has been a longtime contributor here, and was enthusiastic about understanding and forecasting severe weather events (which this one is). I don't know what's it to Met Éireann, or meteorology in general, what a particular govt department do with their schools as a response.

Have you been following the buildup to this at all? NOAA marked this storm as having hurricane-force winds right off our coast earlier today. The damn "thing" then practically stalls over Ireland. Why are "school closures" your contribution here? There was an overreaction to Ophelia for sure, based on the criteria Met Éireann are working off, but the models and verified data so far confirm most of the weather warnings issued before. Is this a weather discussion or a society/education/risk attitude discussion?

Lying awake in North Mayo, the sustained wind level is making sleep impossible. Something in the garden is banging around, not looking forward to seeing the damage in the morning.

Still very windy in Sligo - it's been howling since about 7pm last night - hard to sleep with it.

Genuinely feel we need a ‘major’ weather thread in after hours or current affairs and a weather only related thread here. Particularly since you can’t transfer posts within forum

This is the worst I’ve ever seen. And I really hope posters who got frustrated will return

To get on topic it was a wild night in north Kildare. Woke our youngest for a period of time. Can’t quite see the garden but despite securing everything there was a lot of noise. Hopefully from the neighbours garden! We had already lost a fence panel to Barra yesterday so hopefully nothing more

I haven't heard such strong winds like this before. Surprised it's only a yellow warning. Wide awake here in West Meath.

Are you still trolling the same stupidity?

Flying back from the States, about 45 minutes to landing, bit of turbelence but nothing out of the ordinary so far. Going by reports it will be bumpy on approach

Worst storm since I've moved into my top/4th floor apartment 2.5 years ago in Sligo. One window here in an unused bedroom has needed to be replaced for a while but I put it on the long finger. It blew open last night, I think around 530am.

Mercifully managed to secure it shut using nails and nylon 6lb fishing line. I'm on the bed here beside it in case in flies open again. Honestly just feel so relieved that I had fishing line and could do a temporary fix, it is holding up well so far so fingers crossed should hold until the storm passes.

However some of the concrete facade of the window beside it which was cracked has flown off and part of my window frame is exposed ot the elements. That will need to be solved at some point.

My whole apartment/building is creaking, some incredibly violent gusts here. I honestly feared that the whole roof might blow off. Scary ****.