Storm Barra - December 7th/8th 2021

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Just about made it through the storm with the thanks to brennans bread sliced pans and loads of litres of milk...

Next time its windy...make sure you stock up...."Stay safe"

We seemed to escape the worst of Barra in the extreme North of Donegal, for a change.

It just showed how these county and country wide colour alerts can be all-encompassing. There was no reason for my kids to be out of school today, they have been in on much windier days over the years.

But its a difficult one for the authorities, they can't really start dividing up counties for weather warnings.

Yesterday the storm peaked at this location in Leitrim. Trees down at neighbouring farms. I was fortunate. Although I have one tree which is in a rather precarious position. I'll sort that out later.

Power went out at 2210 on Tuesday. Restored at 2230 on Wednesday. Over 24 hours without power. (Fair play to the ESB crews working out in that weather)

Wood burning stove was put to good use for heat and cooking. Candles and torches for light. Wind up battery for information. (Phone lines down and mobile masks effected)

Work still had to be done with the animals but that's what you have to do.

Met Eireann called this 100% correctly IMHO. Also great info on this board from the usual great posters. As for the nutters that frequent these threads, they wouldn't last a day living in the real world. That's why they live in their own world of make believe. Terribly sad really. Very lonely people.

A real bad storm. Very unusual in its length and direction of winds.

When I was younger, ferry passengers would think nothing of a 40 hour crossing.

"The disembarking passengers, mostly British tourists and Irish people returning from holidays seemed unaffected by their ordeal."

And RTE even covered it, so it must have been a proper storm.

🙂

Glad you didn't get blown back to the orkneys grace 😁

Not too concerned about this incoming minor system, peak wind gusts in the 80-100 km/hr in exposed parts of the west perhaps, but little impact anywhere else, the low is only of moderate intensity when near Ireland, gets stronger up around northern Scotland and the Faeroes on Monday morning. These gusts will occur in the late afternoon to early evening up the west coast and in the later evening hours in Donegal. The gusts will subside rather quickly and Monday will be back to today's sort of wind speeds.

I will decide as I am about to walk the dog, on the same route & at the same time. It sure sounds louder than Barra

We need a snowstorm for the slice pans shortage

Sitting on a mountain in North kerry and can't hear a thing outside. No wind here tonight

Same here Pussyhands.

Tonight's gusts are making the house creak, but nothing during Barra.

The media don't set the warning levels so your point is a bit ,well pointless.

I was making the point that if a higher warning level is set then people are less likely to be out in it so might not really experience it, whereas with a yellow warning there is very little talk about it but you could still get gusts of up to 110Kmh.

Barra did bring destructive gusts to some areas, as I have seen many trees down as I have driven around Galway the last few days, Renville park is/was closed due to tree damage also, but as reported by one user in Tuam the stronger gusts didn't make it that far inland, that highlights the difficulty of a county wide warning.

The public love a good storm, particularly if its named, its the public that share the media coverage and comment on the stories and hence encourage them to keep spinning.

Check out who owns the media.

The warnings for Barra were partly because of the duration of the storm - it took the guts of two days to cross the country - and the fact that the low hit Ireland directly, meaning that the wind direction changed for nearly everyone while the storm passed over the country. That's very unusual. Usually we get sideswiped by a low passing either north or south of the country, so only get winds from one(ish) direction.

The system the other day passed over very quickly, and did not pass directly over the country.

Met Eireann's warnings are about much more than just bald wind strength.

*eye roll*