Storm Eunice - Friday 18th February - Wind & Snow Potential

Am I right in saying that the storm is further south than expected?

Yesterday there was talk of Eunice making landfall at the Shannon estuary?

listening to the reports on Radio 1 and they just can't help themselves ratcheting up the fear mongering. They were talking to reporters in Cork, Kerry, and Waterford and all of them reported no serious incidents but beware because things can change at any time!!! ..sweet lord give us a break. I'm living on a hill overlooking Kinsale and it's a bit of wind, nothing more.

I think most understand that. I posted my location and current weather conditions so people know how it's moving. I just assumed most were doing the same.

Snowing in loais. Not sticking though.

Moved out of the Eye I would think

Went from rainbows and confused birds singing to gusts and driving slushy rain

Tullaroan (N/W) Kilkenny

EDIT: Woah ok winds crazy here now

not sheltered at all, it's quite exposed and just like any other windy day up here. Definitely not worth closing schools across the land.

Serious hail shower here in very gusty north west winds here near Killarney....I do reckon the worst of the winds have been to our south but wouldn't say it's over just yet.

Flat calm here, not even a slight breeze, this is why i have a keen interest in the weather, just amazing to hear reports from the south coast, a relatively short distance away, where its an entirely different kind of morning. Shower just passed here (south Dublin) clearing skies, a lovely winters morning truth be told. Hoping for some drama later!

With technology so advanced you'd think Met Eireann could do forcasts based on individual Eir Codes... (sarcasm)

Been calm here Sth Kildare but what was a bright morning is beginning to dull with increased cloud cover.

North Connemara.

The good amount of snow that fell this morning around 2am has now been washed away with the rain at lower levels, although the mountains all around look pretty magnificent!

Wind so far today has been nothing to talk about. My home station, which has a bit of protection from the Northwest by Ben Gorm and Mweelrea reached a peak gust of just 31.4km/h and my other station, located in an elevated position and staring down Killary Fjord only managed 71.3km/h.

On the actual Atlantic coast, some 10 miles or so away, my sister station reached 94km/h

Currently bands of icy sleet showers passing through, power is flickering on and off and the wind is brisk and seems to be building again.

To chime in with the rest of the "discussions" on this topic, I think Met Éireann got this right bar the timing, but for my own location, with Orange snow warning to the North and Red wind to the South, we could do with a bit more granularity... a yellow band between the two "major" weather advisories running from North Connemara to say Athlone would probably be closer to actual conditions.

We really dodged a bullet with the southern flank missing us, will be very interesting to see how the UK handles it later. Red warning there for Cornwall and London which hasn't had a red warning since the system came into force in 2008

Hope i can get to waterford later,first family weekend away since first lockdown..From dublin

Jebus wept.