Autumn 2022 - General Discussion

Opheilia was 5 years ago but yes even here in the northwest it was gusty but so calm now

Roaches Point gusting 54 knots (100 km/h) at 2am

Awful, just awful. Rain and wind yesterday and last night. Wind still howling this morning. Pure muck.

Leitrim

I was one of 15,000 who went to the Cork County Hurling Final yesterday in some of the worst rain I have ever seen. Incredible crowd in the circumstances. When you see pictures and videos of all the flooding caused throughout Cork city, flooding that arose within a few hours of that rain starting, the grounds staff in Pairc ui Chaoimh (and the people who did a pitch upgrade a while back) deserve medals for producing a pitch that never turned muddy and was playable until, say, the last 10 minutes. God knows how many litres of water it had absorbed by then. Incredible how much better pitches are these days.

I'm in the same boat as you, no central heating. Open fires and stoves in individual rooms is all I have for heat at the moment plus a couple of superser gas heaters although I try not to use them unless the room I need to heat is particularly cold, say on a very windy day like today. The gas heaters produce a lot of water as a by-product hence why I only use them as a last resort.

In any case, whether it's a lit fire or/and a gas heater, any of them in use is the equivalent of putting the heating on.

Why was there no name for this "storm"? I wonder why...

No orange warranted wind gusts, a few orange warranted sustained winds in local exposed areas. Hardly warrants a name now does it? If this was named, would have been up there with Lorenzo in terms of widespread green on these tables and we know how infamous of a flop Lorenzo was!

*Wind measured here in km/h.

They did! St Finbarr's won! Fair play to them all for playing in that weather!!

I'd say the downpours with it made the wind seem worse. Still, a few trees down afterwards. Lucky escape for a woman and child in North Dublin whose car took a smack of a falling tree.

Temperatures for tonight 0c to 5c especially for the Midlands right now it's 6c here in Ireland

Foggy start after a cold night. Now we have blue skies and sun. Warm.

Leitrim

The winds will be east to SE a lot of tomorrow, places like Wicklow usually get pretty wet with easterly onshore winds. I know when I lived in Annamoe that a SE wind in particular was always pretty much guaranteed to give deluges in any frontal systems.