Storm Éowyn

It's shaping up to be the worst storm in Ireland since the 60s. Their equivalent of the 1990 Burns' Day storm here (which was a lot more destructive than the October 87 storm the media loves to talk about).

Fasten everything down if you're in the west !

Been watching this for days now. Started to form just off the east of the Gulf of Trump.
Not hit the west of Ireland yet.

It’s apparently going to be pretty gusty for everyone along the Bristol Channel, although not as bad as the last storm; hope nothing too bad happens to those in the middle of the storm regions.

Airliners clocking ground speeds of 800mph + off the coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

Faster than sound?

Faster than sound

200 mph tailwind

It’s only moving at 550 mph through the air so not breaking the sound barrier. A story on the current record holder (825 mph) here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51433720

By 12pm tomorrow the high resolution forecast models will be very accurate for Friday, so they'll have more certainty regarding the wind speeds in the affected areas

Up to 48 hrs in advance the models are okay at telling you where it will be windy but they don't have the level of detail to provide a high level of confidence on just how windy it will be  (windspeed/intensity)

Met Eirann have issued a red warning for all of RoI and the surrounding seas.

https://www.met.ie/

Insert crude joke here

It's days like this where my Mum breathes a sign of relief from having sold her parents cottage in Ireland. The will it/won't it have a roof tomorrow was always a worry.

I have roped down all the bins and told the cat she can't play outside on Friday.

In a weird cat telepathy moment,I sensed a message " We are on the East coast,chill"

!!:-)

I'm thinking of trying to convince my boss that I'm going to 'work from home' tomorrow*. I don't fancy the 30 mile each way bus commute at the best of times, but if it's going to be as stormy as predicted in the morning, then the sofa and Netflix are looking way more attractive.

*Tricky as I'm a senior research tech in a genetics lab.

😛

I have told our staff in Scotland to take laptops home tonight and all delivery on site on western areas of UK is postponed for tomorrow as well. A shame, as Scottish team had planned to spend Friday practicing our outdoor fire and cooking skillz in the woods.

Met Office currently suggesting steady 47, gusting 88mph here in hilly South Lanarkshire around the middle of the day tomorrow.  Suspect if that happens there will be carnage, wouldn't be surprised if it goes from amber to red warning for south west central belt later today...

 practicing our outdoor fire and cooking skillz in the woods.

That'd be the ultimate practice!

Wouldn't be surprised to have some announcement via my work about tomorrow plans: one of my office buildings has a habit of the roof edge peeling back in the slightest stiff breeze. Also potential for school closures I guess.

Just glad I no longer live 160m ASL in the hills south of Falkirk. Lost 300+ roof tiles with battens ripped clean off the roof in hogmanay storm 2006-07. Had the fear living there until we moved away in 2018.

I was riding on the old train tracks at Glen Ogle not long after Hurricane Bawbag. There were healthy conifers about 18" diameter that had been snapped like matches. The trees were a huge mess. Scary stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag

Hurricane Bawbag

That's a proper name for a wind.

Why does every bit of winter weather have to have a special name and get whipped up into some sort of media frenzy. Yes we are getting winter storm. Its winter, why all the fuss

The naming of storms has been pretty useful when discussing past weather events, rather than that windy day sometime around January a couple of years ago.

A shame, as Scottish team had planned to spend Friday practicing our outdoor fire and cooking skillz in the woods.

My evil twin hopes they will still try and  give it a go.

!!;-)

I was riding on the old train tracks at Glen Ogle not long after Hurricane Bawbag. There were healthy conifers about 18″ diameter that had been snapped like matches. The trees were a huge mess. Scary stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag/blockquote >

Bawbag, what a day that was. Hardly made the news as it was only Argyll and central Scotland which got battered....

I will go find the video from my old work about 8 miles from there.
The video is all the outdoor centre staff gathered in the dining room for safety, one of the maintenance chaps pops his head out as we can all hear some popping and cracking, and were wondering what it was. As he runs back 18 Nordman Firs and other small trees play dominoes in about 30 seconds. The firs were all 1-1.5m in diameter...

This is them being bucked up a few weeks/months later.
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Yeah, red wind warnings here on Wicklow coast just south of Dublin. The Irish do love to shut up shop when someone farts a little briskly, but this time it seems like the fears might be well-founded - they're saying gusts of 130kmh+. Storm Darragh knocked out the power for 12 hours - and 30km inland towns were snowed in for 3 days I think.

Microsoft being hilarious: "please work from home on Friday. We understand schools and childcare may be closed so ask your manager if they can offer any flexibility". Lads, if it's half as bad as we're being told, there won't be any power or mobile signal, so you can GTF

Bawbag was the one that devastated bits of the Golfie, wasn't it? The likes of Waterworld and Boner.

Bawbag was swiftly followed up by another storm a few weeks later which did a pretty good wrecking job on our house on the East Coast.

*Tricky as I’m a senior research tech in a genetics lab.

Username checks out. Though I'm concerned that genetic research has got you from smoking fags to posting on here.....

I'm assuming that it was after Hurricane Bawbag that the Met Office decided they couldn't leave the naming of storms to the Weegies?

I was in Faindourain the night Bawbag went through. That was an interesting experience. Next morning:

https://flic.kr/p/VXrcAJ

https://flic.kr/p/VC7h1L

Why does every bit of winter weather have to have a special name and get whipped up into some sort of media frenzy.

Because...

wouldn’t be surprised if it goes from amber to red warning for south west central belt later today

That's it red now!

Very worried about all the trees behind my house

Why does every bit of winter weather have to have a special name and get whipped up into some sort of media frenzy.

Because if you type in "the great storm of ...." into the search bar it brings up way too many hits to be useful.

That and "Bawbag" wasn't very BBC News at 6 friendly.

Hurricane bide in yer scratcher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bawbag/blockquote >
I love the fact that the Wiki article has that as the main name with the official name redirecting to it, rather than the other way around

 

deep red in kerry - all my kite flying plans for this weekend are out the window.

That’s it red now!

Indeed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5yvj74dyzo. There goes my riding plans for tomorrow! (not that I'd have gone out in the amber warning anyway).

You're flying your kite from the window?

Red warning now for central belt and SW. Things could get pretty spicy. It's not often we see gusts into the mid 80s forecasted for Edinburgh even though its always breezy! This is the reason why storms get named; I am not sure why people get such a bee in their bonnet about it...Ireland is in the firing line for one of the most severe storms in recent history.

The shipping forecast is using very rare terms like "Hurricane force 12" and "phenomenal sea state" which I never heard once throughout listening every day whilst working at sea for several years.

Slightly worried that the Tweed Valley is going to have another nightmare...much of Glentress is open to the wind direction and it will be absolutely screaming up that valley. Last time there was a storm named after a woman from Lord of the Rings it caused sever problems!

I also have an unmissable appointment at the hospital tomorrow...I am glad it is just a 10 minute drive and in the early morning!

Very worried about all the trees behind my house

indeed, I reckon we may get a battering here in EK.  Last really big one was a few years back and a lot of folks lost bits off their roofs, and more...

I have next week off (I am starting a new job the week after) and I was thinking about going down to Glentress to have a ride on my new bicycle at some point.

I am going to keep my fingers crossed that the wind isn't too bad down there tomorrow and doesn't cause a lot of damage to the forest and trails!

Why does every bit of winter weather have to have a special name and get whipped up into some sort of media frenzy.

Notable how, up until the 90s, there was only one named storm every few years or so. Multiple per year since then. Reporting/recording, or climate change ...hmm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_windstorms

I don't know what you're all worried about - as you can see the storm stops at the border, youse'll all be fine!

On BBC weather last night they were talking about the weather warning but said it doesn’t cover the Isle of Man. Not because they won’t be affected but because they aren’t covered by the met office? Seemed odd.

Storm that decimated the golfie and other forests was Arwen, not Bawbag. Arwen was unusual I think as its winds were north easterly mainly.

Notable how, up until the 90s, there was only one named storm every few years or so.

Presumably that's because before we got together with a couple of other countries to name storms that hit northern Europe from the Atlantic / North Sea we only used names for those that were originally named by the US.

i.e. if a weather system develops off west Africa and travels west to the Caribbean then the US names it and we use the same name for clarity. Most hurricanes hit land and disappear, it's only a few that make a turn and head back across the Atlantic.

If a weather system develops in the Caribbean and heads north east to us then we name it.  Until relatively recently this wasn't done.

nicko74Full Member

I don’t know what you’re all worried about – as you can see the storm stops at the border, youse’ll all be fine!

Save that for the Brexit benefits thread.

@desperatebicycle - it's a change in communication mainly (though these are becoming more common events). Started in maybe 2014/15 or so IIRC. A lot of the old named storms were named by the US and we dealt with the remnants of them referring to the same name. But it's rare that we get the same intensity of storms if it's one that came from over the pond.

I think it's useful as it allows easier reference by one name. Everyone can remember Storm Arwen or Storm Babet when referring to it. I can imagine people will be talking about Storm Eowyn in future as well if the forecast holds true - rather than "The storm Of late January 2025" or something.