Met Eireann, for whatever reason, have not included yesterday's wind reports in their data report for yesterday, except data from airports. The claim was made in the Irish indo yesterday that this was the worst storm to hit Ireland since Debbie in 1961, and I would like to see the data myself to test this curious claim. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 

Met Eireann, for whatever reason, have not included yesterday's wind reports in their data report for yesterday, except data from airports. The claim was made in the Irish indo yesterday that this was the worst storm to hit Ireland since Debbie in 1961, and I would like to see the data myself to test this curious claim. 

Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea 

HaWhilst mean wind speeds aren't available for all stations, max gusts are

https://www.met.ie/latest-reports/observations/yesterday 

Mace Head 99kts (114mph)*

Malin Head 88kts (101mph)

Athenry 75kts (86mph)

* as reported by the media - the highest wind speed ever recorded in Ireland

Originally Posted by: Essan 

The BBC here are even worse making ridiculous claims without ever producing any data to back up their nonsense. Nothing more than Daily Express TV these days.

They claimed it was a once in a generation storm and the worst storm to hit Scotland since 1998 with no data provided to back up these ludicrous claims. Arwen in 2021 was clearly worse but apparently doesn't count as it didn't hit the Central Belt.

It wasn't remotely comparable to the severity of storms that used to hit in the past. For instance there were three storms in little over 40 years where winds hit 100mph in urban areas, which never happens these days: January 1927 and January 1968 in Glasgow and January 1953 in Aberdeen. Of course they never report this or put things into a proper historical context because weaker storms doesn't fit with their cretinous doomsday agenda.

Here the wind peaked at only 60mph which didn't even match the post-1990 average of 63mph for the peak annual gust. Before that, which coincided with the step increase in temperatures, the average was 71mph.

Originally Posted by: richardabdn 

Storm Éowyn was "probably the strongest storm" to hit the UK in at least 10 years, the Met Office has said, after hundreds of thousands of people were left without power following wind gusts in excess of 100mph.

I've just read that Sunday's low pressure system has already been officially named by the Spanish as Storm Herminia due to a number potential issues in NW Spain before it reaches us here in the UK.

This means that we're not likely to see Storm Floris following in quick succession following Storm Eowyn after all.

Spain is part of a storm naming system which is different from ours but to me, this just makes for a very fragmented system and I have always believed that there should be just the one storm naming system which covers the whole of Europe including the UK and Ireland.

Originally Posted by: johncs2016 

The BBC here are even worse making ridiculous claims without ever producing any data to back up their nonsense. Nothing more than Daily Express TV these days.

They claimed it was a once in a generation storm and the worst storm to hit Scotland since 1998 with no data provided to back up these ludicrous claims. Arwen in 2021 was clearly worse but apparently doesn't count as it didn't hit the Central Belt.

It wasn't remotely comparable to the severity of storms that used to hit in the past. For instance there were three storms in little over 40 years where winds hit 100mph in urban areas, which never happens these days: January 1927 and January 1968 in Glasgow and January 1953 in Aberdeen. Of course they never report this or put things into a proper historical context because weaker storms doesn't fit with their cretinous doomsday agenda.

Here the wind peaked at only 60mph which didn't even match the post-1990 average of 63mph for the peak annual gust. Before that, which coincided with the step increase in temperatures, the average was 71mph.

Originally Posted by: richardabdn 

Anyone like to react to this Grauniad story - on Yahoo News? 😁😁😁

Jeremy Clarkson has claimed that warnings about Storm Eowyn, which has unleashed 100 mph winds on the UK and Ireland and left one man dead, is part of an “anti-Tory” narrative.... Clarkson, in his column for The Sun, has scoffed at the warnings issued by experts, instead calling the conditions a “bit breezy”.

“The weathermen were all standing on the bottom corner of Ireland, making out like they were in Hiroshima in 1945 and there were stories that commercial******airliners were coming across the Atlantic at speeds in excess of 800 mph,” wrote the 64-year-old.

The former Top Gear host then turned his attention to television weather presenters and the BBC. “Look, I know why the weathermen like to get hysterical,” claimed Clarkson. “It means they are elevated from a slot at the end of a news bulletin into the bulletin itself and this makes their mums and dads very proud.”

“And I know why BBC television producers like the histrionics as well. It plays into the anti-Tory, anti-growth, anti-business global-warming narrative.”

Jeremy Clarkson claims Storm Eowyn warnings are part of an ‘anti-Tory narrative’

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/jeremy-clarkson-claims-storm-eowyn-143423496.html 

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 

Now that the general rain and wind are moving away from Southern England, all eyes are on a little secondary feature for tonight.

Originally Posted by: idj20 

You're not wrong Ian, this secondary feature has brought heavy rain locally this afternoon and evening. Glad I have sandy soil.

Originally Posted by: StoneCroze 

I just commented on this in the MOD thread.  Several of the high res models are showing 70+ mph gusts through East Anglia overnight, with Alaro the worst, with the largest zone of winds and gusts up above 80mph.  That’s in line with the latest BBC TV forecast.

Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White