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    Éowyn ha battuto i record di velocità del vento in quattro stazioni meteorologiche

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    1. McHale87take2 on

      So hurricane force 12 would usually be unheard of in Ireland I’m assuming?

    2. Callme-Sal on

      Met Eireann believe that the storm may have also broken wind speed records at a fifth weather station but that weather station was mysteriously blown away in recent times

    3. knutterjohn on

      “Explosive cyclogenesis” I get that sometimes, it’s bad all right.

    4. DiscountMiserable665 on

      Humanity’s greatest blunder may have been the initial ‘Global Warming’ brand of what we now call Climate Change. People’s parents thought they would be getting a bit of Spain in the springtime. Now we have feckin hurricanes in a country with absolutely and completely zero infrastructural preparations.

      I hope we haven’t suddenly decided to build hundreds of thousands of timber frame houses in the last 5 years.

    5. YoIronFistBro on

      Does anyone know where to find the data for all the other stations, ideally in one nice list or table. On boards.ie they often go on about gusts being recorded at certain stations, and I have no idea how the find the information. Any time I try just searching for it on google, I only get articles about the few specific stations mentioned in this article. I can’t seem to find anything on the Met Eireann website either 

      I’m asking this because surely I can’t be the only one who thinks these numbers, despite breaking records, still sound surprisingly low. Models before and during the storm were showing gusts in the category 2-3 hurricane range all along the west coast, and now I’m hearing that Athenry’s highest gust was “only” 139 km/h? (a mid range category 1) That doesn’t sound right. Sure it’s a little bit inland, but still right in the path of the highest winds. It’s not even that much higher than what Cork Airport saw (130 km/h), despite Cork being MUCH less badly hit than the west, midlands, and south.

      I’m not questioning the accuracy of the wetaher stations themselves, but there’s definitely something to be said about how the official data for speific locations can be understated compared to the true strength of the storm as whole.

      It seems like most of the time a strong storm hits Ireland, it’s actually Wales or Scotland that records the highest gust, even when the storm was clearly stronger in Ireland. This is because they have a lot more wetaher stations much closer together, and are therefore more likely to measure the actual strongest part of the storm. In Ireland, the highest winds can easily end up hitting somewhere far away from any station.

      We should work on addressing the very low weather station density, so that our records match the true reality of how strong our storms can be.

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