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Most days now I just prefer to stay in my room with the curtains closed all day so I don’t have to be reminded about how rubbish the weather is being. Constant overcast skies with patches of mist and drizzle, temps stuck between 8-10C with damp grounds like a November day doesn’t tend to make one want to go outside very often.

CryoraptorA303 You think that’s bad. Try the 11C or 10C we have had here all day with dull grey overcast skies and patches of mist everywhere in the distance.

Guess that’s it for now then as haven’t heard anything in the last hour or so.

Well after the two very faint distant flashes to the Southeast and East last night and then the rumbles to the East or Northeast this afternoon I am hoping that the potential carries on into tonight as at least I will have a higher chance of seeing something what with all this cloud and mist around at the moment. There is just not a chance in hell of seeing anything with conditions like this during daylight hours.

Summer tyre It sounds like the rumbles are coming from East or Northeast of my location. Sounds like it has eased a little in the last few minutes though.

Anyone know if there is a storm nearby my location as I have been hearing rumbles for the last 10 or so minutes but don’t know where it’s coming from as it’s soo cloudy with even areas of mist completely blocking any possibility of seeing anything.

Wetterfrosch 86mph!!!! I do hope not. Our worst winds last winter peaked at just 57mph and that already caused some downed tress and power outages.

TonyH Thats not true, we were under a yellow warning for Wintry conditions not just snow. And besides the point, even some of the Amber areas didn't get much so our points still stand. And to add to this, i think the real ones to blame are the weather models because the forecasters can only at the end of the day tell us what they are showing for the general ordiance who could not understand such things. Just look at what the models were telling us Winter would be like months ago only for loads of people on this forum including pros being led up the garden path for the thousandth time.

Agree with most people about how poor of a forecast this has turned out to be. Was sure i had woken up to a different day when i woke up and looked out the window as to have yellow and amber warnings of ice and snow to only give the usual mild atlantic rain is quite something.

It reached 44.9mph here but there was a two hour period where winds were gusting constantly in the 30s so i think this is the reason it seemed more noticeable than Isha's stronger but more shortlived gusts.

Got pretty much what I expected last night with a max gust of 44.9mph. There was an hour or two hour period where I was getting lots of gusts in the 30’s mph so I suspect it was this that made it more noticeable than Isha even though Isha gave us much stronger gusts. Isha seemed to be gustier but stronger and Jocelyn was weaker but more constant I would say.

Based on the predictions i am expecting max gusts of 35-45mph this evening and tonight considering that its suppose to be a step down from Isha's winds which gave us max gusts of around 55mph. But even if this is all we get there could still be some damage as even though normally winds around 40mph just give very blowy conditions with maybe some twigs coming down these winds are going to be hitting trees and structures that would have been weakened by Isha's 50 or 60mph gusts so we still will probably have some issues.

XC weather is currently showing wind gusts for inland areas tomorrow that are almost the same as what ended up happening yesterday. Gusts anywhere from 50-60mph is showing up from 6:00pm and 12:00am. For reference i had a max gust of 56mph on my handheld anemometer while up the local road at the peak of yesterdays storm so if these predictions come true then it will be virtually the same strength again at least for inland areas here.

I still think storm Arwen back in November 2021 is the worst winds i have seen since moving here as that must have had frequent inland gusts of 50-60mph with peaks possibly being 60-70mph. There were a lot of proper big trees down from that one and i had never seen that before then. Normally its always weaker trees or ones that are shallow rooted. I can say having been out in Isha last night that it wasn't at the level of Arwen like i thought it was going to be but still bought two gusts in the mid 50's which to me reminds me more of a storm we must of had in the early hours and morning sometime in the Autumn or Winter of 2019. Overall the max gusts last night were probably the same as Arwen but were far more shortlived and gustier so its this that probably makes it feel like it was less severe.

I think for a lot of areas away from Ireland, Scotland, coasts and inland hills it was a bit less then predicted as originally even gusts inland were suppose to be getting up to around at least the 70mph range but going from a lot of reports it looks like it maxed out more at around 55mph with a few isolated spots maybe getting to 60mph. When i went up the road here after 4:00pm i was already getting gusts in the 40's so just assumed it was a sign of an extreme night to come. But then i was getting the odd 50mph gust and i could see the odd power flash in the sky from time to time. It actually dropped back to 35-45mph for a bit before the peak between 7:00pm and 9:00pm where i got a gust of 55.0mph and then another at 56.8mph probably another 10 minutes or so later. Still a decent blow though and tends to be the max we get every 1 or 2 years where it causes the power to keep going on and off for a short time before staying on and being ok again. Twigs, some branches and weak or shallow rooted trees seem to be most affected from these sorts of winds along with possible minor property damage.