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April 6, 2024 at 5:49 PM. Fallen trees and power outages have caused disruption across Northern Ireland during Storm Kathleen. A yellow warning for strong winds ended at 22:00 BST, with the ...
April 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM. Storm Kathleen is to bring strong winds and some damaging gusts as it sweeps across the island of Ireland on Saturday. An orange wind warning kicks in for Cork, Kerry and ...
In advance of the storm, forecaster Met Eireann had warned of gale force southerly winds bringing a risk of difficult travel conditions, fallen trees, power outages and flooding along coastal areas.
The Met Office was established on 1 August 1854 [5] as a small department within the Board of Trade under Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy as a service to mariners. The loss of the passenger vessel, the Royal Charter, and 459 lives off the coast of Anglesey in a violent storm in October 1859 led to the first gale warning service.
Met Éireann headquarters in the Glasnevin area of Dublin. The history of modern meteorology in Ireland dates back to 8 October 1860, when the first weather observations were transmitted from Valentia Observatory on Valentia Island in County Kerry to the British Meteorological Office. A network of weather stations was established around the ...
2021–22 →. The 2020–2021 European windstorm season was the sixth instance of seasonal European windstorm naming in Europe. This is the second season in which the Netherlands participates, joining Ireland's and the United Kingdom's meteorological agencies. The new season's storm names were released on 1 September 2020.
A Met Office weather warning has been issued from noon until 19:00 BST. The organisation is warning of spray and flooding on some roads, and possibly flooding for some homes and businesses.
Hurricane Ophelia (known as Storm Ophelia in Ireland and the United Kingdom while extratropical) was regarded as the worst storm to affect Ireland in 50 years, and was also the easternmost Atlantic major hurricane [nb 1] on record. [2] The tenth and final consecutive hurricane and the sixth major hurricane of the very active 2017 Atlantic ...