I was woken a few hours ago by wind. This certainly hasn’t happened in this house before, and I’m pretty sure it’s never happened to me before at all – I’m generally a very sound sleeper. There’s a storm in progress, and it looks like the winds that woke me were part of a squall line that passed over between 05:00 and 05:30 this morning. However, where I am in North Kildare is pretty calm compared to some areas – there’s a report of a 91kt gust at Malin Head, and sustained winds there around the 67kt mark.
Most of this has happened overnight, so there aren’t many damage reports in. It’s clear that there were many power cuts in the NW of Ireland, and the storm is really only getting going in the UK now. It’s on a more southerly track than the last few in what has already been a very stormy period, so areas (like where I live) that haven’t been impacted before are seeing some significant winds.
I’ll be updating some of the pages on the website over the next few days with advice on how to handle high winds.
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Winter Storms
I was woken a few hours ago by wind. This certainly hasn’t happened in this house before, and I’m pretty sure it’s never happened to me before at all – I’m generally a very sound sleeper. There’s a storm in progress, and it looks like the winds that woke me were part of a squall line that passed over between 05:00 and 05:30 this morning. However, where I am in North Kildare is pretty calm compared to some areas – there’s a report of a 91kt gust at Malin Head, and sustained winds there around the 67kt mark.
Most of this has happened overnight, so there aren’t many damage reports in. It’s clear that there were many power cuts in the NW of Ireland, and the storm is really only getting going in the UK now. It’s on a more southerly track than the last few in what has already been a very stormy period, so areas (like where I live) that haven’t been impacted before are seeing some significant winds.
I’ll be updating some of the pages on the website over the next few days with advice on how to handle high winds.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 8:04 am and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.