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The most severe windstorm to hit Ireland in recent centuries, with hurricane-force winds, killed between 250 and 300 people and rendered hundreds of thousands of homes uninhabitable. Moray Firth fishing disaster: August 1848 1850 Winter 1850 29 January, Yrväderstisdagen, saw Sweden affected by one of the worst snowstorms on record. [10]
The Night of the Big Wind (Irish: Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) was a powerful European windstorm that swept across what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beginning on the afternoon of 6 January 1839, causing severe damage to property and several hundred deaths. 20 to 25% of houses in north Dublin were damaged or destroyed, and 42 ships were wrecked. [1]
Waves crash onto the shore in Bantry Bay, on the southwest coast of Ireland, on Jan. 24, 2025, as storm Eowyn brings winds over 100 mph to the U.K. and Ireland.
A rare red warning for extreme and damaging winds was issued for Northern Ireland and Southern Central Scotland. [26] Winds in the red warning zone were expected to reach 121–129 km/h (75–80 mph) inland (higher winds for Glasgow around 129–137 km/h (80–85 mph)) and 137–153 km/h (85–95 mph), possibly 160 km/h (100 mph) on coasts.
A rare “stay at home” warning has been issued for parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland as a severe storm lashes the region, bringing dangerous 100mph (160 kmh) winds and unleashing travel ...
DUBLIN, Ireland – A historic windstorm blasted Ireland and the northern stretches of the United Kingdom on Friday with gusts reaching over 100 mph, leaving over 1 million electrical customers ...
The UK Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann held discussions about developing a common naming system for Atlantic storms. [21] [22] In 2015 a pilot project by the two forecasters was launched as "Name our storms" which sought public participation in naming large-scale cyclonic windstorms affecting the UK and/or Ireland over the winter of 2015/16.
The Met Eireann said Friday the Republic of Ireland took the "brunt of the storm in the early hours of this morning," with a peak recorded wind gust of 114 mph at Mace Head.