80knot = 150kms/hour +/-
55 knot = 10 kms / hour +/-
There’ll be 20 km an hour winds in Dublin tomorrow
Postscript by Seamus Heaney
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightening of flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their fully-grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Useless to think you’ll park or capture it
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open
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Conditions are at worst “squally” in Dublins 1 & 7
Mick the muldoon will the first on whinging then when trees are falling on top of cars and people are getting killed right, left and centre
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I better not have put away the patio furniture for nothing 
blue sky over Cork South Central…just off out for a kick about.
He never really got the hang of rhyming
When was Darwin again?
Dead calm right now in Galway
I’m going for a walk on the prom
Possibly when I go for my walk
February 2014.
I was just about to jet off for a jaunt around South America at the time, and had to postpone an evening of ramming a 35L backpack with all the necessary shirts, shorts, jocks, socks, footwear, Limerick jerseys and…well that was kind of it actually - to go hefting timber. D’auld fella is still burning it.
Yer man in charge of Brazil needs help lugging timber, what with cutting down the rainforests and all
I have no recollection of this storm whatsoever. 
I’m sure if you go back to the previous weather thread you’ll be able to find your thoughts on it
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It was absolutely vicious and was totally underrated by Met Éireann.
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Twas before RTÉ started really hyping weather events up, Teresa Mannion changed all that. I doubt a little old storm in 2014 would have raised an eyebrow on the Eastern seaboard.