Matt Kyhnn

@CarlowWeather The Sunny Southwest somehow gets lucky again!

Turning wet and windy tonight and Wednesday with latest rainfall amounts shown in images here. Amounts will vary a lot but some high totals locally, especially on mountains like the Comeragh Mountains and Mourne Mountains.

@CarlowWeather Not very often we miss it in Kerry - all but dry and mostly sunny here today - good luck to those in the southeast tomorrow

Monday evening update with latest on #StormChandra and a lot of wind and rain to come with flooding likely. Watch full video for latest.

If the Second Amendment does not apply to this exact kind of moment, what do people think it is for? A citizen can lawfully carry, see masked federal agents beating someone in public, move toward the scene to help, and then get erased with a hail of bullets because “he had a gun.” That excuse is an insult in a country where possession is legal by design, where the whole point is that the public never becomes a disarmed audience watching state power operate with impunity. I’m not interested in arguing frame-by-frame footage. I’m interested in the principle that a free people cannot accept a standard where lawful carry becomes a death sentence the second authority feels threatened. If that is the standard, then the 2nd Amendment has been reduced to a vibe. The founders did not write it so Republicans could do militia cosplay on weekends.

@CarlowWeather Absolutely blowing a gale in Castlegregory - can’t be far off Bert level winds.

Saturday morning update with wet and windy weather on the way and significant risk of flooding in West and South tomorrow. Watch video for full update.

@CarlowWeather No sign of any wind this morning in West Kerry, though last night was fairly wild.

Tuesday 9am update on #StormBram as storm starts to hit with strong and damaging gusts ahead. Watch video for latest

@allenanalysis @grok what did Jake Tapper do?

Jake Tapper is DONE, never recover.

@IrelandAlerts Visible from across the bay near Castlegregory

🔥🔥 A big wildfire at Kerry Head at the moment! 🚒 Fire Brigade up there now! #kerry #ireland #fire #wildfire

@declanganley There’s no fireplace ban

We have millions of trees now flattened across rural Ireland following #StormEowyn. We are 7 days in and still wide parts of rural Ireland have no power, no heat and still spotty communications. The requirements for new build homes in Ireland is that they have no chimney, no working fireplace, no oil burner and from this year, no gas boiler. To be clear, in the hard hit parts of Ireland these are the only sources of heat that are working. The chimney/fire place ban is cultish insanity, what are we supposed to do with the millions of downed trees? Make bonfires from them? Wait for a dry summer when they light up like an untended California hillside? Who will clear the downed timber if not us? What's the incentive if we can't use it for fuel? The ban on oil and gas burners is even more cultish insanity. All these moronic 'rules and regulations to lower emissions' will not amount to making even a tiny difference to global carbon. China is building a hundred coal fired power stations while really stupid people in Ireland are banning fireplaces. Repeal all these malign laws now.

@CarlowWeather Nothing out of the ordinary near Castlegregory as of yet

Report of trees down in Kerry already and this is before we see the real strong winds. I’ll update this thread for a while tonight and please posts updates from your are in the comments.

@CarlowWeather Undoubtedly ESB is working tirelessly to restore. But I wonder if the cause of these outages is ever examined? We routinely had them in West Kerry and it was a result of plantation trees being too close to esb lines. Could more be done to cut back trees to prevent these outages?

Power outages map shows worst affected areas in parts of Kerry, Limerick, Cork and Tipperary. Reports that phone networks are having issues also, could be related to power outages and generators running out fuel. A concerning situation for elderly cut off in those areas.

@CarlowWeather Winds seem to have subsided somewhat in west Kerry after a max gust of 119kmh on our home station. Hopefully the worst is behind us now.

11pm update from official stations and Mace Head gusting to 141kmh again, Newport Mayo 126kmh, Shannon Airport 120km and Cork 115kmh. Heavy rain moving across country and winds will peak for most areas over the coming hours as #StormDarragh tracks across the country.

@CarlowWeather Southwest appears to miss most of the worst of it in all models?

Still some uncertainty around the details for Monday’s low system and how far South it ends up and where is rain and where is sleet or snow. Interesting one to follow and not an easy one for Met Eireann to decide on warnings for but an icy mess possible Tuesday.

@CarlowWeather Rain seems to have passed west Kerry - only 8mm here outside of Castlegregory thankfully

Lightning off the Southwest now with with heavy rain. Showers in more areas now also but East and Southeast largely dry this morning.

@CarlowWeather Miserable day in west kerry - over 47mm since midnight and max gust of 70kmh last night 😮‍💨

Rain moving Southeast this evening and a damp to wet start Sunday morning in Southeast but it will improve later in afternoon. Some wet tyres could be required for Wexford Rally stages tomorrow morning.

@CarlowWeather Are you anticipating wind warnings?

Windy 48 hours ahead but hopefully wind won’t do too much crop damage. With trees in full lead cover they are likely to be some coming down too to take care in strong winds. At least the worst should be at night for many areas.

@CarlowWeather It was wet but very warm in the Kingdom - 21!☘️

Some people saying they are turning on their heating but its normal early August temps 🥴 Did you turn on heating today?

@CarlowWeather How did met Eireann miss the ‘persistent rain’ part of their forecast for the SW? Bucketing it down in Kerry 😩

A breezy mixed day with sunny spells and well scattered showers but cloud and more persistent rain heading towards the Southwest and could catch parts of the South this evening.

@CarlowWeather It's like a winter's day in west Kerry - wind blowing mist and rain @ 40kmh, over 12mm of rain since midnight. 😩

Blanked of cloud over the country this afternoon and showers also for some. Tomorrow will see good sunny spells developing but also scattered showers and very breezy.

@Shauns_Aviation What’s happening in Shannon? AA8061 keeps getting delayed - are they pushing it back waiting for the storm to pass?

@Paulp8181 @CarlowWeather We’ve only seen 85kmh so far in west kerry - I thought potentially with the track of the storm that perhaps those higher gusts would be inland

@backpackingmatt @CarlowWeather No they will give up 😅

Latest wind gusts from #StormKathleen with South coast still over 105kmh. Scattered showers and sunny spells also.