It states that hurricane force 12 gusts pose “threatening conditions”
The national weather service’s latest data on the lethal storm, which has been linked to three deaths, shows that it broke all wind speed records at several weather stations on January 24.
Met Eireann’s head of climate services, Keith Lambkin, said: “Imagine you were driving down a motorway at 120km/h and something that got in the wind beside you is passing at 184km/h. That gives you a feel of the level of severity of the winds here in Ireland. Very unusual to experience these kinds of wind levels here in Ireland.
Also published yesterday was new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service that shows January 2025 was the warmest January in the history of the world - but not in Ireland. Ireland was 0.45C below the most recent long-term average last month, but, overall, Ireland has become 0.7C warmer and 7% wetter over the past 30 years, according to the figures. Globally, the temperature last month was 0.79C above the 1991-2020 average for January.
Met Eireann also published its Climate Statement for January 2025 and revealed that the average national temperature was 5.37C for the country. That is 0.45C below the most recent 1991-2020 long-term average and 0.28C above the 1961-1990 LTA. Last month was the 66th warmest and 61st coldest January on record since 1900. Four of the top 10 warmest Januarys have occurred since 2005, while the warmest January was 109 years ago in 1916 and the coldest January was 62 years ago in 1963.
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