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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]
The official highest wind gust from the storm in Ireland was 183 km/h (114 mph), [34] surpassing an 80-year-old record for the country when a wind gust of 113 mph (182 km/h) at Foynes was measured in 1945. [35] Moneypoint weather station (anemometer height 40 m (130 ft) above ground level) measured a 159.8 km/h (99.3 mph) wind gust at 04:10.
Probably the most severe to affect Ireland since the Night of the Big Wind, with an estimated 1000–3000 trees uprooted in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Following a stormy period between the 18–26 which saw several depressions pass close by to the west coast of Ireland. The storm's low pressure was estimated at 975 mb (28.8 inHg) (Lamb, 1991).
Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the island. Storm Éowyn slams Ireland, parts of U.K. with record winds Skip to main ...
Somewhere between 310,000 and 480,000 people starve in Ireland due to cold weather affecting harvests. 1816–19: Typhus epidemic: Outbreak in Ireland. 1839: Night of the Big Wind: A European windstorm swept across Ireland causing hundreds of deaths and severe damage to property. Gusts were over 100 knots (190 km/h; 120 mph). 1840s: Great ...
Ireland’s weather office, Met Eireann, said 114 mile an hour gusts were recorded at Mace Head on the west coast, beating a record of 113 miles (182 kilometers) an hour set in 1945. Part of the storm’s energy originated with the system that brought historic snowfall along the Gulf Coast of the U.S. , said Jason Nicholls, lead international ...
Storm Darragh (known as Storm Xaveria in Germany) [1] was a powerful extratropical cyclone which severely impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom in December 2024. The fourth named (using the western group naming list) storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season , Darragh was named by the UK Met Office on 5 December 2024.
Storm Ulysses first affected Ireland on 26 February 1903, with winds reaching hurricane speeds (74–94 miles per hour, 33–42 m/s). [1] [4] An anemometer at Dun Laoghaire measured winds of 96 miles per hour (42.9 m/s) between 4:00 am and 4:30 am on 27 February, though later analysis by Met Éireann has downgraded this to around 69 miles per hour (31 m/s). [2]