New red warning for Cork!
Status Red – Wind warning for Cork
Met Éireann Weather Warning
Between 9pm and midnight Storm Ellen will produce a core of very severe and destructive winds.
Valid: 21:00 Wednesday 19/08/2020 to 23:59 Wednesday 19/08/2020
Pls Retweet. pic.twitter.com/IF9TGLOEbX— Carlow Weather (@CarlowWeather) August 19, 2020
Gulp.
Meanwhile…
People living in holiday homes or on campsites in parts of southwest Cork have been urged to seek shelter or find alternative accommodation as a Status Red wind warning has been issued ahead of Storm Ellen.
The Acting Director of Services and Roads with Cork County Council said council staff are trying to make contact with visitors to the area.
Jim Molloy said: “Many who are on campsites are not local to the area and are not familiar with the conditions and storm force gales that we are exposed to in southwest Cork.”
People in Cork campsites urged to seek shelter ahead of Storm Ellen (RTÉ)
Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney
We are prepared: we build our houses squat,
Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate.
This wizened earth has never troubled us
With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks
Or stooks that can be lost. Nor are there trees
Which might prove company when it blows full
Blast: you know what I mean – leaves and branches
Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale
So that you listen to the thing you fear
Forgetting that it pummels your house too.
But there are no trees, no natural shelter.
You might think that the sea is company,
Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits
The very windows, spits like a tame cat
Turned savage. We just sit tight while wind dives
And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo,
We are bombarded with the empty air.
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
+120kph
It’s only a storm.
Don’t be a sheep. The government is just trying to control us. Force us not to camp out or have a holiday home.
Look at Sweden – they aren’t hiding from a storm.
And have these ‘models and so called ‘predictions’ been peer reviewed by Oxford?
Wake up sheeple!!
what if the storm has passed ?
Actually it is only a bit of rain and some wind.
Have the meteorological office calibrated it’s equipment properly?
Similar setups in France are showing only 30km per hour winds.
Don’t trust the government!!
I don’t