#StormÉowyn is on her way. This feisty lass sounds a bit to dangerous for any wave watching but here is a throwback to #StormKathleen in April 2024 as a towering wave crashes against the pier at Gyles Quay, Ireland capturing the raw power of nature.
#stayback #stayhigh #staydry
The rain has been relentless this past week. That's our main car park under water. Feel sorry for the tourists in caravans and tents here. #stormkathleen #raindrops
Tide in at West Kirby beach, with the RNLI beach patrol flags, choppy waves, crashing onto the prom and Hilbre Island, hazy in the background.
Still an hour until high tide and it's already getting a bit insane down here. 🌬️🌊💙
#WestKirby #Wirral #Liverpool #RNLI #Tide #StormKathleen #StormPierrick #Storm
At High Fen, a Kestrel spent y'day afternoon playing partridge, hunting on the track, perhaps to shelter from #StormKathleen. Cowslips in bloom by river. Daffodils in bloom on Fen; reminder of its arable past. Exciting to see how this wildland will evolve under Nattergal. 13/13
Here's Nattergal High Fen Wildland ditch that flows to the Cut-off Channel, reeds blasted by #StormKathleen. Water visibility was pants unlike the ditches to the south of the site. A lovely, energising swim nonetheless with little underwater life to distract from the rhythm. 2/13
Renewable generation last week was equivalent to 42.8% of electricity demand. Owing to strong winds from #StormKathleen, this figure rose to 72.1% Friday through Sunday.
Solar was strongest Tuesday: it was meeting over 6% of electricity demand at its peak, around 11am.
🔌💡
#StormKathleen may have passed but the energy it has imparted to the Atlantic waters in #GalwayBay still much in evidence at Trá na gCeann (Silverstrand; on the #WildAtlanticWay), Bearna at high tide about 5pm
Primrose flowers in Woodland
Wild Garlic flowering
Primrose flowers beaten up by #StormKathleen
& nibbled by invertebrates. Wild Garlic just starting to flower.
#wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @botanybeck.bsky.social
#Flowerphotography
#Wildflower
#April
#VioletChallenge
Image of Common Dog Violet
Image of Common Dog Violet
Image of Common Dog Violet
Flowers beaten up by #StormKathleen & nibbled by invertebrates but 1st time confidently identifying Common Dog Violet thats to Moira O'Donnell's crib sheet.
#wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @botanybeck.bsky.social
#Flowerphotography
#Wildflower
#VioletChallenge
Left of the picture is the storm.
Right of the picture is the calm.
The sea was just a mess crashing to the shore.
#StormKathleen #jetstream
Sunset at West Kirby beach, with Hilbre Island and Red Rock on the horizon.
The wind is still a bit crazy, but this evening has turned out quite lovely. 🌤️💙😍
#WestKirby #Wirral #Liverpool #StormKathleen
Still blowing like yer maw doon the docks out there. #stormkathleen
Tide in at West Kirby beach, Windy day, waves crashing into the prom, windsurfers on the tide, Hilbre Island and Red Rocks on the horizon.
The wind is getting stronger....
#StormKathleen #WestKirby #Wirral #Liverpool #Storm #Windsurfing #KiteSurfing #Tidal
#StormKathleen is at her peak. Wild video of the Baleshare causeway earlier this morning on FB. We ned to time any emergencies. 🙀 #Uist
Looking on from a hillside. In the fenced boundary two deck chairs and a goal sit in the water brought in by the he tidal storm surge partially flooded field. To the left a tennis court. A hedge separates the court & field from a path where a bench is next to coloured chin up frame.
All Sports.
#StormKathleen #FloodPlain #HighTide #WestCork
Whilst #StormKathleen took down trees all over the place, we planted 150 at #salopobs today, to a constant backdrop of passing Swallows and the first Wheatear of the year 🌱
A screenshot of a Yellow Warning from the Met Office, showing Storm Kathleen battering the West coast of England (does England have a “West Coast”?), Wales and southern Scotland, and the whole of Northern Ireland.
🎵Kathleen
Kathleen
Kathleen
KATH-LEEEEE-EA-EEN!!!
I’m begging of you
Please don’t take my trampoline🎶
#StormKathleen #OMGTrampoline
🍺 Ever presented your latest research in a pub?
As well as exploring disruption in research, we've had a few disruptions ourselves: #StormKathleen, cancelled flights, a major power outage and subsequent evacuation of the venue, no available conference rooms in nearby hotels...
#StormKathleen Major News Alert ⚠️
There is less buds on the magnolia tree than there was 😂😂 Kate #AsyouWere
#3goodthings
1. Juicy Lucy. Few carrots, bits of other stuff. You know yourself.
2. Blue sky and blowy day. #StormKathleen
3. An evening for the stove, the telly and the glass.
#StormKathleen churning up the waves in the Shannon Estuary at Beale Strand. #wildatlanticway #northkerry
Firefighters from Phibsborough along with colleagues from Dublin City Council responded to a tree down on Griffith Avenue
If you see something dangerous, stay a safe distance away and report it
#StormKathleen
Set out to snorkel Methwold Lode but visibility so bad, swum under a fence into ditch at Nattergal High Fen (thanks for permission!). In contrast to murky Lode & #StormKathleen blown fen, stunning clear, tranquil world, draped like aquatic version of Miss Havisham's house.
5/11
#StormKathleen
Finglas firefighters dealing with a downed tree as Storm Kathleen continues to affect the weather.
In the spirit of #StormKathleen raging, here's one of the inspirations behind the name:
[Wikipedia has some inaccuracies]
Kathleen Rita McNulty (later Antonelli, Mauchly) was born on February 12th, 1921 to James McNulty and Anne Nelis of Feymore, Dunfanaghy, Donegal.
"Sometimes, when it’s storming and the Atlantic is so rough that the sea spray hits the windows – I do spend the whole day in bed. Then I read and listen to the radio, and I drink tea and eat cheese on toast."
📗#TheGreenestWind amzn.eu/d/8omnjI4 #WestCork #StormKathleen 🌬️
That is one serious hooley coming down the chimney. #StormKathleen
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