The North Atlantic does not take breaks in this year’s first autumn month. The progressive weather pattern continues through mid-September 2025, bringing multiple intense storms and frontal systems to western Europe. On Sunday, a fierce surface cyclone blasts into Ireland with gale-force winds and spreads high waves and squalls into the southwest UK and Wales.
A new deep wave is racing and strengthening over the North Atlantic. It is forecast to rapidly intensify the surface low Saturday night into Sunday, meaning intense winds and significant wave heights will push towards Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the southwest UK over the next 36 hours.
Met Éireann has issued weather warnings for strong and gusty westerly winds on Sunday into early Monday, which could result in difficult travelling conditions, debris, and loose objects displaced throughout the country.
On Saturday, water vapor satellite image analysis over the North Atlantic and Europe revealed a frontal wave moving over western and central Europe, while a rapid frontogenesis was taking place further west over the Atlantic, between Newfoundland and Ireland.
While this was still far from European land, the weather model simulations hint at a potentially impactful Atlantic storm over the next 36 hours. The surface low is forecast to push the central pressure into the upper 970s mbar.
NOAA’s 12 UTC ocean surface analysis over the North Atlantic reveals an already well-organized storm traveling towards Western Europe.
The most likely scenario involves bringing this low towards Ireland and Northern Ireland on Sunday. The system will peak west of the land, with its most impactful part to the south-southeast of the center low.
The system’s rapid intensification of the surface center low leads to an intense wind field, supporting gale-force winds for Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and the southwestern UK from Sunday morning through Monday morning.
As we enter the autumn season in Europe, the potential for intense Atlantic storms to develop is higher. These storms can bring severe windstorms and significant wave heights, dramatically impacting life and property across Western Europe.
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