Storm Ashley
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Storm Ashely arrived on the west coast of Ireland on the 20th October 2024. Over the course of the preceding day the Kerry coast and land weather warning went from a yellow warning to an orange warning. It was forecast to be a lot stronger up the country around Galway and Mayo, but I said i’d head back to Dingle anyway on the off chance we’d get something worthwhile.
In truth It was only ok, windy as hell, but I think the low tide may have impacted the waves a lot, maybe it didn't , I don’t know much about this stuff.
There was 2 hours at peak where both Coumeenole and Clogher were fairly impressive alright. It was fairly bleak for most of the day with grey skies, but the few times we did get some nice light it totally changed the impact of the sea activity. I had been hoping it would be clearer when it hit, but no luck.
I travelled back between Coumeenole and Cloger a few times during the day just to see what was going on.
At the end of the day I headed down to Clogher Beach carpark, there had been a lot of cars going and going all day. It was so so very windy down there. In the video I mentioned I got a gust of 109km/h but the video only showed 100km/h, I just hadn’t been recording the anemometer where the peak gust arroived. It was gas to see everybody out in the carpark trying to stand against the wind. All very safe, but it was impressive to experience..
In relation to sound for the video, I tried to record the audio using the rode on the Canon, and on some clips I got good audio, other times I hadn’t the mic attached and obviously that audio was unusuable, so trying to match the audio levels throughout the video was a pain in the arse. Instead I had to use 2 audio tracks from epidemic sounds for the sea sounds. Pretty much all the shots were zoomed in a good bit anyway, so you wouldn’t have been hearing the exact audio from the clip anyway, but wanted to mention here.
Due to the intense sea spray all day the shots o got were very hazy etc etc.. I did what I could with them, I do like them, but hopefully the next storm will bring a bit more light with it ….
thanks again
Ed
