We talk of Mayo as being on Ireland and Europe's Atlantic Weather frontier, but as Sunday's Storm Ashley huffs and puffs into the nor'easterly distance, it's good to remember - as our header photo shows – that a good day in Mayo often seems better than a good day anywhere else.
That said, Ashley was a classic introduction to the named storm season, and a bit of reality is introduced by this screen-grab of the Mayo SC anemometer around 03:30 hrs on Sunday morning. That was by no means the peak.