As ever the weather is a subject that keeps rearing its head. After the bizarre flooding events in the North West late in the summer, now we have an unprecedented weather event in the shape of post tropical cyclone, ex-hurricane Ophelia.
The storm put the whole island of Ireland on red alert, and brought red dust from the Sahara. With extreme wind gusts a threat to life, limb and property and even the dust causing health scares, this was one for the record books.
As we know, dust can be a disease vector for mushroom operations, and 190 km/h wind was enough to blow roofs off farm buildings and do damage to mushroom houses, and cut power supplies - this was an event of some magnitude. Climate change modelers tell us to expect more of the same and perhaps worse.
