Not weather lore, but my friend, the late Tom Munnelly told me that when he and his family moved here to West Clare, which is on the Atlantic coast - next stop America, he was staggered by the strong, gale force winds and the heavy sea mists. He said it was the first time he had experienced '60mph fog'.
High winds are a big issue here; there have been two 'nights of the big wind' which have passed into local folklore, one in the 19th century, the other in the early 20th; there is a book about the latter, with stories of fantastic events all over Ireland.
There's a whole lot of work to be done here recording the local fishing families who used to go out fishing in curraghs, which they call canoes.
These are small 2 to 4 man boats consisting of canvas stretched across a light wood frame and sealed with pitch. They were extremely bhoyant and lay on the water rather than floating in it. Their work depended totally on the weather and there is still masses of lore and information to be recorded, even though the canoes are no longer used except for races and displays.
One of the biggest events here was in 1907, when local fishermen, setting out in curraghs, rescued the entire crew of the French ship, the Leon X111, which sank in Mal Bay in gale force winds.
Jim Carroll