All-Time Daily Weather Records; Wind
1st December 1955 to 31st October 2020
Covering the period 1st December 1955 to 31st October 2020, this information is derived from the official daily data for synoptic stations at Cork Airport (ID=3904) and Roches Point (ID=1075) provided by Met Eireann. Roches Point began reporting on 1st December 1955. Service from that station was stopped on 31st January 2000 until 7th April 2008 due funding cutbacks. The Cork Airport station has been active without interruption since 1st January 1962.
Cork Harbour gets high winds and not surprisingly, wind speed is the weather parameter that most people are most interested in, most of the time. Locals will remember storm Ophelia, a "one in a fifty year" storm that hit Cork Harbour on the 16th of October 2017. The highest gust speed recorded that day was 84kts (155kph) at Roches Point. It's a storm few will forget. It'll surprise many readers however, that the Ophelia gust is only the joint 5th highest gust on record for Cork Harbour. Here's the "top 10" gusts with related parameters since 1955 (speeds in knots):
| Rank | Date | Gust (hg) | 10m (hm) | Mean (wdsp) | Station | Event |
| 1 | 12th January 1974 | 94 | 58 (210°) | 23.5 | Cork Airport | January 1974 Storm This was the 5th strongest gust ever recorded in Ireland. |
| 2 | 4th February 1957 | 91 | 62 (190°) | 31.1 | Roches Point | |
| 3 | 24th December 1997 | 89 | 68 (???°) | 25.1 | Roches Point | December 1997 Windstorm |
| 4 | 25th January 1990 | 86 | 59 (300°) | 28.8 | Roches Point | |
| 5a | 16th October 2017 | 84 | 62 (170°) | 32.4 | Roches Point | Ophelia |
| 5b | 11th January 1962 | 84 | 59 (290°) | 29.3 | Roches Point | |
| 5c | 13th November 1959 | 84 | 52 (290°) | 36.8 | Roches Point | |
| 6a | 23rd January 1984 | 83 | 54 (290°) | 28.7 | Roches Point | |
| 6b | 12th January 1974 | 83 | 62 (210°) | 27.4 | Roches Point | January 1974 Storm |
| 6c | 22nd October 1961 | 83 | 54 (150°) | 24.8 | Roches Point | |
| 6d | 1st February 1988 | 83 | 54 (230°) | 30.4 | Cork Airport |