Damaging winds Thursday 13:00 onward

Lumi

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Inland, mean windspeed is dropping down to 25mph with gusts struggling to get beyond 40mph over the last 5 mins or so.

There's been a series of heavy, squally showers here, the last one produced a gust of 72.9km/h. Skies have darkened considerably and the street lights are on

Su Campu

Flashk a tae and hang sangidges!

TheMilkyPirate

I thought the south east would see a bit of a windstorm but judging by the last few posts ive seen were not gonna get anything more than an odd weak gust. Is this right?

gbee

nifheorais wrote: »

whats 50-70km on beaufort scale anyone?

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http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/windrpopup.html

positron

According to the thread title, it's just starting...... 1300 hours!

/from Sunny and breezy Dublin.

maquiladora

baraca wrote: »

I thought the south east would see a bit of a windstorm but judging by the last few posts ive seen were not gonna get anything more than an odd weak gust. Is this right?

GFS has highest gusts for the southeast coastal area 3-6pm.

Caitriona

Near Drogheda here and there's nothing much happening, I'd barely even call it windy, and our village is notoriously windier than anywhere else around here.

Deep Easterly

Strongest winds yet to come for the NW according to windfinder:

Forecast chart for 1900utc:




Edit: frequently gusting between 50mph and 60mph here now again

TheMilkyPirate

maquiladora wrote: »

GFS has highest gusts for the southeast coastal area 3-6pm.

Thanks maq i thought so from looking at the charts but some posts on here confused me! 2 years and still learning i'll get there someday..

Weather is amazing.

Pangea

Very bad here in SW Donegal, One of the big trees behind the house has just keeled over.

irish1967

The heavy garden furniture I had left out as a marker just went flying... heavy cast iron table and all !! Bang on 13:00... now thats accuracy for ya !!

Big Nasty

Beautiful weather in Dublin again!

hinault

Very blustery here in Thurles.

No sign of it abaiting.
dry though.

snaps

Lots of trees down around Mayo and Galway, listening to mid west for the updates.

irish1967

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Strongest winds yet to come for the NW according to windfinder:

Forecast chart for 1900utc:




Edit: frequently gusting between 50mph and 60mph here now again

:eek: What does black mean ??? is it off the scale?????

Rougies

irish1967 wrote: »

:eek: What does black mean ??? is it off the scale?????

yup, off the scale! Also what you;d be seeing pretty quickly if you were out in a boat in it!

wind barbs in the center of the black show 55 knot sustained windspeed.

wheresmybeaver

Bit breezy here in Mallow. Hair getting mussed up, totally unacceptable.

maquiladora

Gone quite calm here now. Hardly a breeze at all.

delw

irish1967 wrote: »

The heavy garden furniture I had left out as a marker just went flying... heavy cast iron table and all !! Bang on 13:00... now thats accuracy for ya !!

noticed that in your picture earlier&was thinking to myself that that table wont last

Deep Easterly

irish1967 wrote: »

:eek: What does black mean ??? is it off the scale?????

It means 'hold onto your hat'!

M.T. Cranium

Very interesting thread, keeping me awake (barely) and would just add these comments:

-- peak gusts may in fact still occur on west coast in an hour or two but from what I can see now, it shouldn't get a lot worse, although Malin Head will ramp up, now thinking the peak gusts may be around 80 kts in general.

-- wind should increase rather markedly in eastern and southeastern counties when a weak trough finishes crossing the country soon, and allows the wind direction to become more west than southwest. It probably won't be much like the situation in the west but there will be stronger gusts soon, probably from about 2 p.m. on until almost midnight.

-- watching radar for any signs of tornadic wind streaks, nothing much has developed towards that limit yet.

-- hope you all stay safe and if I lose consciousness here I will catch up on the developments later.

Cantona's Collars

There's a report on RTE News at the minute about the storm.Some lunatic woman swimming in Salthill, lol

Su Campu

1300 ..... Connaught Airport's joined the table!

Mace head 43 gust 64 kts
Connaught Airport 46 gust 62 kts
Belmullet 34 gust 60 kts
Malin Head 35 gust 55 kts
Shannon Airport 33 gust 55 kts

maquiladora

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Very interesting thread, keeping me awake (barely)

Ouch! :pac::P

irish1967

delw wrote: »

noticed that in your picture earlier&was thinking to myself that that table wont last

delw

zerks wrote: »

There's a report on RTE News at the minute about the storm.Some lunatic woman swimming in Salthill, lol

mybe it was one of the boards storm chasers:D

snaps

ill hand it to the finches outside trying to hang on for dear life on the peanut feeders. Fair play to them.

Hooter23

zerks wrote: »

There's a report on RTE News at the minute about the storm.Some lunatic woman swimming in Salthill, lol

Saw that lol what a day to pick to go swimming :eek:

Sponge Bob

13:00 ,

Malin stiffening rapidly since 11am it may overtake Mace by 3 o clock.

Mace was 48kt average and Gust 66lt at 12 and is 43 average gust 64 at 13:00 still highest

Kinsale Energy was 44kt average and Gust 66kt at 12 and is 49 average Gust 67 at 13:00 first time it went past Mace today.

maquiladora

Hmmm, thought those 1pm report figures would be a bit higher