Damaging winds Thursday 13:00 onward

pp_me

Picked up all of a sudden here in Waterford

mickger844posts

pp_me wrote: »

Picked up all of a sudden here in Waterford

21km/h mean, Gusts 39km/h

More Detail @ www.waterfordcityweather.com

Kristopherus

irishgeo wrote: »

any confirm the lights are off in castlebar?

heading home in a hour and i dont fancy sitting in the dark.

Update. Lights on in Castlebar. Still extremely windy. Neighbour's TV aerial has just gone for a gallop!

snow ghost

If this keeps up High tide at around 9.30pm in these parts will be interesting.

Not

aaroadwatch reporting Harcourt St in Dublin closed due to debris on the road. Luas affected also.

edit : now reporting its open again, and Luas back on.

maquiladora

mickger844posts wrote: »

21km/h mean, Gusts 39km/h

More Detail @ www.waterfordcityweather.com

45 now.

hellboy99

Mean 47km/h and gusts of 70km/h, 971.9hPa, 9.6c and 7.2mm of rain today.

YESROH

the wind has picked up here in dublin - but no matter the weather hubby is still going to footie.

How long is it to last

crashplan

28kts gusting 41kts in Dublin Airport

naughto

Kristopherus wrote: »

Update. Lights on in Castlebar. Still extremely windy. Neighbour's TV aerial has just gone for a gallop!

a lot of the street lights went to day there was a good few of esb vans out fixing them

snow ghost

YESROH wrote: »

the wind has picked up here in dublin - but no matter the weather hubby is still going to footie.

How long is it to last

90 minutes plus extra time.

snow ghost

naughto wrote: »

a lot of the street lights went to day there was a good few of esb vans out fixing them

Maybe they just weren't on because it was 'day' time? :pac:

irish1967

Up to 3,000 households without power as winds hit Donegal

Posted: 11/Nov 16:56
Last Updated: 11/Nov 16:56

The ESB has indicated that up to 3,000 homes are without power in the county as high winds lash the county this afternoon. The worst of the problems are being experienced in the area of Milford, Kilmacrennan and Termon, with some outages on the outskirts of Letterkenny.

Problems have also been reported in the vicinity of Falcarragh.

An ESB* spokesperson indicated in the region of 2,500 households are out in the North East of the county, with the rest aound the West and South West.

TheMilkyPirate

Wind is the strongest its been all day today in wexford town now.

EDIT: big gusts

Deep Easterly

Sustained wind speeds are picking up once agian here up to 28mph mean although gust speeds are not exceeding 50mph they are very frequent.

Harps

Seas off West Donegal earlier, hard to get a sense of scale from that but that rock is about 30ft tall

Still terrible here, absolutely torrential rain out right now, lucky most of this town is built on hills but the area in the valley is in serious risk if this carries on

Pangea

It is really violent out there at the moment, its been like this all day but now the precipation is really coming down hard, Quite a bit of sleet too.

mickger844posts

Definitely stronger in the last 15 minutes. Mean 24km/h Max Gust 48km/h.

isle of man

we got wind speeds of 50mph at the moment, and gust of 60mph.
and its getting stronger.

lot of trees down,
lot of roads shut in capital as roof slates flying around.

pressure dropped from 997 to 967 in 24 hours
but main drope was 997 to 973 in 9 hours

Deep Easterly

A big flash outside, not sure it was lightning or something blowing up in the distance :eek:

Edit, gusts incresing. 52mph just there.

nacho libre

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Sustained wind speeds are picking up once agian here up to 28mph mean although gust speeds are not exceeding 50mph they are very frequent.

With this in mind. Do you think it would be fair to say the most notable thing about this storm is the duration of the strong winds? Certainly gusts up to 70 mph in Autumn and Winter are nothing unusual for the Belmullet area. In a major winter storm there'd be gusts in excess of 85 miles per hour there.

Su Campu

Gusting to 51kts at Donegal Airport at 1730 and 54 kts at Derry Eglington

irish1967

Deep Easterly wrote: »

A big flash outside, not sure it was lightning or something blowing up in the distance :eek:

Probably yer mans barbecue going into warp drive !

mickger844posts

In general i think the eastern half of the country have started to get stronger gusts in the last hour or so. Judging by reports from ops in here.

Deep Easterly

nacho libre wrote: »

With this in mind. Do you think it would be fair to say the most notable thing about this storm is the duration of the strong winds? Certainly gusts up to 70 mph in Autumn and Winter are nothing unusual for the Belmullet area. In a major winter storm there'd be gusts in excess of 85 miles per hour there.

I think that is a good point Nacho. A relatively long storm system but Belmullet has yet to beat its jan 2009 record of 96knots. I think Claremorris might have beaten its jan 09 record though by a few knots but haven't looked at the records.

Gusting up to 56mph now!! 29 mph mean.

Tactical

Good heavy shower of rain at moment. Winds picked up a good bit but are dying down as shower easing.

West Limerick.

Lumi

Wind speed increasing in Galway city. The last shower brought a gust of 60.4km/h! Mean 20.7km/h

maquiladora

Deep Easterly wrote: »

A big flash outside, not sure it was lightning or something blowing up in the distance :eek:

Edit, gusts incresing. 52mph just there.

Powerflash maybe.

Deep Easterly

maquiladora wrote: »

Powerflash maybe.

Yep Maq, I suspect so, no thunder to be heard (would be hard to hear in this wind anyway) and nothing since.

TheMilkyPirate

Getting windier now i thought it wasn't suppose to get any worse over here in the east, This is the first time it's been anyway bad at all.