Potential Extreme Wind Storm - Thursday 8th December

Sponge Bob

howlinwolf wrote: »

what the hell is a sting jet?

"the most damaging winds were shown to be emanating from the evaporating tip of the hooked cloud head on the southern flank of the cyclone. This cloud, hooked like a scorpion's tail, gives the wind region its name the "Sting Jet"

That'd likely be Malin and Donegal and NI unless it is out to sea.

Pics here http://www.sercc.com/Knox_etal_Compass.pdf

We might get one on tuesday as well, a sting jet eats snow to perpetuate its stingitude you know. Booo! :cool:

Elmer Blooker

Why all the fuss? If I had a euro for every Atlantic storm I've seen I'd be a millionaire! I remember this one caused great loss of life when a tree crushed a minibus of Swiss anglers near Portumna.

smallwonder

Harps wrote: »

It'll get windy overnight and stay windy all day tomorrow, peak around 2-3pm

Any idea how quick the snow will follow on it's heels?

Sponge Bob

The sting jets will be the heel, Donegal snow eaters.

By the way I found the original Sting Jet paper here

maquiladora

Just noticed (not sure when it changed, the time on it hasn't changed) but Met Eireann have upgraded the top gusts in their warning from 135 km/h to 140 km/h.

Oscar Bravo

They updated the website at 2300 also,more or less the same as what they have been saying "Tomorrow, Thursday will be an extremely windy day with stormy conditions along the north coast. A band of heavy rain will spread eastwards and will clear in the early afternoon, with brighter showery weather developing. There will be strong to gale force westerly winds, which will gust from 90 to 135 km/h, with the strongest gusts along the northwest and north coast".

jprboy

maquiladora wrote: »

Just noticed (not sure when it changed, the time on it hasn't changed) but Met Eireann have upgraded the top gusts in their warning from 135 km/h to 140 km/h.

Evelyn Cusack referred to gusts of up to 140 km/h during the 9.30 forecast on RTE 1.

Deep Easterly

Conor30 wrote: »

Sorry to be pedantic, but that's a fear of thunder, not windstorms!:pac:

Anyone suffering from Brontophbia should seriously consider moving to east Galway. You'll never need to fear again! :mad:

Pressure within developing storm center on 18z fax down to 992 hPa, a drop of 9mb from that observed on the 12z analysis chart:



Depression is now, meteorological speaking, in its mature stage and will begin to occlude shortly - that is, if it hasn't done so already. Bombing will now hence forth.

Iancar29

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Depression is now, meteorological speaking, in its mature stage and will begin to occlude shortly - that is, if it hasn't done so already. Bombing will now hence forth.

THE FUSE IS LIT!

Oscar Bravo

Its coming up to 2355 so lets head over to Met Eireann for the very latest on Rte Radio 1.

konman

My god who was that doing the forecast on radio 1. sounded slightly like Jaap stam or even Stephen hawking lol and got cut off at the end, obviously went overtime

rilz

I am going up North coast tomorrow after lunch to Portrush to take pics.

Deep Easterly

yr.no forecast for Malin Head:


http://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Ulster/Malin_Head~2962718/

Going to be a great day for a spot of kite flying!

Oscar Bravo

It was Harm Luijkx and he got cut of badly.

maquiladora

Deep Easterly wrote: »

yr.no forecast for Malin Head:

Yr.no going for hurricane force for Malin?

maquiladora

Official UKMO twitter account advised people in Scotland to check this page.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/advice/storm.html

Some points really jump out.

...If chimney stacks are tall and in poor condition, move beds away from areas directly below them...

The scary and not fun side of all this. I really hope everyone up north and in Scotland/N England stays safe tomorrow.

Deep Easterly

maquiladora wrote: »

Yr.no going for hurricane force for Malin?

That gif a little creepy

Seems in accordance with the actual HIRLAM model yr.no use. Looking at the hourly maps they have winds peaking sometime between noon and 3pm but potentially extending into the early evening:

Windspeed forecast for 1300hrs from yr.no for the north coast:



This model has hurricane force winds at Malin for one hour in the early afternoon with bf 9 to storm 11 being more the norm.

This is going to very interesting to monitor tomorrow (though more interesting if you are going to get to actually experience it)

Harps

Tory Island would be fun tomorrow, right in the centre of that hurricane force area

maquiladora

Schools in Inverclyde, Dunbartonshire, Argyll, W Highlands, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and Renfewshire has been advised not to open tomorrow and others will be closed from lunchtime.

First time I can remember Scotland doing school closures ahead of a storm?

maquiladora

50 mph gust at Mace Head.

So it begins...

redsteveireland

maquiladora wrote: »

50 mph gust at Mace Head.

So it begins...

Yeah, noticed the gusts have picked up here in the last hour, driving rain against the windows too. Should go to sleep but can't drag myself away from this.

Also, why does it always happen on a bin night? There'll be rubbish everywhere in the morning!

TheMilkyPirate

Don't know if it's related as I'm so far south, but the wind has really picked up down here in the last half an hour. howling down the chimney.

Gonne be a windy day tomorrow.

55mph gust reported at belmullet at 2.00am

JONJO THE MISER

Yeah its howling down here in the kingdom at the moment.

mickger844posts

Gust of 46kts in Belmullet and 47kts in Mace Head in the latest hourly reports.

Rougies

Howling and gusting nicely here now. Definitely more along the lines of Casement's 25gust36 than Dublin Airport's 17 as of 03:00 met eireann reports.

And we're still hours away from the main event. I'm gonna open my window a bit and just lay and listen for a while.

CB19Kevo

Highest gust at 3am showing on met is at MACE HEAD Gust 47.
Winds and gusts have reduced here.....

mickger844posts

A handy Wind Conversion table i found a while back. Might be useful to some.

mickger844posts

0Z GFS has the storm tracking slightly further North. Scotland getting hammered.

mickger844posts

04.00 Reports Belmullet 49kts, Mace 48kts, Malin 46kts,Valentia 41kts, Dublin Airport 36kts, Cork Airport 36kts

rilz

mickger844posts wrote: »

04.00 Reports Belmullet 49kts, Mace 48kts, Malin 46kts,Valentia 41kts, Dublin Airport 36kts, Cork Airport 36kts

The storm isn't supposed to hit till tomorrow afternoon??