Atlantic Storm Watch: December 2013

Mr.Prodston

What are the chances of it freezing tonight on back-roads between West Cork and Cork City? I may be driving it later on and any advice or insight would be most welcome thanks

Edit: Specifically the R585 "backroad to Bantry"

maquiladora

This looks familiar?

Monday morning on the 12Z GFS could actually be worse than yesterdays storm.





Nothing nailed down yet.

patneve2

Will definitely be more gusty in the east tomorrow (compared to yesterday's event). And even more dangerous lows in the run up to Christmas..

munsterlegend

maquiladora wrote: »

This looks familiar?

Monday morning on the 12Z GFS could actually be worse than yesterdays storm.


Looks to be further south as well though a long way off yet as you say.

Tindie

Friday strom dose not look normal storm,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/25450968

Monday storm looks really bad, looks worse then last night!

Weathering

UKMO take on Monday

kstand

Looking at GFS, 2 depressions follow on from that storm on Monday and currently track up across west Munster on into Connaught. Are they worth keeping an eye on? Will be in Clare for Christmas from Sunday so wondering if there is any potential disruption from those 2 - know its early days yet though in terms of modelling and the forecasts.

munsterlegend

Tindie wrote: »

Friday strom dose not look normal storm,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/25450968

Monday storm looks really bad, looks worse then last night!

I cant play that stream..what does he say? thanks

leahyl

Guys it is BITTER in Dublin at the mo! And a biting wind!!!

Merkin

maquiladora wrote: »

Way off in FI, but a nasty looking storm for Ireland and UK on the 26th/27th with a low deepening coming up from the southwest.

We're due to sail from Fishguard to Rosslare on the ferry on 28th December, do you think the worst of it will have abated by then Maquiladora?

snowstorm2013

leahyl wrote: »

Guys it is BITTER in Dublin at the mo! And a biting wind!!!

Am up in dublin for a bit of shopping and wet snow falling near lucan

vistafinder

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

What are the chances of it freezing tonight on back-roads between West Cork and Cork City? I may be driving it later on and any advice or insight would be most welcome thanks

Edit: Specifically the R585 "backroad to Bantry"

Im in west Cork and my van is frozen over already so just take it easy.

Xenji

Hail storms all day in Castlebar and we had a dusting of snow last night, what happened to the mild weather people were forecasting for Christmas week, it is freezing today. So are we on track to basically have a storm most days up till the 27th?

SimonMaher

acalmenvoy wrote: »

Ferrys should be good to go as well?

Quite a bit of disruptions to Ferries tomorrow acalmenvoy and by the looks of those charts over the weekend too!

If you're going to/from Dublin, the conventional ferries should be delayed but fine but the fastcraft will struggle. Swift is already cancelled for the day. The HSS is back tomorrow and is doing a morning run to avoid the worst of the winds later (leaving Holyhead at 0830 and Dun Laoghaire at 1100).

Probably going to be lots of moving of schedules to fit departures in to weather windows but the operators are usually pretty good at getting people home in the end.

Weather people - when looks best at sea over the coming days?

Simon

loubian

Missed my daily walk because didn't want to be pushing a buggy in this weather!

maquiladora

Merkin wrote: »

We're due to sail from Fishguard to Rosslare on the ferry on 28th December, do you think the worst of it will have abated by then Maquiladora?

There's no way of knowing what the weather will really be like then, it's just too far away yet. Will have a better idea in a few days time.

Storm 10

Flash of lightning with thunder in Galway

maquiladora

Fairly widespread 50-60mph gusts tomorrow, higher locally and around coasts. Nothing too severe but enough to bring down the odd branch or tree, I'd imagine there will have been a few that have been weakened by the recent bouts of windy weather.

Merkin

maquiladora wrote: »

There's no way of knowing what the weather will really be like then, it's just too far away yet. Will have a better idea in a few days time.

Thanks for that Maquiladora, my husband says its impossible to truly forecast more than a day or two in advance! Will be back to you next week, thank you!

ninebeanrows

ECMWF has Monday's deep depression well to our northwest.

The storm deepens almost 60hPa in 24 hours :O

Tindie

Have they named the Monday Storm Yet? LOL

Sure dose deepens fast!

maquiladora

12Z ECM has Monday's low as a very intense 939mb at 96 hours. But it's further west than the GFS, it seems that it doesn't really impact us on this run. A modest shift east would put the west coast in play though.



The north could still get some strong winds though, and Scotland would be hammered. 933mb on Christmas Eve.



Stephens Day. More deep lows kicking around.

Storm 10

Just watched the weather after the news and showing a storm tomorrow, they showed 80k on the main chart but why at the end when they show the following few days they show different wind strength 80 tomorrow but on the small chart 30 , very confusing

Hooter23

Storm 10 wrote: »

Just watched the weather after the news and showing a storm tomorrow, they showed 80k on the main chart but why at the end when they show the following few days they show different wind strength 80 tomorrow but on the small chart 30 , very confusing

They always do that sometimes they show sunny weather then on the small summary chart at the end they show rain they cant get it wrong that way i suppose haha:pac:

maquiladora

Storm 10 wrote: »

Just watched the weather after the news and showing a storm tomorrow, they showed 80k on the main chart but why at the end when they show the following few days they show different wind strength 80 tomorrow but on the small chart 30 , very confusing

Maximum sustained winds on the exposed west coast up to 80 km/h. Mean winds for the day 30 km/h.

BigMoose

We're meant to be on the 9am Rosslare to Fishguard ferry on Monday morning. Hope it's not too awful a crossing!

munsterlegend

Very quiet in here considering we have a code orange tomorrow! It will be interesting to see if Mondays event is going to be any closer to our shores.

maquiladora

munsterlegend wrote: »

Very quiet in here considering we have a code orange tomorrow! It will be interesting to see if Mondays event is going to be any closer to our shores.

There's not much to say about tomorrow really! It will be a swathe of wind and rain passing over the country, nothing too severe and nothing that will really upgrade or downgrade. It's not quite as interesting as watching a small low explosively develop as it races up past the coast not knowing for sure exactly how strong it is or it's exact track.

munsterlegend

It seems the winds tomorrow will be more widespread though than yesterday. Are there any potential lows next week like yesterday or too early to tell?

maquiladora

munsterlegend wrote: »

It seems the winds tomorrow will be more widespread though than yesterday. Are there any potential lows next week like yesterday or too early to tell?

It's possible. Read back over the last couple of pages. :pac: