Severe Wind Storm late 26th-27th December

phog

Just saw this link on twitter

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=3.84,50.26,1583

FueledbyCoffee

Power has gone a few times now in Meath West, winds howling, power back for now ....have filled the flasks with boiling water

M.T. Cranium

s.m wrote: »

srry to keep asking but when will it peak here in nw donegal ?
really not at a fan of bad windstorms

You will be much closer to the calmer "eye" of this very deep storm than most. Therefore you might think later that there is no big storm because your wind speeds may drop off considerably as the centre gets closer to Malin Head about 0600h. Then your winds might gradually increase from the west to northwest during the late morning and mid-day and peak in the afternoon but only at 100-120 km/hr at worst. These comments might also apply to readers in northwest Mayo only everything a bit earlier there, eye is likely to be visible on radar about midnight to 0200h passing Belmullet. The closer this tracks to Ireland, the worse it will be for most but then parts of the north could escape for a longer period.

sunbabe08

SpaceTime wrote: »

Probably some outages nothing new other than a localised fault in Mayfield showing up on Powercheck.

well that was the first time it happened tonight.

Pacing Mule

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Maybe a separate thread should be opened for plane spotting?

I really don't get the insistence here on rigidly sticking to weather and weather alone here. This is a severe storm - why shouldn't the consequences of that severe storm be discussed ? Should all the emergency services posts be moved to the emergency services forum ? What about any posts mentioning ships - confine to the transport forum ? Reports of utilities going down are not strictly weather related either. There's clearly an appetite within the forum for discussion of the various effects of this storm IMO. By all means have a thread for the pure science of the weather itself if needed but there should be a place to discuss the storms consequences too.

Papa_Lazarou

About 2000 now without power in cork.

force eleven

Rapid rise in pressure now and a veer in the wind direction to southwest in the past 20 mins. Wind dropped off but I expect the main event to begin soon.

Supercell

Next couple of hours should be tghe worst in Dublin looking at the airport taf for there, then a slight lull for an hour or so before picking up again to 11AM tomorrow, lot of potential for damage What a taf!

TAF AMD EIDW 262100Z 2621/2718 15030G45KT 9999 SCT015 BKN022
TEMPO 2621/2623 16035G58KT 5000 RA BKN010
BECMG 2622/2624 21025G38KT
TEMPO 2700/2711 22030G47KT
TEMPO 2704/2710 5000 SHRA SCT012 BKN018CB
BECMG 2710/2712 24024G38KT
TEMPO 2711/2713 25028G43KT
BECMG 2716/2718 25018G30KT

Harps

s.m wrote: »

srry to keep asking but when will it peak here in nw donegal ?
really not at a fan of bad windstorms

Not going to peak until tomorrow here in the NW, don't expect anything out of the ordinary though, it shouldn't be any worse than what we've had a few times already this week in Donegal

whiteandlight

Supercell wrote: »

Next couple of hours should be tghe worst in Dublin looking at the airport taf for there, then a slight lull for an hour or so before picking up again to 11AM tomorrow, lot of potential for damage What a taf!

TAF AMD EIDW 262100Z 2621/2718 15030G45KT 9999 SCT015 BKN022
TEMPO 2621/2623 16035G58KT 5000 RA BKN010
BECMG 2622/2624 21025G38KT
TEMPO 2700/2711 22030G47KT
TEMPO 2704/2710 5000 SHRA SCT012 BKN018CB
BECMG 2710/2712 24024G38KT
TEMPO 2711/2713 25028G43KT
BECMG 2716/2718 25018G30KT

Can you translate supercell?

Calina

Power is out to the west of Charleville although it's not showing on the ESB network map. Wind has died off a bit but is starting to pick up again - can hear the wind rising again.

Given most of the estimated restore times are ca midnight I guess I'm online as long as I have a battery.

s.m

Harps wrote: »

Not going to peak until tomorrow here in the NW, don't expect anything out of the ordinary though, it shouldn't be any worse than what we've had a few times already this week in Donegal

what about overnight ( sorry forgot ask in above post )

SpaceTime

I think it takes a while for the ESB SCADA network to publish the information on the website. It's possibly not quite 100% realtime, but maybe updated every 15mins or something like that.

Supercell

Musicmental85 wrote: »

Can you translate supercell?

A windy night in Dublin..windiest in the next couple of hours until around 23:00, calming down a bit for an hour or so before going mental again until late tomorrow morning.

maquiladora

Sudden drop in winds here now as expected.

Mech1

Aircraft approacing Dublin reporting wind @ 90knots @ 5000ft

sopretty

Fairly quiet here in Contae an Longfort. Some wind gusts, but mild enough.
Over & out!

Xenji

After about an hours lull in Castlebar the winds are picking up again, still not as strong though as they were between 6-7, we had 3 hours of near constant torrential rain as well, only stopped in the last few minutes.

The girlfriends power is gone in Galway though.

signostic

Knock Taf, seen worse but the strongest winds between 6am - 10am tomorrow morning


TAF: EIKN 261700Z 2618/2718 15022G38KT 5000 -RA SCT003 BKN007 TEMPO 2618/2622 14027G43KT 2000 RA BKN003 BECMG 2621/2623 21023G38KT 9999 NSW SCT012 BKN018 TEMPO 2623/2703 26027G43KT TEMPO 2623/2711 4000 SHRA BKN008 BKN017CB BECMG 2703/2706 26025G40KT TEMPO 2706/2710 26030G45KT BECMG 2709/2711 26023G35KT TEMPO 2711/2718 5000 SHRA SCT008 BKN017CB BECMG 2713/2715 27017G28KT BECMG 2716/2718 26013KT

wretcheddomain

This thread is currently being viewed by 1,500 active members; that's three times that of After Hours.

This is chiefly to the credit of the meteorological experts who are providing excellent resources regularly throughout the course of the storm.

So thanks to everyone involved, particularly those who provide superb summaries of the current state of the storm.

Faustino

Big gusts here in Ballsbridge (D4) at the moment, the lights seem to have gone off in the grounds of the AIB hq.

whitebriar

SpaceTime wrote: »

I think it takes a while for the ESB SCADA network to publish the information on the website. It's possibly not quite 100% realtime, but maybe updated every 15mins or something like that.

when 30000 homes were out last Thursday morning due to lightning in wexford and Wicklow, that wasn't up on power check for about a half hour.

Bsal

Early morning is looking very dangerous, expect a lot of travel disruption in Air Sea and Rail. 50kts over land at 06z is incredible :eek:

Mech1

link in my sig

jdee99

@Ger8 http://www.liveatc.net

kumate_champ07

from my limited knowledge and habitual viewing of the met eirann rainfall radar it looks like the rain will clear in 90mins here in Kildare/Dublin, will the strong wind remain for the rest of the night and are there showers to be expected around 1am?

obezyana

Just come in from being out with the dogs it's not so bad in Kilkenny City I'm not to sure where the other posters from Kilkenny are locally based but in the city it's windy with rain but nothing like it seems other places are getting hit with.

hats199

Its shifted up a gear massively in Kinsale in the last 30 minutes, no rainfall but extremely strong winds, I can't believe I left Galway for a storm reprieve.

Some_Person

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

from my limited knowledge and habitual viewing of the met eirann rainfall radar it looks like the rain will clear in 90mins here in Kildare/Dublin, will the strong wind remain for the rest of the night and are there showers to be expected around 1am?

The radar isn't showing all the rain in the west/middle part of the country since the Shannon radar seems to be down.

smurfjed

TAF AMD EIDW 262100Z 2621/2718 15030G45KT 9999 SCT015 BKN022
Forecast amended for DUBLIN on 26th 2100Z, valid between 26th 2100z and 27th 1800z Wind 150 degrees 30 kts gusting 45. 10 ams visibility, cloud scattered 1500ft broken 2200 feet.

TEMPO 2621/2623 16035G58KT 5000 RA BKN010
Temporarily between 26th 2100z and 2300z (i.e no longer than a hour and no more than 50% of that time) wind 160 degrees 35 kts gusting 58kts 5000 meters visibility with rain, broken cloud 1000 feet.

BECMG 2622/2624 21025G38KT

Becoming between 26th 2200z and 2400z wind 210 degrees 25 knots gusting 38.

Rest following the same pattern with the interesting part of 18CB, which indicates a thunderstorm.

TEMPO 2700/2711 22030G47KT
TEMPO 2704/2710 5000 SHRA SCT012 BKN018CB
BECMG 2710/2712 24024G38KT
TEMPO 2711/2713 25028G43KT
BECMG 2716/2718 25018G30KT