Severe Wind Storm late 26th-27th December

pandaboy

Cork City Northside is really starting to get bad. By the looks of this, it's only just hitting properly now. Still waiting on rain though. It's been intermittent. Anyone with links to coastal webcams? FOund a few but they're either offline, or you see nowt.

Earth Wind Map

Mint Aero

joujoujou wrote: »

And my weather station just went offline, so more than likely end of transmission. Let's go to bed.

Where did you get the yawning fella from?

sunbabe08

adam88 wrote: »

I live in a mobile home. This has just got serious

oh, good luck. hopefully it's nailed down well

xXxkorixXx

getting very windy in my part of arklow

fred funk }{

whitebriar wrote: »

Yup 69mph gust

Yeah, some big wind. I'm living in this house seven years and I never heard wind like it. The noise from the roof is unreal. No sleep tonight for me or the poor dog who's still hiding under the Christmas tree.

ch750536

Very exposed location. Windiest since I have been here 2004. Power off since 9. Wind raging.

Xenji

gufc21 wrote: »

Ugh case of beer in car bout 35 yards from front door in Galway, worth it?

I am more worried about the power going and the beer in the fridge getting warm

The Dagda

CJhaughey wrote: »

If your roof does start to lift open the windows and doors on the leeward side of the building

:rolleyes:

As your roof is blowing off, calmly open the windows and doors...

Coles

joujoujou wrote: »

Google maps says there's no Mt Dillon in co. Roscommon.

Knock airport is the nearest weather station to me, but AFAIK may show slightly out of date information.

And my weather station just went offline, so more than likely end of transmission. Let's go to bed.

http://www.met.ie/about/weatherobservingstations/Mt_Dillon.asp

Thanks for the offer, but I'm not going anywhere in this storm.:D

yellowlabrador

power just gon in Dunmanway, WestCork.
There was analmightyroar on the square. The pubs hademptied and all the young ones were waiting for gatsbys to open. they are still shouting,I canhear them over the wind.:eek::eek:

fred funk }{

sunbabe08 wrote: »

oh, good luck. hopefully it's nailed down well

Yes. Definitely wouldn't like to be in a mobile tonight.

JONJO THE MISER

Tactical wrote: »

One roof was already reported blown off this evening.

It was thei roof from a dog house :eek:

CUH suffered structural damage this evening.

What sort of roof are you concerned about? House, farm building, garden shed etc?

House roof, making very loud banging noises at the moment.

Tactical

adam88 wrote: »

I live in a mobile home. This has just got serious

Location.

Have you considered an evacuation route if things go bad?

Flying debris can injure you. If you have to get out, consider the direction you will go and where you will go.

Formulate a plan now and if the worst happens you won't be running about like a headless chicken but will be heading to a definate location.

Hope all works out well and you stay safe.

EdwardCastle

pandaboy wrote: »

Cork City Northside is really starting to get bad. By the looks of this, it's only just hitting properly now. Still waiting on rain though. It's been intermittent. Anyone with links to coastal webcams? FOund a few but they're either offline, or you see nowt.

Yeah. all the surf cams along the coast are offline too, but you wouldn't see much in the dark anyway

Itssoeasy

Just opened the back door in the northside of cork city, and the wind is so strong that I barely had the door open and it blew in. It seem to be a bit nasty now.

xXxkorixXx

fred funk }{ wrote: »

Yes. Definitely wouldn't like to be in a mobile tonight.

i have friends staying in a mobile just down the road at scratna cross

joujoujou

Mint Aero wrote: »

Where did you get the yawning fella from?

Hosted it on imageshack years ago. And now using on demand.

DK man

DK man wrote: »

Dundalk has settled down quite a bit. I was outside 1 hr ago and all 15.5 stone was nearly airborne. I don't remember a storm so strong in all my 44 yrs!

No doubt there will be pleanty of firewood ripe for the picking in the morn so have your chansaws ready to rip.

Stay safe out there folks

Chainsaw ready and waiting!

CJhaughey

The Dagda wrote: »

:rolleyes:

When your roof is about to blow off, calmly open the windows and doors...

You can scoff all you want but its actually official advice.
You might be able to save it if its just starting.
Low pressure on the leeward side sucks the roof back down.

Barna77

What's the forecast for tomorrow night? Flying back to Dublin. Checked on Dublin airport's web and some flights were cancelled today...

Dan_Solo

CJhaughey wrote: »

You can scoff all you want but its actually official advice.
You might be able to save it if its just starting.
Low pressure on the leeward side sucks the roof back down.

Wouldn't there have to be no ceiling in the house for that to work?

fred funk }{

Deleted User wrote: »

Chainsaw ready and waiting!

I bought one the other day. Should be some decent timber felled over night lol.

microsim

If anyone's roof gets blown off, could they kindly inform us here before taking the next step. Otherwise, we could possibly say that this thread has run its course.

KKkitty

Quiet where I am in Carlow at the moment.

Tactical

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

House roof, making very loud banging noises at the moment.

Location?

Stay indoors. Worst thing you could do is go outside to investigate. There's unlikely anything you can do to fix what ever is causing the noise.

Far too high a risk of injury to you at the moment.

Stay safe and keep us informed.

Have you contacted relatives or neighbours in case you need to evacuate?

Plan an evacuation route. If you do have to go, you want to consider flying debris as a serious hazard.

sunbabe08

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Just opened the back door in the northside of cork city, and the wind is so strong that I barely had the door open and it blew in. It seem to be a bit nasty now.

did that earlier, so much fun trying to close the door.


can't believe my dad suggested we should take a spin out in this & what's worse i said yes & he then chickened out. bah

joujoujou

Coles wrote: »

http://www.met.ie/about/weatherobservingstations/Mt_Dillon.asp

[...]

Approx. 57km from my station (which is back online BTW).

Cogsy88

Drain pipe just blew off my shed. Fierce windy out der.

M.T. Cranium

Adam 88, what's your location? (don't say in a mobile home)

pandaboy

EdwardCastle wrote: »

Yeah. all the surf cams along the coast are offline too, but you wouldn't see much in the dark anyway

There are a few night cams, like Inchidoney, but nothing too spectaculare to see other than 3 civics and about 2 milimetres of wave on the screen.