Severe Wind Storm late 26th-27th December

bladebrew

robclay26 wrote: »

Looking at a weather app for aviation, it has webcameras in it and inchidoney island and spa resort camera looking out to sea has idiots cars parked looking over the coast. Taken 20 minutes ago!
Are they thick or what?
See my attached pic

It's actually up high enough so the sea won't get them, but they will have to scrape the salt of their cars by morning:)

BorneTobyWilde

I think if everyone runs outs side with a vacuum we can catch this storm, take it down that way !

jamesbere

Harps wrote: »

Not been online for a few hours but was expecting much higher wind reports from the SW, highest gust on met.ie at the moment is only 67kts and only a handful of coastal stations are even recording gale force winds. I know the south isn't as used to strong winds but reports on here seem wildly exaggerated going by official recordings

Where I'm living in cork it's far from a gale I'm experiencing, I've just gone downstairs to sleep cos the noise from the wind hitting the roof is so loud.

_Redzer_

Pfft. Overrated as usual. Was bad at times definitely, but the way people were banging on you'd swear a hurricane was hitting us

robclay26

bladebrew wrote: »

It's actually up high enough so the sea won't get them, but they will have to scrape the salt of their cars by morning:)

Oh ok, didn't know that.. Even still not good to be out. Pity is dark, the seas must be scary

Xenji

It is now the stormiest it has been all day in Castlebar, well worth staying up for.

BorneTobyWilde

Not over rated. It's pretty bad out there.
And tomorrow will tell it's own story

Zzippy

robclay26 wrote: »

Looking at a weather app for aviation, it has webcameras in it and inchidoney island and spa resort camera looking out to sea has idiots cars parked looking over the coast. Taken 20 minutes ago!
Are they thick or what?
See my attached pic

IIRC that car park is elevated somewhat above the beach so no risk of flooding or debris, just a bit of spray.

Zyzz

_Redzer_ wrote: »

Pfft. Overrated as usual. Was bad at times definitely, but the way people were banging on you'd swear a hurricane was hitting us

Not really, the winds are forecast up to 63 here in Dublin (over the next couple of hours), according to Met.ie anything over 64 is hurricane speed so..

Edit: anything over 64*

thecretinhop

Who are these muppets saying it was not that bad? A chunk of my tiles are in another field go figure!!

Weathering

Harps wrote: »

Not been online for a few hours but was expecting much higher wind reports from the SW, highest gust on met.ie at the moment is only 67kts and only a handful of coastal stations are even recording gale force winds. I know the south isn't as used to strong winds but reports on here seem wildly exaggerated going by official recordings

Completely agree. 50/65mp/h inland so far

Zyzz

Just found some tiles in my field! Happy days!

Craigels

http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

rob180

Power gone !!

leakyboots

Still very windy here in West Kerry, went outside for a few minutes, amazing. Been a long time since I've been out in something like this, house is rattling

TeddyTedson

I'll be honest I'm terrified. If I live through this I will be relieved.

Some_Person

Wind has calmed a bit here between New Ross and Waterford, certainly not as bad as earlier this evening.
We'll see come 5am...

thecretinhop

I'm off to bed I think that's it hopefully wife is still awake also think it will be a long sleep tomorrow stay safe all very upsetting night here have house to fix in afternoon...

Zyzz

Shannon airport has gusts of 65 knots and Sherkin Island 67 knots!

Craigels

Zyzz wrote: »

Shannon airport has gusts of 65 knots and Sherkin Island 67 knots!

It's still very bad here in limerick strong gusts and rain

ThaitaniumM

47 kts and gusts of 65 kts now at Shannon Airport, the mid-west getting the worst of it!

M.T. Cranium

Platform gusting to 80 knots now ... Shannon 65 kts, Athenry 63 kts ... these are extreme values, some places have dropped a bit, cuold be that late overnight the lower layers get to be more stable and so the gusts have dropped a few knots, but will come back up when mixing increases at dawn. The eye effect is quite apparent north of about central Mayo.

I don't think most places have hit their max yet. Some may have. Stay safe.

Oneiric 3

Harps wrote: »

Not been online for a few hours but was expecting much higher wind reports from the SW, highest gust on met.ie at the moment is only 67kts and only a handful of coastal stations are even recording gale force winds. I know the south isn't as used to strong winds but reports on here seem wildly exaggerated going by official recordings

Understand where you are coming from HARPS on this, though here in Galway at least mean speeds rather than gusts were quite high for a short while. I suppose with the South and southeast having a higher density of urban areas (Cork & Waterford for example) and a larger population no doubt any damage to infrastructure would have a higher impact that it would in the W & NW.

Rougies

BOOM! :eek: That was savage, might be picked up on the Casement/Dublin airport gusts!

EDIT: really gusty and lights flickering here now... lights very rarely flicker here with our fancy underground cables and whatnot. Must be disturbances from the less fancy areas on the same grid causing us grief :P

Samash

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'll be honest I'm terrified. If I live through this I will be relieved.

I completely agree, i like a good storm but this is terrifying. It doesn't help that i am in close proximity to forestry on 3 sides of my house. Someone described it perfectly earlier- its like being out at sea
Glued to this thread though and thanks to maq, weather check and mt for invaluable updates the last couple of days.

Faustino

Pressure still dropping at Dublin Airport, it was at around 976 this evening (around 8 or 9pm) and the latest reports have it at 961 hPa

An Ri rua

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'll be honest I'm terrified. If I live through this I will be relieved.

Wrong forum. Got to be a Liverpool fan forum here somewhere.

foxy farmer

I think its picking up here in west cork. Some unreal gusts. Just after bringing in my sat dish. Fit for the bin.

Xenji

Storm is finally in full swing in Mayo, lightning and all.

fr336

Hope everyone is ok; keep calm but vigilant.