Atlantic Storm Watch & Coastal Flooding Events: January 2014

Miss Stormyseas

bitburger wrote: »

anyone know how this is looking to play out around Galway city?

Some minor flooding at Spanish arch & Galway city museum, main issue is in Salthill with prom closed & carparks flooding again

irish1967

High tide right now and all ok in Donegal Town. No real wind to speak of.

Storm 10

RTE reporter was on live from Salthill as the sea came over, he said he could not believe what he was looking at, one minute the sea was just splashing over then suddenly it rose above the prom and flowed across the road flooding the area in minutes. presume that was the storm surge

bitburger

Miss Stormyseas wrote: »

Some minor flooding at Spanish arch & Galway city museum, main issue is in Salthill with prom closed & carparks flooding again

is it flooded there already? read a journal article saying it was but it seems to have dissappeared.

maquiladora

Roches Point the only place reporting gale force winds at 9am. Winds/waves lowered than the models predicted.

Faustino

The Lee in Cork has proper burst it's banks!

http://instagram.com/p/i0l5fRzIQy/#

Chong

Sitting in high office block now in Dublin 2 with a view to the west, its very dark.

lester76

Looking out my bedroom window the waves crashing over the prom wall in tramore, never seen the sea this angry. Heaven have just opened to. This is gonna be epic. Cuppa binocular s watch frm inside

loubian

It has started raining in Dublin 13 and it's quite dark! Clouds seem to be coming from inland and moving out to sea, but I could be mistaken

maquiladora

Some active cells producing lightning and heavy rain/hail.

ninebeanrows

maquiladora wrote: »

Roches Point the only place reporting gale force winds at 9am. Winds/waves lowered than the models predicted.

Still high enough just off the southwest coast.

maiden

Check out OLOONEYS BAR LAHINCH FB page, NOW!

They are taking pics as its happening, the prom under water again!

Spindle

When those showers move through here in Cork, the wind is picking up something savage, don't have anything to measure the wind, other than the car which rocks in the wind. A lot of surface water about as well.

maquiladora

Weathercheck wrote: »

Still high enough just off the southwest coast.

Yep, but about 10ft or more lower than expected. High tide has passed now for the places at risk on west coast so hopefully it won't be as bad as feared.

maquiladora

Spindle wrote: »

When those showers move through here in Cork, the wind is picking up something savage, don't have anything to measure the wind, other than the car which rocks in the wind. A lot of surface water about as well.

Yeah you can get very strong gusts in those intense showers.

Quite a few sferics being detected over Cork/Kerry at the moment.

maquiladora

maiden wrote: »

Check out OLOONEYS BAR LAHINCH FB page, NOW!

They are taking pics as its happening, the prom under water again!

Storm 10

maiden wrote: »

Check out OLOONEYS BAR LAHINCH FB page, NOW!

They are taking pics as its happening, the prom under water again!

Why cant you post a link, I was just on their facebook and no pictures of anything.

Miss Stormyseas

bitburger wrote: »

is it flooded there already? read a journal article saying it was but it seems to have dissappeared.

The roads in front of Spanish arch by Jury's seem to be ok, it's the small road the other side. Salthill is mostly waves going over the road, and some around aquarium & leisureland. Very minor in comparison to last Fri but I'd say keep off the prom as waves are still spilling over

maiden

Storm 10 wrote: »

Why cant you post a link, I was just on their facebook and no pictures of anything.

Because my phone won't let

ednwireland

irish1967 wrote: »

High tide right now and all ok in Donegal Town. No real wind to speak of.

dodged a bullet there! good job there was no wind pushing that in

maquiladora

Another recent Lahinch pic.

Spindle

Reports of flooding in Cork City, the usual spots, not sure how bad yet. Also Cobh is an island again, with Fota Bridge flooded. High tide has come and gone in the harbor area so hopefully will start to go down soon.

MichealD

Some torrential rain and very gusty winds as those squalls pass through. (About 2kms north of Wexford town and 500m from coast)

pad199207

Torrential squall between enniscorthy and wexford. Surprised no thunder

redsteveireland

Storm 10 wrote: »

Why cant you post a link, I was just on their facebook and no pictures of anything.

The pictures are there alright.
Mobile link - https://m.facebook.com/olooneyslahinch?id=213067035501479&refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Folooneyslahinch#!/olooneyslahinch?__user=1113024880

maquiladora

pad199207 wrote: »

Torrential squall between enniscorthy and wexford. Surprised no thunder

It passed just off the coast.

delthedriver

Heavy rain, sleet,strong gusts,mountainous waves, and thunder, on Tralee Bay.

wirelessdude01

Storm 10 wrote: »

Why cant you post a link, I was just on their facebook and no pictures of anything.

Photos are there

https://www.facebook.com/olooneyslahinch?fref=ts

MichealD

@PeterScallan is a member of Wexford RNLI and his twitter feed is interesting for those interested in Wexford situation re floods.

Peter Scallan @PeterScallan
Wind veering into W, therefore reducing tidal surge. Tide leveling now. No risk #flood in #Wexford. Will be at least 0.6m below top of quay

(this post 14mins ago)

Spindle

Flooding in Cork on the north channel of the Lee, down by the Coal Quay. High tide has come and gone, so should be going down now.