Atlantic Storm Watch & Coastal Flooding Events: January 2014

Missymoohaa

Another heavy downpour in Clondalkin, but can see it brightening now to the west, so should I would think it has passed, but probably more to come.

Kippure

Dublin is about to get Pounded

Kur4mA

Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 here. We're gettin' horsed out of it.

TouchingVirus

Teaming rain down in Ringsend

RaeRae

Dublin 14, Churchtown here. Suddenly very dark after some bright spells and the wind and rain have picked up substantially but nothing on previous recent storms.

Heroditas

I can actually see some blue sky in D15 at the moment!

Kur4mA

Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 here again. Blue skies and no more wind or rain. That was insanely quick!

Speak Now

Gusting upto 59knts in Waterford airport.

road_high

Sunshine here in Kilkenny but can't see that lasting!

mickger844posts

Max gust here in Waterford City just 62km/h with 2.3mm of rain since midnight. It was never going to be about wind and rain anyway with this storm. Some of the pics coming out of Tramore this morning are amazing. They are really getting battered out there.

www.waterfordcityweather.com

hollster2

Rain and winds picked up in tinahely co wicklow few bangs and flashes of thunder and lightning!

dave1982

Spindle wrote: »

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.

Meanwhile in Wales

Tim the Enchanter

Tramore tourisim FB page has some great pictures of the storm -

https://www.facebook.com/tramoretourism

The Mig

Very mild in Dun Laoghaire!

acassells80

Has this been a lot milder than was forecast or is there more to come from this storm?

LadyMayBelle

It does seem an awful lot tamer than expected; in Galway anyways when there were orange alerts, it never fared as bad as when there was yellow alerts (car parks flooding etc). At least there's been no reported injuries.

pad199207

Waves seem to have lessened a bit here in Wexford. Is that it so?

Red Nissan

acassells80 wrote: »

Has this been a lot milder than was forecast or is there more to come from this storm?

The main event of this storm was the sea state.

Winds about as expected, maybe a little stronger but for me, Thursday 26th December 2013 has higher recorded winds.

Today I've a 50km.h gust @ 06:32 with the local airport reporting a 70km/h gust around the same time frame, my max gust last week was 88km/h.

road_high

Looking out the window here in Kilkenny it's looking like not a bad day. Winds slackened off, brightened up and no rain.

Fitzo

Thunder and huge hail in Sligo town.

jo06555

Hows the weather looking this evening for South east??

Conmaicne Mara

More damage done here in Connemara as well. Took some photos and video this morning, unfortunately I'm a bit under the weather so I did miss the high tide by an hour or so. We had bad showers this morning but that seems to be improving, still fairly windy, mild enough out. Will upload bits and pieces when I can later.

Storm 10

Anyone get any pics of Spiddal Co Galway its supposed to be very badly damaged

mobby

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=429011767228410&set=pcb.429012393895014&type=1&theater

Anyone who knows Duncannon Beach in Wexford will appreciate how high that tide was this morning. :eek:

road_high

Can usually drive onto Duncannon beach can't you? Mad because it's quite a sheltered beach and not directly on the coast (is up the Barrow estuary a little).

Macy0161

road_high wrote: »

Can usually drive onto Duncannon beach can't you? Mad because it's quite a sheltered beach and not directly on the coast (is up the Barrow estuary a little).

Yes - there's a second photo on that facebook page of the road down to the beach! :eek:

sparrowcar

The regular posters on here never beefed this one up and always said that this storm would loose strength before making landfall.

It seems to me that the media and Irish internet/Facebook sites made this more of a drama than it was. Some of the reporting was shameless with swell charts in the black being used as pictures of impending doom. One Dublin radio station DJ basically made up a weather forecast on Sat afternoon claiming a super storm with freezing conditions on the way for Sun night and Monday morning... It's 11c at the moment?

Can't wait for the media hysteria to die down and we can get back to snowmaggedon in FI.

Power Gear

Ballybunion


https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.616841875048506.1073741830.143072542425444&type=1


Caherdaniel


https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/74897_704380439581548_948653517_n.jpg

DOCARCH

Some shocking scenes in those photos!

Aestivalis

Poor Waterford train station.
First the landslide closed it off, now the platforms got flooded at high tide today.