New flood warning for this weekend

Spring Onion · 31-01-2014 11:04pm

charlie_says wrote: »

This will be very serious for people who are in flood risk areas in Galway, particularly Salthill and around the docks/Spanish Arch. Met Eireann seem to for some reason be downplaying the seriousness of this weather event because it isn't extreme winds.

I expect there to be much damage by this time tomorrow around the town.
I'm going to help sandbag a friends house now!

Becoming very windy or stormy later tonight; southwest winds will increase to gale force with some severe gusts later in the night, especially across west and southwest counties. Saturday, will be very windy or stormy. Showers will be heavy and wintry with further falls of hail, sleet and snow. Any snow clearing early in the day. Southwest gales will be accompanied by some severe gusts - especially in the west and south, where there will be a continuing risk of coastal flooding due to extremely high seas and high spring tides.

What else do you want Met Eireann to do?

As per usual, they get it spot on.

Mrs OBumble · 01-02-2014 12:15am

Snow gone fom city centre and Balybrit now. (Was in the Clayton and missed it all!)

thesandeman · 01-02-2014 6:31am

Thunder has arrived slightly behind schedule. Think we have now had every type of weather possible in the last eighteen hours except for that Twister thing that some Americans follow around.

paconnors · 01-02-2014 6:33am

Webcam in salthill looks lively www.seapointleisure.ie

ratracer · 01-02-2014 8:27am

So the high tide has come and gone at 6ish this morning. It was a very high tide but luckily the predicted high wind wasn't accompanying it. Businesses and houses around the river ( Long walk, claddagh, Dominick st, quay at) have gotten hammered with flood water again. I really feel sorry for those peeps. Costa coffee only opened yesterday and I think it got flooded this morning. Same again on this evenings tide and tomorrow morning tide at 06.30.