The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

RobertKK

patneve2 wrote: »

Are you on high ground?

Yeah about 800ft asl.

roosterman71

Starting to pick up in Athlone now alright
Might be time to bail out of work. Don't wanna be stuck here for the evening

eireannBEAR

Gutter blown off my house,gas meter door blown off its hinge's and porch light cover blown to the ground,not to mention my bin blew over there is rubbish all over the garden....kildare is getting it hard...

crazygeryy

Super-Rush wrote: »

My internet service just went here in Carlow.

Lots of big snow flakes mixed in with the rain now and tonnes of Denis hitting the windows.

Tonnes of denis s haven't fallen like this since records began.

Greenmachine

Still pretty gusty here in Marino. Nothing like was experience weeks ago. Fingers crossed we have no more snow or cold weather. Freezing here in my place.

Larbre34

Winds have whipped around to the West on Dublin Bay, gusting now to Force 9, here we go for the next few hours.....

Discodog

Has it stopped raining West of Galway. Shannon radar is down.

TheMilkyPirate

Lots of reports of fallen trees in Wexford now

Wexford Local Gov. ‏@wexfordcoco 1m
Road Closures #RoadAlert #Wexford. Trees down at Whiterock Hil... http://bit.ly/1oksa4N .

Retweeted by Wexford Local Gov.
Wexford CivilDefence ‏@Civdef_Wex 21m
@wexfordcoco Tree down in Corish Park, down from Gaa pitch. #drivecarefully

Retweeted by Wexford Local Gov.
Eoin Kearney ‏@eoinkea 34m
@wexfordcoco tree down on way into bunclody from Enniscorthy @aaroadwatch

YFlyer

Red Nissan wrote: »

Dashcam passing Cork Con and it's new building, part of which is now a mangled heap.

Wind slowing blowing F6 now My record is 70km/h @ 13:22

UCC is closing, all students advised to leave now.

Lol.

University of Limerick advising people to stay indoors until the storm calms down.

Pretzill

stooge wrote: »

lol, guessing Athlone. Starting to kick off here alright.

I'd say it was the windy athlete caused that tornado in athleague.

Eye of the storm was quiet here (sligo) for hours just beginning to get vicious nothing compared to what some of you are getting. Stay safe folks.

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shroom007

PauloMN wrote: »

That's cool.

And hypnotic, I could gaze at it all day!

looking at it listening to lyric fm thats fantastic

galwaybabe

It is nuts here in Kinvara, Co. Galway. A massive tree just blew down in my garden and the others are looking very unstable. The water was lapping over the edge at the Quay when I passed it half an hour ago (14.30) and the high tide isn't until 16.09. I would strongly advise anyone who has a car parked down in the area to go and move it

SeaBreezes

Mr Bumble wrote: »

I feel sorry for Dennis

Lol!! Excellent! Thank you for the giggle. ..poor Denis.. Winds easing near old head of kinsale now... Hope the rest of the country fares ok. Stay safe folks!

Larbre34

green_screen wrote: »

Possibly a stupid question, but no harm in asking -

If Dublin gets as bad as people are saying, I presume I should not leave my workplace at my normal finish time? I have a fifteen minute walk along a main road, a fifteen minute bus journey and another 15 min walk along a busy main road to do to get home.

Few weeks ago when the wind was bad, I was blown into the road.

Should I just wait it out in work? Is there an estimate time as to when it'll calm down in Dublin? Want to make sure I get home safely!

Yes. 7-8pm should be Ok, check AARoadwatch, Dublin Bus etc before you leave to see that youre clear home

AdamB

Trees falling like dominos here in Clonmel now!

Daemos

In Callan, Kilkenny

Usually love listening to this weather outside my window, but am actually a bit worried now. Lights flickering on and off, power has gone twice but come on a few seconds later

Mars Bar

Is there any forecast of the wind dying down in Galway? I've been sitting pretty for an hour now waiting for it to blow over so I can go home!

Oneiric 3

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They look more like fallstreaks than tornadoes but still a great capture.

Dcully

Winds definitely picking up here in Kildare, seems to be on its way here then Dublin.

_Kaiser_

Seems ok so far in South Dublin.. was a lot worse this morning!

I'm already home and stocked up for the night though

Gambas

Fitzo wrote: »

What can we expect in Galway?

It's been reasonable civil here so far in the city, hasn't it? Windy obviously but not really much different from the other storms this winter. There are people cycling by my house (into the wind too ) right now

Skid X

The tone of Evelyn Cusack's forecast on RTE1 at 9.30 was all wrong. She showed photographs of snow, warned that there might be storms on Friday and only briefly mentioned the possibility of dangerous winds today. And no mention of Red or Yellow alerts.

If there is even a possibility of dangerous weather the next day, that should be the Headline of your forecast. Thanks to MT and the others around here who called this well in advance (as usual).

shroom007

Has'nt arrived here yet but starting to get blustery

Iancar29

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

They look more like fallstreaks than tornadoes but still a great capture.

100% Virga fallstreasks

leahyl

Died way down now in Cork City

tagoona

Gone from severly windy to just plain windy in the last 20 mins in limerick.......
I reckon another hour before it passes galway

Galway K9

Thought might be of some interest that I clocked 35.6m/s outside with my anemometer. sheltered place also.

http://www.kite-surf.com/windspeeds/calculated.php

Sterling Archer

Borrowed from twitter

thecretinhop

Two trees down at the back of the house
near claregalway