The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

ninebeanrows · 12-02-2014 5:01pm

Wow, 260,000 customers without power.

eireannBEAR · 12-02-2014 5:01pm

Now my back gutters gone!!!

DOCARCH · 12-02-2014 5:02pm

Yip...Status Red warning update:

STATUS RED

Wind Warning for Munster, Connacht and Leinster

Very stormy with violent winds for a time this evening. Westerly winds of mean speeds of 80 to 100km/h with very severe squalls of 130 to 170km/h.

Issued:Wednesday 12 February 2014 15:00
Valid:Wednesday 12 February 2014 15:00 to Wednesday 12 February 2014 19:00

luimneachboy · 12-02-2014 5:02pm

Fair play to mt cranium---- got the wind timing for north kerry, west limerick spot on. Between 11.30 and 1.30 the place fell apart. Trees down everywhere and structural damage.phone lines and esb lines down everywhere. Going forward mt cranium is the man to listen to!!!!!

Larbre34 · 12-02-2014 5:02pm

Weathercheck wrote: »

Wow, 260,000 customers without power.

Change your handle to Powercheck for the day thats in it!

road_high · 12-02-2014 5:03pm

maquiladora wrote: »

Leinster is now part of the red warning.

That's really helpful for us here in Kilkenny where the storm has died down now....

Donkey Oaty · 12-02-2014 5:03pm

News from abroad: UK's Radio 4 news leading with "worst storms in living memory".

Gambas · 12-02-2014 5:03pm

Fitzo wrote: »

Windy as sin in Newcastle in Galway, but nothing madly out of the ordinary in all honesty. Few bins asunder.

We seem to have gotten off very lightly. It's a total anticyclone, sorry, anticlimax.

unkymo · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

A round-up of what happened in Kerry earlier on;

http://www.radiokerry.ie/news/1pm-storm-damage-report/

Penny Tration · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Guys any idea when this expected to calm down???

Depends on where you are located. In dublin - few hours, I'd guess, since it has barely started!

polaris68 · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

shroom007 wrote: »

this is very cool for those who missed this post earlier and it getting a bit
feisty in Dublin City Centre

Don't know how accurate that is but it does appear that the tightest isobars are feeding the strongest winds across Clare/South Galway directly over to Waterford/Wexford.

jenny rennie · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

Details of Kilkenny. Has the worst past here now?

whitebriar · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

Horrendous here near Arklow for the last 2hrs.
Easily the worst I've experienced on the farm.
No power obviously.
Several huge trees down

Weathering · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

All of Ireland in Red warning now except for Ulster but the Met office just upgraded NI wind warning so watch this space. Lots of snow still lying here btw

irishfeen · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

Worst I have ever seen in N Cork, major damage to sheds, ridge tiles, tiles, shoots, trees etc. ... Roads like an obstacle course around these parts.

Tzardine · 12-02-2014 5:04pm

O/T but does anybody know if you can burn a stove with back boiler if there is no power. Will it blow up with no pump running.

Wind so strong here now I am scared to stand at Windows. Just outside Monasterevin.

Sky King · 12-02-2014 5:05pm

oak5548 wrote: »

Anybody from Kilkenny town? Need some updates on whats happening.

City....:mad:

Ha. Anyway, Nowlan park roof gone so dont attend any hurling games, road to stoneyford from davefort M9 junction closed, ring road partially closed, greens bridge closed, kells road closed, go to kclr website for updates tbh

i think it's not as bad as it was

eireannBEAR · 12-02-2014 5:05pm

RTE news now is a joke!!!! :mad:

paulusdu · 12-02-2014 5:05pm

Anyone else here watch that video from Stargate and think of the Ents in Lord of the Rings ? Maybe i am too much of a nerd.

Wind still gusting strongly in East Galway, but it has dies down from about an hour ago, more time between gusts too.

miss no stars · 12-02-2014 5:05pm

Starting to howl a bit in Howth. Rainy, but nothing spectacular wind-wise (yet).

pistolpetes11 · 12-02-2014 5:06pm

Its mad how many updates they have done today , but as was said from the beginning it would be a fluid situation

BLIZZARD7 · 12-02-2014 5:06pm

very bad in D14 now. Severe gusts and very heavy bursts of icy rain.

patneve2 · 12-02-2014 5:07pm

Very strong intermittent gusts. add 15 knots to these gusts and you've got trees down

TitianGerm · 12-02-2014 5:07pm

Trees down all over co wexford from reports. Had a big evergreen come down across the road from my office and block both lanes of traffic.

Larbre34 · 12-02-2014 5:07pm

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

News from abroad: UK's Radio 4 news leading with "worst storms in living memory".

Nobody alive from 1961,87,88,91,97???

I hate lazy tabloid weather b0ll0x journalism, youd think the BBC would know better than to call it without any of the verified data in, which wont happen for days.