The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

leahyl

Operations have now resumed at Shannon Airport - tweet from the airport

grenouille

irishfeen wrote: »

Crazy! Now snowing about 7 miles SW of Mallow.

Kilometers please!

by the curragh

Sounds like my slates just did a Mexican wave !

_Kaiser_

delw wrote: »

Hope the leccy doesn't go just put on pot of stew (all electric apartment )

That's why I've made dinner early too - just in case!

castor 1

munsterlegend wrote: »

Absolutely crazy day near Mallow. I have never seen such violent gusts since at least 1997. The full aftermath won't become clear until tomorrow.


I think the met Eireann will have serious questions to answer over alerts given but that's for another day.

This morning they said that the dangerous period would be 10am to 2pm ! and in an area from Galway around the coast to Wexford, with Cork and Kerry the most likely to suffer.
Seems things wer more extensive than they thought.

shmaupel

Fairly windy and wet now South Donegal. Many thanks to all for their input all day.

dharma200

dharma200 wrote: »

Thought this was a bit ironic....

'The Met Eireann radar at Shannon Airport has been blown away - or at least badly damaged. It is currently offline. The weather people have said that repairs will be made as oon as possible.'
http://liveblog.irishtimes.com/a61368e271/LIVE-The-Daily-Wire/

It's always broken.

ruthloss

Scary here in Naas Co Kildare. Wind sounds like a train.

Endurance_man

grenouille wrote: »

Red alert for Leinster now!!! Desperate winds in west Dublin now.

Why only now? This is madness. Bit late in the day.

This is turning into an absolute disgrace from Met Eireann

token56

Pretty crazy around me, pics of a tree blocking a road just around the corner, and pic a of a tree in my garden literally blown sideways

http://imgur.com/a/wSrVY

JONJO THE MISER

All quiet here now in Kerry.

charlietheminxx

Anyone else having trouble getting onto AA Roadwatch? Very worried about getting home this evening

maquiladora

SeaBreezes wrote: »

Met Eireann just released another severe weather warning for the south west from 15.00 to 19.00? I thought we in cork were through the worst, is there a reload on the way?

Its an update to the existing warning to include eastern areas, thats where winds will be strongest. You could still get some big gusts in Munster too from intense/thundery showers later though.

grenouille

irishfeen wrote: »

Crazy! Now snowing about 7 miles SW of Mallow.

Met eireann had issued a red alert! There is no higher warning!!!

horsefarm

Have been living on a very exposed slope in the Dublin mountains for 10 years. I would be well used to the wind. I don't recall a worse day to be honest

NewMrs2b

Trebor176 wrote: »

It's treacherous here in Ballymount. I don't think I've ever seen it this bad. The roof sounds like it will be blown off.

Same here!! Wondering if any debris remaining at oxigen plant :eek:

CDSM101

Recorded 100kmh winds in my garden in Limerick earlier, although its died down a lot now. Never seen the likes of it. Broke my previous record of 76kmh!

weathermaiden

Anyone else having trouble accessing AA Roadwatch? Haven't been able to load the page for the last half hour!

Oops just saw the post ahead of me!

TCDStudent1

weathermaiden wrote: »

Anyone else having trouble accessing AA Roadwatch? Haven't been able to load the page for the last half hour!

Wont let me in either.

rickdangerouss

Was just in Marley Park, South Dublin. Both I and the dog are safe.

The wind is bad, not that bad yet. The water table in the park is very high, some areas are just ponds now. RTE should have a live blog with updates.

scopper

I'm in Ballymount where things do sound bad. Very gusty and rocky. But no downed trees yet.

columbus_66

I'm on the 7th floor in Sandyford Industrial Estate in Dublin and I can well believe the RED alert, this is the strongest wind in the last 2 months.

road_high

Worst storm ever I reckon in Kilkenny city and county i can remember. Maybe not as prolonged as '97 but more severe and concentrated.

munsterlegend

weathermaiden wrote: »

Anyone else having trouble accessing AA Roadwatch? Haven't been able to load the page for the last half hour!

Oops just saw the post ahead of me!

Yes not working for me but went to their twitter site instead.

cotton

weathermaiden wrote: »

Anyone else having trouble accessing AA Roadwatch? Haven't been able to load the page for the last half hour!

Oops just saw the post ahead of me!

Yep, can't get in either, need to plan route home.

leahyl

met.ie website extremely slow at the minute.

Still in work, our building is closing at 5pm this evening - I'm the only one left in my office. Can't go home because I got a lift in this morning so am due to be collected at 5...

This thread is keeping me entertained!

Shiraz 4.99

NewMrs2b wrote: »

Same here!! Wondering if any debris remaining at oxigen plant :eek:

We're calling it Denis now, you must have missed the memo

aboyro

still blowing hard here after about an hours respite. its been a long day!!!!!!

AdMMM

13 floors up and our building is swaying nicely!

hinault

Durrow : the wind and rain slackened every so slightly between 15.30hrs and 16.15hrs, but I'm sorry to say that the wind has picked up again to almost full strength speed that it was here between 13.30hrs and 15.00hrs.

Also the lulls between gusts have reduced too unfortunately.

Sky has darkened a lot.