The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

sopretty

Well I'm in Co. Longford and the howling sounds like the end of the world.. (I'm prone to the dramatics lol). I am afraid something like windows are going to break in, or that the chimney will explode! It certainly sounds like it!!!

munsterlegend

leahyl wrote: »

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!

Daddy?!!! A bad day for cork Leahyl.. One for the record books.

BLIZZARD7

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Isn't this better than snow?

Not for me but its the next best thing!

Larbre34

AARoadwatch website is fecked, forget it. Suggest twitter or the Radio station bulletins...

Endurance_man

Reckon its ok to cycle home from Dublin city centre to Clonskeagh around 5?

leahyl

munsterlegend wrote: »

Daddy?!!! A bad day for cork Leahyl.. One for the record books.

Daddy's girl :pac: Indeed, my dad is one in a million

mike65

Ms Cusack sounds like a woman under pressure!

2smiggy

snubbleste wrote: »

God.

haha, partly guessed so , just the boss ranting to me about people taking zero care of trees and bushes on their land on the side of the road. it will only be a few hundred euros damage, but during the course of a year the amount of mirrors we replace due to zero maintenance to hedges is staggering

Super-Rush

Just reached my destination.

What's normally a 10 minute drive took 45 minutes as almost every road is blocked due to fallen trees. The trail of destruction is just insane.

Hats off to met eireann for being the biggest shower of incompetent **** in the country.

Kudos to everyone in the weather forum though. Without the forecasts and model updates everyone would have been caught on the hop with this storm.

JONJO THE MISER

Evelyn now on rte radio, does not sound happy, very cranky.

maquiladora

KCLR 96FM ‏@kclr96fm 52s

CARLOW - Due to the current severe weather conditions the power supply has been affected to a large number of the water and sewerage plants

DOCARCH

Still not as windy here as it was this morning in Dublin 16...the mountains must be killing the wind.

Riskymove

Super-Rush wrote: »

Just reached my destination.

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helpful to give locations when posting on the thread

brimur69

mike65 wrote: »

Ms Cusack sounds like a woman under pressure!

Is it a bad storm Evelyn?

Whatcha mean? Its 11, thats bad!

mike65

and we're done (on radio).

SpaceTime

Cork City Council issued a revised weather alert that is covering until 19:00 now.

The following alert has been issued.
Severe Weather Warning : Code Level Red

Continuing very stormy for a time this evening with very dangerous westerly winds of mean speeds of 80 to 100km/h and very severe gusts of 130 to 170km/h.

Valid from 15:00 Wednesday 12-February-2014 until 19:00 Wednesday 12-February-2014

Went out as an email and SMS alert to anyone registered.

Are we due a second round of this in the next couple of hours or are they just being very cautious ?

hmmm

Sorry to bother you Evelyn!

In fairness, they must have been working overtime in the met overnight.

sunbeam

And here come the hailstones....

leahyl

The numbers without power are going to rise dramatically as the evening goes on I would imagine - already over quarter of a million without power - unbelieveable

sopretty

Endurance_man wrote: »

Reckon its ok to cycle home from Dublin city centre to Clonskeagh around 5?

No

NewMrs2b

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

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

Obviously because I don't know what you are talking about.

dacogawa

Endurance_man wrote: »

Reckon its ok to cycle home from Dublin city centre to Clonskeagh around 5?

I do a NO on that, walk with it, only about 30 mins & saves being blown under a bus!

microsim

token56 wrote: »

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

Are you in Maynooth or Portlaoise?

BLIZZARD7

Endurance_man wrote: »

Reckon its ok to cycle home from Dublin city centre to Clonskeagh around 5?

I wouldnt- cyclists are struggling badly.. could end up blown under a car so really not worth it.

miss no stars

METARS:

EICK: 26026G40KT
EINN: 26035G52KT
EIME: 25039G59KT
EIDW: 25041G61KT
EGAA: 21006KT

(1st 3 digits = wind direction on compass - 270 is directly from the west, 180 south and so on; second is wind speed in knots and G followed by numbers is the gust speed)

Sephiroth_dude

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Evelyn now on rte radio, does not sound happy, very cranky.

Whats she saying?

patneve2

Dun Laoghaire Harbour 62 kt, 70 kt possible later i think

Galway K9

sunbeam wrote: »

And here come the hailstones....

Just as you say it, the sky opens up lol

OldRio

woody1 wrote: »

pump needs power to ciruclate the hot water, without that theres a pressure build up and thats not good ! id be letting it die down..

Drain the hot water.

leahyl

Brace yerselves Dublin!!