Strong Winds/Severe Gusts January 14/15th 2015

eskimocat · 15-01-2015 1:55am

Some fairly big gusts hitting Dromahair at the moment... enjoy the weather chasing folks... I'm out.

Stay safe boardsies, and thanks for all the wonderful updates, charts, comments and giggles. Great night of virtual storm chasing and only for I have to actually see the early part of the morning I would be hanging on in there for another couple of hours!

Oiche Maith!

Meteorite58 · 15-01-2015 1:59am

Hail shower here on North Kerry Coast , gust 76 kph W

Supercell · 15-01-2015 2:01am

Cork airport reporting sleet showers, anyone confirm ?

lolie · 15-01-2015 2:08am

Supercell wrote: »

Cork airport reporting sleet showers, anyone confirm ?

Looks like it looking at the net weather radar.
Lots of it falling up northwest too.
Click weather type on.
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Hooter23 · 15-01-2015 2:08am

Gone up a notch in Galway...

HappyDaze007 · 15-01-2015 2:09am

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

152 km/h gust recorded in Wales:eek:

Whereabouts do you know..?

Thanks

yop · 15-01-2015 2:09am

Gone a bit too quite now here for the last 10. Was a massive few raps of thunder, then hailstorm and now relatively quite.

TheRedDevil10 · 15-01-2015 2:12am

HappyDaze007 wrote: »

Whereabouts do you know..?

Thanks

Capel Curig

foxy farmer · 15-01-2015 2:13am

Clear skies south of Bandon but cloud cover coming from west. Lightning seen west around Drimoleague. Wind rising again.

Birdnuts · 15-01-2015 2:13am

HappyDaze007 wrote: »

Whereabouts do you know..?

Thanks

Capil Curig - a mountain top. Folks the main fun and games with this won't kick off for a few hours yet for most. The East will be hardest hit from about 6am 2morrow. TBH I'm suprised theres not a Red Warning gone out for some counties in the East given the latest model runs.

Diabhal Beag · 15-01-2015 2:14am

Don't think there's any rain but fierce wind out west Galway

rilz · 15-01-2015 2:15am

Status red according to BBC down South Ireland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30820752

Rougies · 15-01-2015 2:18am

rilz wrote: »

Status red according to BBC down South Ireland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-30820752

Thanks for letting us know. We'd be ****ed without the BBC!

Ilovelucy · 15-01-2015 2:19am

Gone so quiet where I am in Ballina.

Kristopherus · 15-01-2015 2:19am

yop wrote: »

Ah balls, saorview gone now in Castlebar, must have been the lightening.

Thats the third time its gone since yesterday (Tuesday) morning. And not a dickie-bird about it on any media, bar your post.

Kristopherus · 15-01-2015 2:21am

RED L4 0TH wrote: »

Wouldn't fancy being up at the lighthouse on Clare island right now.........

Thats a B & B now:D

tomcosgrave · 15-01-2015 2:22am

FYI folks...

US National Weather Service (ie, NOAA) on Twitter ‏@NWSOPC that ASCAT wind retrievals confirm hurricane force winds west of Ireland - pic.twitter.com/7ccbvl7kxj - in other words, a bent occlusion / stingjet setup looks like reality now.

rilz · 15-01-2015 2:23am

Kristopherus wrote: »

Thats a B & B now:D

How much a stay a night:pac:

lumos · 15-01-2015 2:24am

Picture quality is quite bad but it looks like waves are getting close to breeching the sea wall in Lahinch.

I can't post the live cam feed cause I am a new user but it's easy to find via Google and has been posted a few times in this thread.

jacksie66 · 15-01-2015 2:25am

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yop · 15-01-2015 2:26am

tomcosgrave wrote: »

FYI folks...

US National Weather Service (ie, NOAA) on Twitter ‏@NWSOPC that ASCAT wind retrievals confirm hurricane force winds west of Ireland - pic.twitter.com/7ccbvl7kxj - in other words, a bent occlusion / stingjet setup looks like reality now.

What does that mean if I can ask a blonde question

Xenji · 15-01-2015 2:27am

Kristopherus wrote: »

Thats the third time its gone since yesterday (Tuesday) morning. And not a dickie-bird about it on any media, bar your post.

The RTE mast outside town was hit by lightning last night.

Xenji · 15-01-2015 2:30am

Ilovelucy wrote: »

Gone so quiet where I am in Ballina.

We still have not seen the full brunt of the storm in Mayo yet.

Pretzill · 15-01-2015 2:30am

Xenji wrote: »

The RTE mast outside town was hit by lightning last night.

Judging by the amount of repeats they show, it probably struck twice

Poppin Fresh · 15-01-2015 2:30am

Getting windy here in Cork City. The worse its been since early evening.

RobertKK · 15-01-2015 2:33am

tomcosgrave wrote: »

FYI folks...

US National Weather Service (ie, NOAA) on Twitter ‏@NWSOPC that ASCAT wind retrievals confirm hurricane force winds west of Ireland - pic.twitter.com/7ccbvl7kxj - in other words, a bent occlusion / stingjet setup looks like reality now.

https://twitter.com/NWSOPC/status/555513433526128641

tomcosgrave · 15-01-2015 2:33am

yop wrote: »

What does that mean if I can ask a blonde question

Put simply, strong wind speeds made stronger. It's caused by evaporation of cold stuff in clouds, the cold air comes down and gets faster as it goes. The cloud is shaped like a scorpions tale, hence the "stingjet" name.

An infinitely better explanation is here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_jet

greedygoblin · 15-01-2015 2:34am

http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/datasets/ASCATData.php

Looks to be some of the highest windspeeds anywhere in the world right now.

Hooter23 · 15-01-2015 2:37am

greedygoblin wrote: »

http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/datasets/ASCATData.php

Looks to be some of the highest windspeeds anywhere in the world right now.

Looks like a map someone scribbled with marker :pac:

RobertKK · 15-01-2015 2:39am

The Americans are pretty excited about this, so many tweets with the words 'hurricane force low'
https://twitter.com/NWSOPC

Met Eireann just said, and I say 'just' violent storm force 11. They didn't go the whole hog and go for a hurricane force 12.

Strong Winds/Severe Gusts January 14/15th 2015

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