Strong Winds/Severe Gusts January 14/15th 2015

Graces7

Lumi wrote: »

Getting frequent gusts over 80 km/h now in Galway city

It has gone crazy up here. Loud hail showers and the rushes bent to the ground.. ay me!

Iancar29

My synoptic overview looking at current Sat24 imagery .

lolie

Strongest winds here yet with that band of precip moving down.

Rikand

Wind really picked up in Athlone and she's bucketing down!

i think I'll be taking a late lunch today, heh

Special Circumstances

Lovely in Limerick City, about 500m from the Shannon.
Got a bit breezy for a while, like the kinda wind you get on an average day walking along a beach in winter. But nice out there now for January.


If it's not heresy to say these things.

bringitdown

A fresh blustery day in Limerick seems relatively calm.

marley123

Winds really picking up in Wicklow! Much worse than they were last night

Rikand

bringitdown wrote: »

A fresh blustery day in Limerick seems relatively calm.

It hasn't hit you yet!

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

mickger844posts

Rough seas at Newtown Cove, Tramore this morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKoUBzBzMqw&feature=youtu.be

www.waterfordcityweather.com

cyclops999

Strongest winds in Athlone since storm started.

Special Circumstances

Rikand wrote: »

It hasn't hit you yet!

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Truest thing said about "red alert" Limerick today or yesterday...

Rock Lesnar

Alot Windier here now compared to the last 12-18 hours.

goat2

it has become nasty here in the past 10 minuits, wind hail

Ark rose glenn

Where is here????would be nice to know what part of the country here means

clownface95

Getting windier allot darker now limerick city centre

goat2

Ark rose glenn wrote: »

Where is here????would be nice to know what part of the country here means

kerry

whippet

working from home today on the Louth coast ... while nothing scientific, the winds last night rearranged my garden .. flower pots that had been in place for years are on the other side of the garden, trampoline upside-down and debris everywhere.. no trees down yet but still quite gusty.

Sun shining and I have a front row seat for the rest of the day.

RuthieRose

http://sat24.com/?ir=true&co=true&li=false

bit more wind to come by the looks of things??

clownface95

Strong gusts of winds now in limerick city gone very dark

YFlyer

Got quite windy here in Castletroy Limerick now.

pushkii

getting fairly blustery in Co limerick. rolls of far off thunder about half an hour ago. Dogs going beserk

Macy0161

My station is at home in Wickla, but my anecdotal report from Clonskeagh is that it's really picked up the last hour or so. I'm in the top floor of the building, and it is enough that some in the office are panicking about the roof!

FutureGuy

Blustery in Castletroy, Limerick but nothing out of the ordinary.

Special Circumstances

FutureGuy wrote: »

Blustery in Castletroy, Limerick but nothing out of the ordinary.

How dare you - tis like January out there!;)
Can you see if yer man is still up in that crane or is it freewheeling?

DominoDub

Only 1 of the last 4 attempts at landing at Dublin Airport has made it lots of go arounds and diversions

http://www.flightradar24.com

FutureGuy

Upgrading Castletroy, Limerick from "nothing out of the ordinary" to "jaysus, wont be going running in that, shur you'd get blown out onto the road"

martyfurey

Working Door to door and getting thrown about the place up in whitechurch in south Dublin. Bins flying. Mad stuff

Cosmo Kramer

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Drove 15 miles to work in rural west Galway. No sign of damage at all and roads were dry.

If that was a red, they need more colours.

I don't think you can criticise ME for going red when the peak gusts did go very close to 'red' levels and may do so again later. But ultimately it sounds like this was no more than another winter storm - the kind we get at least once most years. The event is reaching us here in Glasgow now and, while it is very windy, it is nothing particularly out of the ordinary and everyone is going about their business as usual.

A red warning suggests, or at least should suggest, something really out of the ordinary. I wonder if the peak wind speed levels at which these warnings are set to be issued at needs to be looked at again. Clearly, looking at the recent cases of a red warning being issued, wind speeds of 130kmph at locations such as Malin and Belmullet do not tend to lead to widespread serious problems even in the counties those stations are located in. Maybe the bar for a red warning should be set at 140+kmph at exposed locations in future. Otherwise people are likely to become less careful when red warnings are issued and then when a genuinely big storm hits there will be huge problems.

I am surprised though that ME acted in terms of Cork based on an incorrect reading at the airport down there. Anyone looking at the various recorded gusts on a map yesterday in any detail would work out that it was an incorrect report and they really should have checked to make certain before adding Cork to the alert.

LordNorbury

Winds gusting 50 knots at Dublin airport, am listening to Dublin control tower here, no aircraft have landed in last 20 minutes due to winds, all have done go arounds when trying to land, same diverting to Shannon now, one heading to Manchester.

Edit: Here's the link if anyone wants to listen: http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=dub

Celly Smunt

Delays starting to pour in here in Dublin airport,I'm guessing something big is on the way