Abigail to bring strong winds Thursday 12th. Gusts to 120km

squarecircles · 12-11-2015 12:58pm

More thunder and lightning here in mayo,making the fone ring,and unbelievable biblical rain

sunbeam · 12-11-2015 1:07pm

Biblical rain here in Achill too in the last hour. Wind and rain have died down a bit now.

dexter647 · 12-11-2015 1:07pm

A real heavy burst of rain here in south west Laois with squally winds....Now that's more like November weather:)

RobertKK · 12-11-2015 1:13pm

On a hill sheltered from the southerly winds here in Kilkenny. Wind is a force 6, moderate rain at the moment.
Current average speed: 42.9km/hr and rising
Top gust 71km/hr
Pressure falling very rapidly: 1004.7hp down from 1016.5hp at 1am.

Takeshi_Kovacs · 12-11-2015 1:15pm

Just had a short burst of squally rain here in Dingle.
Very windy as well with it.

Rock Lesnar · 12-11-2015 1:19pm

Wasnt expecting it to be so windy here today, really picked up in the last hour

Tactical · 12-11-2015 1:20pm

West Limerick
1200
Rain
8/8 Okta
Sustained 13km/h
Gust 24km/h
W - SW.

Xenji · 12-11-2015 1:20pm

Winds seriously picking up now in Castlebar, some very dangerous gusts in the last few minutes.

Meteorite58 · 12-11-2015 1:21pm

Big gust in Ardfert too of 79 kph short time ago, avg 39 kph.

A few big squally showers, very windy on high open ground.

fleet_admiral · 12-11-2015 1:22pm

Sunny, warm and breezy here in Terenure, south Dublin

Hooter23 · 12-11-2015 1:26pm

Wind really picking up in Galway as this band of rain moves in

ComaWhite · 12-11-2015 1:26pm

Very dark here on Inch at the moment, rain has just started to fall.

wonga77 · 12-11-2015 1:29pm

Extremely rough here in south west Kerry, rain coming and going in short heavy bursts, wind is constant though, not sure how strong it is but it felt like the roof was going to blow off a while ago

RobertKK · 12-11-2015 1:44pm

My anemometer is slightly broken, gives the wind speed and all that, but seems stuck at N as the direction, the weather vane itself is showing a south westerly.
It changes for a split second to the correct direction, then back to N.

Wind reached a sustained 47km/hr,now settled in the 46s.
Top gust 76km/hr.

Now to have a look at why wind direction is wrong...

moonlighting · 12-11-2015 1:45pm

Realy nasty here in galway.

Hooter23 · 12-11-2015 1:46pm

Very heavy rain and wind Galway

Rock Lesnar · 12-11-2015 1:53pm

Absolutely awful here in north meath, crazy wind and rain at the minute

RobertKK · 12-11-2015 1:56pm

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/664781178524815360/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Mean wind speed for Mace Head are in red...

Hooter23 · 12-11-2015 1:59pm

I thought it was downgraded very bad in Galway

RobertKK · 12-11-2015 2:09pm

Hooter23 wrote: »

I thought it was downgraded very bad in Galway

As far as I see with Irish storms, you can't be sure until it is over.
Take storm Darwin, here in Kilkenny it was wasn't suppose to be very bad, when we were right in the middle of a top 5 storm ever recorded to hit the country, Met Eireann upgraded places like Kilkenny to red when it was too late, and local radio saying to stay indoors when parents were off trying to get their children home from school.
Not criticising Met Eireann, but it can be easy to under estimate, over estimate and it is the boy who cried wolf which would be dangerous for future events.

pauldry · 12-11-2015 2:14pm

Very heavy rain in sligo

You dont see it on met eireann radar but if you want to see how heavy rain is in northwest you have to use raintoday

Winds not too bad.

Rikand · 12-11-2015 2:15pm

Biblical rain in athlone.

Wind moderate

Hooter23 · 12-11-2015 2:15pm

Surprised with how heavy some of the rain was considering it was only orange on the scale..has calmed down abit now Id say this storm would have been very nasty had it have come closer to our shores