Storm Desmond - High Winds 4/5 December 2015

Villain

Screenshot of Warnings and it has been named Storm Desmond.

Bigcheeze

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

As opposed to any other part of Ireland, where it only rains once in every 10 years on average.

Well I think the west gets about 3 times the annual east coast total.

maquiladora

Pinch of salt, but this model is showing up to 300mm on high ground in Donegal over a period of 36 hours.

Storm 10

Storm 10 wrote: »

Update they are recovering a critically ill crewman from a cargo ship, Rescue 117 doing the job and Rescue 115 doing top cover.

Final update on this, Rescue 117 has recovered the casualty and on the way to Cork Hospital, Rescue 115 Returning to base in Shannon, great work well done.

Storm 10

irishgeo wrote: »

What's top cover?

Getting windy in mayo.

Top cover is when a Rescue helicopter goes on a long range mission, an Air Corps Casa or in this case a second Coastguard Helicopter accompanies the helicopter in case of an emergency ditching or if the need to return to base with a problem, they carry life saving equipment in case it does have to ditch.

Weatherproof79

maquiladora wrote: »

Pinch of salt, but this model is showing up to 300mm on high ground in Donegal over a period of 36 hours.

Damn that would eclipse last month's rain which saw the worst flooding in some areas Donegal since the 1960s. Could get very bad indeed. Coincidentally it was a Friday/Saturday event as well

Weatherproof79

Out of interest when is the last time we had a red warning for rain?

pad199207

Weatherproof79 wrote: »

Out of interest when is the last time we had a red warning for rain?

Yah and actually how long is it going to to take for us to have a red warning for Snow?

km79

Weatherproof79 wrote: »

Damn that would eclipse last month's rain which saw the worst flooding in some areas Donegal since the 1960s. Could get very bad indeed. Coincidentally it was a Friday/Saturday event as well

looks really hit and miss for my area in east galway
between 30-50mm would be my guess
and its not good when I'd be happy with "just" that
last time there were charts like this last year it was overcooked for everywhere bar the mountainous areas
fingers crossed

Storm 10

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/medical-evacuation-team-scrambled-to-airlift-crew-member-from-ship-off-irish-coast-709832.html

omicron

Weatherproof79 wrote: »

Out of interest when is the last time we had a red warning for rain?

This is the first one but we haven't had the warning system very long, thinking of recent times I'd imagine November 2009 would have seen red warnings in the west if we had them at that time, with daily figures of up to 100mm in places although it was the repeated rainfall over a few weeks that caused most of the flooding.

September 2010 also had a day with 90mm in the south east but it fell on dry ground, would have qualified for a red warning in volume terms although the dry ground may have made it unnecessary.

October 2011, there was extremely heavy rain and flooding in the east, 70-90mm in the Dublin area and more in the mountains, led to serious flooding and would have been a red warning.

omicron

pad199207 wrote: »

Yah and actually how long is it going to to take for us to have a red warning for Snow?

Criteria for red warnings for snow are extremely low so I'd imagine we'll see one at some point, accumulations of 8cm below 250m asl is all that is required - would have had multiple red warnings for snow and also cold temperatures in the winters of 08/09, 09/10, Nov/Dec 2010 and March 2013.

Storm 10

Gone very wild in Galway in the past few hours, very strong wind gusts

northgirl

Our building is going on shutdown for the weekend in Cork city. Flood barriers going up. Prevention is better I suppose.

maquiladora

Storm 10 wrote: »

Gone very wild in Galway in the past few hours, very strong wind gusts

It should start to calm down again....around 3am Sunday morning. :P

Storm 10

maquiladora wrote: »

It should start to calm down again....around 3am Sunday morning. :P

Thanks maq is it likely to go to a Red Warning with this storm ?

maquiladora

Storm 10 wrote: »

Thanks maq is it likely to go to a Red Warning with this storm ?

Nope. Just a long duration event. Nothing higher than around 120 kmh gusts.

maquiladora

UKMO has an Amber warning for 60-100mm likely widely and up to 200mm locally, under review for future updates and currently one notch below their highest level warning.

squarecircles

*** Storm Desmond Update ***

Winds gusting locally at approx 100 kmh. No rain at present.

Achill coast guard via twitter

Weatherproof79

maquiladora wrote: »

UKMO has an Amber warning for 60-100mm likely widely and up to 200mm locally, under review for future updates and currently one notch below their highest level warning.

Yeah although just yellow for NI

cherryghost

sryanbruen wrote: »

Storm Rachel, January 14th

Yes, and we all remember how that ended up

DOCARCH

Mod Note: Can we keep everything wind related to this thread. This thread is solely in relation to an orange warning for expected widespread strong winds to many parts of the country.

All rain related posts should be posted here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057531858

Xenji

Gusts fairly ramping up in Castlebar.

Meteorite58

Wind picking up all the time here in Ardfert, 10 min avg 34 kph SW, gust 66 kph

Bar1016.3 hPa Falling Rapidly

ImDave

Due to fly from Glasgow to Dublin in a Stobart ATR this evening, scheduled to arrive at 21.05.

Should be an interesting flight :pac:

Dollseyes

getting fairly wild around Ballina (Mayo) now.. I was just lifted off the ground with that gust..

aisling86

We've kicked into first gear wind wise in cork.

joujoujou

Highest gust so far: 79.6 km/h at 12:28.

woody1

looking out the window of an office in ballina looks and sounds grand to me, im sure when i get home to the sticks in an hours time itl be very different out there
supposed to drive across the country and back tomorrow from the looks of it getting out of connacht will be the hardest bit might have to reconsider

Aimsir

DOCARCH wrote: »

Mod Note: Can we keep everything wind related to this thread. This thread is solely in relation to an orange warning for expected widespread strong winds to many parts of the country.

All rain related posts should be posted here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057531858

Maybe the name of the thread should be renamed as this weather event should really be in one thread for us followers

km79

Aimsir wrote: »

Maybe the name of the thread should be renamed as this weather event should really be in one thread for us followers

I agree

DOCARCH

Aimsir wrote: »

Maybe the name of the thread should be renamed as this weather event should really be in one thread for us followers

I don't necessarily disagree...but you are dammed if you do and dammed if you don't!

Problem is that Met Eireann have 6 separate weather warnings in place, from red to yellow!!!

Red warning is just for rain, for western counties. Orange warning is for wind, which will be more widespread.

If everything is lumped on here into one red warning there are those who will be critical of that too!

Hooter23

The winds in Galway are very sustained.. gusts not too bad though with all the rain forecast and the winds to last so long it wont take extreme gusts to bring down trees id say

corsav6

Are the winds expected to get stronger than what we're experiencing now?
It's very windy outside Newport, NW Mayo at the moment.

Oscar Bravo

Extremely windy in Castlebar now, sustained strong wind!

Supercell

DOCARCH wrote: »

I don't necessarily disagree...but you are dammed if you do and dammed if you don't!

Problem is that Met Eireann have 6 separate weather warnings in place, from red to yellow!!!

Red warning is just for rain, for western counties. Orange warning is for wind, which will be more widespread.

If everything is lumped on here into one red warning there are those who will be critical of that too!

Yellow warnings for wind and rain in Leinster, I think I'll start a new thread for that.


/I'll get my coat :pac:

squarecircles

Winds steadily ramping up in mayo,

M.T. Cranium

O-bla-dee, o-bla-dah, life goes on, yah ...

Peak winds will be around 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. according to guidance, that's when the gradient is strongest. It gets incrementally stronger each hour to then, and afterwards begins to reduce especially north of Mace Head. I would estimate that the peak winds at any location will be 20-25% stronger than they are now if wind direction doesn't shift. So if you presently have 80 km/hr gusting to 100, that could peak at 100 gusting to 125. (I am indicating that gusts are not that much stronger than mean wind speeds in this event).

sc9736

Hi All,

Quick question, group of us are due to do the Clonakility Cork Marathon tomorrow morning at 9am.

I have tried numerous attempts to get a reply from organisers if it will be going ahead.....and we are due to travel down this evening from Dublin.

Do you reckon it will be very bad then? Its right along seafront

Many thanks
S

maquiladora

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

O-bla-dee, o-bla-dah, life goes on, yah ...

Peak winds will be around 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. according to guidance, that's when the gradient is strongest. It gets incrementally stronger each hour to then, and afterwards begins to reduce especially north of Mace Head. I would estimate that the peak winds at any location will be 20-25% stronger than they are now if wind direction doesn't shift. So if you presently have 80 km/hr gusting to 100, that could peak at 100 gusting to 125. (I am indicating that gusts are not that much stronger than mean wind speeds in this event).

Also a second phase of strong winds around equal strength tomorrow.

DOCARCH

Supercell wrote: »

Yellow warnings for wind and rain in Leinster, I think I'll start a new thread for that.


/I'll get my coat :pac:

Don't worry...I'm off out!

Just behave and sort it between you.

Keep the volume on the TV down and just remember I've marked all the levels on the bottles in the drinks cabinet!!!

:pac:

Supercell

About 7kt winds here currently, very sheltered from the SW in this location.

leahyl

Wind really picking up in Cork City, beginning to whistle!

Baggy Trousers

Gusty in west Galway now. Quite mild. No rain yet.

coillsaille

DOCARCH wrote: »

I don't necessarily disagree...but you are dammed if you do and dammed if you don't!

Problem is that Met Eireann have 6 separate weather warnings in place, from red to yellow!!!

Red warning is just for rain, for western counties. Orange warning is for wind, which will be more widespread.

If everything is lumped on here into one red warning there are those who will be critical of that too!

Would it be possible to say Level 1 -2 or something like that in the title?
It could get quite messy later if posters have to split their reports of conditions into wind and rain parts and post them in separate threads. Just my humble opinion..

M.T. Cranium

I think this is the only way to accommodate the red rainfall warning situation, otherwise you have a thread title that many will interpret as being a red wind warning (which is not the case) and we'll be hearing about that for months afterwards.

It will also make it somewhat easier for people to find recent reports on wind or rain if they are mainly interested in one more than the other.

Aerohead

The wind in Galway now is serious, where I am working the roof is creaking and making terrible noise, there are leaves blowing like snow, pretty scary right now

StewartGriffin

DOCARCH wrote: »

Don't worry...I'm off out!

Bring an umbrella. Oh wait, should that go in the Rain thread?

squarecircles

Storm desmond has knocked me to my feet while filming and stolen my hat,bugger

DOCARCH

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

I think this is the only way to accommodate the red rainfall warning situation, otherwise you have a thread title that many will interpret as being a red wind warning (which is not the case) and we'll be hearing about that for months afterwards.

Exactly! For every one person who suggests that there should be one thread, there will be two people afterwards moaning that they cancelled their trip from south Dublin to north Dublin because there was a red warning on Boards!