STORM EVA Strong winds Wednesday 23rd. Gusts possible up to 120km/h

JanuarySnowstor

Power cuts popping up all over the place esp over the south

ESB could have a very busy Christmas eve

Oscar Bravo

extremely heavy rain in Castlebar now, winds not much of a feature now.

Gaoth Laidir

weisses wrote: »

Bucketing down in west Kerry ...

METAR EIKY 232030Z AUTO 20026G40KT 7000 +RA OVC023/// 12/09 Q0995=

Rock Lesnar

No rain yet, but the Moon and stars are out in north meath, the wind is fierce though

green and yellow

lashing here in south west donegal this last couple of hours. very big gusts of wind with a few massive gusts in the last half hour. time to fill the flask.

Storm 10

Achill Island Coastguard reporting 135 kmh with trees down and power out, check out their facebook page and it's shared by the Irish Coastguard who say it should be red given the wind

tiegan

Very stormy here in south tipp - feels way more than a yellow warning wind - just out in it and very strong gusts and very noisy. Stay safe people!!

John mac

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

extremely heavy rain in Castlebar now, winds not much of a feature now.

and just hit foxford.

Hooter23

Winds picking up now in Galway as that squall line approaches

JCX BXC

Just about to hit West Clare! Winds starting to Gust....

Mars Bar

It appears to have arrived in Tuam anyway

weisses

downwiththatsor wrote: »

Any thunder and lightning?

No nothing, just heavy, heavy rain

Tactical

The Southern end of that squall line looks as if its almost stalled around Single / Brandon area of Kerry.

SlowBlowin

Tactical wrote: »

The Southern end of that squall line looks as if its almost stalled around Single / Brandon area of Kerry.

Almost looks like its going to rotate clockwise round the pinned souther end if you play the sequence...

leahyl

Very wild in cork city at the mo!

Tactical

That's pretty much what I was thinking.
Interesting. That'll dump an amount of rain over a limited area.

Villain

Just hit 90.7 km/h gust at my Station making second worst winds of the season here

JCX BXC

Looks like the squall has lost all its power just as it hit my house in west clare. It's not noticeably heavier or windier.

km79

looks to be weakening a little as it approaches me thankfully

Gaoth Laidir

Met Eireann's aviation chart for 00Z has the cold front lying from Malin Head to Waterford and moving northeastwards at 30 knots.
Associated weather is light rain, occasionally moderate, with localised heavy bursts. Clear in the western third of the country.

A trough moves towards the southwest coast at 20 knots and has locally moderate rain/hails showers with isolated heavy rain showes/thunderstorms.

SlowBlowin

Last update shows a weaker squall line..

Gaoth Laidir

Gust of 51 knots at Casement at 9 pm. Very wild out here alright.

Tactical

Amazing to see it "fizzle" out around the Southern end.

Really interesting stuff.

Hooter23

Still not much in Galway the headline for this storm should have been...



..for Galway anyway:pac:

Pretzill

More gusty the last hour South Sligo - lashing rain - the gusts not nearly as bad as the last storm - yet?

Hooter23

Really lashing rain now in Galway spoke too soon;)

Meteorite58

Ardfert: Wind currently 10 min avg 29kph, recent gust 71kph

9.4mm rainfall since 18.30 ( 11.4mm since midnight )

Bar 993.1 hPa Falling Rapidly

Temp 11.5C

thecretinhop

Yep very wild hailstones in claregalway

Hooter23

Yes very bad in Galway all of a sudden due to that squall line torrential rain

JCX BXC

Was that the cold front? Temp just dropped 1.5c in 10mins.

uck51js9zml2yt

Just popped outside in Dubin, blustery and very cold. Can see the moon between the clouds.

Were is this wind we were promised? (hoping it doesn't come!!)

antodeco

Very gusty in Dublin 10. Just managed to lift thr top off of a small storage bunker that had a cement block on top to hold it down.

Meteorite58

Pouring here in Ardfet, rain rate 55mm/hr

coillsaille

So we’ve now reached the fifth named storm and so far every one of them has resulted in posts in this forum either criticizing a certain event being named or condemning the whole idea of naming weather systems.
As someone living {and raised) right on the coast in Connemara, I can understand the posts saying "but this is just another winter gale, we’re well used to it".

But the bottom line is safety. Those winter gales we are so used to have caused plenty of trouble, injuries and deaths down through the years. In many cases it was avoidable if people had been more informed of the impeding weather conditions. Naming these depressions gets them media attention, media is what people tend to rely on for information. This new naming system may well have saved lives already, we'll never know really. But I know it hasn't cost any.

green and yellow

wind has settled in sw donegal finally. still rainin away though.

Malcolm600f

green and yellow wrote: »

wind has settled in sw donegal finally. still rainin away though.

Its always raining in SW Donegal...lol

Gaoth Laidir

UKMO Airmet Discussion from 8 pm.

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FAUK21 EGRR 232000

AIRMET AREA FORECAST, UK-OUTLOOK-AND-UPDATE,

VALID DEC 23/2100Z TO 24/0300Z.

MET-SITUATION: AT 00Z: THE UK LIES IN A VERY STRONG S-SW FLOW. COLD FRONT LIES N6000 W00700 TO S UIST TO LONDONDERRY TO WATERFORD MOV E 25KT. VERY STRONG UNSTABLE WSW FLOW FOLLOWS FRONT.

OUTLOOK: UNTIL DEC 25/1200Z:

REMAINDER OF THURSDAY:

INTENSE LOW PASSES NW OF SCOTLAND, BRINGING A COLD FRONT E ACROSS ALL PARTS AT 25KT, TO LIE PORTSMOUTH TO THE WASH BY 12Z, CLEARING FAR SE ENGLAND BY 15Z. STRONG UNSTABLE W FLOW WILL FOLLOW.

SE OF FRONT: ISOL SHRA WITH BKN CUSC. STRONG TO GALE S WINDS WITH SEV LOW LEVEL TURB. SEV MTW.

COLD FRONT: WDSPR RA, ISOL HVY RA. RISK OF TS AND EMBD CB AT FIRST S OF N5300. BKN/OVC CUSC AND AC, OCNL BKN ST AND HILL FG. STRONG TO GALE S WINDS WITH SEV LOW LEVEL TURB. SEV MTW.

W OF FRONT: OCNL SHRA, MAINLY W AND N, WITH SCT/BKN CUAC. ISOL HVY SHRA OR TSGS, MAINLY IN NW, WITH ISOL CB. WINDS GEN STRONG W OR SW, BUT GALE OR SEVERE GALE FORCE SW IN FAR N, WITH SEV LOW LEVEL TURB.

Aimsir

blowing bad in cork City

Jpmarn

It was windier earlier on around 8pm near Limerick City. But yet to brace this squall line that is showing up in the rainfall radar.

o1s1n

Sitting on the fourth floor in an apartment in Dublin 1 and it sounds like my windows are going to blow in :eek:

SlowBlowin

Its all quiet in the SW Kerry mountains now, light drizzle, little wind.

SB

Pretzill

Wind calmed completely South Sligo - but about 40 minutes ago it was like someone was throwing buckets of water at the windows - (squall line?) Thankfully Eva has prooved kinder than Desmond tonight.

shedweller

Wind speed is getting high in slane now. Gusts are quite startling in their intensity.
Stay safe!

Gaoth Laidir

Gust of 51 knots at Dublin Airport right now, according to ATC

Call me Al

Achill coastguard reporting trees fallen in Achill. It must be bad down there for trees to be knocked.

SlowBlowin

Southern end of the squall line losing definition/energy.

SB

Oscar Bravo

there was a Gust of 73 knots in Belmullet earlier which is 84 miles per hour or 135 KM/PH , it was rough ,as forecast, right along the north west coast of Mayo. go a bit inland ,eg Castlebar and its just a wet and windy night. the warnings and names are here to stay. i would be kinda old school for example back in the day when met eireann warned of a storm coming it usually be bad , then again esb infrastructure has improved a lot and storms dont tend to cause as much damage. I think the media jump the minute a warning is issued and a hype gets going when really theres no real need for it, unless of course a bad one is approaching.

Chicken Run

Lashing in East Clare, though not quite as gusty as earlier

Smidge

ComfortKid wrote: »

Limerick itself got 3 warnings..

And even after the 3 warnings, did it listen?? Noooo....so it got the naughty step

Blowing like the bejaysus here. Started about 21.00 and is getting stronger and stronger. Already lost a fence so far this winter to high wind.
By the sounds of it outside, I reckon something else will be gone by morning
(Meath/Cavan border)

Gaoth Laidir

The naming system is here to stay for now. No point in talking it to death.
The next storm is Frank, the one after that, Gertrude. Now let's just see when and how they happen.