STORM FRANK, Tuesday 29th-Wednesday 30th. Heavy Rain, Flooding and strong winds.

Birtles

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Flood reports coming in from all over cork on aa roadwatch. With several more hours of heavy rain forecast it's looking v serious

Just drove 20 miles to work near cork City, roads are terrible, took an hours. was driving 4x4 if I had a car i would have turned around and gone hone. had to tow a 4x4 santa fe out of one road/pool. his engine had conked in the middle. still met a few heros bombing along along in cars.

Meteorite58

Wind had eased a bit but back up now here in Ardfert , 10 min avg 43 kph gust 85 kph , 17mm rainfall

Aimsir

munsterlegend wrote: »

Yeah lots of flooding around cork county. With more heavy rain tomorrow bound to be a lot of problems

Where are ye getting that info from please?

Ok found that....

Lumi

Lumi wrote: »

Winds in Galway city are gusting up to 57km/h at the moment.
Highest gust was 71km/h at 15.32

Discodog wrote: »

That gust must of been a high peak. It was nowhere near that during my walk & I was right by the sea.

Yes, the highest gusts were around 3.49 this afternoon in Dangan. It's gusting up to 50-57km/h with mean speeds around 31km/h so just a moderate F4 breeze now.
Just back from Salthill myself - nice invigorating stroll

leahyl

Just read on that fb page about cork flooding that south mall has flooded - how badly I don't know but that's where the wedding im going to is tomorrow....!

munsterlegend

downwiththatsor wrote: »

The Bandon is rising pretty fast as well, hope they escape.
http://www.bandonfloodwarning.ie/admin/graphs/Graph_36h_0000020001.gif

Not a good sign. Could get very bad there in a day or two

Special Circumstances

yellowlabrador wrote: »

for updates on flooding in Cork
https://www.facebook.com/corkfloodalerts/?fref=ts

The council has turned up in my street and is pumping the drains again, and that after some works they did last week.

County sound are giving good updates too. 96 pretty useless. Lots of roads in mid cork that are flooded to some degree or other id say, beyond the usual / traditional water collection points.

leavingirl

squarecircles wrote: »

Met Éireann is considering naming a second storm which is due to lash Ireland immediately after the deep Atlantic depression known as Storm Frank clears tomorrow.Storm Gertrude, as the second storm would be known, could mark the seventh major weather event since the inception of the new naming system for winter storms in Ireland and the UK.

Irish times.

Meanwhile...

Iarnród Éireann ✔ @IrishRail
Due to subsidence on the line. Bus transfers currently in operation from Killarney, Tralee & Mallow until further notice
Retweeted by OfficeofPublicWorks

At this rate they'll run out of names before long. They'll just name the storm 'some cu^t'

The name Getrude sounds like an evil aunty sent around just to cause more trouble.

delaad

Any ideas what time the wind will start to veer W/NW?

SeaBreezes

:-(

leahyl wrote: »

Just read on that fb page about cork flooding that south mall has flooded - how badly I don't know but that's where the wedding im going to is tomorrow....!

Oscar Bravo

Kinsale energy gusting 62 knots, Malin head 60 knots. very gusty in Castlebar with persistent heavy rain. a nasty night for travelling etc . anyone have a highest official gust so far,i.e from met eireann?

Tactical

Update from Kerry CoCo Twitter

Road at rangue killorglin flooded. Road between beaufort bar and joys cross impassable. Carnahone closed. Lots of branches down all over.

https://mobile.twitter.com/countykerry/status/681937030587265025?p=v

Itssoeasy

yellowlabrador wrote: »

for updates on flooding in Cork
https://www.facebook.com/corkfloodalerts/?fref=ts

The council has turned up in my street and is pumping the drains again, and that after some works they did last week.

Christ it's all over the city and county. Also the rail line between mallow and Tralee and Killarney has subsided and it's closed until further notice according to Irish rail.

Itssoeasy

leahyl wrote: »

Just read on that fb page about cork flooding that south mall has flooded - how badly I don't know but that's where the wedding im going to is tomorrow....!

Bring a canoe and and wellies.

pad199207

Decided to head out to Killary Harbour. Wild is an understatement

leahyl

Sky news weather showed it dry for the West and South of the country by 6am tomorrow so might only have the wind to contend with.

Gaoth Laidir

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Kinsale energy gusting 62 knots, Malin head 60 knots. very gusty in Castlebar with persistent heavy rain. a nasty night for travelling etc . anyone have a highest official gust so far,i.e from met eireann?

60 knots at both Finner and Malin Head. 61 knots at Donegal Airport and 68 knots at Magilligan No. 2 (Derry).

sideswipe

leavingirl wrote: »

At this rate they'll run out of names before long. They'll just name the storm 'some cu^t'

The name Getrude sounds like an evil aunty sent around just to cause more trouble.

Nope- we just go back to 'A' and start again!! I'm off to round up some male and female animals.

downwiththatsor

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/cgicurrentgraph?CEL=C&SI=mph&ART=kartealle&INT=06&LANG=en&JJ=2015&MM=12&TT=29&TIME=2030&TYP=windspitzen&KEY=UK&LAND=UK&CONT=ukuk&TIME=1451422997

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?LANG=en&CONT=ukuk&LAND=UK&REGION=0003&SORT=2&UD=0&INT=06&TYP=windspitzen&ART=kartealle&RUBRIK=akt&DATE=--&CEL=C&SI=mph

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Kinsale energy gusting 62 knots, Malin head 60 knots. very gusty in Castlebar with persistent heavy rain. a nasty night for travelling etc . anyone have a highest official gust so far,i.e from met eireann?

maquiladora

18Z HIRLAM has downgraded the strength of the secondary low for tomorrow morning.

JanuarySnowstor

Serious all over cork with many roads impassable. What are they reporting from galway for on main news. It's all going on in cork ffs

Rock Lesnar

When is the worst of frankie to make an appearance in the north east

marno21

Almost every road in the Cork city area + Lee Valley is flooded. The main N22, N25, N28 and N71 are all flooded, this is getting quite serious

La.de.da

Still bucketing down here waterford/tipp border. Many local flooding issues.

Will there be any let up on the rain at all?

munsterlegend

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Serious all over cork with many roads impassable. What are they reporting from galway for on main news. It's all going on in cork ffs

The flooding will be the major issue. It's windy in salthill every day. Suppose the flooding is only within the last hour or two and too wet for paschal to venture out

Tactical

Fromm AA Roadwatch

The N65 Portumna/ Borrisokane Rd remains closed on the Portumna side of Carrigahorig due to flooding. Diversions are in place via Lorrha.

http://www.theaa.ie/AA/AA-Roadwatch/Story.aspx?id=89475

Storm 10

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Serious all over cork with many roads impassable. What are they reporting from galway for on main news. It's all going on in cork ffs

Might be flooding in Cork but it's got worse in County Galway yours will go down its increasing here hundreds of homes and business flooded

Tactical

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

When is the worst of frankie to make an appearance in the north east

We're keeping him in the South if the country

Tactical

Wind at Fenit SW at 62km/h.

Colser

marno21 wrote: »

Almost every road in the Cork city area + Lee Valley is flooded. The main N22, N25, N28 and N71 are all flooded, this is getting quite serious

Im watching the updates on the Garda Checkpoint page and its very serious, dont think Ive seen it this bad before now and Bandon are getting it again.Hope everyone stays safe .