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

Tactical

highdef wrote: »

The info I got from the youtube video was: "Some of the waves from storm Frank in Tramore Waterford"

Not good enough?

When I viewed it from within the thread it simply stated winter storm 2015

Itssoeasy

Heuston cork train has stopped at mallow and bus transfers are in place.

Gael23

Things are supposed to be pretty bad in Galway City now.

Oscar Bravo

Another batch of heavy rain arriving into the south west/west now

Villain

92.6 km/h 9:11pm

patbundy

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

www.irishexaminer.com

did you read that properly buddy,bandon is no where near the lee. that river in bandon hits the sea at kinsale

thomasj

patbundy wrote:

did you read that properly buddy,bandon is no where near the lee. that river in bandon hits the sea at kinsale

Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 09:41 pm

Flood waters are encroaching on Bandon in County Cork tonight.

Residents in the area are said to be on heightened alert - with the River Lee expected to burst its banks before dawn.

From the article in question

squarecircles

Rainfall radar

Patty O Furniture

Has the floods exceeded the 2009 levels at Shannon as mentioned afaik in the RTE news tonite

PukkaStukka

Wind and rain seem to have died down completely here in north county Dublin. Somehow I don't think this is the end of it though....

corsav6

Well my Internet has just come back after 2 hours. Been standing beside the window on meteors edge network trying to follow this thread.
We seem to be escaping the worst of this so far, a couple of strong gusts but nothing out of the ordinary. Rain has been persistent but we're in no danger of flooding so it's no more than an inconvenience for us thankfully.
Located 4 miles from the coast outside Newport, Mayo. We're well exposed to the SW winds and up fairly high so usually we get hammered but thankfully this year's storms have been kind to us.

mirrorwall14

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHO-S3XjpTg

Is there a child in that car? That just seems unnecessary risky

Storm 10

Gael23 wrote: »

Things are supposed to be pretty bad in Galway City now.

Where abouts in the City ????

harr

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Myself & the O/H are planning on travelling to Athlone tomorrow afternoon. Is it safe to do so, or are we mad!?

We are in the same boat,have a wedding on Thursday in athlone and will be driving from Dublin ...thinking of getting train if it gets any worse.
Let us know what the roads are like tomorrow if you don't mind..take it handy

Speak Now

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Is there a child in that car? That just seems unnecessary risky

Not as bad as it looks, the waves are breaking off the wall and splashing over the wide footpath into the road. Common enough to see sea weed sprawled on the far side after a stormy night.

northgirl

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Another batch of heavy rain arriving into the south west/west now

This is not good given the current updates being posted on Cork Flood Alerts - haven't seen that widespread flooding in the City before..

legomaniac

Seriously this has to be said. The media is hyping this gale way to much. All motorways and national routes are perfectly passable, if a bit wet. I am in South Donegal. I have seen storms over the years... this is a strong gale.

Banned

Lumi

Gael23 wrote: »

Things are supposed to be pretty bad in Galway City now.

Not at all. Apart from some heavy rain at the moment we've gotten off lightly in the city.

Gael23

Storm 10 wrote: »

Where abouts in the City ????

Near the Spanish arch.

mayo.mick

Lots more rain by the look of latest radar

Lumi

legomaniac wrote: »

Seriously this has to be said. The media is hyping this gale way to much. All motorways and national routes are perfectly passable, if a bit wet. I am in South Donegal. I have seen storms over the years... this is a strong gale.

Are they hyping the serious flooding and destruction to homes and property legomaniac?
Seriously - enough!

MJohnston

legomaniac wrote: »

Seriously this has to be said. The media is hyping this gale way to much. All motorways and national routes are perfectly passable, if a bit wet. I am in South Donegal. I have seen storms over the years... this is a strong gale.

I suggest you read over the last few pages and see the flooding reports, or indeed this FB page: https://www.facebook.com/corkfloodalerts/

For a lot of Irish people this is a major weather event.

Coles

legomaniac wrote: »

Seriously this has to be said. The media is hyping this gale way to much. All motorways and national routes are perfectly passable, if a bit wet. I am in South Donegal. I have seen storms over the years... this is a strong gale.

Aren't you the contributor who yesterday said they were going to put a new roof on your garage today with a couple of your neighbours?

So how did you get on?

patbundy

thomasj wrote: »

From the article in question

not getting at you buddy just bad reporting from that paper.

Oscar Bravo

your right, most of the motorways and national roads are fine. "back roads", which affect a considerable amount of people are not and are very dangerous. winds not the problem, rain upon more rain for the past month or more is causing the problems. mayo /donegal have had far worse in terms of wind over the years. thats not a lot of good however for those who are(about) to be flooded.

PcAngel

legomaniac wrote: »

Seriously this has to be said. The media is hyping this gale way to much. All motorways and national routes are perfectly passable, if a bit wet. I am in South Donegal. I have seen storms over the years... this is a strong gale.

Unfortunately we don't all live on motorways and national routes.
Plenty of serious flooding in Cork and it ain't stopping yet.
So the media haven't overhyped it as far as I'm concerned.


Just realised - I've probably fed a troll.

Special Circumstances

Dftt people.

ninebeanrows

Latest ARPEGE still has the little circulation, this time a little further north.

leahyl

Absolutely not overhyped, come down to cork city and you'll see....take a look at aa roadwatch website

stampydmonkey

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Not as bad as it looks, the waves are breaking off the wall and splashing over the wide footpath into the road. Common enough to see sea weed sprawled on the far side after a stormy night.

Waves can carry rocks and stones and loads of other floating debris. Its pretty stupid tbh