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

polydactyl

average_runner wrote: »

Its was on the news etc. Morning Ireland had people calling in descrbing the floods etc.
It won't cover it 24/7.

More importantly according to my kids, princess Sofia kingdom is under ice on the Disney channel:)

Ice... Tut tut it's Forever Frost not ice

Rock Lesnar

Rain has stopped and flooding is receding, went for a walk and the roads are in bits, ditches have over flowed and every sort of crap is floating along, was talking to an elderly man on his way to mass and he says his road is like a river, and has never seen that happen in 65 years, as for me, i can hopefully say now, that if the house didnt flood this morning, its never going to flood, im off to see Star Wars now

Graces7

maquiladora wrote: »

Wind Warning for Ireland

UPDATE

Severe winds with damaging gusts for a time today. Southerly veering westerly winds of 65 to 80 km/h with gust to 130 km/h

Issued:
Wednesday 30 December 2015 09:00
Valid:
Wednesday 30 December 2015 09:00 to Wednesday 30 December 2015 14:00

Earlier they said 11 am...like yesterday when the time Frank hit was brought forward.... ah well!

B17G

maquiladora wrote: »

Wind Warning for Ireland

UPDATE

Severe winds with damaging gusts for a time today. Southerly veering westerly winds of 65 to 80 km/h with gust to 130 km/h

Issued:
Wednesday 30 December 2015 09:00
Valid:
Wednesday 30 December 2015 09:00 to Wednesday 30 December 2015 14:00

Interesting example of how the models with the poorer resolution don't do well with these smaller features. 6Z GFS rolling out now isn't really picking up the low, but the earlier 00Z Euro 4 is showing it.

falan

In South limerick near the border with cork it sounds like a train is passing at times with driving rain. It was rough up until 11 last night then lightened off. Franks in full swing again since a while ago.

fepper

Ur right very stormy in north Kerry again

Graces7

radio kerry online is also excellent info

Duff

Lads, have to drive from Dundalk to Cork City tomorrow. Any ideas if it'll have died down by then?

fryup

so where's this...sting in the tail?? has it passed?

WheatenBriar

Bazzy wrote: »

Enough of it didnt happen in dublin as per usual with them I'm a dub living in galway

For heavens sake
The problem with RTE is the unions
They don't want to work irregular hours and certainly love their Xmas off
They dont have a breakfast news programme for that reason

Whats hilarious and ridiculous about it was this morning on morning Ireland they cut flood coverage short at a time when half the country is drowning
They'll spend several hundred thousand on the salary of useless tubridy yet won't send a satellite truck and reporter to Inistioge or Middleton

Speak Now

mickger844posts wrote: »

Winds picking up again here with regular gusts to 70km/h

www.waterfordcityweather.com

Airport has recorded 94km/h Mick .

thomasj

Irish rail saying that enniscorthy station is currently not accessible and no services (rail or bus) running to and from that station

They're saying rosslare services only going to gorey with bus transfers to Wexford and rosslare

WheatenBriar

fryup wrote: »

so where's this...sting in the tail?? has it passed?

I presume you didn't read the forecast or even the posts preceding yours?
The former detailed the precise area for renewed strong winds today and why
The latter is reporting red warning level 80mph gusts in the south now inside said area

B17G

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Mean speed of 52 knots at Sherkin Island. Contrast this with just 2 knots at Newport and 4 knots at Knock, which are directly under the slack trough center at the moment.

Yip. Getting steady rain here in West Mayo, but barely any wind.

Malcolm600f

Lovely morning in SW Donegal..Calm and cloudy and wet , mad driving around at 10am with car lights on its a dam dark morning..

Bigcheeze

N20 wrote: »

Mallow in a bad way despite all the recent work, bridge st and park rd impassable and Bandon as bad apparently

Its all a bit biblical lads - makes you wonder

Passed through yesterday at lunch time the water was already covering the road. Underwater Racecourse was optimistically claiming next meet on Jan 2nd.

Henwin

Extremely windy here now in north Kerry

Graces7

monkeynuz wrote: »

Perhaps it would be an idea to get the dog in.

Nice idea but she has a nest in the shed during the day and will not come into the house. Sleeps in the house but then out she insists. It is actually warmer out there than it is in here...she has been that way since collie died. Please never imagine she is ever chained up or forced out like my neighbours poor dogs were..If i make her come in she will whine and scratch to go out again.

maquiladora

Not much of a breather...

Friday New Year’s Day: After a dry, bright start in many areas, rain and strong southerly winds will spread northwards during the day with some very heavy falls expected later with some flooding and strong to gale force southeast winds.

Graces7

The sun just came out.. South Kerry 400 asl.. gale still screaming

monkeynuz

Graces7 wrote: »

Nice idea but she has a nest in the shed during the day and will not come into the house. Sleeps in the house but then out she insists. It is actually warmer out there than it is in here...she has been that way since collie died. Please never imagine she is ever chained up or forced out like my neighbours poor dogs were..If i make her come in she will whine and scratch to go out again.

Fair enough.

Supercell

Bandon water levels past severe :-

Psychobabble

Just wanted to express my thanks to all those on this thread who have been providing information and updates. I travelled from Dublin to Mizen Head yesterday, but, owing to the information on this thread, I left before 9am, as opposed to my usual 11am. After Cork City, it began to hit, but I made it to Mizen before the worst of it.
Quite the night last night, on an exposed hillside, within view of the Fastnet. The very strong winds of this morning are subsiding and there is beautiful bright sunshine now. I took a quick walk out there now and I have never seen waves like it, breaking far out to sea. I will be staying well away from the shore today!
My thoughts are with all those who have been affected by this and also wondering if the floods will have subsided by the time I need to make it back to Dublin Sunday.

Vex Willems

Bandons main Street

https://twitter.com/lensdan/status/682134824111489024

thomasj

https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/682137428740681728

Met radar showing more heavy rain crossing from the west and south

sjb25

thomasj wrote: »

Irish rail saying that enniscorthy station is currently not accessible and no services (rail or bus) running to and from that station

They're saying rosslare services only going to gorey with bus transfers to Wexford and rosslare

Here's enniscorthy the train station is on the top right hand side of the photo

Knex*

poconnor16 wrote: »

Knex I'd head for home. UCC are now moving equipment from lower flows of their buildings since the dam levels are increasing. With all the debris from trees etc out our way, better to be safe than sorry. Keep an eye on Cork Flood Alerts on Facebook, they are doing a good
Job

Thanks man.

Just got home. Cork > Blackpool > Blarney > Tower.

Roads are better now than they were this morning, in terms of flooding, but definitely a lot more debri around.

Not sure if the flooding will pick up again with the flow from the dam, however.

Winds against the car are almost as strong as I've driven in, and definitely getting stronger!

Meteorite58

I see Fenit Harbour gust to 106 kph, avg 87 kph just now

Rising Steadily here in Ardfert, just tipping 70 kph and squally rain atm

Wind sharp veering from the SSW to NW

Bar 990.4 hPa Rising Rapidly

Further 8mm of rain overnight

syngindub

Right Frank !!, give it over now, cop on

goodies

Def increase in wind gusts and change of direction here.