Storm Doris - Wednesday PM/Thursday AM

fepper

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Rain arriving here on Kerry coast, winds picking up gusting 60 km/h

Will the rain dampen down. The wind speed meteorite down here?

M.T. Cranium

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Latest satellite fix has centre just west of Belmullet by about 40-50 miles.

Looking at previous map with M4 buoy and 984 mb pressure plot, this location on map does not match Met-E info saying that it's at 55N 10W, a location that would be basically north of Mayo. There is also the UK buoy between M4 and M6 on the map, probably closer to the location given for it (something like 55N 12W).

Anyway, if M4 is actually in Donegal Bay then it supports a 980 mb centre now west of Belmullet.

18Z Euro4 has the centre over Mayo at 3am with what looks like a small area of very strong winds over South Mayo and Galway at that time. This area of strong winds then moves into the Dublin region by around 6am.

ninebeanrows

Galway/Mayo about to get hit bad in next 1-2hrs. Well be able to check how strong Doris is

JCX BXC

Getting very blustery now with the rain, regular gusts.

West Clare

Meteorite58

Will the rain dampen down. The wind speed meteorite down here?

Only briefly maybe, winds only getting going now. May even get very squally in some of the showers, we are out of the way from the strongest winds though, heavy rain going through atm



Bar 992.8 hPa Falling Rapidly

pad199207

This could be one hell of a squall line developing now in the west

Musefan

Still eerie quiet here in east Meath, just a whisper of wind every so often.

pad199207

Starting to hear the gusts on the house now in Kildare
Gusts now between 30-40KPH

pauldry

Major headache from rapidly falling pressure

981.6 now in Sligo

Winds whisper is becoming a yell

jimbobaloobob

Just had to go out there and gather the wheelie bin. It's full and heavy yet it has been pushed out of its corner outside the house and into my car. Lid slamming wild.
Doris is letting us know she's here.

MJohnston

And so Doris Day begins...

:pac:

jimbobaloobob

Just had to go out there and gather the wheelie bin. It's full and heavy yet it has been pushed out of its corner outside the house and into my car. Lid slamming wild.
Doris is letting us know she's here.

Xenji

Pressure down to 981.4 in Castlebar with gusts of 72 km/hr, we have had 2.6mm of rain since midnight.

Meteorite58

Very heavy squally rain with hail in it gone through here near Tralee.

Getting increasingly windy.

ninebeanrows

Pressure rapidly falling Belmullet to 983hPa

Mace Head 40 Gust 52kt

RobertKK

I hope everyone have their phones and whatever devices charged, in case of power cuts.

q85dw7osi4lebg

Cliche calm before the storm in East Meath there hasn't been a breath here for the last 3 hours.

squarecircles

Winds cranking up to stormy levels here,ferocious howling...

Think Doris has arrived on the Mayo coast.

ninebeanrows

Hope folks are prepared. She is just about to make landfall..

Xenji

First large outage around Ennistymon, nearly 600 homes affected.

pad199207

Xenji wrote: »

First large outage around Ennistymon, nearly 600 homes affected.

5000 now in Ballygar

Cork981

pad199207 wrote: »

5000 now in Ballygar

Repair time is estimated to be 2.00am.

It must be incredibly dangerous/difficult for esb workers to repair lines in this kind of weather.

milehip

Got fairly rough here for the last 15,calmed done just there.

JCX BXC

Neighbours left their f*ucking bin out in the most stupid place and I'm not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure that its contents is now scattered around the garden.

Kristopherus

milehip wrote: »

Got fairly rough here for the last 15,calmed done just there.

Where's here?

M.T. Cranium

Please include locations with weather obs. The satellite appearance is that of a powerful cyclone alright, perfect circular eye on infra-red (often we've seen these cruise past Ireland around 100-200 miles offshore, this one aims to crawl east along the Mayo coast into Ulster by 0300). Pauldry, you may be "in the eye of the storm" around 0300h.

Severe NW winds will follow the passage of the centre in this case. That's where the gradient will be strongest until after the centre has moved well past Isle of Man, in the U.K. phase strongest winds will begin to catch up to the centre eventually.

This is really going to slam Lancashire hard I would think, around 0900h. It reminds me of the epic 8th of December 1886 storm with the record low pressure at Belfast of 927.2 mbs (!), nothing like that here but sort of a scale model of that storm. Severe damage was caused in Belfast and then northwest England from that low.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wea.20/pdf

Hooter23

Gone from howling wind one minute to almost calm the next in Galway quite strange

mud

Thanks to all of you for posting. This is better than a good book.

Squally and gusting here in East Limerick. The raindrops are being flung against the window and the atmosphere is fairly electric.

I hope you are all unscathed and thoughts are with all who have to weather the storm.

sadie1502

Woke me in shannon Co. Clare gone quiet now.

ninebeanrows

Hooter23 wrote: »

Gone from howling wind one minute to almost calm the next in Galway quite strange

Brief lull after cold front passage before you get whalopped by wraparound... Stay safe:eek: