Storm Ophelia - General Discussion/Local reports - See MOD NOTE Post #1

Nettle Soup

spookwoman wrote: »

https://twitter.com/RyanCroal/status/919875160865468416

I have seen people swim at Blackrock in way worse conditions than that. If he's a regular, he will be abssolutely fine.
Let's not get too soft. Besides, Galway has been fine all morning.

ollie1

sully123 wrote: »

Its like Christmas day in Sanycove/Glasthule. Everybody is out!

People still swimming in Sandycove beach as well. Crazy

padraig.od

Wind really picking up in South KK. Intermittent sunshine and light showers. Massive Gale. Lot of small branches flying off trees. Heard a massive crack moments ago, must be a large branch coming off a tree nearby.

lawred2

StringerBell wrote: »

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=53.3;-6.2;4&l=wind

that's a nice graphic

Dublin looks rather benign currently..

sunnyday1234

getting hammered now in Fermoy. Still have electricity which is amazing.

Chris_5339762

Greenhouse gone down in Cork, neighbours polytunnel has also disappeared.

Edit: Clematis tree has apparently gone horizontal too.

Heckler

Big trees being blown down outside my house. Cork City

Itssoeasy

Power is gone on the northside of cork city where I am. It's like someone hit the booster on this thing in the last hour or so.

antodeco

Over 100,000 customers without power and hasn't even fully hit yet.

LEIN

The wind really picking up here.
Potted plants are nearly taking off!!

Samaris

Colibri wrote: »

Cork

Either a million bins fell over somewhere or I just heard something like thunder.. which would be more likely?

Thunderstorms are expected around the low pressure point.

d'Oracle

average_runner wrote: »

Luas stopping at 12

Its already stopped.

lawred2

In a weird way I'm a teeny weeny bit disappointed that this is going to skirt Dublin as much as it seems to be..

Up to 100,000 without power in Cork & Kerry now according to the ESB spokesman on RTE News.

stevenup7002

Things have been moderately bad in Clonmel for the past few hours, but they seem to be taking a turn for the worse over the past 20 minutes. Can feel the floor of my house shaking with the gusts. Am hearing cracking sounds from the trees all around my house.

Really surprised that I still have electricity!

irishfeen

Electricity now gone here SW of Mallow - 190m ASL .. ferocious gusts here now.

10.6 DegC, 88% humidity, 958.2 hpa

hot buttered scones

JackieChang wrote:

I think you're overreacting. I'm also in Clonmel.

He's not. Hang on an hour. I'm in Cork.

Captain Snow

Deleted User wrote: »

Up to 100,000 without power in Cork & Kerry now according to the ESB spokesman on RTE News.

Nettle Soup

LEIN wrote: »

The wind really picking up here.
Potted plants are nearly taking off!!

You should bring those in before they force their way in

My OH is getting sent home from work in North Dublin at 12pm from a retail store she manages. Not ideal that she had to go in in the first place, but at least her company offered those who relied on public transport the option of not coming in this morning and with good notice too. It's a small-medium sized company, so the manager in each store would know those who drive to work and those who take the bus/train. That's fair enough I reckon.

As for the current weather, in south Louth it's persistently blustery, but thankfully the storm hasn't peaked in this part of the country yet. I expect that could change with very little notice though.

Elsewhere, I have to send a shout out to the unpaid mods in this thread and the forum overall. If ever there was a "That escalated quickly" situation in the forum, this has to be it. It must feel something like this for them...






I've often used this thread as my go-to for Irish weather reports but only posted for the first time today. Great work being done all around, and nice to see the mostly helpful information which posters are eager to share with each other.

spookwoman

Nettle Soup wrote: »

I have seen people swim at Blackrock in way worse conditions than that. If he's a regular, he will be abssolutely fine.
Let's not get too soft. Besides, Galway has been fine all morning.

If he /she gets into trouble he is putting others at risk

Etc

lawred2 wrote: »

In a weird way I'm a teeny weeny bit disappointed that this is going to skirt Dublin as much as it seems to be..

Don't be so sure !

LordSutch

antodeco wrote: »

Over 100,000 customers without power and hasn't even fully hit yet.

Seems to be a bit sluggish!

lawred2

LEIN wrote: »

The wind really picking up here.
Potted plants are nearly taking off!!

take them inside like... those pots can do serious damage

Surreptitious

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Power is gone on the northside of cork city where I am. It's like someone hit the booster on this thing in the last hour or so.

Lights are flickering, won't have it much longer I'd say.

cameramonkey

http://www.marine.ie/Home/site-area/data-services/real-time-observations/irish-weather-buoy-network

9 meter wave a bouy m3.

awec

Any change in what to expect in Dublin?

leahyl

In contact with Mum in Cork and she said it’s pouring and “very scary”

zetalambda

Red Corvette wrote: »

They really weren't wrong saying 12pm will be bad. It's fierce windy here in Cork.

You still haven't seen the worst of it in Cork. Maybe another hour until it starts to move up the country...

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=51.9;-8.5;5&l=gust

cyclops999

Wind starting to pick up in Athlone now