Storm Brian : Orange Wind Warning Sat 21 -10-17

Mobhi1

Next to no wind here and 2.6mm of rain recorded today. It's currently 11.5C. The high was 12.8C; the low was 6.1C.

Timistry

Heavy shower in clonmel. Gusty winds

Meteorite58

18Z WRF -NMM Hi Res model ( just rolling out )

Plenty wind there tomorrow.

Gust



18Z AROME

Gust

Car99

Gusty and heavy persistant rain in Tipp town at present.

Surreptitious

Very heavy rain here and strong winds. Cork.

Meteorite58

Wind Gusts

Wild enough out there right now in Renmore, Galway city.

Burts Bee

Very windy here near doneraile.

Meteorite58

ARGERGE 18Z showing the highest winds on the coasts out of the main models. We will see.

gozunda

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Wind Gusts

What are the figures given over approx location Cork City? Cant quite make them out. North Eastern Scotland looks rough...

Meteorite58

What are the figures given over approx location Cork City? Cant quite make them out. North Eastern Scotland looks rough...

79 km/h gust Roches point
61 km/h gust Cork Airport


In Scotland that's the Cairngorm Automatic Weather Station I believe

http://cairngormweather.eps.hw.ac.uk/

refusetolose

gozunda wrote: »

What are the figures given over approx location Cork City? Cant quite make them out. North Eastern Scotland looks rough...

61 79

dobman88

Need to drive Dublin to Tralee and Killarney tomorrow. Home Sunday.

What time would be best to set off? Or is it a case of just take extreme caution at any time?

fred funk }{

Calm enough in Arklow. No rain ATM.

charlie_says

Galway City


Dry-bulb temperature[°C]
Current : 10.3 °C
Yesterday's avg : 7.8 °C
Yesterday's max : 11.0 °C
Yesterday's min : 4.8 °C
Wind speed [m/s]
Current : 7.0 m/s
Yesterday's avg : 3.1 m/s
Yesterday's max : 7.7 m/s
Wind direction [degree]
Current : 180° NE
Yesterday's avg : 194° SSW
3s gust [m/s]
Current : 12.9 m/s
Yesterday's max : 11.7 m/s

fraxinus1

Breezy here near Mountcharles in Donegal. Certainly no storm yet, not even a gale.

spookwoman

Winds picked up in waterford again

madmaggie

The wind has picked up quite a bit in the past few minutes here in Carlow.

Trebor176

The wind has picked up in the last while in Clondalkin.

Jollyman

Feels worse than opheila here in Ardmore tonight and power has just gone again

Gaoth Laidir

Brian's lost a lot of puff. Thus ASCAT wind analysis at 21.30 showed gales, some Force 9 winds at best. The scan missed the west side of it, however, and this is where the worst winds will be later. Gusts up to isolated 120 kph at most.

fraxinus1

This media hype over gales is going to have to stop. And the naming of storms has everyone driven silly. It's Ireland we get stormy weather every winter. You'd sware we never did

Harry Palmr

The gusts feel and sounnd worse than Ophelia to me right now.

M.T. Cranium

Certainly the worst of this storm is near its western (M3 gusting 56 knots) and southern flanks out in the ocean, remains to be seen how strong these bands will be by the time of landfall around 0400-0700h ... Mace Head may record the strongest gusts eventually as it's well situated for westerly gales.

I don't want to downplay the potential too much, it's a case of the storm having hit its peak in the ocean and slowly losing intensity now, but that doesn't mean a non-event necessarily.

With the intensity trend, skies will be less than fully overcast which can help with convection, there's probably going to be a few fairly robust hail or thunder showers through Galway and Clare into the midlands during the morning. Strongest winds for Dublin probably won't arrive until about mid-day or early afternoon.

M.T. Cranium

Looks like the storm is releasing its stronger winds now, and may follow the same pattern as Darwin although not as damaging, in other words, through the Shannon estuary into Limerick and the inland south, then southeast, with the gradient slowly weakening by late morning.

Would expect some gusts to 110 or 120 km/hr through this track as well as near south coast, with a zone between shielded by higher terrain in west Cork.

When the centre is well inland winds may begin to pick up more in Galway Bay.

Dublin and most of central Leinster will see a weakening trend now to late morning, an interval of near calm as the low passes overhead, then a rapid increase in westerly winds just after noon (peak gusts for Dublin 90-110 km/hr 2 to 6 p.m.).

A gradual increase in northwest winds will occur over most of Connacht and Ulster and peak gusts away from Galway Bay and southeast Galway only about 80 km/hr.

ingalway

Hi, What time would you think the worst winds will hit Galway Bay? Thank you.

quizzical

It's very stormy and very windy here in Limerick for the last 2 hours hopefully it will end for us soon

M.T. Cranium

ingalway wrote: »

Hi, What time would you think the worst winds will hit Galway Bay? Thank you.

Something like 0900 to 1100h for peak gusts, staying windy all day but a slight improvement through the afternoon.

Low is currently almost over Galway and you may notice a short lull associated with the eye of the storm. Decreasing south winds until then, picking up rapidly west to northwest in the daylight hours.

RoisinD

Had almost continual rain since around 2.00am. Direction has changed since then and now seems to be westerly.
Winds getting noticeably stronger particularly since 5.00am, SW to W.
NW Clare

FutureGuy

Wind in Limerick city just woke me. That was really strong.