Storm Eleanor : Tuesday 02nd PM / Weds 03rd Jan 2108

ixus

franklyon wrote: »

Near Castlebar. Went out to clear a tree off the road with chainsaw with my father despite me saying it was dangerous. Anyway tree is moved. Calmed down a bit now but was really howling there for a while.

Pretty dangerous thing to do. Only have to reference that poor fella in Tipperary during/after Ophelia.

MJohnston

Someone could make a small fortune off of a weather app that calculates where you should park your bins during a storm - a few of them clattering around the streets here already (they’re all very light at the minute because ot was collection day earlier!)

JCX BXC

munsterlegend wrote: »

Yeah there are two warnings for the west coast in operation. A little confusing!

Read the times and all confusion will be gone.

franklyon

MayoForSam wrote: »

Just drove from Ballina to Tuam along the N17 and there were extremely strong crosswinds near Claremorris, my car was shuddering.

Some idiot was driving a high-sided RV at about 30 mph, bad night he picked to be on the move. In fairness, he did pull off the main road eventually, probably to hunker down for a few hours. Not a good evening to be travelling anywhere.

In fairness there wasn't much warning for the West compared to all the hysteria about Ophelia and the winds here were a lot stronger than that storm. It certainly caught people here unawares

KathleenF

Flooding in Bantry

Bantry

munsterlegend

JCX BXC wrote: »

Read the times and all confusion will be gone.

I did. Unusual to have two wind warnings so close to each other though.

franklyon

ixus wrote: »

Pretty dangerous thing to do. Only have to reference that poor fella in Tipperary during/after Ophelia.

Yeah I know I did try to dissuade the old lad but people being inconvenienced ranks higher than our own health apparently.. . So went out with him to get it cleared quicker.

Samaris

Bad in Kenmare for flooding up the river - both the Roughty Bridge and the suspension bridge are underwater and I'm pretty sure the latter is unheard of, despite Kenmare flooding fairly regularly. Cork looks very close to it too (something has really improved about Cork's flood defences, they've not had one in a while).

Oneiric 3

Met Eireann's Hirlam forecast for 8pm. Running the sequence, the original path of the low did not change in accordance with the reports, so I guess maybe these charts are not as spot on as I claimed earlier, though there are just a forecast after all.

tikkamark

Thunder and lightning here on meath Westmeath border and savage gusts

Gaoth Laidir

What's ironic is that the Orange Warning specifically singled out SOUTH Galway, but now it looks like the NORTH of the county is worst! Damned if they do and damned if they don't!

monkey lover

Wind speed up to 38 knots gust in Dublin Airport and severe turbulence on the approach to landing.

JanuarySnowstor

Cork only floods badly with an Easterly wind........or when a jackeen release water from the dam lol

JCX BXC

munsterlegend wrote: »

I did. Unusual to have two wind warnings so close to each other though.

Not exactly, the second warning was needed to remove Lenister and add Mayo into the warning.

Oneiric 3

tikkamark wrote: »

Thunder and lightning here on meath Westmeath border and savage gusts

This is more like it!

Gaoth Laidir

Knock and Aldergrove TAFs have just been amended now.

TAF AMD EIKN 021832Z 0218/0318 28040G52KT 9999 SCT010 BKN030 BECMG 0218/0220 26023G37KT TEMPO 0220/0315 26028G45KT 4000 SHRA BKN012 SCT018CB =


TAF AMD EGAA 021825Z 0218/0318 14012KT 9999 SCT015 BKN020 BECMG 0218/0221 27028G42KT TEMPO 0218/0223 4000 RA BKN012 PROB40 TEMPO 0220/0222 28035G65KT BECMG 0222/0301 26018G28KT TEMPO 0223/0318 5000 SHRA BKN012=

Kalyke

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-5.94,52.54,1384/loc=-8.872,50.153 Is the large system south of Iceland storm Eleanor or will that be Fionn in time?

Drumpot

tikkamark wrote: »

Thunder and lightning here on meath Westmeath border and savage gusts

Up the road in bettystown you wouldnt know there is anything remarkable going on with the weather!

jacksie66

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pad199207

tikkamark wrote: »

Thunder and lightning here on meath Westmeath border and savage gusts

Nothing on the radar or lightning detectors to suggest such activity.

Thought there was a squall line developing earlier but that died a death.

Gaoth Laidir

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Rapid deterioration in the last 8 minutes at Sligo Airport. Gone from 180 07 knots at 18:30 to 47 gust 58 knots at 18:38!

SPECI EISG 021838Z AUTO 31047G58KT 4000 -RA BKN018 BKN024 OVC030 07/06 Q0974=
SPECI EISG 021836Z AUTO 28031G49KT 230V300 5000 -RA BKN018 OVC026 08/06 Q0972=
SPECI EISG 021835Z AUTO 27026G36KT 230V290 6000 -RA BKN018 OVC025 08/07 Q0972=
METAR EISG 021830Z 18007KT 140V230 7000 -RA FEW011 BKN019 OVC030 08/07 Q0972=

Dying down slightly at 18:54 with a massive pressure-rise of 4 hPa in 16 minutes.

SPECI EISG 021854Z AUTO 29032G46KT 4800 -RA SCT015 BKN023 OVC036 06/06 Q0978=

Oneiric 3

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

What's ironic is that the Orange Warning specifically singled out SOUTH Galway, but now it looks like the NORTH of the county is worst! Damned if they do and damned if they don't!

Not to spark another controversial topic, but could this be a case of over-reliance on the models, and less on professional intuition? I have heard it said more than once on here that storms tend to track a bit further north than what the models forecast, but is there even any statistical proof of this in itself?

PukkaStukka

Just got a news alert from RTE to say 50,000 customers without power in Galway, Mayo and Leitrim

JCX BXC

Perhaps this is conversation for another thread? This one is busy enough!

Oneiric 3

pad199207 wrote: »

Nothing on the radar or lightning detectors to suggest such activity.
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I wouldn't go by that alone. I have observed thunder and lightning more than once that didn't show up on the detectors. As far as I know, cloud to ground lightning is more likely to be picked up than cloud to cloud, and even then, only a certain percentage of them.

Cloudio9

monkey lover wrote: »

Wind speed up to 38 knots gust in Dublin Airport and severe turbulence on the approach to landing.

It’s very squally (if that’s a word)in last 20 mins in north Dublin

Rock Lesnar

Wind really picking up now in north meath, rain has cleared, to leave a grand clear sky

jimmynokia

pad199207 wrote: »

Nothing on the radar or lightning detectors to suggest such activity.

Thought there was a squall line developing earlier but that died a death.

Not seeing anything either picked up..

Danno

Just hit a gust of 58mph here in south Laois (that's 93kph in your new over-rated sh!t measurements)

mojesius

Gotten very windy here in SE Meath suddenly