Strong Winds for Munster, Connacht and Leinster : PM 17th/AM 18th, Jan 2018

piplip87

Fairly windy here in Virginia. Plenty of stuff will be flying around tonight as Orange Snow warning in place nothing about wind.

Temp on the car was up to 8c earlier, dropping back to 5 now.

Need a better warning system as this is not the first time we have being caught on the hop.

During Eleanor or Dylan we had no warning until the treed started coming down. Only got upgraded at 7pm.

People will not take warnings seriously.

vickers209

Very windy in wicklow not expecting power to hold out much longer lights flickering
And this is only a yellow warning would hate to see orange or red!

Middle Man

vickers209 wrote: »

Very windy in wicklow not expecting power to hold out much longer lights flickering
And this is only a yellow warning would hate to see orange or red!

I’d say this should be at least a code orange wind warning...

Danny2580

Very windy in Maynooth. Perhaps as bad as Ophelia was, imo.

Donegal Storm

Still nothing special in North Kildare, windy with fairly strong gusts but nowhere near what I'd call stormy. Met stations not too interesting either with only 3 stations touching 50kt gusts and not even one currently at gale force

M.T. Cranium

Could say that I have never seen as much disparity between forum reports and official station gust values which have never been near orange yet. Latest hourly reports show Casement gusting 50 knots and Dublin 48. Possibly the wind direction is a bit closer to due west than in other events and so those with greater exposure to that direction are feeling it more.

We are covered to 120 km/hr in the boards forecast. Think it should peak soon and begin to wind down later tonight.

curfumsarinn

weatherfiend wrote: »

I went to Irish college there for a year 27 years ago and the wind howling around the college was always phenomenal, even though it was in the sheltered side of the bay.

Yep - I'm about 1k from the college, further East along the peninsula. Sustained strong winds until maybe 0030, possibly beginning to ease now

Soccarboy11

This should have been orange alert i think, the gusts are very strong. But it is strange that the stations are recording differently then what people are experiencing

At least here in cork City Ophelia was definitely worse then this, I am.able to tell the difference. The gusts in Ophelia were pretty bad. This is close though, and i think the sustained winds are stronger then Ophelia buts the gusts during Ophelia we're definitely more damaging.

nagdefy

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Still nothing special in North Kildare, windy with fairly strong gusts but nowhere near what I'd call stormy. Met stations not too interesting either with only 3 stations touching 50kt gusts and not even one currently at gale force

I'd say you are used to very strong winds and find midland's wind events very moderate at best:)

curfumsarinn

curfumsarinn wrote: »

Yep - I'm about 1k from the college, further East along the peninsula. Sustained strong winds until maybe 0030, possibly beginning to ease now

I spoke too soon - MASSIVE gust just there, along with a very loud bang

Rock Lesnar

Got a bit windy since my last post, with a few noticable gusts but nothing out of the ordinary for me anyway and has died down considerably

Donegal Storm

nagdefy wrote: »

I'd say you are used to very strong winds and find midland's wind events very moderate at best:)

To an extent yes but the official met readings are saying the same, current conditions are just about worthy of a yellow warning going by the criteria of 90kph/49kt gusts

nagdefy

Donegal Storm wrote: »

To an extent yes but the official met readings are saying the same, current conditions are just about worthy of a yellow warning going by the criteria of 90kph/49kt gusts

It's true the official readings back it up. I don't know why trees are swaying so much for the wind speed and it feels a lot windier.

Rougies

Very strong gusts here too, especially in the past 30 mins.

Danno

Blowing a steady near gale of 34mph (10 minute average) with a storm force gust of 57mph. South Laois in a valley.

DAN85

Very strong gusts in Naas. Picked up in the last 20 minutes.

smallgarden

Wind howling in Templeogue. Sounds like the worst storm we've had, were protected with the wind direction for Ophelia

sdanseo

Pretty sure it's the sustained nature of the wind making it feel and sound worse than Ophelia. Numerically it's nowhere close.

Highest gust then was 156? km/h, so far we're in around 100km/h mark for not Georgina.

zisdead

It is the strength of the sustained winds here in Clondalkin that is impressive. Would not say gusts are to out of the ordinary, but for sure a stormy night.

Rougies

Judging by the madness I'm hearing outside, if the Casement gusts don't beat 50 kts for 01:00 I'll eat my own face.
I'm expecting >60 kts on 01:00 or 02:00 reports.

Jollyman

Roof rattling windows shaking here in Ardmore co Waterford.

cherryghost

Flickering lights in clondalkin

Kermit.de.frog

Serios sustained wind on the north side of Dublin at the moment, that's for sure. Tiles and windows shaking.

nacho libre

I've seen a report that says a 93mph wind gust was recorded in Capel Curig, Wales.

Colonel Claptrap

I'm a very heavy sleeper but was just woken by the booming wind against the window. In Dublin.

Definitely louder than Ophelia.

M.T. Cranium

Gusts 52 kt at Casement, 49 kt Dublin, and 53 kt Johnstown Castle which is more unusual as they seem a bit sheltered for their overall exposure. (0100h reports)

Cantona's Collars

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Gusts 52 kt at Casement, 49 kt Dublin, and 53 kt Johnstown Castle which is more unusual as they seem a bit sheltered for their overall exposure. (0100h reports)

I'm in Wexford and there has been some strong gusts in the past couple of hours.

Jollyman

Seems to have passed here now in Waterford.

tiegan

Winds definitely easing off now in South Tipp - temps dropping too

M.T. Cranium

Dublin now gusting to 52 knots, temp has dropped to 3 C.