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

Mobhi1

Got quite windy now in D11. Pressure just starting to rise at 985hPa. Temperature has risen up to 9.9C now.

pad199207

Not as bad as Ophelia here but very gusty indeed. May change in a couple of hour though

Gonzo

really high winds here now, howling outside, wasn't expecting it to be this windy or the high temperatures.

dring

10C in Dublin 1C in Belfast at 2200

MichealD

Getting really windy now. 38knts/70kph gusts in Wexford harbour.

dring

dring wrote: »

10C in Dublin 1C in Belfast at 2200

Colder conditions coming back into the far west. Belmullet reached 9C earlier. Back down to 5 now.

Gonzo

dring wrote: »

10C in Dublin 1C in Belfast at 2200

most of the republic is now double figures with the exception of areas close to the border. The really mild conditions certainly went further north than expected. Wind is worse than expected too.

munsterlegend

Very wild here near Mallow. Nothing too severe but worse than I thought. People who leave bins outside the night before need to check weather forecasts.

the2hurdys

Strong gusts here outside Tipperary town..

PixelTrawler

Was out for a jog at 9.30 here in D15. Got a surprisingly powerful wind assist on the way home. Good howl in the trees. The mildness also surprised me as I dressed for colder.

Aurora1966

Just north of dublin airport, wind is howling and mild temperatures have taken hold 10 degrees. Sounds like a steam engine outside that wind.

sdanseo

9*C at Claremorris, and 1*C just 100km north at Finner.

Oscar Bravo

11pm

Mace head gust 55 knots
Dublin airport 50 knots
Sherkin 52 knots
Gurteen 49 knots
Oak Park 48 knots
Shannon 48 knots

(Malin head just 2 degrees, Roches point 11 degrees).

teddybones

Gust of 79kph recorded at ashford weather station in Co.Wicklow. pressure dropping rapidly 986.9mb very loud and gusty out. Just as an aside I find yr useless for these wind events more or less always for East coast at any rate. Was giving winds of 30kph.

madmaggie

It's sounding fairly wild out now, here in South Carlow. Lashing rain, as well.

tiegan

Surprisingly mild here in South Tipp, but very windy verging on stormy conditions outside. Sustained gusts, getting a bit dangerous to be outside. Much worse than I expected from the forecast

curfumsarinn

Fairly hairy here (An Rinn, Waterford) now, been building for the last two hours. We seem to get a lot of windy days/nights, I'm ten years here and still remark on the wind every winter. Tonight's is the worst of 2018 certainly and possibly as bad as anything in the last 12 months (bar Ophelia). I can hear the fence I had to replace after Ophelia creaking... Hopefully that's all we'll lose tonight

Location is kind-of cliff top, about 100ft asl (guessing a bit)

Oscar Bravo

Kinsale(exposed location) gusting 66 knots at 11pm.

weatherfiend

curfumsarinn wrote: »

Fairly hairy here (An Rinn, Waterford) now, been building for the last two hours. We seem to get a lot of windy days/nights, I'm ten years here and still remark on the wind every winter. Tonight's is the worst of 2018 certainly and possibly as bad as anything in the last 12 months (bar Ophelia). I can hear the fence I had to replace after Ophelia creaking... Hopefully that's all we'll lose tonight

Location is kind-of cliff top, about 100ft asl (guessing a bit)

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.

the2hurdys

Anyone have a timeline or current chart for this? Munster.

mickger844posts

curfumsarinn wrote: »

Fairly hairy here (An Rinn, Waterford) now, been building for the last two hours. We seem to get a lot of windy days/nights, I'm ten years here and still remark on the wind every winter. Tonight's is the worst of 2018 certainly and possibly as bad as anything in the last 12 months (bar Ophelia). I can hear the fence I had to replace after Ophelia creaking... Hopefully that's all we'll lose tonight

Location is kind-of cliff top, about 100ft asl (guessing a bit)

Gust of 87km/h recorded at a station near An Rinn, Waterford

Oscar Bravo

11pm shows a fairly tight gradient

Meteorite58

sparrowcar

Garden fence came down during Ophilia. Between different things the new one went up yesterday and today and the cement is still drying on the support posts. I'm hoping this doesn't get any stronger.
Swords.

cotton

Extremely windy in Greystones, I’d say nearly as bad as Ophelia, scary stuff going on outside.

Samsgirl

Really stormy here in South Tipp. Some of the gusts are very strong. And the noise!

Gonzo

I'd say this is worse than Ophelia, it's certainly going on for a bit longer too. Roof of the house rattled about 10 minutes ago and can hear branches cracking outside every now and then.

Gaoth Laidir

This is the windiest here for several years. Anemometer's broken so no reading, but I'd say 60 knots +

MJohnston

Seems to me that the sustained/mean winds are much stronger in this one than in most of the recent storms (here in Dublin 7 anyway) - the gusts aren't quite as standout, but there are long minutes when it's really strong.

Seems to be a squall line (00:15 radar) moving off the Louth coast and into the Irish sea. Not much wind and rain here in Dundalk bar about 15 mins ago when that feature pushed through.