Storm Hector : Wind Warning :Weds 13 PM to Thurs 14th AM

scarepanda

Wind woke me about 2.30 here near Athlone.

Me poor veg garden has seen better days. The peas are ****ed, green beans, pumpkin and sweetcorn are the next worst hit. Lots of leaves and twigs around the place, but I haven't seen any major damage in the rest of the garden.

prinzeugen

Someone a few doors down is now the owner of half the plants I had going in trays.

Some trays are doing circles on the lawn but a few look to be stuck in a tree a few doors down.

No sign of plants only a trail of compost! Thought soaking them would weigh them down..

Nope!

Graces7

Malayalam wrote: »

Most plants have taken a bashing. Potatoes and onions all prostrate, tree felled and laying down the centre of large beds, a lot of debris, many plants lying down and things generally shook looking. But time may recover most. Still no electricity and WiFi intermittent. It was a bad storm because of the exceptional leafy growth in past month. Could have been worse

ah so sorry. All I really have here is a tiny patch and a lot of containers, in my first summer

Yes I think many will be resilient at this time of year, although I wonder re fruit blossom?

Our electricity has not flickered and my new internet dish is working fine. The island has only had power supply since 1977 and the cables run under the ocean (there are marker poles along the way) so the work is new.

I hope maybe many of the plants will kind of pick themselves up? The roots are OK and the season is for growing .

Graces7

prinzeugen wrote: »

Someone a few doors down is now the owner of half the plants I had going in trays.

Some trays are doing circles on the lawn but a few look to be stuck in a tree a few doors down.

No sign of plants only a trail of compost! Thought soaking them would weigh them down..

Nope!

My few remaining trays blew but the gate and bushes caught them..

Graces7

Now all I need is to find some SOCKS and make soup

DOCARCH

Graces7 wrote: »

Now all I need is to find some SOCKS and make soup

Sock soup? :eek: Things must be bad there!

Graces7

DOCARCH wrote: »

Sock soup? :eek: Things must be bad there!

lol... cannot find socks anyways so it will be stone soup..

Graces7

Amazing how fast things get back on track.. I think the ferry is away and the sun is strong in the breeze...Been out starting to sort the chaos.. My very first ever rose at this new place has three petals left... But there are two buds ready to open.. Kind of symbolic...

Invigorating..

Goodbye, Hector Wrecktor.. For ever!

Yesterday afternoon my lawn looked so rosemantic due to the petals blowing off all the bushes.

sryanbruen

So if the 61 knots gust at Mace Head is the maximum gust of this event then it's not a record breaker.

I said yesterday that I would whizz through Malin Head's historical data from Met Éireann for notable Summer wind gusts. For this, I thought a minimum 55 knot maximum gust would be a good criteria.

The 61 knots gust is just 1 knot short of that of 1st June 2015 at Malin Head which was 62 knots - a storm which I posted about recently in the Summer discussion thread as a comparison to Hector.

A lot of these don't seem to be very deep depressions as shown by the pressure at Malin Head.

Date|Pressure (mb)|Highest 10-minute mean wind speed (km/hr)|Maximum wind gust (km/hr)
7 June 1955|1002.1|72|102
23 June 1955|1003.9|80|107
5 June 1956|991.1|70|104
13 August 1956|988.5|81|117
12 June 1960|991.0|81|115
23 June 1962|1004.2|94|133
24 June 1962|1008.2|96|137
11 August 1962|994.0|80|124
23 June 1965|989.0|67|104
10 August 1966|993.7|74|102
9 August 1973|1005.5|83|113
2 June 1975|1005.7|93|120
21 June 1979|1004.3|74|102
12 June 1984|1011.8|78|115
1 August 1986|999.1|80|115
25 July 1988|985.4|102|137
13 June 2000|1012.5|74|104
21 August 2001|1003.4|76|106
17 June 2002|996.1|70|107
23 August 2005|1001.4|69|102
21 June 2006|997.2|74|109
27 August 2009|997.2|70|107
1 June 2015|990.4|87|115
17 July 2015|997.7|78|106


Here's the charts of some of the above to compare with Hector.

25 July 1988



2 June 1975 (the day of the June snow in England that cancelled the cricket match in Buxton)



11 August 1962



Data comes from Met Éireann.

sryanbruen

In other news

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1007207551153397761

Xenji

Still windy in Castlebar, some gusts of over 70 km/hr but nice and bright, max gust here of 98.6 km/hr last night with pressure dropping down to 990.2 hPa.

Storm 10

Did anyone hear Thunder during the night with Hector, I was woken by a loud blast of Thunder at around 3am in Galway, just the one and that was it.

Ultimate Seduction

It didn't rain a drop here despite the howling wind all night.

km79

Its actually quite a nice day now

Graces7

A few heavy showers out here. But just took the dog out ( If you have even seen canine cabin fever!) in glorious sun and a sweet fresh wind. Enjoyable in the extreme and the dog and cat thought so too...

At least with summer storms we can get warm afterwards!

West Mayo offshore island

Graces7

So wind storms in June are not that uncommon?

Reminds me of the North Isles. We would get a terrible storm in May called the "Gab of May" . like now when we had all the plants started in such a short season for growing.
One year it literally blew all the sea birds nests and fledglings and eggs off the cliffs

sryanbruen wrote: »

So if the 61 knots gust at Mace Head is the maximum gust of this event then it's not a record breaker.

I said yesterday that I would whizz through Malin Head's historical data from Met Éireann for notable Summer wind gusts. For this, I thought a minimum 55 knot maximum gust would be a good criteria.

The 61 knots gust is just 1 knot short of that of 1st June 2015 at Malin Head which was 62 knots - a storm which I posted about recently in the Summer discussion thread as a comparison to Hector.

A lot of these don't seem to be very deep depressions as shown by the pressure at Malin Head.

Date|Pressure (mb)|Highest 10-minute mean wind speed (km/hr)|Maximum wind gust (km/hr)
7 June 1955|1002.1|72|102
23 June 1955|1003.9|80|107
5 June 1956|991.1|70|104
13 August 1956|988.5|81|117
12 June 1960|991.0|81|115
23 June 1962|1004.2|94|133
24 June 1962|1008.2|96|137
11 August 1962|994.0|80|124
23 June 1965|989.0|67|104
10 August 1966|993.7|74|102
9 August 1973|1005.5|83|113
2 June 1975|1005.7|93|120
21 June 1979|1004.3|74|102
12 June 1984|1011.8|78|115
1 August 1986|999.1|80|115
25 July 1988|985.4|102|137
13 June 2000|1012.5|74|104
21 August 2001|1003.4|76|106
17 June 2002|996.1|70|107
23 August 2005|1001.4|69|102
21 June 2006|997.2|74|109
27 August 2009|997.2|70|107
1 June 2015|990.4|87|115
17 July 2015|997.7|78|106


Here's the charts of some of the above to compare with Hector.

25 July 1988



2 June 1975 (the day of the June snow in England that cancelled the cricket match in Buxton)



11 August 1962



Data comes from Met Éireann.

Oneiric 3

According to the BBC just now, Orlock Hd up in the North recorded its strongest June wind gust on record. 74 mph.

giveitholly

Not the worst day,sun out although fairly breezy

sryanbruen

Graces7 wrote: »

So wind storms in June are not that uncommon?

Reminds me of the North Isles. We would get a terrible storm in May called the "Gab of May" . like now when we had all the plants started in such a short season for growing.
One year it literally blew all the sea birds nests and fledglings and eggs off the cliffs

It doesn't seem as rare as I thought it would be but still rare nevertheless for a proper full on Summer windstorm to occur in the months of June and especially July (even though ironically enough, July has recorded the most intense Summer windstorm in Ireland's records - that of 25th July 1988). Keep in mind, the data is from Malin Head which as Ireland's most northerly point is prone to strong winds a lot of the time because the jet stream usually lies just to the north of Ireland and Met Éireann's historical data on their site go back to the 1950s only but the station's actual records go back to 1885.

Using the data I gave, a maximum gust of at least 55 knots occurs at Malin Head during the meteorological Summer every 2.5 years (rounded up to 3 years) on average whilst the likelihood of one occurring in June at Malin Head is every 4.1 years on average. These are only averages though so there will always be deviations. For example, a gust of 55 knots or more didn't occur in June at Malin Head from 1985 to 1999 (14 years) compared to two examples of such in June 1955 and 1962.

It does seem that there has been a decrease in strong Summer windstorms at Malin Head on a larger scale.

Oneiric 3

Locally, the top gust of 53 knots in Claremorris was its highest June gust since June 17 2002.

Gonzo

very windy here but feeling warm and mostly sunny. Not sure if there was much if any rain here last night, the ground is still bone dry.

Elmer Blooker

Gonzo wrote: »

very windy here but feeling warm and mostly sunny. Not sure if there was much if any rain here last night, the ground is still bone dry.

There was barely enough to wet the ground where I am (about 0.5mm) but the radar was indicating that I got a few hours of moderate rain?

Meteorite58

An interesting storm for the time of year. Again ECM was exceptional in picking this up so early and so consistent in track , wind speeds did increase in the run up to the event and was fairly close to what was recorded. The ARPEGE was off on track and wind speeds. GFS , AROME and WRF all did well. Icon did well enough on track close to the event but forecast too high on wind speeds.

The WRF - NMM 2km and AROME 1.3km did well and prove to be quite reliable and useful I think.

Whilst wind speeds did not get right up there to the high end of Orange Weather warning status I think it was a good call by Met Eireann because of the time of year with trees so full of leaves.

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Meteorite58

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