Post Tropical Storm Helene 17/18 Sep 2018

bnt

fryup wrote: »

so apart from the top north west corner, the rest of the country will be alright ?

Have a look at the HIRLAM charts for the next couple of days. If right, it's not going to be that simple, with some strong southerly winds over the Irish Sea at times.

mac.in

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/flood-warning-issued-as-exhurricane-helene-set-to-bring-high-intensity-rain-tonight-37322874.html

Mr Bumble

Lookin out at mini water-tornados on Lough Currane. Getting windy......

Graces7

I wondered re the connection with Helene when the heavy rain here in Mayo and Galway was forecast yesterday. SO!

This thread reads like.. "Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the water..."

Take care out there please... Happily holed up here... West mayo, offshore island

Graces7

Really building up now and the met.ie rainfall map is intimidating

https://www.met.ie/

Edges nearer and nearer on the wings of increasingly strong gusts.

wildrover444

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

Whoa there folks, not so fast...for anyone flying to Portugal or Spain, the threat still remains high...

I'm heading to Barcelona tomorrow morning after ten . Is it likely to delay flights

average_runner

So just a wet and windy night, nothing else?

pauldry

yeah. even some of the rest of weekdays will be wetter and windier than this.

most heavy rain staying out to sea.

Dry here in Sligo after morning rain

DOCARCH

21.0c now in Dublin 16 thanks to Helene's tropical airs. Overcast but bright.

gozunda

Gone wild here with rain and gusting winds. No sign of it letting up either.

Was expecting a fairly normal am from MTs forecast. Trying to figure out if this is the prelude or is it going to get worse tonight?

squarecircles

alot windier than i was anticipating,west mayo.

Graces7

gozunda wrote: »

Gone wild here with rain and gusting winds. No sign of it letting up either.

Was expecting a fairly normal am from MTs forecast. Trying to figure out if this is the prelude or is it going to get worse tonight?

see met.ie .

https://www.met.ie/

and the yellow warnings.. https://www.met.ie/warnings

set to last they say all the night until 5 am in NW coastal areas.

Graces7

squarecircles wrote: »

alot windier than i was anticipating,west mayo.

yep.... blowing hard out here too...

https://www.met.ie/warnings

west mayo[ offshore island

DOCARCH

Wind has really picked up in Dublin 16. Temp has picked up too. 22.0c now with some sunny spells.

Rhineshark

Still pretty calm in South coastal Galway. Dull and grey but neither rain nor wind that you'd particularly notice.

Chicken Run

Very gusty in East Clare... And so warm.
No rain yet

spookwoman

Very muggy in waterford and a bit breezy

Graces7

Just reread the gale warning and they say Force 8.

M.T. Cranium

Front moving slowly into west Connacht has picked up some of the energy being dissipated by sheared apart Helene which is basically an elongated N-S trough approaching Biscay at about 14 W. The ocean buoy at 49N 16W showed three hours of light winds recently, indicating remnants of an eye feature. Ahead of the fronts, 49N 13W is showing a steady southerly wind at almost 30 knots.

Would still expect this to deliver some gusts above 80 km/hr in coastal areas this evening and overnight, front will gradually make progress east and develop a new activity centre over west Munster this evening as energy from Helene begins to interact with a weak low currently west of Ireland.

It will probably produce some borderline yellow alert conditions for both wind and rain, but the systems later in the week appear stronger.

Donegal Storm

Brutal day here on the Donegal coast, worst days weather I've seen since in quite a while. Sheets of persistent heavy rain blowing near horizontally in the wind at the moment

Xenji

Persistent heavy rain in the last hour in Castlebar and quite blustery at times, 10.8mm already.

RobertKK

Highest gust at my location here in Kilkenny has been 72.4km/hr.

Graces7

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Brutal day here on the Donegal coast, worst days weather I've seen since in quite a while. Sheets of persistent heavy rain blowing near horizontally in the wind at the moment

exactly as here in West Mayo. watching the rain sheeting sideways .

Cork Boy 53

Balmy but breezy conditions in my area of west Cork at the moment. Some rain overnight but nothing since.

SleetAndSnow

After rain overnight, it dried up in Cork City. Gusts have been getting stronger as the day goes by however and there are dark clouds to the west which I presume are moving in.

EDIT: Forgot to add that in between the gusts its very humid. School was roasting!

GreyEagle

Spare a thought for those on ferries to/from France: seas rough to very rough, locally high tonight.

VeVeX

GreyEagle wrote: »

Spare a thought for those on ferries to/from France: seas rough to very rough, locally high tonight.

Especially those who have had a load of pints and a tuna sandwich.

Discodog

Nice animation:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-5.94,51.09,1629/loc=-7.173,53.820

spookwoman

Is there some line of something going from kerry to kilkenny and then up to dublin? Run the animation on this https://en.sat24.com/en/gb and there is something there

Gaoth Laidir

spookwoman wrote: »

Is there some line of something going from kerry to kilkenny and then up to dublin? Run the animation on this https://en.sat24.com/en/gb and there is something there

Mountain waves.