Potential Storm Watch Fri 7 Dec 2018

Clonmel1000

Well played again Met Éireann on this one.

Graces7

coleria wrote: »

Glad youre ok Grace, was thinking about you last night, with this storm hitting Achill, Belmulet area.

Very calm in Galway city, a few light clouds slowly meandering across the otherwise clear sky

A decade on a North Sea island left me well skilled... I now LOVE the isolation. And blessed with good neighbours.. Snug and the gale still howling...

Storm 10

Just a normal windy night in Galway with heavy showers, few strong gusts but nothing out of the ordinary, exactly as ME forecast .

Gaoth Laidir

Looks like only 101 kph was the highest gust on the island of Ireland (synop stations). Getting interesting in the Hebrides now, with a 73 knots (135 kph) gust at Benbecula airport (6 m amsl).

Cee-Jay-Cee

It was windy over night in Letterkenny area but not stormy, reasonably calm now with light wind.

I forgot to put the empty wheelie bin in the garage last night and it was still standing in its usual place this morning.

Storm 10

There are lots of live streaming webcams on Shetland if you want to see how the storm hits them, link below.

https://www.shetlandwebcams.com/sumburgh-airport/

Xenji

We did not break the 112km/hr in Castlebar so the winds peaked early, still though a very wild night with some heavy hail falls, still frequent squally bands of mixed precipitation occuring.

KingdomRushed

I expect at least one if not two named storms next week

Graces7

Wild and tempestuous out here; walls of icy water sheeting across...great gusts hurling them.... west mayo offshore island

Sycamore Tree

Graces7 wrote: »

Wild and tempestuous out here; walls of icy water sheeting across...great gusts hurling them.... west mayo offshore island

Graces7, are you on Boffin or Clare?

Blue skies here in Galway with the odd shower. Chilly wind.

Meteorite58

Status Yellow - Wind warning for Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork and Kerry
A further spell of strong winds will occur later today and tonight. Westerly winds with mean winds of 55 to 65 km/h and gusts of 100km/h are possible, especially in coastal areas. High seas will bring a risk of coastal flooding.

Issued: Friday 07 December 2018 12:00

Updated: Friday 07 December 2018 12:00

Valid from Friday 07 December 2018 16:00 to Saturday 08 December 2018 01:0



Status Yellow - Gale Warning
Westerly winds will reach gale 8 or strong gale 9 today and tonight on all Irish Coastal Waters and on the Irish Sea.

Issued: Friday 07 December 2018 13:00

Harry Palmr

Non event here really.

Meteorite58

Looks like Malin, Belmullet and Mace recorded 101 km/h, wind speeds were a bit under than forecast. I think the storm stayed out further than was showing up on the models and is positioned further N than the models were suggesting a couple of days ago, they did catch up well in the end .






From a bit earlier

NASA

JCX BXC

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Non event here really.

SHOCKING considering you weren't even in a yellow warning.

- 'did you know, hurricane Harvey was a complete non-event for Ireland'

pauldry

Why cant met eireann put the warnings in knots

You get warning in kph then look at site n its knots

Is there any website that gives forecast in knots ....bar the shipping forecast

Villain

pauldry wrote: »

Why cant met eireann put the warnings in knots

You get warning in kph then look at site n its knots

Is there any website that gives forecast in knots ....bar the shipping forecast

At an event earlier this year I asked why couldn't latest reports be given in kmh as that is what forecasts and warnings used and Evelyn Cusack basically sniggered and said knots is what they use!

While many changes in Met Eireann have helped with the public experience some of what they do is mind boggling!

Image at 500 metre resolution of the centre of today's depression NW of Scotland.

Pangea

Pretty wild here now in Donegal

Oscar Bravo

4pm

Mace head gusting 50 knots
Malin head gusting 50 knots
Sherkin gusting 50 knots
Valentia gusting 43 knots
Belmullet gusting 41 knots

SleetAndSnow

Starting to get some strong gusts here in Cork City. Just noticed a yellow alert was issued (was in school). Showers all day, very unpredictable too. goes from blue sky to dark grey.

corsav6

Max gust was 72kmh overnight here outside Newport, Mayo.
It's a weird day too, some string gusts, hail showers, heavy rain and calm with blue skies mixed in.
It's blowing a bit outside again but nothing out of the ordinary for this location and this time of year.

redsteveireland

Some very strong gusts now, heavy driving rain. Almost lost the door off the car when getting out.

Pangea

Its a really wicked night here in SW Donegal, very strong gusts and very unpleasant, Probably the worst wind of the winter I have experienced so far.

Clonmel1000

Ah shur at least it’s not mild dry and sticky 12 degrees eh?

Artane2002

The wind is really making a racket here in Dublin 5.

antodeco

Nice and windy and blustery here in Dublin 10. Seems to be hitting the house differently as I hear it alot stronger!

JCX BXC

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Ah shur at least it’s not mild dry and sticky 12 degrees eh?

You've moved on from complaining to sarcasm I see!

ExoPolitic

there is literally nothing happening in waterford, stillest night in a long time, its odd.

Sycamore Tree

Getting wild in Galway at the moment. I do love a bit of wind.

nacho libre

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

Getting wild in Galway at the moment. I do love a bit of wind.

Speaking of the wind, i could feel it driving earlier on the Motorway from Galway back to Tuam. Back home now and it's not quite as windy.

Aquals

Wind is unbelievably intense here by the sea in west Clare - definitely the strongest I’ve experienced so far this Winter.

The thing that makes it stand out for me is how sustained the winds are. We’ve experienced winds like this before, but in the form of briefer gusts. Tonight is like one long gust that is lasting for hours!

Unfortunately the wind blew through the house earlier too and smashed a vase! 😬

the2hurdys

Nice and Wild here South Tipp Dundrum direction...heavy rain and strong gusts

Spanish Eyes

Very cold night in Dubland tonight, fierce biting and raw winds too. Haven't felt such cold weather even in the snow in March. Must be the wind chill factor or something. Brrrrrr.

textiles

Very rough on north Clare coast for hours - like Aquals said, it's been relentless.

pauldry

Loud wind in Sligo.

Tonight way gustier than this morning though went running for an hour and there was no rain at all.

Very odd storm.

Was calm with blue sunny skies midday

ZX7R

quite shocked at the strenght of the winds tonight ,in the maynooth area working the death shift some very large limbs of trees down in the surrounding area

Wesser

Not even a puff of wind ( Dublin 3)

Graces7

A wild night of sustained high winds with some ferocious gusts and sudden heavy deluges. The whole dwelling rattled at times. west mayo offshore

M.T. Cranium

Must be due to squally showers because in general these very strong gusts are missing weather stations. It happens, nobody actually lives at weather stations.

Just saying, if you want to see a storm, look at day 9 of the ECM run, this would rival Darwin if it came off. Too far out to be very concerned yet but the pattern favours a strong westerly windstorm eventually.

The 15-16 day panels of the GFS also look stormy but more towards a winter wonderland sort of outcome. There again, that could be taken off the table (and put back on) a few times before we might be very sure about it.

However, for mid-December this is a lot of interesting weather, quite often the stretch before Christmas gets fairly bland and mild.

Trebor176

Dublin Zoo have cancelled their Wild Lights tonight, due to forecasted heavy winds. I thought the event was last night?

No doubt that people are up in arms, and one has wondered where the yellow warning for Dublin is.

vickers209

Trebor176 wrote: »

Dublin Zoo have cancelled their Wild Lights tonight, due to forecasted heavy winds. I thought the event was last night?

No doubt that people are up in arms, and one has wondered where the yellow warning for Dublin is.

Its on every night
it was canceled last night and again tonight.

i have tickets for tomorrow night bought in september hope its not canceled again tomorrow

pauldry

Wild night in Sligo with heavy gusts. While some of the 70 knot storms caused damage in other areas Sligo only got 50 knots with these.

Last night we were 50 to 55 knots all night resulting in a broken toucan ornament of 23 years (survived all other storms) branches everywhere and most importantly a damaged rain gauge n bent basketball hoop.

M.T. Cranium

Was it mentioned earlier in the thread that the top gust yesterday (7th) was 55 knots at Malin Head? (54 at Belmullet and Mace Head, 53 at Finner, Shannon and Sherkin Island, 52 at Valentia). So far today, looking at the hourly data on met.ie, the top gusts (first one in the past hour or 1800h) appear to be 61 knots at Sherkin (1800h), 60 at Valentia (1700h), 58 at Mace Head (1500h). Not as high today further north.

uck51js9zml2yt

Wind blowing most of the day in North Kerry. Rain coming in torrents and then gone for a while. An odd day!

munsterlegend

Adelynn Massive Whistle-blower wrote: »

Wind blowing most of the day in North Kerry. Rain coming in torrents and then gone for a while. An odd day!

Rain in Kerry odd?!! Very blustery day in North Cork. Showers are prolonged too but nice to listen to from the comfort of the living room.

MidMan25

Don't mind this weather, at least it feels wintery. Anything but the dreaded mild persistent rain with a blanket of grey cloud.

Clonmel1000

MidMan25 wrote: »

Don't mind this weather, at least it feels wintery. Anything but the dreaded mild persistent rain with a blanket of grey cloud.

Instead we’ve cold persistent rain with a bitter wind.

MidMan25

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Instead we’ve cold persistent rain with a bitter wind.

It's not persistent where I am, just showery, I suspect it's also only showery where you are too.

giveitholly

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Instead we’ve cold persistent rain with a bitter wind.

Clonmel1000,quick question for you,what kind of a day had ye in your home town today,was there many showers passing

Clonmel1000

giveitholly wrote: »

Clonmel1000,quick question for you,what kind of a day had ye in your home town today,was there many showers passing

It wasn’t actually to bad today as opposed to yesterday. Windy and cold though there was a couple of showers this morning and one this evening about 5pm or after. Yesterday was a lot worse of a day in fairness. I much preferred the dry mild benign weather of Thursday.