Storm Hannah : Fri 26 - Sat 27 April 2019

highdef

Warnings have disappeared for counties Clare, Limerick, Kerry and Cork.... This could get interesting.

highdef

A lot of us posting the same thing about the warnings just there.... Goes to show how much attention this is getting from the regular posters here!

Meteorite58

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ARPEGE Enlarged pic of Max Gusts ( limited zoom available for Ireland )

aisling86

Pressing refresh..... interesting few minutes!!

Xenji

Back to an orange warning in the SW.

Reckless Abandonment

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

Can only be red. No need to change it other wise

I stand corrected. Added galway
Hannah is moving more north.

Xenji

NATIONAL WARNINGS

Status: Orange
Wind warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick
Status Orange - Wind warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick
Northwesterly winds, associated with Storm Hannah, will reach mean speeds of 65-80 km/h with gusts of 110 to 130 km/h this evening/early tonight.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 16:00 to Saturday 27 April 2019 01:00

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Status: Orange
Wind warning for Galway
Status Orange - Wind warning for Galway
Northwesterly winds, associated with Storm Hannah, will reach mean speeds of 65-80 km/h with gusts of 110 to 130 km/h this evening/early tonight, strongest along the coast.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 19:00 to Friday 26 April 2019 23:59

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Status: Orange
Wind warning for Tipperary and Waterford
Status Orange - Wind warning for Tipperary and Waterford
In addition to the yellow wind alert for these counties: Southwest winds veering northwest will reach mean speed of 65 to 80km/h and gusts of 110 to 120km/h for a time tonight.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 22:00 to Saturday 27 April 2019 02:00

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 04:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 04:00

Status: Yellow
Wind warning for Connacht, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Wexford, Wicklow, Offaly, Donegal, Tipperary and Waterford
Status Yellow - Wind warning for Connacht, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Wexford, Wicklow, Offaly, Donegal, Tipperary and Waterford
Becoming very windy on Friday night and for a time on Saturday morning. Southerly winds will veer northwesterly and reach mean speeds of 50-65km/h with gusts of 90 to 110 km/h.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 23:00 to Saturday 27 April 2019 09:00

Issued: Thursday 25 April 2019 10:00

Updated: Thursday 25 April 2019 10:00

Graces7

creeping nearer to Mayo !

Is Cork out of the chance of a red warning do you think so? I need to drop the youngfella to work for 7pm not looking forward to it!

Edited to add I know how annoying those questions are and I am just looking for an opinion. I suggested dropping him at 3.30pm 😂😂 we are in North Cork and he works in Carrogtwohill so it is a fair treck, he was not impressed.

Oscar Bravo

Looking well now

fryup

is this an ex-tropical storm?

sryanbruen

fryup wrote: »

is this an ex-tropical storm?

No, it's a classic example of exposive cyclogenesis (a weather bomb is often used as a simpler term for this).

Meteorite58

Very close , rain from the outer band making its way onshore.

thomil

sryanbruen wrote: »

No, it's a classic example of exposive cyclogenesis (a weather bomb is often used as a simpler term for this).

I like to call these storms "Newfoundland Specials". Hannah started life as a small depression over Newfoundland and then began rapidly intensifying as soon as it was over the Atlantic.

Reckless Abandonment

sryanbruen wrote: »

No, it's a classic example of exposive cyclogenesis (a weather bomb is often used as a simpler term for this).

You've gone and done it now.. daily mail " killer weather bomb cyclone hurricane to hit Ireland"
That is if Dublin is effected. Other wise "bit windy down south"

endainoz

I thought the dumb tabloids used the weather bomb term from the magic seaweed swell charts from a few years back. The amount of misinformation that goes out from these outlets is staggering, but then of course that applies to more than just weather!

uck51js9zml2yt

Calm in Killarney for now.

Graces7

sryanbruen wrote: »

No, it's a classic example of

exposive cyclogenesis

(a weather bomb is often used as a simpler term for this).

Now that is a phrase to play with! metaphorically i mean

uck51js9zml2yt

Graces7 wrote: »

Now that is a phrase to play with! metaphorically i mean

It just means a bit more windy than normal

KingdomRushed

It's interesting that most of the model snap-shots people are posting here show quite unambiguous 'red level' winds for a large area of the south-western and western coasts, however Met Eireann have held firm with an orange level warning, albeit with quite strong supporting text of the possible impacts. This begs the question, have Met Eireann been burned too much by the very significant negative feedback they have received on account of previous red warnings from business and media organisations? Or do the models which the weather watchers rely upon overcook the data, with a bias toward stronger winds than will transpire?

sparrowcar

DUB TAF showing gusts of 48kts overnight but no warning for Dublin. Any reason why it would be excluded from the yellow warning?

dacogawa

Exposive cyclogenesis.

I'm sure that was a track on a Prodigy album...

Comhrá

sryanbruen wrote: »

No, it's a classic example of exposive cyclogenesis (a weather bomb is often used as a simpler term for this).

DOCARCH

KingdomRushed wrote: »

Or do the models which the weather watchers rely upon overcook the data, with a bias toward stronger winds than will transpire?

From observing recent models and recent storms, I think 8 out of 10 times, this appears to be case.

I read that Met Eireann are having a meeting at 12pm to decide if it will go to red. Not sure if this is 100% true. I feel a lot of people will be caught on the way home from work. So many people travel long distances from college/work on Friday evenings too, it is potentially very dangerous.

munsterlegend

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I read that Met Eireann are having a meeting at 12pm to decide if it will go to red. Not sure if this is 100% true. I feel a lot of people will be caught on the way home from work. So many people travel long distances from college/work on Friday evenings too, it is potentially very dangerous.

Where did you read that btw?

May as well have left it to 4pm if true. Is there not a chief forecaster who makes the decision?

Winding up nicely on the latest satellite imagery.

jasper100

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Yes I believe they let them run on.

Looks very likely Orange for Kerry and close to red on coastal fringes , not sure anout Cork, possible high yellow, maybe get to Orange. Other coastal counties in the W , S , SE probably yellow . Still evolving.

Damned if they do, damned if they dont. Call it too early and everybody wants to be off work and home before the red alert starts, meaning business suffers. Call it too late and people are caught out in it.

Goin

Storm 10

It looks like it has tracked further North looking at that picture

Sundew

cute geoge wrote: »

When i was a young lad i vaguely remember a big storm in april back around 86 0r 87 .It carried a few old sheds but often heard that a storm in april can be leathal .What time should we expect to be indoors from it in north kerry ,I know the warning say 4 pm but that might be for south coast off cork??

Pretty sure I remember this! it was a school day and we were all loaded in to the headmasters car and brought home. We all had to hold hands walking through the school yard as the wind was so strong!
I do love a good storm!