Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

Graces7

The forecast rain has arrived; sheeting across in a wild southerly. As nasty a day as any we have had in a long while.. Deluging


west mayo offshore..

Heard A COW bellowing. so went out but hidden by the old house! And the minibus to the pier but probably just to check all is well down there

Maybe Upright cow, or the bull, has escaped and they are sending out a search party! Who knows! Sheeting sideways and bitterly cold..

Crazy world.. just going to sit and let them at it ! Nothing to do with me!

Graces7

DOCARCH wrote: »

....and that's why weather warnings only 'kick in' for/from 6pm this evening.

Now for here; west coast; yellow warning

fryup

fryup wrote: »

if you follow the track on the timeline on ventusky it looks too far out to cause any major damage,

looks like bit of a damp squib tbh

DOCARCH wrote: »

It is far out now. Forecast is for it to take a hard right turn for the coast of Ireland later.

yes i know, but even if you follow that line it looks nothing major

DOCARCH

Graces7 wrote: »

Now for here; west coast

Yellow warning is for now. Orange warning is for 6pm onwards.

Graces7

squarecircles wrote: »

Getting pretty rough here in West Mayo from an unusual south east direction.

Very rough suddenly out here l Rain sheeting sideways in that wind. Southerliesof any degree are always worse than a good honest northerly .

Graces7

Kamili wrote: »

Lucky Cow!

see chat thread please before we get reprimanded!

irelandspurs

In laois and the wind picking up and gone very dark, presume we will get the worst of it during the night.

0gac3yjefb5sv7

Dublin met.ie says 27km winds tonight? That's hardly a breeze?

pad199207

Wind picking up in Kildare.

Oneiric 3

Getting a bit rough out there now.

jam_mac_jam

Its brilliant that everyone is able to predict that this is a non event before it happens.

Samsgirl

Wild enough here in South Tipp. Wind picking up and rain too.

Shane O' Malley

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Dublin met.ie says 27km winds tonight? That's hardly a breeze?

I think the models are talking about winds of about 33km with gusts up to 70km. That is below the yellow warning level but probably a little last to drop Leinster from the Yellow area. Change seems to have come from the projected turn being more northerly than originally forecast but from reading some posts it appears there is still a chance that it could turn earlier (While it still has stronger winds) and then winds in Leinster could reach the yellow level.

Abundance of caution situation.

igCorcaigh

Raining but still.
Cork City centre.

Upright Cow love it

is_that_so

Another Teresa Mannion moment?
https://twitter.com/Buailtin/status/1179683484530556929

Doctors room ghost

It’s wild and blustery in Galway with leaves flying and a confused looking sky.
The fowl are taking shelter under hedges.they know,yes they know

Widdensushi

The hype over this has been ridiculous. From a county cork point of view, it was never an orange warning, even going by the forecasts at the time it was issued. All week you have staff badgering businesses to close, teachers telling students they may have to close etc.What a load of ****e !!!

TheRiverman

Wind picking up and getting more cloudy here in West Offaly,but it's doesn't feel as bad as it was before Ophelia.I remember there was a very eerie feeling and the thickening cloud felt very very threatening before Ophelia,not so this time.

is_that_so

Widdensushi wrote: »

The hype over this has been ridiculous. From a county cork point of view, it was never an orange warning, even going by the forecasts at the time it was issued. All week you have staff badgering businesses to close, teachers telling students they may have to close etc.What a load of ****e !!!

Met Eireann are covering their asses and every other media outlet sees a cheap 48 hour news cycle! It's like a bad SciFi movie!

Chicken Run

Suddenly turned wild and blustery in East Clare in the last hour... Nothing remarkable yet because we're hardy souls out here...

It's solved the problem of how to get those last apples off the trees tho !!!
All set for cider making on Friday

realdanbreen

Widdensushi wrote: »

The hype over this has been ridiculous. From a county cork point of view, it was never an orange warning, even going by the forecasts at the time it was issued. All week you have staff badgering businesses to close, teachers telling students they may have to close etc.What a load of ****e !!!

Well Ned my collie is still curled up in bed. Usually when a bad storm is approaching he's up pacing around about 12 hours beforehand.

Roberto_gas

Anticlimax in Dublin....normal wet day ! Hopefully it will pickup at some time !

Snow Garden

This link gives the time it will be strongest i.e. late tonight, early tomorrow morning.

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.663661,-11.8838656,5z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m3!15m2!1m1!1s%2Fg%2F11fnqbt298?hl=en

pad199207

The dog won’t come out of the bed, stillness at the usual crowded bird feeders.

Inshore Kildare Mainland

John.Icy

I really want to believe some people are being deliberately obtuse...

But nah...some people need to learn how to read and tell the time.

Nothing is due in the East till much much later. How many people have to come on here to say it's not that windy in Dublin or other Eastern parts.

In saying that it's not going to get that windy here but if you read the official forecasts you'd have already seen that.

Get out of here looking for your hurricanes because your only source of weather is The Sun and their exaggerations.

optogirl

Talk of hype & anti-climax is so irritating. Weather reports have not indicated that this will be as bad as Ophelia or that it is due to get in any way intense until this evening and at that, in Western counties mostly.

LordBasil

Roberto_gas wrote: »

Anticlimax in Dublin....normal wet day ! Hopefully it will pickup at some time !

Given the fact that it is not forecast to hit Dublin until later today/overnight that is hardly surprising

Mantis Toboggan

Starting to pick up now in Dublin, blackbirds seem to have scattered possibly diving for cover.

Roberto_gas

Roberto_gas wrote: »

Anticlimax in Dublin....normal wet day ! Hopefully it will pickup at some time !

We only have a yellow warning. Maybe some fairly strong winds when the storm starts this evening but nothing major.