Storm Atiyah Sunday - Monday, 8th - 9th Dec 2019

Pretzill

I felt that snowy thing in the air, earlier - really chilly.
All's quiet now in Sligo.
Someone asked me today we're we okay after the storm last night? The weather was pretty terrible earlier, thunder, hail.
Hoping we are just about inland enough to avoid the Orange.

South Sligo
90M ASL

Acosta

Flights not even bothering with Cork now. Luton going straight to Shannon.

flexcon

cork city centre - facing north in south side - serious wind hitting the house now.

Jpmarn

Fairly quiet at the moment near Limerick City.

According to Flight Radar 24 a Ryanair flight from London Luton to Cork is heading straight to Shannon.

Meteorite58

Pretzill

33 knots at Cork Airport according to FR24 and only 19 knots now at Shannon - it's like the winds are going in a different trachectory than I first thought I would have assumed them moving up the West.

Jimbob1977

Outside Limerick City is breezy at the moment, but nothing extreme to report.

More of a river estuary than a coastal county.

munsterlegend

Pretzill wrote: »

33 knots at Cork Airport according to FR24 and only 19 knots now at Shannon - it's like the winds are going in a different trachectory than I first thought I would have assumed them moving up the West.

Nope first wave that hit the west is moving in a south east direction. MT outlined this in his forecast earlier.

eastmayo

Knocks taff down to 48knts was showing 65knts earlier 2day.

JanuarySnowstor

Stormy enough now in Cork
Nothing exceptional but justifing an orange warning

ninebeanrows

Roche's Point has come in with the highest gust of the event to date.

Gusting to 69 knots in the last hour or 128km/h.

Cork Lass

Just watching the Katowice flight now, seems to be heading to Cork as opposed to Shannon or Dublin.

Pretzill

munsterlegend wrote: »

Nope first wave that hit the west is moving in a south east direction. MT outlined this in his forecast earlier.

Like the gusts, I'm only in and out on the thread tonight - fairplay MT.

ZX7R

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Stormy enough now in Cork
Nothing exceptional but justifing an orange warning

Funny that, you were calling for red warnings yesterday.

Storm 10

ME gone back to Orange was a Red necessary in Kerry going by posters here it was not

ninebeanrows

If MODS could remove the red level from the thread would be great.

Jpmarn

it is the North south orientation of the main runway with howling westerly wind is a big issue at Cork Airport.

spookwoman

https://twitter.com/KDzjamko14/status/1203746539212017665?s=20

ninebeanrows

Now attention will turn to the northwest where the next shot of strong winds will come from in the next few hours.

Doctors room ghost

Electric just back on in east Galway.2 hours gone.
Many thanks to the good people out working in this weather to get it back going.
If ye are reading this many thanks,it’s much appreciated

Little snowy old me

Ah well, yet again many of us who follow the weather are made look like fools again. Winds barely reached gale force in the NW and with the exception of one or two squally showers, a typical December day. The hype is unreal.

If people are posting their forecasts in what they know is a public and popular forum, ie this one, they need to be prepared to get stick when same forecasts are wrong. Even the media consult this thread. No where other than Kerry and Cork warranted a orange warning. The rest of the country didn't even need a yellow. Lots of events around the country cancelled based on yet another way off the mark forecast.

kalkat2002

Raining cells here in blessington,co.wiclow but nothing major
Safe home to everyone

munsterlegend

Sleety_Rain wrote: »

Now attention will turn to the northwest where the next shot of strong winds will come from in the next few hours.

Will they not be countrywide though?

Little snowy old me

I'm very annoyed.

Gaoth Laidir

45 gust 69 knots at Roches Point at 7 pm. 33 gust 68 knots at Sherkin Island.

Mardyke

Sorry if I missed the explanation, but how is it that some flights due into Cork this evening were cancelled earlier today, while others (like Katowice now) are landing no problem?

EDIT Katowice just turned around I think.. But the question remains

Logan Roy

Storm 10 wrote: »

ME gone back to Orange was a Red necessary in Kerry going by posters here it was not

Wasn't the red for Kerry only from 4 to 7? Presumably it has "gone back" to orange because the red warning has finished.

There's a strange trend of people saying "I told you so" in here this evening.

Rougies

Cork Lass wrote: »

Just watching the Katowice flight now, seems to be heading to Cork as opposed to Shannon or Dublin.

Seems to be having seconds thoughts now!

Balmed Out

Mardyke wrote: »

Sorry if I missed the explanation, but how is it that some flights due into Cork this evening were cancelled earlier today, while others (like Katowice now) are landing no problem?

A lot of the canceled ones were smaller aircraft, I think.

savj2

munsterlegend wrote: »

Will they not be countrywide though?

I believe the next batch of NW winds will move south eastwards across the country throughout this evening and tomorrow morning