Storm Ciara - Reports/Chat/Non Technical

je551e

Thunder and lightning in southwest Kerry

Super-Rush

The rain in Carlow is very intense.

Just waiting on a flash.

Thepillowman

Just drove from Ennis to East Clare bucketing down rain with just a light breeze at the moment.

PukkaStukka

netbeatz wrote: »

Sitting in JFK airport at the moment, flight to DUB delayed because of the storm. Missing out on all the action

Although, I did meet Ciara when she was a depression passing over Florida...she packed a punch there with 60mph+ winds and a nice light show.

EI 104 from JFK touched down about 10 mins ago and is almost an hour early on its projected arrival time. No doubt the strong jet helped it along the way

Graces7

GolfNut33 wrote: »

Ok, the letter box is starting to flap. That's the non scientific weather warning in our gaff.

The outer half of mine got blown off years ago but the inner half rattles companionably..

Graces7

Graces7 wrote: »

There was a space of a few peaceful hours, and now back to the "shake, rattle and roll."

Looks that Ciara will be shortlived?

Thanks to all by the way. It gets very hard going. I spent a long while yesterday updating my weblog …. I had to close comments there as one or two boardsies arrived :eek: They were on moderation anyways. url on my signature .
That is a safe place now. And will stay so

You have my location wrong also but it is not wise or done to give out exact locations online, so simply "West mayo offshore" is adequate and safe.

Will see re later. Jaffa orange Ireland is a fine sight on the map!

To some; find a different punchbag please. Thank you

Oh on the overseas news, film of the ballot boxes boxes being collected from Belmullet by chopper... would love to have been on that bird!

,,,,,,,

Graces7

PukkaStukka wrote: »

EI 104 from JFK touched down about 10 mins ago and is almost an hour early on its projected arrival time. No doubt the strong jet helped it along the way

That is a terrifying thought!

Graces7

"Warming" up nicely out there now. A time for "patient endurance" , good fire and knitting. Stay safe and dry' at least no work to get to. All fine here now.

Kablamo!

Some good lightening here in South Dublin.

Very heavy rain and strong winds in Cork city.

RubyK

Wild wind in Tramore 🀯

Can barely hear a breath where I am. Has it passed over already? I’ve to drive accrues the country and back this morning.

gifted

Very windy here in oranmore in galway hence I'm up do early, bloody shed door blown open and banging.

Graces7

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Can barely hear a breath where I am. Has it passed over already? I’ve to drive accrues the country and back this morning.

Where are you please?

Clonmel1000

Incredibly intense rain here in South Tipp and strong gusts. Easily the worst night I’ve experienced in a very long time.

Graces7

gifted wrote: »

Very windy here in oranmore in galway hence I'm up do early, bloody shed door blown open and banging.

Ouch! There are 2 ruinous sheds here but the door on one is long gone. The range of sound effects is amazing.. shrill whistles, screams, bangs, the entire wind orchestra in full cry.

Lucreto

Ear plugs fell out during the night. Thunder woke me with wind and rain pounding against the window.

Glad its Sunday and not Monday.

Inconsiderate Ciara has woken me up!

North Leitrim.

Jpmarn

Got woken up by a squall at about 3 am not too far from Limerick city. There was lightning flashes but heard no thunder. Slept through apparent nearby lightning activity around 5 am. Wind is not a major issue at the moment but it is fairly strong and blustery.

Jpmarn

Jpmarn wrote: »

Got woken up by a squall at about 3 am not too far from Limerick city. There was lightning flashes but heard no thunder. Slept through apparent nearby lightning activity around 5 am. Wind is not a major issue at the moment but it is fairly strong and blustery.

What’s Limerick like now?

squarecircles

The intensity just isn't there, no violent gusts, Average windy conditions here, thought it would be much worse, hopefully we get snow later

dashoonage

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

What’s Limerick like now?

up at 2:30 with thunder.... up again bout 5....got a belt less than a mile away on lightnightmaps.

Strong gusts here now. Nothing extraordinary though. Raid is constant and heavy. Coffee is good. Breakfast average.

pad199207

Very gusty in Kildare

Coopaloop

pad199207 wrote: »

Very gusty in Kildare

Lashing rain too.

Mickeroo

Got pretty grim for about 5 or ten minutes in castlebar with very strong wind and rain. Eased off again now.

pad199207

Really bad in Kildare with very heavy rain
22mm since midnight

Oneiric 3

20.0mm since midnight in my gauge. Winds nothing special. The odd gale gust. According to the Danish app, they should 'peak' here sometime close to noon, but holding my breath is something I shan't be doing. Going to have a coffee, and then watch a doc about Pompeii that I have been looking forward to all weekend.

KildareP

Extremely heavy rain now for several hours. Water starting to pool on all the roads. Starting to show all the indications of the aftermath of the heavy rainfall in November 2017. There was only a single, narrow road passable in or out.

TXPTGR1

Back to bed lads , another overhyped non event brought to you by the weather hypochondriacs forum
If you have plans don’t change them, was out driving there, it’s what in the eighties we called a wet miserable day, no more, plenty of others out, might try a game of golf myself

Doctors room ghost

Bad morning in east Galway.high damaging winds and very heavy rain.lots of branches down and big closhes of water on the road.

Damien360

pad199207 wrote: »

Very gusty in Kildare

Woken up at 5:15am by a huge thunder boom. Dogs going mad barking at the thunder. Just a couple of flashes and it was gone but a lot of very heavy rain with it and strong winds. Right now the wind is gusting. If it was Monday, the early commute would be a disaster.

lawrencesummers

Planes due to take off from Cork airport sitting on runway. Winds to high.

salamander27

Just calmed down a bit here near gort after some very sustained wind and rain for at least the last hour since I woke up . Some stronger gusts shook the house a bit.

Scratch what I said before. Just went out to do the shopping and it’s unreal bad. The sounds on the bedroom window don’t do it justice.

FunkSoulSista

#StormCaira is trending on Twitter....is that done on purpose?!

Somedaythefire

TXPTGR1 wrote: »

Back to bed lads , another overhyped non event brought to you by the weather hypochondriacs forum
If you have plans don’t change them, was out driving there, it’s what in the eighties we called a wet miserable day, no more, plenty of others out, might try a game of golf myself

What an embarrassing post

The_Brood

I hope a new government will fire everyone even remotely connected to MET. Must people lose their lives before they start issuing out red warnings?

pad199207

THE WORST SQUALL I HAVE EVER SEEN IN KILDARE NOW

Widdensushi

The_Brood wrote: »

I hope a new government will fire everyone even remotely connected to MET. Must people lose their lives before they start issuing out red warnings?

Best thing is to just give red warnings every day, safe out then.

anewme

pad199207 wrote: »

THE WORST SQUALL I HAVE EVER SEEN IN KILDARE NOW

Wow, Ive just been looking out at it.

Calmed a bit already.

kevcos

The_Brood wrote: »

I hope a new government will fire everyone even remotely connected to MET. Must people lose their lives before they start issuing out red warnings?

Sinn Fein will commence the purge in due course.

The tyrannical reign of reason is coming to an end comrade.

amor3

A right battering in D24, never seen anything like it!

DOCARCH

pad199207 wrote: »

THE WORST SQUALL I HAVE EVER SEEN IN KILDARE NOW

Getting that here now in Dublin 16.

no.8

TXPTGR1 wrote:

Back to bed lads , another overhyped non event brought to you by the weather hypochondriacs forum If you have plans don’t change them, was out driving there, it’s what in the eighties we called a wet miserable day, no more, plenty of others out, might try a game of golf myself

Yawwwn. Enjoy playing Tiger woods golf on your computer as it's likely the closest you'll get to real golf today.

mobil 222

Somedaythefire wrote: »

What an embarrassing post

Agree,

Especially when you see a post below him that describes how bad it is outside.

Nabber

TXPTGR1 wrote: »

Back to bed lads , another overhyped non event brought to you by the weather hypochondriacs forum
If you have plans don’t change them, was out driving there, it’s what in the eighties we called a wet miserable day, no more, plenty of others out, might try a game of golf myself

Backyard reporting. If where I am standing is fine well then so is the rest of the country.

Widdensushi

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kevcos wrote: »

Sinn Fein will commence the purge in due course.

The tyrannical reign of reason is coming to an end comrade.

DOCARCH

Mod Note: Do not feed trolls.

ZX7R

The_Brood wrote: »

I hope a new government will fire everyone even remotely connected to MET. Must people lose their lives before they start issuing out red warnings?

Met eireann didn't issue a red warning for this event.
You must be following the idiots on Facebook who issue there own warnings

ZX7R

DOCARCH wrote: »

Getting that here now in Dublin 16.

That's the third so far in the last 3 hours.
I would not be surprised to see higher gust's inland due to these than on the costs