Storm Ellen - 19th/20th August 2020

ChikiChiki

Wonder how the mobile homes in Kilkee are coping. Must be rough up there given its proximity to Limerick.

syngindub

very strong gusts in Kildare.
Making it's way to dublin, hold tight

dzsfah2xoynme9

The rain that's falling here in Limerick city is some of the heaviest I've seen. And combine that with insane winds..

M.T. Cranium

SLP 967 mb at Shannon (00z) southeast wind indicates centre is probably just slightly west of them although may be a case of twin vortices (one over Tarbert area, one over southern Lough Derg, possibly).

As to ECM performance, these inland wind predictions almost never seem to verify at weather stations but they may verify at locations on hills where weather stations are not situated. So I tend to factor that into model predictions for inland locations, the warnings need to be understood to be worst case conditions within the geographical area for that one unlucky person in a thousand who is more exposed to the hazards.

I don't expect any inland stations to do much more than 100 km/hr but when we asked for some people in the east Cork west Waterford area to report, they began to do so and in some cases have not followed up, possibly due to power failures (if you are on a mainframe for example or your internet service dies), so in fact the worst affected locations may not report in to us in real time, we may find out tomorrow what happened in a few spots.

My guess is that some fairly substantial damage occurred in that area, we're hearing more from people on the margins who got moderately strong winds and a few who got very strong winds but managed to stay on-line.

Anyway I hope everyone emerges unscathed from this, while many parts of the country would say it was no big deal, that one area has clearly experienced a major weather event. A track somewhat further east would have put Waterford city in a stronger wind zone also.

Akrasia

Akrasia wrote: »

Barely a puff of wind or drop of rain here in Ennis. Mad how it can be so variable

Getting a bit windy now though

FutureGuy

Limerick is nuts. The rain was falling so heavily I thought we had leak in house. First big storm as a homeowner.

TTLF

is itr supposed to track up the east coast/midlands and get worse through the night orrr, whats the situation?

pnpweirdo

Horrendous in limerick city now. Wind, rain power out. End of the world ****

smellyoldboot

FutureGuy wrote: »

Limerick is nuts.

You don't really need the rest of that text in fairness.

FutureGuy

Saw a large flash out towards Caherdavin, Limerick so I’d say power out there.

M.T. Cranium

East coast impacts will likely continue rather moderate, peak gusts around Dublin could reach 90-100 km/hr but some areas are protected from southwest winds which will eventually reach there as well. Rain also rather moderate, heaviest from Ellen is near track and to the west of the track (which is looking like Clare-Galway-east Mayo).

Larbre34

TTLF wrote: »

is itr supposed to track up the east coast/midlands and get worse through the night orrr, whats the situation?

The winds will be less overland but the rain wrapped around the low could give significant rain anywhere, especially over Mountains.

Euphoriasean

FutureGuy wrote: »

Limerick is nuts. The rain was falling so heavily I thought we had leak in house. First big storm as a homeowner.

Its the worst ive seen in Limerick in quite a while. Even the last couple of red warnings were mild compared to this.

syngindub

earth calling cork

angeldaisy

Euphoriasean wrote: »

Its the worst ive seen in Limerick in quite a while. Even the last couple of red warnings were mild compared to this.

I'd agree, this one is definitely scarier than others we've had. wind has dropped a little here, but rain is still very heavy.

Limpy

Can there be anything said for another staycation.

Irish Wolf

FutureGuy wrote: »

Saw a large flash out towards Caherdavin, Limerick so I’d say power out there.

Not yet kid.

An Ri rua

An Ri rua wrote: »

You're right, I'm left, shed goooone..

You're right, I'm left, all aloooone,

Some songs just make you shed tears..

I bet your shed was a 'she' too

Ah yeah, a bottle of whiskey by the fire in the storm. I'm understand you buddy.

Humberto Salazar

Pressure got to 977.7 North Offaly. Seems to be on the rise now, it's blowy but not exceptional.

John O.Groats

ChikiChiki wrote: »

If there's one thing Met Éireann can forcast accurately with these storms, there's always a fecking trampoline gone rogue.

Yeah. I mean how hard can it be to properly secure these things? It`s not as if there weren`t adequate warnings.

smellyoldboot

Limpy wrote: »

Can there be anything said for another staycation.

A grand soft evenin.

Parabellum9

Still mental in Limerick, it’s like trying to go asleep in a ****in car wash

Xenji

Starting to pick up in Castlebar, first moderate gusts are occurring after a very calm and wet evening.

cameramonkey

Hawthorn Tree wrote: »

5 times taller than the Californian redwoods. Ye don't mess about in Cork!

The real capital of tall trees.

syngindub

me tomato plants are all over me garden

limericklad87

Euphoriasean wrote: »

Its the worst ive seen in Limerick in quite a while. Even the last couple of red warnings were mild compared to this.

Seconded

Darth Melkor

East Clare here. 15 minutes ago it was really calm. Has picked up massively in the last 5 minutes. Can't imagine the power lasting for long.

syngindub

syngindub wrote: »

me tomato plants are all over me garden

RIP

pnpweirdo

The wind was so bad the rain was turned into a mist/fog

pnpweirdo

pnpweirdo wrote: »

End of the world ****

Cats and dogs living together