Storm Ellen - 19th/20th August 2020

syngindub

An Ri rua wrote: »

The hint is in the name. They're a lot like Tomcats. Touch of the tramp about them. They never come back home by midnight.

trampoline M50 bound

vickers209

On a staycation at moment in limerick staying in maldron and power has gone in hotel
thought they have a jenny doesnt look like it

My god that one of worst storms i can remember

yammagamma

smellyoldboot wrote: »

If a tree goes it'll be on the 6/1 news tomorrow.

The winds that hit my property were way worse then when the country was shut down with other storms but sure I'm only living in limerick which constantly gets bypassed with warnings, every county up west coast gets warnings bar limerick but hey it's "met Dublin"

Rougies

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

Getting stormy now - D14

I was going to say the same but you might get lynched for being in a 20km radius of RTE headquarters.

syngindub

TTLF wrote: »

https://twitter.com/vxlks/status/1296247610043510784

Best video i could get, not too bad by the looks of it in dublin but keep in mind i live in a valley

give it 30 or 40 minutes and gusts will pick up in Dublin

r93kaey5p2izun

https://mobile.twitter.com/JointCyclone/status/1296241260517154816

Is this significant or just par for the course?

TTLF

Something I find interesting is, Dublin never really looses power?

Even during the worst of Storm Emma or even Ophelia, my power never went down. Maybe its because of where I live, or something else, but i find it odd

yet other times when there's no storm at all, the power goes out randomly

Met Eireann got it right. Again.
Still, it's fun being an amateur and enjoying the drama.

BrosnanL27

It's times like this this that I'm cursing my neighbours back garden wind chime. Louder than the ***kin wind.

CruelSummer

Extremely wild in Galway after a moment of eerie calm. Damaging gusts & seems like high sustained winds also.

dasdog

BLIZZARD7 wrote: »

Getting stormy now - D14

There's a bunch of quite tall evergreen trees 20m from where I am taking the brunt of it - they'll be the same tomorrow. I secured my balcony tomato plants earlier but they owe those trees a pint at the very least.

It's a Southerly gusty breeze - quite nice actually.

Danno

Clementine Thousands Kleptomaniac wrote: »

https://mobile.twitter.com/JointCyclone/status/1296241260517154816

Is this significant or just par for the course?

I'm literally in the crosshairs of that yellow zone. 51mph so far here. Not a hope of seeing 88mph let alone 88kt!

Little snowy old me

TTLF wrote: »

Something I find interesting is, Dublin never really looses power?

Even during the worst of Storm Emma or even Ophelia, my power never went down. Maybe its because of where I live, or something else, but i find it odd

yet other times when there's no storm at all, the power goes out randomly

Most power cables in Dublin and suburbs are underground.

syngindub

TTLF wrote: »

Something I find interesting is, Dublin never really looses power?

well, it's number 1 priority for power so no, it shouldnt ever lose power !!

*eadaoin

Wow wind really picking up in Dublin 8 now, it’s howling around the city. I’m close to the new children’s hospital that’s being built and the sound of the wind in all the cranes is eerie!

utmbuilder

Blowing hard now in meath

LollipopJimmy

Green bin just went over here. cans rolling around the garden now. Dublin 8

pad199207

Having some very opheliaesque gusts in Kildare now

axe2grind

The wind speed at Roches point earlier looks like an August record for ROI, well at least since 1942
https://www.met.ie/climate/weather-extreme-records

Clementine Thousands Kleptomaniac

Clementine Thousands Kleptomaniac wrote: »

https://mobile.twitter.com/JointCyclone/status/1296241260517154816

Is this significant or just par for the course?

A load of unsubstantiated cobblers. Did I tell you I'm operating "The International Storm Centre" from my shed? Keep on eye out for daily updates on Twitter, I've appropriated the Batman searchlight and slapped an angry cloud on it. Our latest bulletin:

vid36

Power outages are far north as East Galway now.Some of them quite significant too in Loughrea and parts of Ballinasloe.

CBear1993

utmbuilder wrote: »

Blowing hard now in meath

It’s been a while so I thought I’d surprise you tonight

TTLF

really starting to pick up now, way winder than it would usually be in the valley im in

scarepanda

vid36 wrote: »

Power outages are far north as East Galway now.Some of them quite significant too in Loughrea and parts of Ballinasloe.

I suspect a good portion of Ballinasloe is out. The wind started to kick up here around 12.30/12.45, power was out around 1.00.

vid36

Parts of County Roscommon and Leitrim now in the dark too.

TTLF

would be cool to see a live satellite of areas without power and areas with power

pad199207

Casement might catch a decent gust

snowstreams

It's really gone crazy here in the last hour near athenry.
Thankfully I still have power here but its gone further east.
I see my tado heating system thinks the window is open too due to the wind gusts creating a draft!

TTLF

TTLF wrote: »

Something I find interesting is, Dublin never really looses power?

Even during the worst of Storm Emma or even Ophelia, my power never went down. Maybe its because of where I live, or something else, but i find it odd

yet other times when there's no storm at all, the power goes out randomly

There's a network of stations feeding you power. I'm currently in rural east Galway and a single tree falling can take out power for the road and extended area.

syngindub

vid36 wrote: »

Parts of County Roscommon and Leitrim now in the dark too.

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