Storm Aiden - Saturday October 31st

corsav6

Stepped up a level now outside Newport, Mayo. Still nothing major, maybe high end yellow but we have a few hours to go so could hit an orange level gust or w yet.

redsteveireland

Orange level or not I'm glad I moved my garden furniture as it would not have lasted in some of the stronger gusts.

Oscar Bravo

Belmullet gusting 62 knots (115 km/h) at 10am

Graces7

More sustained and louder gusts here; I had to put the subtitles up on youtube!

Brighter though.

MUCH louder! Startlingly so...

Discodog

Just back from a one hour walk along the shore near Inverin. I have walked here every day for 20 years & today's winds are some of the strongest I have ever experienced.

The slightest cloud comes with squalls & some gusts are well into Orange. I was struggling to stay on my feet at times.

Oscar Bravo

Belmullet gusting 61 knots & Donegal airport gusting 59 knots @11am

Graces7

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Belmullet gusting 61 knots & Donegal airport gusting 59 knots @11am

As met ie use KPH please can you translate? Thank you!

Bleating Lamb

Serious gusts here in North Leitrim at mo.

Storm 10

Graces7 wrote: »

As met ie use KPH please can you translate? Thank you!

59 knots is 109 kph

Oscar Bravo

Graces7 wrote: »

As met ie use KPH please can you translate? Thank you!

They dont,they use knots. If you care to look carefully before posting the KPH is in brackets beside the Knots on the site.

ednwireland

breezy old day innit

Xenji

Severe gusts now in Castlebar, 31mm of rain since midnight.

Oscar Bravo

Xenji wrote: »

Severe gusts now in Castlebar, 31mm of rain since midnight.

Tis rough enough alright

Meteorite58

Gusting to 77 km/h here near Tralee, had 13.2mm from heavy squally rain overnight, got very mild getting up to 15.7C and back now to 10.3C.

Off the mark to what some of the models were predicting. For me I think the HI Res were so trying to catch up in the early stages, even up to a day or so out that the tendency was to stick with the main models but in hindsight the Hi res did get it together in the end.

Main winds now in the W and transferring to the NW as the Storm pulls away to the N. Looks like Donegal could get a good lick of the strongest winds yet.

Oscar Bravo

Carrickfinn (Donegal Airport)should get 65 knots or so over the next hour or two

Meteorite58

Nice hook forming aiming at Donegal where would expect the strongest winds of the day perhaps.

Oscar Bravo

Updated TAF from Donegal giving max gusts of 68 knots in the next couple of hours


TEMPO 3112/3114 26042G68KT
BECMG 3115/3117 25027G44KT
BECMG 3119/3121 22018G30KT

Meteorite58

Another windy night in store, strongest winds along Atlantic coasts, all coasts windy for a time.

Graces7

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Carrickfinn (Donegal Airport)should get 65 knots or so over the next hour or two

Ok. Be kind? Bad connection here so additional searches are hard. Thank you in advance and for all you do here anyways

pauldry

Regularly gusting 100kph here now as anticipated. Will be gone in an hour or so though I'd say before more regular 70 to 80 kph tonight

Meteorite58

Potential for windy weather to come Sun into Monday from some of the models. ECM back showing it fairly windy along SW, S and SE coastal counties and quite windy inland as does the American models. ARPEGE showing it fairly windy but not too strong, ICON not bring the winds inland on it's last run. So a bit of fine tuning yet to having a reasonable idea of how windy and wet it will be. Looks like high rainfall totals in the SW ( S Kerry and W Cork )

Pangea

Wicked wind here now in SW Donegal

lmimmfn

Pangea wrote: »

Wicked wind here now in Donegal

Can attest to that in the northwest of the county, power out too

Simon Gruber Says

Very strong gusts for the past hour in NW Donegal. Power gone.

Gaoth Laidir

Gusts at 12 pm:

59 kt: Donegal Airport
58 kt: Malin Head
57 kt: Belmullet, Mace Head, Knock

Oscar Bravo

Midday:

Donegal Airport gusting 59 knots
Malin head gusting 58 knots
Knock 57 knots
Mace head 57 knots
Belmullet 57 knots

Jimbob1977

Just back from a breezy walk in Limerick.

The wind is warm and mild.

lmimmfn

lmimmfn wrote: »

Can attest to that in the northwest of the county, power out too

Update, power back, phew

ednwireland

and there goes the electric . just outside donegal town. solid fuel range is on though

Graces7

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Midday:

Donegal Airport gusting 59 knots
Malin head gusting 58 knots
Knock 57 knots
Mace head 57 knots
Belmullet 57 knots

Think I need to resign....Blessings and peace and safety to all . Too old for this now and so little computer access. was going to post photos but there we are. Just asked a small kindness.