Winter 2024/25 - General Discussion

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122974516#Comment_122974516

Looking very windy along Atlantic coastal counties especially early Sunday morning and continuing very windy into the afternoon in the the NW, no doubt warnings on the way. Numerous wintry convective squally showers with hail and some isolated thunderstorms along the coasts possible. a rough spell of weather Saturday/ Sunday.

CrowdedHouse

There's a yellow up now Sat/Sun

Oscar Bravo

Status Yellow - Wind warning for Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal

Main impacts will be in coastal regions wave overtopping & spray🌊
Difficult travelling conditions too🚗
Stay Back Stay High & Stay Dry⚠️

Valid: 03:00 Saturday 21/12 to 18:00 Sunday 22/12

sparrowcar

Interesting from ME

Saturday night: Very windy on Saturday night with showers becoming widespread overnight. Some of showers could be heavy and wintry with a mix of rain, hail, sleet and possibly some snow, especially in parts of Ulster and on higher ground. The showers will be hit and miss but some temporary accumulations are possible where they do fall. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees with fresh to strong and gusty westerly winds veering northwest overnight.

Sunday: Very windy to begin on Sunday. Blustery showers will be fairly widespread early on, some of them heavy and wintry with a mix of rain, hail, sleet and possibly some snow. The showers will be hit and miss but some temporary accumulations are possible where they do fall. Showers will become confined to the west and north in the afternoon and the risk of any sleet and snow will diminish. Afternoon highs 5 to 8 degrees. Fresh to strong and gusty northwesterly winds, will reach gale or strong gale along western and northern coasts.

Dazler97

I was right about possible warnings ⚠️ Saturday, said this on Tuesday, no storms please as parts of leitrim where without power for a week amd mine went 4 times

Supercell

A very windy weekend in store, hopefully not too many loose power again.

Oscar Bravo

Rough night here in Mayo.Almost stormy conditions

Dr Robert

Same in Galway. It seems as rough as the recent red warning!

.Donegal.

Tonight

Saturday night will still be windy with showers becoming widespread overnight, some heavy and wintry with a mix of rain, hail, sleet and snow, the snow mainly on hills and in the north of the country.

.Donegal.

Castlederg recorded a higher gust now 89km/h than during storm darragh.

DOCARCH

Windy, all of a sudden, in Greystones. Gusting 48 knots now.

Edit: Gusting 53 knots now.

pureza

gusting 80kmh here in Arklow

I see it was gusting 95 on this day last year

It’s days like this that can rattle power lines that just about stayed on during Darragh

DOCARCH

Gust of 69 knots/128 kmh just now in Greystones. 😮 Verging on Red territory!

DOCARCH

Gusts are crazy in Greystones! Bits of my neighbours temporary roof covering blowing away now.

adocholiday

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122979201#Comment_122979201

Power has dropped twice in the past 30 mins here in Rathdrum but seems to have stayed on. Some places around here were out of power for a few days after Darragh so I hope it doesn't go again.

I was surprised Wicklow wasn't added to the warnings looking at the charts during the week, the hi res models were showing 100+kph gusts for a lot of the county not just the mountains and even Met Eireann's own ensemble charts were showing possibilities of orange level gusts for the mountains and coast.

pureza

gusting 90 kph regularly here in Arklow atm

DOCARCH

Christmas Market marquee in Greystones, that survived Darragh, now buckled!

Gusting 55 knots atm.

Supercell

As bad if not worse than Darragh here, usually the Window mountains shelter us from westerlies.Was not expecting it to. be this bad, horrendous conditions for my long run day, didn't enjoy it much!

el Fenomeno

In Greystones also and definitely seems stronger than the recent Red warning. A lot more damage in our estate this morning compared to last time.

SuperBowserWorld

Very windy north Wicklow. Definitely seems stronger than Darragh. Nearly got blown over this morning. Dry and sunny though, so that makes it bearable.

.Donegal.

Status Yellow - Snow-Ice warning for Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Leitrim, Louth

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Wintry showers of hail, sleet and snow are possible tonight and for a time Sunday morning.

Potential Impacts:
• Poor visibility
• Temporary icy patches
• Difficult travelling conditions 

Valid: 22:00 Saturday 21/12/2024 to 09:00 Sunday 22/12/2024

.Donegal.

Frequent heavy blustery showers all day. Changed to hail showers this past hour. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some lightning later.

beggars_bush

Gone baltic cold out there this evening.

BagofWeed

Soaked again tonight during a jog. Never had a chest infection as bad as I had since the last soaking during the week. Thankfully it didn't spread to the rest of my body. But by God I've had enough of Cork. Lol.

Kermit.de.frog

The snow level should be coming down a lot over night with sub -6c 850 hpa temperatures widely across the country.

A few surprises for some by day break I reckon particularly for East Ulster and North East Leinster and the usual places in the North Midlands and of course higher ground.

Meteorite58

Very windy here on the Kerry coast especially during a squally shower a short time ago and feeling bitter too, showers getting a bit more hail in them here as well. Loads of showers overnight, will be interesting to see how much snow falls, will make for some good hill and mountain shots tomorrow morning.

Roll on the longer days 🙂

acequion

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122980998#Comment_122980998

I wouldn't presume to argue with your expertise on all things weather, Meteorite78, but I would consider both the wind and chill factor today just normal winter weather. Yesterday and today have been more like what you'd expect in winter and personally, I hate spring like weather in deep winter.

Today is the shortest day of the year and many are already heralding the "stretch" 😊 Being a winter enthusiast I absolutely love the darkness of this time of year. Love Christmas and the lights, couldn't imagine Christmas any other way. Love the cold too which is why I've liked these past few days. Seasons are all over the shop in Ireland but the ones I like best here are winter and autumn. I normally adore the high temps and sunshine of summer, but we don't get enough of that here in Ireland, so in this country I'll stick to being a defender of the darker days.☺️

Oscar Bravo

A stormy night on the west coast with Mace Head reporting a Gust of 61 knots (113 km/h) at 9pm

pauldry

Up to 136mm of rain for December here in Sligo contrary to lower totals over most of the rest of the country.

Fierce winds tonight and weather station picking up higher speeds than Darragh dunno why as nowhere near as windy.

.Donegal.

Finner gust 109km/h.

Monkeynut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122981060#Comment_122981060

I just love the really cold day or the really hot day. The in between is meh. But we get 363 days of them. 😁

pauldry

Ya my weather station tends to go half of actual gusts due to cheapo type of wind measurement and it's picked 46kph gust so likely 92kph gusts here maybe 110kph at Sligo Airport

mcburns07

Very squally showers in Cork all evening, proper winters night.

.Donegal.

Most recent shower had flakes mixed in

11pm Mace head gust 120km/h

Finner 106km/h

.Donegal.

Hailstones thunder and lightning . Lightning app has 7 recent strikes over Donegal. Not registering on M.E yet anyway

Meteorite58

Wild night on the Kerry coast with very heavy squally showers.

pauldry

Lots and lots of lightning in Mayo currently

Kermit.de.frog

Rain and sleet in north Dub. Snow level must be a couple of 100 meters at the moment.

Tzmaster90

snow in navan not sticking but so close to christmas i will take it

Tzmaster90

the rain in between the snow has changed mostly snow now

4Ad

Terrible rain beating against the windows here in East Clare..

sparrowcar

Heavy snow in Dublin Airport…not sticking.

redsteveireland

Lost power during the night in Athenry, and it just went for 5 minutes again. Nasty squally showers rolling in from the Atlantic.

PokeHerKing

Bit of sneachta in D24 just now. No schtick.

DOCARCH

Sleet/wet snow shower in Greystones now.

Snow on the hills this morning inland.

King of Spades

Light covering of Sneachta in Tara, Meath.

nacho libre

Rain and sleet overnight with some lightning and gusty winds thrown in for good measure.

pureza

nice bit of snow on the mountains here in south Wicklow today,very windy again

Suns out,solar batteries are full,house demand satisfied and we are selling a little bit of power to the grid as I type,not bad for bleak mid winter

OldRio

Well we seem to have had a reduction in power from the Grid. Lights are dim and not enough power to boil a kettle or run a cooker.

OldRio

Wind has increased again. Very gusty and showery. 4C.

Leitrim