Rain or shine - you may post it here

mike65

Dry and bright, cool.

Mike.

highdef

So is everyone on the south and east coasts ready for the big storm on Wednesday???

billy the squid

http://www.met.ie/

forcast for 70 - 80 Mph winds and flooding

iI love it when the weather is ****e during haloween, no little pricks with their fireworks.

Sleipnir

Wow.80mm of rain in places.
Glad i don't live in East Wall.

billy the squid

goes off to find synoptic charts, wonder what the air pressure on that is

http://217.160.176.95/wz/pics/brack0a.gif

thats nasty looking

anthonymcg

This looks mad. :0

Just take it easy folks and batton down.
I'm checking the oil in the genny but no doubt I won't need it

Started sunny and frosty.
Clouded over now but still bright.
A Beautifull day, and what we call here a pet day like yesterday.

My report tomorrow will be different.

Sleipnir

(Gets "The End is Nigh" sandwich board)

mike65

Earthman wrote:

A Beautifull day, and what we call here a pet day like yesterday.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Mild after chilly start, more showers than I anticipated. Tomorrow looks like being a very wet hell.

Mike.

Hal1

A MAJOR STORM WILL AFFECT ALL PARTS OF IRELAND DURING WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED. Winds, initially mainly between Northeast and Southeast in direction, will reach mean speeds of 45 to 55 miles per hour, with gusts of 70 to 80 miles per hour. Winds will may veer southerly on the South coast later. Structural damage such as fallen trees, etc. can be expected. Rainfall totals in excess of 50mm over a wide area will lead to some severe flooding, due to the already saturated ground. Some parts of Munster and south Leinster could see totals of up to 80 mm of rain. High Seas and high tides, will lead to coastal flooding, particularly in the South and East of the country.

Just giving you people a heads up on whats coming are way over the next 24hrs. :eek:

Flukey

Full moon with a high tide too. That is what caused the floods in Ringsend before. A similar combination of factors now presents themselves, so what will happen?:eek:

billy the squid

anyone know if this is updated every hour or what

http://www.met.ie/recentweather/

billy the squid

The Shipping Forecast Issued By The Met Office At 0505 On
Wednesday 27 October 2004

There Are Warnings Of Gales In Wight Portland Plymouth Biscay Fitzroy
Sole Lundy Fastnet Irish Sea Shannon Rockall Malin Hebrides And
Bailey

The General Synopsis At 0100
Low Fitzroy 953 Expected Valentia 956 By 0100 Tomorrow

The Area Forecasts For The Next 24 Hours

Viking North Utsire South Utsire
Southeast 4, Increasing 5 To 7, Perhaps Gale 8 Later. Showers. Good

Forties Cromarty Forth Tyne Dogger
Southeast 4 Increasing 5 To 7, Perhaps Gale 8 Later. Rain Or Showers.
Good

Fisher German Bight
Variable 3 Or 4 Becoming Southeast 5 To 7, Perhaps Gale 8 Later.
Showers. Good

Humber Thames Dover
Southeast 4 Or 5, Increasing 6 Or 7, Perhaps Gale 8 Later. Rain
Later. Good Occasionally Moderate Later

Wight Portland Plymouth
Southeast 6 To Gale 8, Occasionally Severe Gale 9 In Plymouth,
Veering South 5 To 7 Later. Rain Or Showers. Moderate Or Good

Biscay
Southeast Veering Southwest 7 To Severe Gale 9. Rain Then Squally
Showers. Moderate Or Good

Fitzroy
Cyclonic Becoming West Or Southwest, Severe Gale 9 To Violent Storm
11. Rain Or Showers. Moderate Or Good

Sole
Cyclonic Becoming West Or Southwest For A Time, 7 To Severe Gale 9,
Occasionally Storm 10. Rain Or Showers. Moderate Or Good

Lundy Fastnet
East Or Southeast, Veering South Later, 7 To Severe Gale 9,
Increasing Storm 10 For A Time. Rain. Moderate Or Good

Irish Sea
East 5 Or 6, Increasing 7 To Severe Gale 9, Then Veering South. Rain.
Moderate Or Good

Shannon
East Or Northeast Becoming Cyclonic 7 To Severe Gale 9. Rain.
Moderate Or Good

Rockall
Southeast 4 Or 5, Backing Northeast 7 To Severe Gale 9. Rain.
Moderate Or Good

Malin Hebrides
East Or Southeast 5 Or 6, Backing East Or Northeast 6 To Gale 8.
Rain. Moderate Or Good

Bailey
East Or Northeast 5 To 7, Occasionally Gale 8. Occasional Rain.
Moderate Or Good

Fair Isle
East Or Southeast 4 Or 5 Occasionally 6. Rain Or Showers. Mainly Good

Faeroes Southeast Iceland
East Or Northeast 5 To 7, Becoming Variable 3 Or 4 In North Of
Southeast Iceland Later. Showers. Good

if your looking for local radio stations to listen to http://www.radiokerry.ie would probably be a good choice.

Mothman

GALE WARNING WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER 1030GMT 06

FITZROY SOUTHWESTERLY VIOLENT STORM FORCE 11 INCREASING HURRICANE FORCE 12 IMMINENT

and yes http://www.met.ie/recentweather/ is updated everyhour at about 20 past.

The time on table is GMT. the gust figure (in knots) is max in previous hour.
Cork Airport reported 61mph at 11:00gmt.

Mean speeds of 75mph have been reported on the south side of low by a ship.

Villain

Winds are gathering momentum in Carlow, this is going to get rough.

HashSlinging

rubber ducky rubber ducky... gale force winds and rain in sandyford ind est .... over

SantaHoe

Yep, getting very windy here in Dublin ... rain too.

[oops, you beat me to it!, still... nice to have a second oppinion ]

scribs

Just went out to grab a sandwich in Centra in Sandyford Ind.

I feel I have been violated by the wind

Umbrella was no good - felt like I was going to reinact a scene from Mary Poppins.

Its going to be a pain in the hole gettin home

HashSlinging

Just back from toga. its not exactly cold out just really really wet.

RuggieBear

scribs wrote:

I feel I have been violated by the wind

......

Its going to be a pain in the hole gettin home

WHAT the hell is the wind doing to you!!!?

Not the windiest I've seen by a long shot as of yet, but quite windy at this stage-I'm expecting the storm proper this evening.
The Irish sea looks fierce with the white horses.
I've just been at the post office carpark in Arklow and the Avoca River is right at it's bank in full tidal flood with mad Waves and foam moving up it, from the sea and thats at the carpark nearly half a mile up river.

It's raining moderately now, but still there hasn't been a great amount.
That river is going to get interesting later on this evening when the mountain flood waters meet the sea flood
I think there may be trouble ahead

DMC

I think that what they are predicting with this storm, is not the fact that it will be hurricane force winds and rain, its more the fact that high winds and 3 inches of rain will be sitting on top of the country for more than 36 hours, which for storms in the past we have experienced, is unprecedented.

Sleipnir

ah g'wan. Grand, soft Irish weather!

full forward

A friend of mine in Cork says there are some trees down in the area. They still have electricity though. His boss is considering sending everyone home early.

Lucky feckers.

full forward

Here is a nice view of the storm. You might need to click the play button to see the animation.

Cool link of storm

billy the squid

So the power outages begin

750 homes in enniscorthy without power
800 homes without it in Cork

ToxicPaddy

Dublin city centre here..

Bit of rain and the odd gust of wind but thats about it so far.. not much
else happening..

Gonna get a soaking cycling home tho.. :rolleyes:

Tox

DapperGent

Grand soft day thank god.

L5

ToxicPaddy wrote:

Dublin city centre here..

Bit of rain and the odd gust of wind but thats about it so far.. not much
else happening..

Gonna get a soaking cycling home tho.. :rolleyes:

Tox

dundalk...very windy, rainy