Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Storm Barra - December 7th/8th 2021

Options
1…2526283031…65

Comments

  • Options
    #812
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282484#Comment_118282484

    Ay yes, but technology wasn't what it is now. Much better at tracking and modelling this stuff in real time now. I think the right call was made, even if it saves one life its worth it.



  • Options
    #813
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,100 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Calmed down a good bit here in D13 on the coast. Rain has stopped and seems to be brightening up. Wind has died down a good bit.



  • Options
    #814
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Donegal Sligo Leitrim in orange now for tomorrow on met Éireann app , the website hasn't updated yet , surprised there was no warning for wintry showers today



  • Options
    #815
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Rain seems to have passed and wind has eased in Greystones. Off to check boat!



  • Options
    #816
    lulublue22
    Registered Users Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭lulublue22


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282479#Comment_118282479

    double post 🤷‍♀️



  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #817
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,547 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I'm in Rush, Co. Dublin, by the sea, and the wind & rain has been driving relentlessly for the last 4-5 hours now..

    The wind is blowing directly towards me from South Wales, with little to nothing in its way apart from the Kish Lighthouse.....

    The windspeed has been steadily increasing over the last hour. It will probably be worse tomorrow morning, though by then Eastern counties will be better protected as the wind blows over land.


    I would absolutely not want to be bringing my child to school this morning, and I'm glad common sense prevailed and the schools were closed. Its not the wind/rain that will do the damage, it's the increased levels of traffic of both people and cars that will tip a situation like today over the edge. It might not have happened, but lets not give it the chance to happen.



  • Options
    #818
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    In the space of 15 minutes dead calm here and blue skies in D4. Currently having a coffee on the balcony.

    Can see the next batch of clouds rolling in the distance.



  • Options
    #819
    The Nu man in town
    Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭The Nu man in town


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282585#Comment_118282585

    The way this country is gone people will be looking for "stay at home forever" orders soon.

    Absolutely stupid closing half the country when most areas get average wind and rain with the exception of a few exposed headlands.



  • Options
    #820
    wicklowdub
    Registered Users Posts: 847 ✭✭✭wicklowdub


    Morning commute to schools would have been horrendous in Dublin/Wicklow. Right decision made.



  • Options
    #821
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,685 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Sudden increase in wind speeds in cork city there with some strong gusts, sign of what's to come I think.



  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #822
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282606#Comment_118282606

    Yep. Amber warning where I am. It's also bin day and bins have been collected.

    Wind is not even strong enough to knock around the empty wheelie bins...

    I had to use a day annual leave to look after my son. Sun coming out now as well



  • Options
    #823
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,255 ✭✭✭highdef


    Following a very breezy to windy morning in west Dublin city with light to moderate rain with the odd heavier burst, there's some good breaks in the sky with plenty of blue sky to be seen now. Breeze is fresh now with strong breeze to near gale gusts but it's currently a regular winter low pressure kind of day, as I type. I am about 7km inland from the east coast though and the area is built up but it would be quite representative of a lot Dublin city folk at the moment, bar those much closer to or on the coast.



  • Options
    #824
    Gusser09
    Registered Users Posts: 7,531 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282585#Comment_118282585

    All well and good and stay safe. But this is weather is no reason for shutting down schools again. The impact of which has knock on effects for neighboring counties.



  • Options
    #825
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282388#Comment_118282388

    As an old age pensioner? No fear here, young person so please stop patronising us? Thank you. We have seen and endured more than you will ever know... and we make our own judgements on the weather etc! Not that i at nearly 80 listen to the radio or even have TV.

    Where I am is stormy now; but what is there to fear? Stay inside, get a good fire going... We cope far better than others.



  • Options
    #826
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users Posts: 4,352 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    Gone relatively calm now in D24. Much wilder morning than I was expecting.



  • Options
    #827
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,547 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282628#Comment_118282628

    maybe not where you are, but in my town, it's absolutely been the right decision.



  • Options
    #828
    Crocodile Booze
    Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282606#Comment_118282606

    We need a Red Warning for anti-everything crazies infecting this thread.



  • Options
    #829
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users Posts: 34,281 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    The attitude of small few here seems to be

    "Ah for **** sake the roof of my house is still up, this is a disgrace" wtf like? Like spolit little brats.

    If people could see the pictures coming in of homes flooded so far in cork and I'm sure other parts of country.

    Be thankful that its calm where you are if that lucky.

    Never understand this attitude.

    Stay safe everyone



  • Options
    #830
    denismc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭denismc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282622#Comment_118282622

    That's because you are in the eye of the storm, wait a couple of hours and see if the bins are still there


    .



  • Options
    #831
    squarecircles
    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    Status Orange - Wind warning for Donegal

    • Met Éireann Weather Warning
    • Storm Barra: Northwesterly winds will reach mean speeds of 65 to 80 km/h with severe or damaging gusts of 100 to 130 km/h, with localised stronger winds likely. Due to a combination of high waves, storm surge and high tide, coastal flooding is expected. Disruption to power and travel are likely.
    • Valid: 02:00 Wednesday 08/12/2021 to 14:00 Wednesday 08/12/2021
    • Issued: 09:35 Tuesday 07/12/2021

    Status Orange - Wind warning for Leitrim, Sligo

    • Met Éireann Weather Warning
    • Storm Barra: Northwesterly winds will reach mean speeds of 65 to 80 km/h with severe or damaging gusts of 100 to 130 km/h, with localised stronger winds likely. Due to a combination of high waves, storm surge and high tide, coastal flooding is expected. Disruption to power and travel are likely.
    • Valid: 20:00 Tuesday 07/12/2021 to 08:00 Wednesday 08/12/2021
    • Issued: 09:35 Tuesday 07/12/2021




  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #832
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282417#Comment_118282417
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282417#Comment_118282417

    Out here very strong wild wind and sheeting rain. Internet died on me or maybe the computer and dare not leave this page...Thought it was the server at first

    Just had to go outside and such bitter icy cold and saturating rain,,,, brrrr

    West Mayo offshore



  • Options
    #833
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282631#Comment_118282631

    Picking up again in D7, some noteworthy gusts for sure.



  • Options
    #834
    Ms2011
    Registered Users Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Ms2011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282505#Comment_118282505

    Kinda raging I didn't send mine in now, especially as I can walk to the school...ah well!!



  • Options
    #835
    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    Barra for me is a welcome change. Something else for a change on the airwaves than covid, covid, covid.



  • Options
    #836
    Flippyfloppy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282552#Comment_118282552

    Any sign of Graces7? Does she still post here?



  • Options
    #837
    Paso Fino
    Registered Users Posts: 332 ✭✭Paso Fino


    Suddenly very still in Donabate - space of 10 minutes it was wild and then calm. Glad I can't hear the roof creaking anymore!



  • Options
    #838
    mossie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,197 ✭✭✭mossie


    What some people don't seem to realise is that storms kill people. I've actually had someone tell me that Ophelia shouldn't have been a red warning because it "only killed 4 or 5 people".



  • Options
    #839
    Gusser09
    Registered Users Posts: 7,531 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282640#Comment_118282640

    Yeh not disagreeing with you. Some areas needed it but most didn't. We need to be careful but this is mad stuff. Why is it not ok to question these decisions in Ireland anymore.



  • Options
    #840
    werenotthere
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭werenotthere


    By the sea in South West kerry here. It's wild, sea is pure white. Went outside for a feel of the wind, it was like sticking your head out of a car window on a motorway. It's definitely picking up aswell



  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #841
    dacogawa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,840 ✭✭✭dacogawa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282628#Comment_118282628
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118282628#Comment_118282628

    It's been said many, many times. Schools have to ventilate at the moment, open windows and doors create wind tunnels and danger for kids and staff. Apart from the cold wind and rain also. If that doesn't help you see it was the right decision there's no point trying...



Advertisement