Storm Franklin - Sunday 20th/Monday 21st Feb 2022

Rikand · 20-02-2022 6:38pm

Drove from Killybegs to Athlone today. it was very bad around 3-4pm in South Donegal, north leitrim and Sligo. Some unreal squalls of rain and sleet and driving conditions were tough with the car getting knocked around. Very heavy sleet in Roscommon town around 5pm.

Meteorite58 · 20-02-2022 6:42pm

Very big convective squally showers about, sferics showing in places

Hooter23 · 20-02-2022 6:42pm

Its like the kind of weather we used to get years ago...even each shower is like a mini storm...dangerous though as can go from just very windy one minute to stormy when the showers come along

20-02-2022 6:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664345#Comment_118664345

I'm not convinced they use purely wind speed criteria to call a red. I suspect they take into account time of day and the effect on people cummuting, etc.

King of Spades · 20-02-2022 6:49pm

Heavy wet snow shower here. Tara, Meath.

Dazler97 · 20-02-2022 6:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664404#Comment_118664404

Yes Dublin will be in an orange warning soon just watch

Dazler97 · 20-02-2022 6:59pm

Front of my estate is under water

Won't let me upload it so annoying

Gaoth Laidir · 20-02-2022 7:00pm

I think it's fairly clear that once we remove schools from the hype equation, the warnings issued go back down a couple of notches. Had Franklin occurred instead of Eunice I think the country would have been told to go and hide under the bed.

68 knots (126 kph) gust also at Sligo airport just before 6 pm.

SPECI EISG 201748Z AUTO 27038G68KT 3000 FEW009 BKN019 OVC036 03/01 Q0994=

Kermit.de.frog · 20-02-2022 7:05pm

Showers will be of sleet and snow for the next few hours but dying out after midnight and the snow level rising again.

Cork2021 · 20-02-2022 7:10pm

Lights flickering mad here Kanturk Cork 300ft

SouthWesterly · 20-02-2022 7:14pm

Went for a walk this afternoon. It was blowing a gale in North kerry.

Had a heavy shower of sleet later on.

Trees down in the area and will already wet land, more will fall.

20-02-2022 7:18pm

139kmh gust at Mace Head at 1900!

Tyrone212 · 20-02-2022 7:18pm

Mace head gust 139kmh

Finner 120kmh

Tyrone212 · 20-02-2022 7:19pm

Cork Airport recorded recent snow.

M.T. Cranium · 20-02-2022 7:20pm

Gusting to 139 km/hr (75 knots) at Mace Head. That's well into red.

coillsaille · 20-02-2022 7:21pm

In south Connemara here and well used to storms for over 40 of my years but this system seems to be packing much more of a punch than any other did for quite a while. The gusts accompanying the last squally shower of hail that came by about 10 min ago were actually making me a bit nervous.

Donegal Ken · 20-02-2022 7:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664616#Comment_118664616

This always seems to happen when it comes to the northwest or North of the country. This storm has turned out worse than Eunice

20-02-2022 7:24pm

I think that's the highest gust since Storm Ellen in 2020, perhaps our resident spreadsheet guru could advise.

sryanbruen · 20-02-2022 7:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664717#Comment_118664717

It is indeed! 143 km/h at Roches Point during Ellen in August 2020.

87 km/h sustained too at Mace Head, not quite as high as Roches Point's 93 km/h during Eunice yet.

NIMAN · 20-02-2022 7:26pm

It was very rough in North Inishowen in the last few hours, with some very heavy hail showers. Think its to get rougher during the night too.

Little snowy old me · 20-02-2022 7:27pm

This is what you call a proper storm. Non stop strong winds with intense gusts when the showers roll in. It is bitter cold in that wind. Its got the making of a very bad night. Hatches are battened. Mother went to my sisters for the night as power could go. I'm hunkered down with torch candles and gas stove on the ready. Roaring turf fire, heating on, and the dog and two cats in their baskets in the hallway. And a fresh Battenberg cake ready for cutting.

corsav6 · 20-02-2022 7:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664707#Comment_118664707

100km/hr at Newport, it's calmed down a bit in the last 30 mins. Temporally I suspect.

Dazler97 · 20-02-2022 7:29pm

I seen malin Head has strong winds of 80mph gusts between 00:00 and 06:00, wow recent gusts around the country are already red territory and the worst is yet to come

M.T. Cranium · 20-02-2022 7:30pm

Also a gust to 131 km/hr at Finnis which is a new reporting site (new to the website anyway) near Aran Islands. The M4 buoy never seems to catch the full strength of winds in its vicinity but has increased to gusts to 98 km/hr from 76 previous hour.

aidanodr · 20-02-2022 7:32pm

The cross of the Church of the Ascension Gurranabraher Cork City tilting to one side as a result of storm Franklin. Emergency services are at the scene.

NIMAN · 20-02-2022 7:34pm

Its a lot rougher in North Donegal today than it was when the kids got a day off school on Friday.

Meteorite58 · 20-02-2022 7:36pm

https://twitter.com/zoom_earth/status/1495162088062435328?t=qcESV7_BxXlgGYiyrccCLQ&s=19

nacho libre · 20-02-2022 7:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664716#Comment_118664716

I said to someone on Friday that the next system to hit the North West will be worst than Eunice. This has happened countless times over the years. Its a pity the snow will be gone by midnight. Some very heavy and squally snow showers over the last couple of hours.

shmaupel · 20-02-2022 7:41pm

I'm on the coast near Ballyshannon. And Not too far from Finner. Sea has been ferocious all day. One of those days where the tide never gets a chance to go out, you tear through turf with the mad draw on the fire and you can't hear the telly with the noise of the wind. Certainly the worst weather of the winter here.

Glad it's a Sunday. Hopefully will have subsided when we all rise in the morning.

Shank Williams · 20-02-2022 7:42pm

Now this is a storm - went for a walk in south Donegal round a headland path near finner at 4pm proper wind with horizontal hail- was able to do the full lean into the gust and not fall over job

slates coming off roofs in the estate too and we are only coming in to the warning period

Multipass · 20-02-2022 7:50pm

South Mayo, the roaring noise outside is incredible - worst storm of the season for me.

Meteorite58 · 20-02-2022 7:52pm

I hope tonight isn't the night ICON gets dialled in, looks particularly strong from around midnight for hours .

Jimbob1977 · 20-02-2022 8:00pm

Ferocious weather on the outskirts of Limerick City.

Heavy showers of rain, hail and sleet have been passing through all day.

Extremely breezy now. Worse than Storms Dudley and Eunice.

20-02-2022 8:00pm

West Clare had awful gusts in last hour. Way worse than Eunice.

Oscar Bravo · 20-02-2022 8:02pm

We are getting nailed in Castlebar .Breaffy House Hotel Castlebar just after 5pm

Dazler97 · 20-02-2022 8:03pm

I'm putting donegal, Sligo and North leitrim into a red warning here and now because met Éireann won't, I know I'm only an ameture but I even know by models and how Titley packed those isobars are

Pangea · 20-02-2022 8:07pm

Thunder and lightning right now in Donegal

weisses · 20-02-2022 8:07pm

ME droping the ball big time here .... apparently no one is working the weekends

Pretzill · 20-02-2022 8:15pm

The gusts are strong up here and snowy sleety stuff sticking to the grass - just out with the dogs in the garden and it's gone really cold too. We are in orange warning since 7pm but had some wickedly strong gusts well before that and lots of reports of trees down in the county - how much worse can it get? South Sligo 90m asl

Gaoth Laidir · 20-02-2022 8:16pm

Satellite-measured signigicant wave heights out to our west just after midday. Up to 49 feet (15 metres). As this is signigicant wave height (the average of the heighest one-third of the waves), individual wave heights can be up to double this height.

StevenToast · 20-02-2022 8:20pm

Limerick is shocking at the moment....far worse than any storm in the last year or so....

Met Eireann and RTE shut down at the weekends....asleep at the wheel

The fact that its not a red warning is really poor...there should be no one out in that...

20-02-2022 8:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664729#Comment_118664729

But sure it's clear here where I am. So that means definitely no storm. Nice fabrication. ;-)

Gaoth Laidir · 20-02-2022 8:32pm

Satellite-derived winds at around 3 pm today were above 70 knots out to our northwest.

Gaoth Laidir · 20-02-2022 8:40pm

Sligo METARs this afternoon and evening. Several gusts above 60 knots.

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Speak Now · 20-02-2022 8:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664994#Comment_118664994

What windspeed are you getting?

recyclebin · 20-02-2022 8:45pm

Very windy hear in Castlebar. Trees down blocking roads near McDonalds and cars damaged in Breaffy.

Photo from Connaught Telegraph Facebook:

SEPT 23 1989 · 20-02-2022 8:45pm

Lashing snow and sticking

Newcastle Dublin

Dazler97 · 20-02-2022 8:50pm

Heard from a friend and seen the video that it's snowing and sticking in clondalkin

Wine Goddess · 20-02-2022 8:51pm

Lashing snow and NOT sticking...

Firhouse Dublin 24

pauldry · 20-02-2022 8:51pm

This is one of the first storms where I'm a bit fearful not excited. It's been ferocious all day and now from midnight to 6 is supposed to be worse. The kids window faces the Northwest. Will it hold against 130 to 140kph winds.

It's like the media hyped up Eunice so much they are weather weary. Wait till they wake up on Monday and see the number of trees down and power cuts will probably be 100,000.

Storm Franklin - Sunday 20th/Monday 21st Feb 2022

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