Very windy and potentially stormy Weds 2-11-22

Just picking up in last 30 minutes in south Carlow. Have a scheduled power outage today but I doubt they’ll be doing the work with this weather ! I hope not as I have the twins home with mid term and few options in this weather

The problem now though is that as soon as a storm gets named the country goes into meltdown. I'm pretty sure loads of schools started closing because of orange alerts in recent, ahem, "storms"

Social media gets flooded with loads of fancy graphs and models which look a lot more sinister than they are and people start thinking it's similar to a hurricane that hits Florida.

We also have the absurd situation of schools closing in places like killaloe and Ballina because it's going to be moderately windy 60 miles away in Clifden and Kilkee, places where there are very few trees anyway and people are used to the wind.

Even on these forums we end up with people saying how they are in a red zone but the wind didn't even manage to blow up the lid of the wheelie bin.

Very heavy rain now in west Clare, winds still light though.

Gust of 104kmh at Sherkin

Following the weather here in Vancouver, its freezing here 2c at the moment (02:26) but they had the mid 20s till a few weeks ago

Getting breezy in West Galway with heavy rain at times. According to Met.ie, the worst wind gusts are forecast here for around 2pm.

Waterford airport 92.6kph

SAIE99 EIWF 020930

METAR EIWF 020930Z 20039G50KT 9000 -RA SCT018CB BKN047 13/11 Q1000=

Looks like a squall line forming from limerick down to kenmare

Waterford Airport

SAIE99 EIWF 021030

METAR EIWF 021030Z 21040G56KT 5000 RA BKN020 13/12 Q0999=

103.7kph

https://www.flywaterford.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=151

Sat24 Image looks like potential thunderstorms in those clouds bubbling up to the west

Not a techy. Usually when I see clouds like those on the right that are round, tall and like bubbles it's usually a sign of convection. Convection can mean thunder storms. I prefer my thunderstorms at night.

Someone else might be able to explain it better

This might help

North east pelting down and driven by strong gusty winds up to 80km/h. It should blow through in a couple of hours max.

Torrential downpour and very squally winds for about 10 minutes here (SW Laois), just passed through. I had some work done on the flashing around an skylight yesterday, hope it holds out as the rain was unbelievably heavy.

Very unusual for Vancouver to be that cold at the start of November. In fact I don't really remember it hitting that low very often over any winter.

The powder on grouse/Seymour must be great today!

107kmh now in big squall with thunder and lightning

Thunder in Waterford