Storm Isha - Sunday 21/Monday 22 January 2024

It is going to be a rainmaker, which may turn out to be the bigger story for us weather-wise unless there is an upgrade in wind potential in the interim (still possible).

The 18z output from the ECMWF model would suggest a near-nationwide Orange Alert for strong Winds, spot flooding and coastal flooding in Ireland that would likely be effective from mid afternoon on Sunday through to late Monday morning, downgrading thereafter for a short period to a Yellow Alert. The northwest would be in high Orange Alert territory and a brief Red Alert for this region could not be ruled out based on this output. Flooding in Atlantic coastal locations would be a concern due to High tide around 2am Monday coinciding with some of the strongest winds (westerly), not forgetting the added influence of a near Full Moon.

The ICON 0z run edges parts of Ireland into Red Alert territory. One caveat is that the model is known for over-egging wind potential, even at 36 hours out.

they are adults.. M.E. can't hold everyone's hand on their way home. Warnings are up, anyone travelling should be keeping an eye on any possible changes.

Yes your spot on, the media are already all over this even though its a yellow. The argument of I didn't know was more relevant pre Internet not today. This storm is nothing exceptional apart from maybe far Northwest! It's a nationwide orange and will be upgraded during the day. Schools won't close both because it's not a red and more importantly its happening on a Sunday night when society in general are not out

Status Orange - Wind warning for Carlow, Dublin, Kilkenny, Longford, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Cavan, Monaghan, Munster, Connacht

• Met Éireann Weather Warning
• Very strong southwest winds with severe and damaging gusts.
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• Impacts:
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• • Large coastal waves with wave overtopping
• • Very difficult travelling conditions
• • Fallen trees
• • Damage to power lines
• Valid: 17:00 Sunday 21/01/2024 to 02:00 Monday 22/01/2024
• Issued: 09:01 Saturday 20/01/2024
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Depends on a number of factors, mainly wind speed and wind direction relative to the runway direction. Taking both of these into account is the x-wind or crosswind component. All aircraft types have x-wind limits for various runway contaminants, in this case dry or wet runways.

The aircraft you will be flying on tomorrow is an ATR72.

They will make a decision based on the airfield forecast, also known as a TAF. If conditions are forecast out of limits at the airport in question, the operator will likely choose to cancel the flight. If conditions are marginal, the operator will monitor 30min weather reports or metars. A final decision will be made to either dispatch, delay or cancel the flight.

Ah lads and lassies, do we have to do Met Eireann bashing EVERY SINGLE TIME. Before, during and after ad nauseum. Yeah yeah they should have been warning us yesterday about a storm on Sunday when the roads were lethal with ice yesterday. Just to get ahead of it like. Nothing worse than over-communication. Let's not try and pamper the entire soft Irish population every single time. I'll be eating my Sunday dinner today just so I don't starve tomorrow. When I am perfect at my job, I'll start bashing.

Or we can just enjoy the weather event?

Based in Meath myself. I'd like to think I am able apply common sense and personal responsibility when it comes to such things but the idea that Meath and Westmeath are going to bypassed by the storm only serve to undermine the credibility of the weather warnings in my opinion.

Regarding the UKMO youtube videos,their main audience on them is probably similar to gav's weather videos ie weather nerds like ourselves

I wouldn't criticise Glasnevin for not doing those

Would we call this a storm? Or is it just a spell of bad weather?

It's a plausible scenario created by subtleties of wind direction and geography.