Hurricane Gordon arriving Weds/Thursday/Friday next, flooding possible

Sponge Bob

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024609.shtml?5day




Wetterzentrale shows Hurricane Gordon 'hanging around' for a few days next week between Wednesday and Friday , held just off the coast of Galway by a continental high.

We are not hearing much about the recent batch of hurricanes because they are skipping up the east coast of the USA but staying offshore before they spin across the Atlantic to annoy us

Add in a high tide and squelch.

CrowdedHouse

Sponge Bob wrote:

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Add in a high tide and squelch.

There was a great high tide down at Renville last Sunday evening,first time I ever saw that Bay filled.
The water was out on the lane down to the pier

Sponge Bob

High tides by themselves are safe as long as there is no westerly wind and no low pressure over Galway .

A high tide with a hurricane out beyond the Aran Islands continually pushing a wall of water into Galway bay...possibly for days on end ......is a different matter entirely.

Watch Gordon and Wetterzentrale like a hawk. You may be sure that our pathetic Met service will not warn us well in advance. They obsess about Dublin weather only

Sponge Bob

Gordon has dropped to a category 2 hurricane as I post .

The yellow blob at the bottom of that picture is the slower moving and as yet not hurricane but possibly Hurricane Helene. If there is any real sign of the track shifting east I shall of course start the Hurricane Helene Thread

I wish these feckers would piss off to the southern american trailer parks they traditionally belong in instead of annoying us !

non-irish

Well, it looks like Hurricane Gordon is now in Galicia, where they have decided to close schools tomorrow and advised people not to drive unless extremely necessary, to take any dangerous objects from balconies, roofs, window sills, etc.

toiletduck

im looking forward to the "waterworld" galway after this..... *me gets on a jetski and heads out to kill kevin costner*

danniemcq

/stocks up on paper