Deep low pressure(Sunday 3/12/06,next one to watch)

Trogdor

I think this deserves it's own thread, as the winds will have potential to bring widespread damage to some parts of the country
Winds are already gale force on the west coast and strenghtening fast across the rest of the country. Met Eireann are forecasting wind strenghts of up 110km/h and up to another 20km/h on western coasts. There will also be a period of heavy rain across the country.
Here's the charts,
http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/Rtavn129.png
http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/Rtavn121.png
and the lasest,
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/.

Snowbie

Looks nasty.When is peak time around?

Trogdor

Snowbie wrote:

Looks nasty.When is peak time around?

I'd say between around 7:00 to 9:00 on the east coast, the irish sea will become very rough, the worst should be passed by midnight anyway, but it will continue to be quite windy right on into tomorrow.

ninebeanrows

Yes when boards was down this was unravelling.

Severe winds up the Irish sea later and the east coast

Meanwhile in the west winds are already gusting 72mph


Expecting gusts up the east coast in excess of 70mph's with sustained 40KT winds progged..

Severe weather is a coming...........


http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

I expects perhaps a gusting in excess of 85mph as we head into this evening.

Peaking in Dublin around 7pm....... Potentially the windest period of weather for the east this autumn (not potentially..likely)

darkman2

Gust of 85mph certainly possible in the Irish sea this evening.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn128.png

Hitting 35mph here now at groundlevel.

ninebeanrows

Potential for gusts to 80mph in Dub Airport this Evening and 85mph in Rosslare



http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn129.png


:eek:

Snowbie

picking up here now,gusting over 25mph constantly

mike65

Exciting!

Mike.

darkman2

There has been a report of an 83mph gust at Belmullet. Can anyone confirm this?

Hitting 40mph down here

darkman2

darkman2 wrote:

There has been a report of an 83mph gust at Belmullet. Can anyone confirm this?

Well xc weather has it

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

Mothman

Gusting to 50mph so far.

Was up on Kippure couple hours back and it was already getting blowy. A little snow at very top.

darkman2

Tristrame wrote:

Well xc weather has it

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

Ah great, thanks!:)

darkman2

Winds have really increased here in the last few minutes.

ninebeanrows

Wind gusts increasing fast here!

dathi1

very scary gusts now in firhouse south dublin. Cant remember wind like this in ages!

NewsWire

Here in Limerick it's fairly windy now. Big trees swaying where i am. The windiest time here was around 2.30pm but it''s been easing ever since.

According to xcweather malin head has had a gust of at 75mph..isn't that hurricane force?:eek:

42mph from my anemometer located just 6ft off the ground here.

Howling out there.

The link in my sig gives the live wind here

5.3mm rain so far.

Supercell

Must be sheltered here, its windy outside but nothing major.
Has been far far more breezy in the last couple of days than tonight.
Its raining steadily though and the temp is rising slowly too, dropped to 6.9°C this afternoon in the rain now is comparatively balmy 8.9°C

KdjaCL

dathi1 wrote:

very scary gusts now in firhouse south dublin. Cant remember wind like this in ages!

fcuk going to play a match there in an hour


kdjac

Villain

Winds were gusting very high in the last hour in Tullow, they have slacked off again now but some of the roads are badly flooded.

Snowbie

Right its been windy but not stormy at all here.34mph is my highest at 18:17.

Was out in Howth most of the day and was hardly funiture moving wind blowing.
Not as bad as forecasted.

Calmed down a bit here now but only in the last 15 mins

peak gust was 46mph at 623pm ,40mph 20 mins ago too with lots in the 30's.

994.1mb

Snowbie

990.7mb and falling here.Calmed down a lot here with a gust now and again in the low 20s

It's also thankfully stopped raining here.
Total 10.2mm

That barometer is dropping here at a rate of 0.2mb an hour.

http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/noaa/dw/realtime/current/n1bcurr.jpg

Rosslare had a gust of almost 67mph at 1900 utc

Trogdor

991.7mb here, max gust of 40mph, not as bad as i expected tbh.

ninebeanrows

yea not as bad as i expected either tbh

GFS charts can be misleading especially for the east coast... they dont seem to take into account the topography of the land.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Yeah it was very wet and windy down here, on Sunday and Monday as well..
So much rain down near me that Sunday night, one of neighbours down the road, woke up to the sight of a sink hole outside his house... There is an underground river going under his house (and mine...), and flow of water was very strong. It swallowed up a large section of his wall and a fairly big tree was tipped over into it. Council arrived today to sort it out, they dug a fairly big hole around it and dumped a load of boulders into it..

Trogdor

Not sure whether to start another new thread for this so i'll post it in here, there's another nasty low approaching from the south-west that will hit tonight, gale force winds and heavy rain are likely for a time around midnight.
http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/Rtavn181.png
http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/Rtavn184.png
http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/Rtavn189.png


Met Eireann
Tonight

Very windy tonight with strong to gale force south to southeast winds gusting 90 to 120 km/h. The heavy rain will quickly extend to remaining northern and eastern areas, to give some very wet weather for a time, with a risk of some local spot flooding

NewsWire

were just beginning to get the first speckels of the rain here in Limerick.It looks to be just a rain event for us anyway

ch750536

Windy as hell here, lot of rain too, no station, would estimate around 70k mark in gusts though (blew over a half full wheelie bin is as scientific as I can get, sorry).

NewsWire

yes actually it is getting very gusty here in Lmerick city.The Patio chairs have vanished..i hope the neighbours return them:D

ninebeanrows

Yes wind picking up here in Dublin!:)
MetO expecting wind gusts to 75mph later.

Highest winds will affect the eastern seaboard between 11pm and 3am
with sustained 40/45mph winds likely... Expect a gust in Rosslare to tip close to 75mph later..

Along the east coast there will be widespread gusts to 55/60knots or 65/70mph

Supercell

Rain hammering against my windows right now, been an interesting day.

Was a cold crisp 0.3C this morning with a nice ground frost then sunny with showers this afternon and now getting stormy, almost a perfect day!! (perfect = snow instead of rain ).

ch750536

Gone reasonably quiet now in Abbeyfeale, so about 2hrs of wind and rain. Mostly S SW, down to an average windy day now.

At least the permanet mast hasn't blown down again...

Benny-c

We were out in a boat earlier today in Kerry doing some 'Rough weather handling' training...............scary yet exhilarating and er..........got soaked..:D

Snowbie

Gettin blowy out there now alright,wind gusting between 25mph to 29mph ocassionally.

Supercell

Storm on now, very heavy rain and winds audible over the telly, kewl stuff

ninebeanrows

Getting stormy now.

With the wind whistling through the house, gates banging and windows creaking..

mike65

This whole week looks like a windy washout

Mike.

ninebeanrows

Interesting developments for later this week..

After tonights stormy conditions pass.. It looks likely that some true storm winds will affect the whole Island on Wednesday night. Its early stage but s deepeninh low whistles past the Northwest against a strenghening HP over europe. Latest proggs suggest a country wide storm.. with 50mph winds around coasts with gusts exceeding 80mph with gusts even inland reaching 70mph. One to watch.. and that storm throws lots of rain into the bad coupled with the wicked winds..

With luck i'll have the site up and running for that one.. once the domain resolves after months of problems!!!

The wind is Howling down here.
Not very pleasant for my driving at all.

Frequently reaching and going above 40mph and thats with the anemometer practically on the ground.
If that was on a 30ft pole,you might see 60mph by the noise out there.

SpitfireIV

By god its windy here in 'Carla' town, and bucketing it down at the moment, not a pleasant night at all!! :eek:

Mothman

It's windy, but nowhere near stormy yet.
Max gust 39mph.

junkyard

Its stopped raining and the gales have died down from a strong gale to just a steady breeze. I'm in county Cork by the way.

mike65

Tristrame is driving whilst online! Thats got to be worth a few points.

Mike.

heh mike

powers dipped a few times here in the last half hour-wind howling like mad but not near the 50mph ground level record gust of a few weeks back.
It is more constant than that storm though ie a sustained high average at ground level often well above 30mph.

mike65

I had visions of a laptop powered off the ciggy lighter in a 1987 Daihatsu Fourtrak!

Rain ceased here in the last 20 mins and the winds dropped to almost nothing.

Mike.