Another potential damaging storm Sat/Sun

junkyard

Thanks WC for all the info and please stop fighting, everybody, its ruining one of my favorite forums.:) Anyway its blowing a gale in Cork with light rain now and again.

Villain

Just came in after being out in the garden and my god its getting rough, I'm only guessing here but I'd say winds are gusting to about 40 mph already.

Actually just checked tristrames station he has recorded a gust of 34.5mph in the last hour

Villain

RTE Weather says worst winds will be tomorrow afternoon with justs up to 140kph.

Trogdor

Just back from Britas Bay and by God it's wild down there. the beach is completely gone, all the sand has been stripped away. also nearly every feild is flooded i didn't realise the flooding was that bad. The wind was awful down there, but its not nearly as bad up here

rc28

someone from torro says there is a serious risk of tornadoes tonight for ireland, this week is certainly going to be interesting as it looks like even more deep lows are lining up to for next week.
here's the link:
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7133&posts=12

also keep an eye on this forum:
http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?showtopic=34499&st=34

already some strong gusts here in meath with light to moderate rain.

Villain

Getting rough off the Irish coast, a weather station is reporting 20 foot waves!:http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=62090

Also looks like next week could have a big storm on Friday: http://www.netweather.tv/forum/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=26834

Looks like the atlantic is cheesed off and is going to send us some nasty weather for a while.

In Carlow the winds have slacked off a bit for now

ninebeanrows

Getting very windy here now, gusts must be reaching 50mph:)

Villain

Yep very wild here too, just hoping the power doesn't get cut.

Mothman

Strong Gale at Roches Point,
Near Gale at Casement, Cork AP and Rosslare

and in fact near gale with me

Mean of 34mph gusting to 50+

Supercell

Wind not picked up here yet, probably sheltered, rain pretty heavy though but thats normal here.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Getting windy here now, and raining too although nowhere like the showers we got on Thursday and Friday...
Is there possibility that we will thunder and lightning?

billy the squid

From the lates UK sea area forcast

LUNDY FASTNET IRISH SEA SHANNON SOUTH OR SOUTHWEST, VEERING WEST, 7 OR GALE 8 INCREASING GALE 8 TO STORM 10, OCCASIONALLY VIOLENT STORM 11. ROUGH OR VERY ROUGH BECOMING HIGH OR VERY HIGH. RAIN OR SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR

ROCKALL MALIN SOUTH, BECOMING CYCLONIC THEN WEST, 7 TO SEVERE GALE 9, INCREASING SEVERE GALE 9 TO VIOLENT STORM 11. HIGH OR VERY HIGH. RAIN OR SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR

Trogdor

Really looking foward to later tonight and tomorrow, might head further down south tomorrow if there's such a severe thunderstorm/tornado risk.

kleefarr

Bit stormy here (Kilkenny City outskirts). High gusts of wind and rain. Thought I saw some lightening, but having checked the lightening website there's nothing for miles.

rc28

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/
some heavier rainfall echoes appearing on radar now, latest satellite pics show the low is beginning to curl and looks amazing:
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/SDDI/cgi/listImages.pl?m=prod,a=1,sa=8,pr=RGB,f=1,c=AIR,se=2,n=6,d=1,v=400,pp=0,t=200609201000#c
http://www.meteoam.it/modules.php?name=meteosat7&fileNameView=satellit/WWW/vapore7_2006-12-02%2020:15:00.jpg

kleefarr

That eumetsat looks cool. :cool:

Mothman

Just had a gust of 55mph

Mean staying in the low 30s

Pressure 989 (-7mb 3hrs)

highdef

Sky News mentioned the risk of tornados with this storm just before the 9pn news

rc28

highdef wrote:

Sky News mentioned the risk of tornados with this storm just before the 9pn news

yup, take a look at this:
http://www.torro.org.uk/forecast/
potential for some very rare weather

pp_me129

sweet bring on tornados woo

this is quite a storm and so far it has been a good year for them while
amercia had vry few hurricanes this year hmmm....

Villain

I don't think people realise how bad this could get.

CrowdedHouse

rc28 wrote:

yup, take a look at this:
http://www.torro.org.uk/forecast/
potential for some very rare weather

"Southern Eire" FFS

pp_me129

irish1 wrote:

I don't think people realise how bad this could get.

I do im gettin rdy 4 a power out and i live in the city center!!!

Supercell

Wind picking up now, steady roar outside, rain pelting down.

ninebeanrows

Dublin Airport must be in some sort of pot hole or something!

DUBLIN AIRPORT S 17 Gust 31

It's far windier than that here that's for sure..

The lampost on the road is rattling and tree's are swaying, there are occasional severe gusts... upto around 50mph i would reckon.

Snowbie

Nope not getting those gusts either,mean has come up slightly but 29mph gust so far aint that strong.Im 33m asl and wind vane above my roof line in clear sight 40 odd foot up.Topography again id say with the mtns playing its part.

mickger

OMG some major strong gusts here in the Waterford suburbs. This could turn out to be a crazy storm one of the like we haven't seen before :eek:

ninebeanrows

Snowbie wrote:

Nope not getting those gusts either,mean has come up slightly but 29mph gust so far aint that strong.Im 33m asl and wind vane above my roof line in clear sight 40 odd foot up.Topography again id say with the mtns playing its part.

Yea i would say the Wicklow Mountain may effect the strength of the winds on some areas of Dublin in Phase 1 of the storm...;)

Still very windy here nonetheless.

netwhizkid

Extremely strong gusts here close to the mouth of Kenmare Bay/Roughty Catchment area @ 51.904036° N 9.436569° W.

I would estimate the winds to be in excess of 100Km and trees are bending over, Localised flooding with the ground already saturated from Thursday's deluge. There has been intermittent lightning strikes all evening and about 30minutes ago I heard the most unique roaring away in the hills as if there was a Tornado up there or something. It is a bad one but the power has stayed on.

This is netwhizkid signing of for BNN, over to you in the studio Snowbie.

(BNN = Boards News Networks, a subsidiary of CNN, Cloud Network News)

rc28

ha, check out this streaming webcam in cornwall, who wants to place bets as to when those xmas lights will fall down, the cam moves around a lot so wait till it turns back around to the beach front:
http://www.exmouthcam.co.uk/winmedia.htm

also this cam should be interesting tomorrow when the worst winds reach scotland:
http://www.camvista.com/scotland/edinburgh/histedin_streaming.php3