Severe Weather Approaches

ninebeanrows

A deep Atlantic storm with a very tight gradient is forming west of Ireland and will track eastwards across the country tomorrow.

Wind gusts will pass 80mph in exposed locations as the gradient tightens as the system moves across ulster.

The sytstem will start affecting western areas from 9z tomorrow morning and reach its peak across eastern and northern ulster around 18z.

All areas will be affected by gale force winds with inland gusts frequently surpassing 60mph...

Take care.. and bear in mind when heading out to the ulster leinster game;)

Supercell

Not S winds, phew, no need to bloody realign my sat dish again so (sheltered here NIMBY)

SpitfireIV

Eeek....I just put a sat up on the chimney today.......hope it stays there :eek:

CroppyBoy1798

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Eeek....I just put a sat up on the chimney today.......hope it stays there :eek:

already had to re align mine!

Mothman

From Met Eireann, 31 Dec

Severe Weather Alert : Stormy today, with damaging winds gusting as high as 140 or 150 km/h. Heavy rain this morning, with some localised flooding. A clearance to brighter, showery conditions will follow, though some of the showers will also be heavy and possibly thundery. Highest temperatures of 9 C to 11 C.

And

Weather Warning

Issued at 31 December 2006 - 05:35
Severe Weather Warning
Southerly winds, later veering westerly, will give damaging gusts of up to 140 or 150 km/hr today.

Gale Warning

Southerly winds, later veering westerly, will reach storm force 10 to violent storm force 11 today on all coasts of Ireland and on the Irish Sea.
Issued at 05:00 on 31-Dec-2006

Mr. Pseudonym

Highest temperatures of 9 C to 11 C.



At least it should be mild enough in the terraces though;)

Touching 40mph here regularally already and howling.

very very windy now
up above 40mph at ground level in many gusts to 44mph max so far

its fairly hectic out there now - will it get much worse than this - supposed to be driving half the lenght of the country and back again today? How will driving conditions be?

Mothman

Deleted User wrote:

its fairly hectic out there now - will it get much worse than this - supposed to be driving half the lenght of the country and back again today? How will driving conditions be?

Bad! quite likely very bad.

Belmullet reported 78mph gust earlier, 50+mph gusts across country now and its getting stronger.

Take care!

Mean of 35mph and gust to 51mph with me.

Snowbie

Rain has just started now and the wind is a pickin up.Low 30s wind gusts so far.

Edit:Gusting very mid 30s now.Rain is like hail hitting the window here.

Full gale here now wind 33 to 39 most of the time and gusting to 47mph

Very noisy
light rain

I'm about to drive to Dublin :eek: and I absolutely have to and I had intended to head back here at about 6pm or so...


Just gusted to 49mph

10 min average is now 39.3mph at ground level not on top of a 30ft pole or anything :eek:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1231/weather.html


hmmmn thinking about waiting this one out....

fatherdougalmag

Big heavy shower just passed south Dublin heading NE. Now it's completely stopped raining with high stratus and blue sky.

ninebeanrows

Just in from journey from north..

madnessss

Supercell

Rain coming down pretty heavy, looks almost like fog, pretty gusty too, glad I tightened up the sat dish bolts

It peaked @ 65Km/h here near Athlone an hour ago

mike65

Just a bit blowy here, clear skies now.

Mike.

Snowbie

Gusty winds at 25mph.Died down a bit.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Nasty winds alright... I was out earlier and had a big flying crappy-wet leaf hit me in the face.
The highlight of my day.

Mothman

Mean is lower, but far more gusty now with max gust of 56mph.

Kilkenny recorded gale earlier which is unusual. These winds must have moved through Arklow as my max mean has been 35mph and that's at 10m height.

Clear sky and 13C

SpitfireIV

Longfield wrote:

glad I tightened up the sat dish bolts

My sat is currently pointing down at the roof.........doubth I'll get many signals from there :rolleyes:.

No rain here in Carlow town as of yet, sunny with broken cloud, but seems to have gotten a little windier in the past 30mins or so. I hear on the radio news they said that Galway had 'violent' thunderstorms and heavy hail as well as the high winds.....scary!

Mothman

14z
Belmullet 79mph gust.

Snowbie

Gusting now ahead of a heavy shower to 42mph atm.

rc28

:mad: damn damn damn.... my sat dish just completely got bent over and is now facing directly into our roof. and that stupid retard of an installer said that it would never be affected by wind. i bet it will take weeks for the repair people to come too.:mad: in the last 15 mins the wind suddenly became very violent (i think it was a squall). anyone elese in the dunshaughlin(meath) area experienced it too?

Cutie18Ireland

im in kells at the moment and has been very windy all morning... power went twice already

@14

70Km/h @14:30, lots of stuff flying around here:eek:
Anemometer is only 3m above ground & partually sheltered, wonder what it would read in clear space...

SpitfireIV

You'd be better off climbing up and fixing that sat yourself rc28, no point giving them fella's money for nothing!

What the forecast for the rest of the day? I was expecting severe weather, but for the most part it hasnt been 'that' windy in Carlow town, the odd strong gust now and then, but no damage being done, no power cuts or the likes. Is the worst of the wind gone now?

rc28

reports are coming in of a possible tornado near belfast, does anyone know anymore?
http://theweatheroutlook.com/twocommunity/forums/6/147634/ShowThread.aspx
just scroll down the page and it says that people are reporting it to that tornado website called torro

Snowbie

Well has died down alot here,still gusting near 30mph but not as strong.the worse is over for sure.Better weather for the celebrations and the sat dishes.

Edit:Just received my highest gust of 46mph,eh maybe it will die down now a bit later.

rc28

This news item briefly reports the tornado in armagh:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6221241.stm

arctictree

Don't have my weather station yet but the wind outside is really loud.

Smoke is coming down the chimney which only happens on the windiest of storms.

Currently +7.8 c and dropping.

We might get a drop of snow tomorrow on the tail end of this low..

A

Mothman

16z
Finner Camp gust 88mph

ninebeanrows

Bellmullet not reporting at the moment:eek:

Worst winds will affect areas of Northern Ireland within the next few hours...

Possible gusts in excess of 90mph on the southern side of the center of this low..

Really really tight gradient up there..

Milktrolley

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

You'd be better off climbing up and fixing that sat yourself rc28, no point giving them fella's money for nothing!

What the forecast for the rest of the day? I was expecting severe weather, but for the most part it hasnt been 'that' windy in Carlow town, the odd strong gust now and then, but no damage being done, no power cuts or the likes. Is the worst of the wind gone now?

I was out and about for around an hour earlier - very little hassle, a few sharp gusts but generally not too bad and mild for the time of year. But it has been picking up with some severe gusts just before five o'clock. My dish is a bit loose these days anyway and awaiting repair, it got knocked out earlier before being blown back into position! I suppose I'd want to have a look at it before the winds pick up.

RTÉ reports that 22,000 ESB customers are without power this evening. Good luck everybody...

Mothman

Pics are great, but please don't put them in here, I'm only on dial-up

Malin Head gust of 84mph

Belmullet reporting again...

Fantastic Photos!

Wow glad i didnt do that drive today!
Hey whoevers satellite dish got blown - just get a compass and make sure its pointing south east at an elevation of approx 28 degrees - simple - and TIGHTEN THOSE BOLTS !

Its not so bad in the south east - is it due to get much worse here? Or is the worst over?

Snowbie

CrowdedHouse wrote:

A few pics from Salthill about 2pm

Please post your pics in the weather pics thread.
For some reason the mod controls are not working and i cant move these pics for now.

Mothman

18z
Malin Head 91mph gust


BTW thanks Snowbie

arctictree

Just had a violent rain storm. Temp down to +4.5c

Mothman - would be interested in your temp reading now given our proximity.

A

rc28

some heavy rain moving into mayo now:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
http://www.meteo24.com/uk/index.php?q=radar

i wonder if there is any t-storm activity in it.
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

A Dub in Glasgo

Really heavy rain and strong winds here in Glasgow. I fear for my fence tonight The New Year party in the centre of Glasgow has been cancelled.

Mothman

arctictree wrote:

Just had a violent rain storm. Temp down to +4.5c

Mothman - would be interested in your temp reading now given our proximity.

A

7C at 19:30 and still 7C now. Got a bit of that shower here, but not notable.

Gone very quiet with wind only 10mph.

Snowbie

calm and clear here now,enjoy your night everyone.

rc28

happy new year everyone!

SpitfireIV

rc28 wrote:

happy new year everyone!

Ditto! Jeez, it was 2006 when I last posted, time flys eh

Anyways, just been outside and theres not a breath out, grand, clear, dry night.....wasnt there one New years eve night/morning a few year back that we had snow on the ground! :eek:

happy new yeatr ya'll it's a bit quieter here now that the storm has passed, Still in DNS limbo the website don't work :mad: hope it gets fixed this year:rolleyes:


phil

fatherdougalmag

Just post the IP address And/or sign up with dyndns.

fatherdougalmag

fatherdougalmag wrote:

Just post the IP address And/or sign up with dyndns.

Hi Fatherdougalmag.

It should be http://dolanbaker.info/weather
but I have a stopgap of http://d3027829.u101.hosting365.ie/weather/
which does work.
Moving domain names isn't painless

Snowbie

Deleted User wrote:

Hi Fatherdougalmag.

It should be http://dolanbaker.info/weather
but I have a stopgap of http://d3027829.u101.hosting365.ie/weather/
which does work.
Moving domain names isn't painless

Try asking these lovely people over here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=23

You might get help and more responses to your Dilemma.