Are U ready for teh storm?

mike65

As you may know there is a serious storm threatening and due to dominate the weather for the next 2-3 days (a second front is following) so are you ready - is the satellite dish looking secure, is your roof going to survive 100 mph gusts? Got the corpo sandbangs yet? Yep there will be flooding as well.

Here she comes

I've decided not to leave the house until late Wednesday, so I can buy a bin-ticket and the lotto

Mike.

hamnegg

Cool!! can't wait!!

FunkZ

I have to go into the city tomorrow, ****.

FlutterinBantam

Yep, called in the cat and put everything into "waiting " mode.

GhostInTheRuins

I love stormy weather actually.

Huggles

I live in Clontarf, so it should be great fun altogether

Anyone know when the beast is due to hit?

orestes

I work outdoors, should be a fun week

PeakOutput

so there is no chance of good weather for rag week then?

Jimbo

Day off work maybe so not all bad

MrJoeSoap

Great, I work on the seafront near Clontarf too. Fan-flippin' tastic. Its windy here at the best of times.

Voodu Child

Hopefully it'll blow that hobo off my roof, his faeces are starting to block the gutters..:(

demanufactured

Jaysus looks nasty...better go out and ake the stuff of the shed roof

FunkZ

Those Irish pirates are ****ed now, they'll be getting the worst of it!

Sherifu

Batten down the hatches.

Overheal

Meh. Its no hurricane.

Jesus Wept

Storms a brewin'

KTRIC

Ya call that a storm ?? , that ain't a storm , this is :

Steve

Deadly, glad I invested in those fence panel stocks.

themadchef

I'm totally bricking it. No joke living on the coast when mother nature decides to freak out on us. Can look forward to:

No electricity for hours / days.

Flooding. Waves that the mental surfers will say "hell yeah" to.

No heating, sure it won't even be fit for to go out for a bucket of turf :eek:.

*Random animals such as sheep and donkey flying past window


*May or may not happen depending on severity of storm


Will be one for the books by the sound of it. How bad is it looking for the West any one know?

pirelli

Some say it's heading south of Ireland.
Other's say that the eye of the storm will be over Dublin tomorrow.
Most agree strong winds of 80- 90 on S coast and 100 -110 on Sw coast.

According to the world encylopedia

Hurricanes

Level 1, 74-95 mph
Level 2, 96-110 mph
Level 3, 111-130 mph
Level 4, 131-155 mph
Level 5, 156 mph"

Ireland is looking at a level 1 or level 2 hurricane.It's time to wake up folks it's real.

Steve

Met Eireann:

Forecast for coasts from Roches Point to Loop Head to Erris Head -
Wind: Southwest backing south force 5 or 6, backing south to southeast gale force 8 to storm force 10 imminent; veering southwest to west force 5 to 7 overnight and becoming cyclonic variable by morning; then becoming northwest strong gale force 9 to storm force 10 Monday forenoon.
Weather: Rain soon spreading east but clearing overnight to showers of rain or hail, some thundery.
Visibility: Becoming moderate to poor in rain; then good, occasionally moderate in showers.

Forecast for coasts from Erris Head to Carlingford Lough to Roches Point and the Irish Sea -
Wind: Southwest force 5 to 7, backing south to southeast gale force 8 to storm force 10 early tonight; veering southwest force 5 to 7 overnight and becoming cyclonic variable force 2 to 5 Monday forenoon; later becoming west to northwest gale force 8 to strong gale force 9, locally storm force 10.
Weather: Showers dying out and rain extending east early tonight; rain clearing to showers of rain or hail later tonight.
Visibility: Moderate to poor in rain and locally moderate in showers; otherwise good. Warning of heavy swell on western coasts for much of the period.

Outlook for a further 24 hours until 1800 Tuesday 11 March 2008: Gale or strong gale force northwest winds will soon moderate before later backing southwest and increasing fresh to strong; showers of rain or hail, some thundery at first, dying out but rain extending east later. Warning of heavy swell on western coasts for much of the period.

Force 10 = 100kph ish

Muff_Daddy

pirelli wrote: »

Some say it's heading south of Ireland.
Other's say that the eye of the storm will be over Dublin tomorrow.
Most agree strong winds of 80- 90 on S coast and 100 -110 on Sw coast.

According to the world encylopedia

Hurricanes

Level 1, 74-95 mph
Level 2, 96-110 mph
Level 3, 111-130 mph
Level 4, 131-155 mph
Level 5, 156 mph"

Ireland is looking at a level 1 or level 2 hurricane.It's time to wake up folks it's real.

Thats old money. I'm pretty sure the higest winds are 100kph, not mph. Tbh.

Pherekydes

pirelli wrote: »

Hurricanes

Level 1, 74-95 mph
Level 2, 96-110 mph
Level 3, 111-130 mph
Level 4, 131-155 mph
Level 5, 156 mph"

Ireland is looking at a level 1 or level 2 hurricane.It's time to wake up folks it's real.

These are mean wind speeds. Those quoted in the forecasts are gusts.

Pigwidgeon

i heard the 100-110 thing to but it was km no mph

OPENROAD

Very very very worried about this, if electricity lines are knocked down, its Cheltenham on Tuesday so maybe no tv

dsmythy

Bet ya it's overhyped and is just an average storm.

Xhristy

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Peyton Manning

Where will be worst hit anyway?

Ponster

For more info on the 'storm' from the professionals then head over to the Weather Forum

kraggy

FunkZ wrote: »

I have to go into the city tomorrow, ****.

And I have to go to Yabbie Creek.:p

Davidius

There's a storm? I take it there's a chance of windburn then?

DEmeant0r

fcuk off wind/rain/hail/whatever it's middle of spring, go fcuk off and don't come back til winter.

WoollyRedHat

themadchef wrote: »

I'm totally bricking it. No joke living on the coast when mother nature decides to freak out on us. Can look forward to:

No electricity for hours / days.

Flooding. Waves that the mental surfers will say "hell yeah" to.

No heating, sure it won't even be fit for to go out for a bucket of turf :eek:.

*Random animals such as sheep and donkey flying past window


*May or may not happen depending on severity of storm


Will be one for the books by the sound of it. How bad is it looking for the West any one know?

*Random animals such as sheep and donkey flying past window- baaaad weather.

I'm going to cosy up to the perfect storm tonight, just to get me ready!!

Toto Wolfcastle

Your man on the weather forecast said that it'll have passed over the west by the morning.

If I have to walk to work in the rain I'm heading to RTE/Met Office and there will be trouble.

moneyman

****. I'm meant to be flying to Italy late Wed night. Any chance it will have an affect or the flight be cancelled? I really hope it's passed by then.

Steve

What's the story with this? sittin here by the window with my popcorn and nothings happening

Toto Wolfcastle

stevec wrote: »

What's the story with this? sittin here by the window with my popcorn and nothings happening

Don't worry, it's on its way! Mad winds here in Galway (as always!) and I'm hoping to see some scumbag kids flying by before it heads to the east.

indiana jones

good luck to everyone.....i hope we all make it.

Tar.Aldarion

In Galway, you storm rain!

galwayrush

What fecking storm?

WoollyRedHat

indiana jones wrote: »

good luck to everyone.....i hope we all make it.

Haha, I knew my Panic room would come in handy!

For those who don't, you may enter it if you pay me €1000 per night.

dsmythy

stevec wrote: »

What's the story with this? sittin here by the window with my popcorn and nothings happening

It's not really going to be much of an event. Windy yeah, but that's it. The worst of the winds will be south of us.

For some reason, when I was told there was a storm coming earlier I instantly thought of The Terminator, just for that last line.

mike65

Its calm outside I fully expect this event to be a damp squib.

Mike.

lostexpectation

wind rain water big ****ing woo

Toto Wolfcastle

lostexpectation wrote: »

wind rain water big ****ing woo

Exactly. Have we not had enough wind and rain to be used to it at this stage?

Stupid Ireland.

mike65

heh, no sooner did I type the above it started to bucket down.

Mike.

pirelli

stevec wrote: »

Met Eireann:


Force 10 = 100kph ish

Muff_Daddy wrote: »

Thats old money. I'm pretty sure the higest winds are 100kph, not mph. Tbh.

Slow coach wrote: »

These are mean wind speeds. Those quoted in the forecasts are gusts.

Slow coach wrote: »

These are mean wind speeds. Those quoted in the forecasts are gusts.

They are wind speed's not mean wind speed's as a mean wind speed is the mean of the speeds given.

A hurricane start's at Force 12 on the Beaufort scale. That is exactly what is forecast for Shannon is SW Ireland. It seems that there is a hurricane warning for the shannon off SW Ireland coast.


http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/marine/highseas_forecast.html

Shannon
Storm warning 2000 Sun 09 Mar
At 091200 UTC, low 55 north 28 west 960 expected 52 north 05 west 956 by 1012000 UTC. Winds will reach storm force 10 in the southern quadrant within 600 miles of the centre throughout, reaching violent storm force 11 between 100 and 300 miles of the centre throughout and hurricane force 12 in the southwestern quadrant between 100 and 250 miles of the centre until 100600 UTC.

Steve

still nothing here, running out of popcorn.

lostexpectation

Ponster wrote: »

For more info on the 'storm' from the professionals then head over to the Weather Forum

professional exagerraters

The guy

stephensegali wrote: »

It's time to wake up folks it's real.