Risk of Strong Winds & Heavy Rain: Thursday 3rd - Friday 4th

Deep Easterly

M.T's forecast for tomorrow Thursday:

M.T. Cranium wrote:

Periods of rain will become heavy by afternoon (west) and evening (east) with strong wind gusts, temperatures rising to about 10 C. Some wind gusts to 70 mph possible in Connacht and Donegal, 50-60 mph elsewhere. Rainfalls of 10-20 mms can be expected; any snow earlier should melt rapidly.

Looks like we are heading into a spell of very unsettled weather over the next few days. While wet and very windy in parts today, tomorrow and Friday brings a risk of even stronger winds which could gust to gale force 10 in some western and north-western coastal areas as a depression rapidly deepens as it passes between Ireland and Iceland tomorrow afternoon.


HIRLAM wind forecast for 3pm tomorrow afternoon:


Storm force winds close to the Donegal coast with gale to strong gale force winds along western coasts; further inland, strong winds can be expected gusting to gale force at times, especially in Connacht and Ulster.




Friday looks to be another very windy day as a strong to gale force SW flow develops ahead (confluent) of a slow moving cold front moving down from the north-west.

Fax chart for Friday noon:




Some heavy and persistant rain also as the day goes on.

mike65

Would it be cheeky to say I could have written that having clicked met.ie? Rain is wet level forcasting

Deep Easterly

mike65 wrote: »

Would it be cheeky to say I could have written that having clicked met.ie?

I'd not call what you have to say cheeky... but I would call it pointless.

mike65

That was my reaction when I saw this thread to be honest. We already have one down the page if you look, you could have bumped that.

Deep Easterly

mike65 wrote: »

That was my reaction when I saw this thread to be honest. We already have one down the page if you look, you could have bumped that.

I could have bumped it, but I didn't. That thread goes by the title 'Stormy Next Week'. It is now this week, so I don't see a problem opening a new one to deal with the weather potential this week. If you don't like it, go somewhere else.

snowstreams

Looks like the prom in salthill could have some big waves at it.
This could be interesting to watch!

Sugarfree

snowstreams wrote: »

Looks like the prom in salthill could have some big waves at it.
This could be interesting to watch!

Big wind in Galway here last night and today.

Aerohead

Yes its silly to start a new thread about a possible storm period this week, the other post started on the 28th jan was about the weather starting from today so it should have been bumped and keep everything under the one post, no point in having two about the same stormy period ahead.

snowstreams

Sugarfree wrote: »

Big wind in Galway here last night and today.

Thats true, it kept me awake most of the night. I forgot to check the sea this morning to see what it was like.

Deep Easterly

Latest DMI HIRLAM still showing potential for strong to gale force winds along NW coasts tomorrow afternoon:




with very blustary conditions overland.

Deep Easterly

Aerohead wrote: »

Yes its silly to start a new thread about a possible storm period this week, the other post started on the 28th jan was about the weather starting from today so it should have been bumped and keep everything under the one post, no point in having two about the same stormy period ahead.

Sorry, do you actually have anything worthwhile to add to the thread? I have stated my reasons for not 'bumping' the other thread so go back and read them. Complain to a mod if it irks you that much. :rolleyes:

Aerohead

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Sorry, do you actually have anything worthwhile to add to the thread? I have stated my reasons for not 'bumping' the other thread so go back and read them. Complain to a mod if it irks you that much. :rolleyes:

Chill out DE, I just think to many posts on the same subject mean I might miss something of interest like the charts you post if there are two threads on the same storm.

Mongarra

My goodness, we are touchy. Anyway I appreciate the information.

Deep Easterly

Aerohead wrote: »

Chill out DE, I just think to many posts on the same subject mean I might miss something of interest like the charts you post if there are two threads on the same storm.

But you didn't miss them? It is not I, but you who should 'chill out'.

nacho libre

The Outer Hebrides are going to get hammered! Pity we couldn't see the winds that intense. Still it'll be good to have some blustery weather again after the nothingness of recent times

Pangea

While bit of rain here this morning.

On a different note theres a good oppurtunity for people in Donegal to see the northern lights from tonight till Friday night although its going to be cloudy (so typical). Lets hope the clouds move away for a while.
http://www.donegalskies.com/in-the-skies

nacho libre

Pangea wrote: »

While bit of rain here this morning.

On a different note theres a good oppurtunity for people in Donegal to see the northern lights from tonight till Friday night although its going to be cloudy (so typical). Lets hope the clouds move away for a while.
http://www.donegalskies.com/in-the-skies

If you do happen to see them. please take a few snaps of them for the rest of us if you can:)

Pangea

nacho libre wrote: »

If you do happen to see them. please take a few snaps of them for the rest of us if you can:)

No problem, I just wish it was a nice frosty night with clear skies ,anytime theres an eclipse or something it always seems to cloud up. :rolleyes:

fizzycyst

It really is typical, the minute something of interest happens in the night sky it gets cloudy, especially after the last few weeks of cloudless frosty nights.:rolleyes:

delw

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Latest DMI HIRLAM still showing potential for strong to gale force winds along NW coasts tomorrow afternoon:




with very blustary conditions overland.

strong winds up the irish sea as well DE

Storm 10

fizzycyst wrote: »

It really is typical, the minute something of interest happens in the night sky it gets cloudy, especially after the last few weeks of cloudless frosty nights.:rolleyes:

Yeah I missed all the shooting stars recently due to cloud its a pain in this neck of the woods to see anything of interest, should be very windy from tomorrow looking at those charts.

DOCARCH

UKMO going for some rough weather in their extended marine/shipping forecast:

Rockall, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes, Southeast Iceland, storms or violent storms at first, risk Hurricane Force 12 winds until later Friday. North Irish Sea, northwest Shannon, risk storms at times until late Saturday.

Monkaa

Its now a category 2 storm....cant wait til more daylight images come in! Havent seen anything off the wall or exciting as it happened during the night

thetonynator

Monkaa wrote: »

Its now a category 2 storm....cant wait til more daylight images come in! Havent seen anything off the wall or exciting as it happened during the night

Are you sure you're in the right thread? Category two off the west of ireland?!!!

je55ie

thetonynator wrote: »

Are you sure you're in the right thread? Category two off the west of ireland?!!!

Was thinking the same

irish1967

Was getting excited there for a while !!

Su Campu

I think there's no problem starting this new thread as it is a more specific time period than the previous one, which just stated "next week". It served its purpose last week, but now this one gives people a heads up on exactly what part of "next week" we can expect the stormy weather.

Hell, it happens all the time with snow threads and nobody seems to mind!!

Nabber

Seen a Tesco bag flying through the air earlier. Wind must be mighty powerful to pick that up

fizzycyst

Nabber wrote: »

Seen a Tesco bag flying through the air earlier. Wind must be mighty powerful to pick that up

heading in the category 3 direction I'd say, best to stay in doors, wouldn't want any Tesco bags flying in my face or anything

irish1967

A Dunnes Stores one would be worse. Difference is it's Irish.

Accuweather app giving excellent winds for next couple of days

sparrowcar

Latest TAF from Dublin airport

030500Z 0306/0406 24014KT 9999 SCT030 BECMG 0310/0312 20017G30KT BECMG 0312/0314 21024G38KT SCT010 BKN020 TEMPO 0314/0321 23030G48KT TEMPO 0315/0406 5000 RA BKN008 BECMG 0321/0323 25020G32KT TEMPO 0402/0406 25025G42KT=

Will be an interesting day in work... :rolleyes:

irish1967

Hmmm. Very very light breeze here at the minute. Calm before storm??

cherryghost

lolz netweather is giving a snow risk in front of this trough

ednwireland

switched the wipers on this morning and big lumps of frozen hail went flying across the windscreen !

1.9 C at the moment in donegal town

wind should give the weather station a test !

rhonin

Wind has picked up here and has started to rain.

ednwireland

wind gust upto 38.4 km/h steady speed 8.2km/h

mickger844posts

Winds picking up here in Waterford, Average 26km/h Gusts 40km/h from the SW

Harps

Gotten quite bad here now as well, some really strong gusts, 57.5km/h the strongest so far. 62 knots reported at Belmullet

TheMilkyPirate

Lovely and calm here in the sunny south-east

Pangea

Stormy here, the sea is rough and the winds are shaking the cars. Quite dangerous even.
I seen some snowflakes mixed in with the sleet and rain .
The neighbours tropical tree has lot most of its branches.

Iancar29

Pangea wrote: »

Stormy here, the sea is rough and the winds are shaking the cars. Quite dangerous even.
I seen some snowflakes mixed in with the sleet and rain .
The neighbours tropical tree has lot most of its branches.

Storm Chase time for u so!

Do us Proud PANGEA!!

Harps

Rain has arrived here in the past while, just as I was about to go out :rolleyes:

Just seems to be plain old rain, no sleet or hail mixed in

Darwin

xcweather reporting wind gust of 71mph in Belmullet

irish1967

Car alarms going off here. Garden furniture blowing about. Intermittent rain. Still haven't got the constant roar.... yet.
Highest gust recorded 41.7kmh (on ednwireland's weather station. )

Iancar29

irish1967 wrote: »

Car alarms going off here. Garden furniture blowing about. Intermittent rain. Still haven't got the constant roar.... yet.
Highest gust recorded 41.7kmh (on ednwireland's weather station. )

Possible short video of any sort?, a feather wouldnt move an inch wer im am its that quiet!, i need a weather fix!! haha

Deep Easterly

Met Eireann's 3hr HIRLAM windspeed forecast for 15hrs:



Strong winds around our coasts with strongest winds inland over north Connacht, Ulster and north Leinster.


Gust of 72 knots at Belmullet on 1pm reports:
http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp


Way to go Mayo!

Storm 10

Very windy here in Galway with very regular sustained gusts of 65 mph. I never saw waves on the Corrib before at Woodquay in the City Centre with white tops on them.

gbee

72 kts is Beufort 12 / Hurricane: structural damage on land and intense storm waves at sea

Iancar29

gbee wrote: »

72 kts is Beufort 12 / Hurricane: structural damage on land and intense storm waves at sea

Thats only for winds now just letting u know... not gusts.

mickger844posts

Wind getting stronger here, just had a gust of 48.3km/h

Data from www.waterfordcityweather.com

nacho libre

violent storm force 11 winds here now. ok there isn't , i just like the thought of it.

still quite gusty all the same, with squally bursts of rain.