ALERT for strong winds 30-31st March

Iancar29

Coming from MTC's forescast ,

"A rapidly developing frontal wave currently located well out to the west of Ireland will race past Mayo and Donegal tonight and produce locally strong wind gusts in northwest Ireland from the south to southwest peaking at about 65-70 mph (110 km/h) between midnight and 0300h (early hours of Thursday 31st). Winds over most other parts of Ireland will peak about the same time at speeds of about 40-50 mph (80 km/h). Watch for further updates as we track this disturbance closely during its approach.

Forecasts

TODAY will start out rather wet as a band of heavy showers moves steadily northeast, to be followed by variable cloudiness and mild conditions on moderate SW winds 20-40 mph. Highs will reach 13-15 C. Today's rainfall amounts (largely received already in the west) will amount to 5-10 mms. Due to the long dry spell and a buildup of oily material on roads, some roads will be unexpectedly slippery. Caution advised. Some sunshine will break through at times later, then further showers are likely to develop, some with thunder and hail by late in the day.

TONIGHT will be windy and in some parts stormy as winds increase to SSW 40-60 mph (see alert above). Very strong gusts may develop in coastal and higher parts of the northwest, around midnight to 0300h. All other regions will become quite windy too (35-50 mph). Some showers with hail and thunder will mark a fast-moving frontal system. Minor wind damage is possible. Lows will be around 7-9 C.

Then Comparing To Met Éireann's : Today will be mostly dry and bright with some sunny spells developing. However, further rain will push into the far southwest by evening. Top temperatures of 12 to 15 degrees.
Tonight

Tonight rain will become widespread and heavy for a time, then clearing to showers later in the night. It will be mild with lowest temperatures between 7 and 10 degrees in fresh and gusty south to southwest winds.

Tomorrow, Thursday will be cloudy with showers, but some bright or sunny spells will develop later. It will be rather windy with fresh and gusty, occasionally strong southwest winds. Remaining mild with top temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees.

Who's gonna be right this time?........

Sponge Bob

Met Eireann gives Dublin forecasts , not Western forecasts. Of COURSE they will be wrong.

mountainy man

Starting to get a few gusts out of the dead calm here, I believe in M.T.:)

M.T. Cranium

I think to be fair we were both expecting about the same sort of thing but as there has been such dead calm weather for weeks, I thought I would highlight this more for the surprise factor than anything else. The wind speeds are not likely to be too spectacular, but it will get gusty. No big deal.

Anyway, it's just about there now, can see the front in satellite imagery just off the west coast now. Oh right, nobody's up anyway ... we'll talk about it in the morning maybe.

Shlippery

I'm living near Jury's Inn in Galway and its' certainly windy here...the noise outside is wrecking my head!

monster1

Didn't know about this, was just woken there by it, wheelie bin and everything else being blown around the place, very windy.

Deep Easterly

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

The wind speeds are not likely to be too spectacular, but it will get gusty. No big deal.

Gusting up to 70mph (113 Km/h) at Mace Head on the 6am reports & 58mph (93km/h) at Claremorris.

http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

Mad windy here too; a whole lotta clatteing 'n' banging goin' on out there.

Timfy

Highest gust recorded so far today at Leenane, Co. Galway is 61.5mph. this was at 03:45
click HERE for weather station

ninebeanrows

Some vicious gusts here in the North Dublin area.

Didn't see that coming, and the charts didn't look too bad.

Gusts frequently above 60mph here for a few minutes there, deck chairs et al everywhere.

Trees were really bending.

Seems to have died for a moment now.

edit:

strange, still windy but the severe 5-10 minutes has abated. It was really quite vicious for that period.

Gusts here atm of 80km/h, started to get bad here at 7am.

Iancar29

Just got woken up by all the wind! Didn't expect it to be this windy in Dublin!
I wonder if therell be any trees damaged...

I shall check the news when I get up.

But for now ..... I'm gonna try sleeps for another hour! Ha

DOCARCH

Iancar29 wrote: »

I wonder if therell be any trees damaged...

Lots of reports of trees down all over the country on AA Roadwatch.

Storm 10

I recorded 70 mph on my machine this morning, trees down a large German cargo ship gone aground on rocks off Rossaveal Co Galway, this was never forecast by Met Eireann.

Sponge Bob

Ship blown onto the rocks in Rossaveal harbour when the anchor did not hold in the storm. I bet that Captain loves Met Éireann

gbee

Had a wind battering last night and I was positive it had rained massively. My rain gauge was empty and others nearby are showing tiny amount of rain.

So did it rain at all, the ground was damp this AM but no water pooling but it really sounded like it was lashing.

Sponge Bob

I did not hear the sea area forecast but the nine o clock weather was the normal Dublin Weather cack

http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1095238

slide to precisly 24:10 minutes after the initial ads. The only real wind report was the jet stream positioning over the next week/ temperature implications.

Last night was to be "wet and windy" "and "gale force 8 in sea areas" was the extent of it and no tight isobars shown and a quick Gale marker off Cork ...not Galway.

Seems it was Force 8 over land ...not teh same thing at all.

squonk

I'm in Galway city and didn't notice the wind being that strong at all. It was getting breezy when I hit for bed around 12 and I went to sleep at 1 and there wasn't much in the way of wind then either. Coming to work this morning was breezy btu nothing dramtic! I feel I'm somewhere else given all these reports and I've noticed none of it!

Sponge Bob

It was clattering down at 1am and the wind/stuff flying woke me at around 6am but had abated noticeably by 8am.

I was woken here in Galway up by the wind around 5am.

Also a cargo ship the Pantanal ran aground in Connemara.

It looks like a big boat.

http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Pantanal-9316579.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0331/connemara.html

dloob

Woken up around 5 -5:30 in Galway as well by the noise.
Really windy around that time but then eased off pretty quickly and it's pretty calm this morning.
What was a bit odd was that the skies were clear when the wind was at its worst, the stars were twinkling away at the time.

RoisinD

Had strong winds here in North west Clare - gusting to mid 60's (mph) with strong sustained winds as well. Strongest winds were from around 4-6 am.

zagmund

Blackrock, Co. Dublin
2300 last night - put the bins out, positively balmy, no wind
0730 this morning - green bin lid blown open, paper everywhere

I remember seeing the title of this thread yesterday and not reading it because I was thinking to myself . . . . sure there's no wind, this must be another of these "will it snow/be a storm ?" threads.

I should have read it really, shouldn't I ?

z

Sponge Bob

So it was gusting to near STORM force OVER land ...not just to GALE force in SEA areas which is what Met Eireann/Evelyn Cusack told us last night per my link above

Aiel

Very stormy in Galway City last night,was intense for a couple of hours before quickly fading away.

Lumi

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

The wind speeds are not likely to be too spectacular, but it will get gusty. No big deal.

Pretty much spot on MT Here in Galway city, in a less exposed location, the strongest winds occurred between 4.40am and 5.20am with gusts up to 74.3 km/h recorded.


It seems it was a tad breezier in less urban areas of the county

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Gusting up to 70mph (113 Km/h) at Mace Head on the 6am reports & 58mph (93km/h) at Claremorris.

http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

mickger844posts

Was a bit windy overnight but nothing remotely special about it. Max gust was 47km/h, the stats don't lie

Storm 10

Met Eireann on Galway Bay FM this morning and she said that what they "Think Happened" was the wind was Southerly and veered Westerly as a front moved in causing the winds to increase to over 100 kph.

You have to laugh at this what we "think happened" remark, as a previous poster remarked there is one very unhappy German Captain of a cargo ship aground off Galway today.

M.T. Cranium

The strong winds were the result of the addition of forces basically from a moderate wind gradient that ordinarily might have peaked at 30-40 mph gusts but a forward motion of the system itself at about 60 mph. Friction takes some of that added velocity away, but the wind gusts were a lot stronger than the weather system's appearance on the charts. Surf on the west coast should be interesting today.

Deep Easterly

Storm 10 wrote: »

large German cargo ship gone aground on rocks off Rossaveal Co Galway, this was never forecast by Met Eireann.

Shame on met eireann for not forecasting that a german ship would run aground off the coast. :rolleyes:

Maybe I was hearing things last night when I was watching Evelyn's forecast, but I do recall her saying there would be gales at sea? How does that equate to met eireann not forecasting this event?

Storm 10

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Shame on met eireann for not forecasting that a german ship would run aground off the coast. :rolleyes:

Maybe I was hearing things last night when I was watching Evelyn's forecast, but I do recall her saying there would be gales at sea? How does that equate to met eireann not forecasting this event?

deep easterly, no one said anything about a gale this was storm force winds which happened, they said on Galway Bay FM the winds gusted over 100 kph, a gale is not going to push a ship aground only storm force winds which I am sure if the Captain was aware off he would have rode the storm out at sea as they do.

Sponge Bob

Sponge Bob wrote: »

So it was gusting to near STORM force OVER land ...not just to GALE force in SEA areas which is what Met Eireann/Evelyn Cusack told us last night per my link above

I repeat!!! At Sea is off the coast. Furthermore that graphic of hers ( it was only on the screen for a few second where the jet stream cack was on the screen for AGES actually shows the south coast getting clattered by a southerly gale not the west coast getting clattered by a westerly storm .

cotton

The OH rang me a while ago to say he was watching what looked like mini tornadoes going on in the sea & back fields in Greystones.
He said the only way he could describe it was like two winds in opposite directions meeting each other in the middle & swirling the sea up into the air. The same is happening with the soil in the back field.
Amazing to watch apparently, of course I'm in work. Have asked him to take a photo.

eskimocat

Again thanks to the boardsies here, I had things secured for the night. When I was out in the garden around 11.30pm there was not even a breeze... literally the calm before the storm..it seems.

Such a pity about the ship on the rocks in Galway, hope they can get it refloated and on its way.

Sponge Bob

Yer man is right up on the rocks near the old coastguard station pier at the mouth of the Casla Bay , I make it around HERE not inside the bay further north.



Least a lifting barge could be gotten in if required.

Pangea

Windy here at the moment, was very bad earlier I heard.
I also heard a few saying it wasnt forecasted by ME, MT wins this one.

YESROH

couple of trees and branches down around here. It had calmed down a while ago but seems to be picking up again. Thanks to MT I had secured the garden furniture pity I forgot about the bag of clothes pegs they are all over the garden.

dsmythy

Garden absolutely trashed with other people's rubbish. Better than a tree on the head I guess.

Sponge Bob

That ship is so high on the rocks that the Coastguard now fear it will keel over when the tide comes in, they may start taking ballast on shortly or transferring ballast to the seaward side.

I must line up more doggerel for my new song,

The Wreck of the Evelyn Cusack.

(To the Tune of )

Twas one balmy March night when the seabreezes light
Were forecast to go stiff not to go slack
And a gale it would be not a storm on the night
Ye'll be grand said the Evelyn Cusack.

A while it would blow off shore on the seas
And on deep water it wouldn't be much crack
But inside Galway Bay there should be a lee
Don't worry said the Evelyn Cusack

Some poor German chap not knowing about crap
Forecasts from the Met Éireann work shack
Set his anchor in sand and went for a nap
He now wants to strangle that Evelyn Cusack

OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack
OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack

snowstreams

Was the tide out when that photo was taken Spongebob?
The ship looks completely grounded. At least the tides are getting slightly higher each day now for the next few days.
They should be about 45cm than last nights high tide on Sunday. Lets hope thats enough to move it back out.

Storm 10

Video of the ship aground

Link: http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0331/connemara.html

nacho libre

Pangea wrote: »

Windy here at the moment, was very bad earlier I heard.
I also heard a few saying it wasnt forecasted by ME, MT wins this one.

Senor Pangea, is your favourite tree okay?:)

The gusts between 5-7 this morning were almost of the same strength as from the system last November. Still despite the battering, no trees were whipped.

Storm 10

Sponge Bob wrote: »

That ship is so high on the rocks that the Coastguard now fear it will keel over when the tide comes in, they may start taking ballast on shortly or transferring ballast to the seaward side.

I must line up more doggerel for my new song,

The Wreck of the Evelyn Cusack.

(To the Tune of )

Twas one balmy March night when the seabreezes light
Were forecast to go stiff not to go slack
And a gale it would be not a storm on the night
Ye'll be grand said the Evelyn Cusack.

A while it would blow off shore on the seas
And on deep water it wouldn't be much crack
But inside Galway Bay there should be a lee
Don't worry said the Evelyn Cusack

Some poor German chap not knowing about crap
Forecasts from the Met Éireann work shack
Set his anchor in sand and went for a nap
He now wants to strangle that Evelyn Cusack

OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack
OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Brilliant

Sponge Bob

I'd say it was max low tide around 10am when that was taken. Towing operation #1 at morning high tide

http://www.galwaynews.ie/18617-pantanal-towing-operation-begin-dawn-tomorrow

Sponge Bob

The Wreck of the Evelyn Cusack ( Redux 1)


Twas one balmy March night when the seabreezes light
Were forecast to go stiff not to go slack
And a gale it would be not a storm on the night
Ye'll be grand said the Evelyn Cusack.

A while it would blow off shore on the seas
And on deep water it wouldn't be much crack
But inside Galway Bay there should be a lee
Don't worry said the Evelyn Cusack

Some poor German chap not knowing about crap
Forecasts from the Met Éireann work shack
Set his anchor in sand and went for a nap
He now wants to strangle that Evelyn Cusack

OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack
OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack

On a friday at dawn a big tug boat did schteam
To pull her arse off of the sea wrack
In Galway she lies with the quayside abeam
And in hiding is the Evelyn Cusack

OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack
OHHH oh oh Ohhh I'll strangle that Evelyn Cusack

conamara

Few pictures i took of the boat from Sruthan harbour about an hour ago, looking across Casla bay.

Storm 10

Nice pics conamara do you think they will get her off, she looks to be up quite high on the shore.

conamara

Storm 10 wrote: »

Nice pics conamara do you think they will get her off, she looks to be up quite high on the shore.

Ah yeah i'd say so. Looks like the plan is at high tide Friday morning.

Im in Florida right now, near Clearwater, we've had some mental T-storms. Under Tornado warning now. Im hoping one comes thru
Beautiful lighning show last night. Its rained up to 5 inches they are saying.
Bliss:)

Storm 10

conamara wrote: »

Ah yeah i'd say so. Looks like the plan is at high tide Friday morning.

Meant to ask you how close can you go to see her, can you go in by the ferries or is it cordoned off, was going to take a spin out tonight.

Iancar29

Jake1 wrote: »

Im in Florida right now, near Clearwater, we've had some mental T-storms. Under Tornado warning now. Im hoping one comes thru
Beautiful lighning show last night. Its rained up to 5 inches they are saying.
Bliss:)

I'm here watching those updates occuring !, hope ya see a funnel cloud at least!

johngalway

dloob wrote: »

Woken up around 5 -5:30 in Galway as well by the noise.

Am out in West Connemara, same as yourself the wind woke me up around that time. One small window open, rattled the hell out of the bedroom door, wasn't a happy camper