ALERT for strong winds 30-31st March

M.T. Cranium

Here's a radar link for Jake1 and her weather adventures:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=tbw&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

Seems to be continuing severe but has shifted a bit south of Tampa Bay region. Looks tornadic near Sarasota FL at the moment.

faw1tytowers

Them shagging gusts had me up half the night and my garden is now full of bin refuse from a knocked recycling bin.

Deep Easterly

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

if you get a chance to look at a satellite loop today while last night is still part of the animation, it's quite striking how fast the cloud mass moved across Ireland. Sometimes we see that with higher based cloud and there is no connection to surface winds, but these clouds were fairly low-based and moving well in excess of 60 knots, possibly closer to 100 knots. Anyway, the thing to be remembered by all weather fanatics is this -- pressure falls are an important factor in weather, it's not only about the gradient.

Satellite animation for yesterday evening up to late morning today showing this development:

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If you zoom the image to around 400% and centre it over Ireland for a closer view you certainly can appreciate how rapidly this wave depression developed as it neared Ireland due to difluence.


Image c/o:
Sat24.com

CianRyan

Well, next doors shed roof was in my garden this morning, hoping I don't see everything that use to be in their shed sitting in the garden again tomorrow.

quodec

... at 8.15 a.m. this morning, as I drove through Blackrock village. Looking out towards the tide there was alot of turbulence in the water out beyond the Fane river which flows parallel along the bay. With the very strong gusty wind plumes of spray appeared to be rising, or being sucked out of the water as if whipped up by the wind - maybe 3 or 4 metres into the air! If I didn't know better it looked like the beginnings of a potential waterspout??? However there was no discernible circular motion and the rising spray was in random sections. Unfortunately I hadn't a camera and I had to continue with my journey.
I'm still wondering what was I watching?

Oscar Bravo

From Rte news at midnight The minister for the Marine,Simon Coveney,has said a failure to head a "severe weather warning" resulted in the ship running aground.

Sponge Bob

Evelyn did not give us a "severe weather warning" did she ?? Simon is more than a tad dopey.

The Wreck of the Evelyn Cusack ( Redux 2)

I will seriously try to keep up with the BS until it floats or dies peeps

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 the late thursday eve Simon Coveney did crawl
From his office. But a briefing he did lack
There was a warning for all poor oul Simon did bawl
But it came not from 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
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Oscar Bravo

Met Eireann didnt give a warning correct.I recall reading Met.ie last night and watching the forecasts.Gales were mentioned yes,but nothing like the winds that rattled my house this morning!!

Sponge Bob

Any more BS will result in a longer ballad, just so eveybody is clear. If it turns into a Conamara Classic I will be rightly pissed off

The Wreck of the Evelyn Cusack ( Redux 3)

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 way off shore on the seas
And on deep water it wouldn't be much crack
But inside Galway Bay there should be a lee
So no worries said the Evelyn Cusack

A poor German chap knowing feck all about crap
Forecasting from the Met Éireann love shack
Dropped his anchor in sand and went off for a nap
He'd now 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 the late thursday eve Simon Coveney did crawl
From his office. But the story he did lack!
There was a warning for all poor oul Simon did bawl
But it came not from that Evelyn Cusack

Bhí an bhitch sin de bhád ar an gcarraig go h-árd
'Gus Aire ag séanadh freagracht ar thuarisc
Ach shéid agus chan gaoth na Márta ar nós Bárd
Siad a chraith putógaí Eleanor Chusack

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

Sponge Bob

http://www.shipais.com/showship.php?mmsi=304639000 And she's off.

eskimocat

Yeah heard on the news on Today FM that they got it refloated, good stuff!!

gbee

And she had been in Galway to take away those two ferries that had been controversially by auction sold for a pittance.

Something tells me these ferries should never leave Galway?

Sponge Bob

The highest gust recorded yesterday was a "Violent Storm" force 61kts in Mace Head or 114kph . Hurricane force is 64kts plus.

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