Strong Winds Forecast for Saturday night

irish1967

Met have a weather warning out for today.


Warnings


Weather Warning

Issued at 25 November 2011 - 19:30
Weather Alert Update
Becoming very windy everywhere later on Saturday and Saturday night with strong to gale force south-to-southwest winds, and gusts of 80 to 110 km/h, especially in coastal counties of the south, west and north, with a risk of up to 120 km/h in exposed parts of the northwest later.

Valid from 1500hrs on Sat 26/11/11
to 0300hrs on Sun 27/11/11

Gale Warning

Southwest gales or strong gales today on all Irish coastal waters and the Irish Sea.
Issued at 05:00 on 26-Nov-2011

irish1967

Wind already picking up here. Heavy sheet rain too.

je55ie

Windy here in Kerry all day but really getting strong now.

channaigh

The noise of the wind now here in north Kilkenny you'd think the house will blow down. If we can't have snow I'll take the wind anything better than the boring weather of late

DOCARCH

ME have updated their weather warning:

Southwest gales or strong gales continuing today on all coasts of Ireland and the Irish Sea. Winds may increase to storm force for a time early tonight as they veer west to northwest on coasts from Slyne Head to Rossan Point to Malin Head.
Issued at 15:00 on 26-Nov-2011

bassy

where in north kk are you ?.

channaigh wrote: »

The noise of the wind now here in north Kilkenny you'd think the house will blow down. If we can't have snow I'll take the wind anything better than the boring weather of late

channaigh

Near fresh ford on the hills

gbee

DOCARCH wrote: »

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There, I completed that for you.

280special

feckin breezy here in Louth !!

bassy

not to far from there myself.

channaigh wrote: »

Near fresh ford on the hills

Su Campu

This system looks like bringing storm force winds to Denmark and the Baltic Sea tomorrow and tomorrow night.

planetX

trampoline flipping force winds in Galway now:(

pauldry

empty cardboard boxes bouncing on the road force winds in Sligo

rhonin

Very windy here this evening.

joes girls

planetX wrote: »

trampoline flipping force winds in Galway now:(

Having to put tea towel in the letter box windy in Wexford!!!:P

irish1967

Finner gust 37. Buoy M4 gusts 45. Constant gale force here. Could be a very rough night.

snaps

just lost X factor for about 10 seconds in a gust! Hopefully i'll still have a satellite dish by the morning!

Su Campu

snaps wrote: »

just lost X factor for about 10 seconds in a gust!

It's an ill wind.....

delw

calm & mild at moment

redsteveireland

Very strong winds here. Hairy drive along the motorway, got blown into the hard shoulder at one point.

redsteveireland

delw wrote: »

clam & mild at moment

Something fishy about your post.

Iancar29

wouldnt like to be flying into Dublin Airport tonight...



:rolleyes:

delw

redsteveireland wrote: »

Something fishy about your post.

:o

Radharc na Sleibhte

Not a bad night in Sligo, thus far

delw

Iancar29 wrote: »

wouldnt like to be flying into Dublin Airport tonight...

:rolleyes:

Squeaky bum time

bryaner

Iancar29 wrote: »

wouldnt like to be flying into Dublin Airport tonight...



:rolleyes:

Oh good jausus I landed in something like that before not nice!

rhonin

Wind has picked up since earlier. Constant strong wind and driving rain.

genie

Very strong gusts here in SE Co. Sligo.

Oscar Bravo

Likewise in Castlebar atm,very strong Gusts.

Wine Goddess

Strong gusts here Firhouse - @ foot of Dublin mountains......
Windier indoors where himself had hot curry.....;)

dbyrne

bryaner wrote: »

Oh good jausus I landed in something like that before not nice!

so you have flown ryanair before too!!!

very strong gusts here in templeogue

mattser

snaps wrote: »

just lost X factor for about 10 seconds in a gust! Hopefully i'll still have a satellite dish by the morning!

Amen to that, my friend.

bryaner

All I know is all this wind and rain is saving me a fortune on oil compared to last year..:)

bryaner

dbyrne wrote: »

so you have flown ryanair before too!!!

very strong gusts here in templeogue

Yes indeed mate, he aborted the first landing and said nothing fecked it across the Irish sea and went for a second go, it wasn't my favourite landing..:eek:

Su Campu

It's interesting to note the relative calm at Sligo Airport tonight, despite the strong winds elsewhere in the northwest. This is due to the shielding effect of 1,100 ft Knocknarea Hill just to the south of the airport, but which can be a real danger to aircraft landing there in southerly winds due to the windshear (I can personally vouch for that!).

Latest winds:

Donegal Airport SW 33 G 43 kts
Finner S 23 G 37 kts
Sligo Airport S 11 kts
Connaught Airport S 23 G 41 kts
Belmullet S 31 G 48 kts

DanWall

Slight wind in West Cork, no rain

Pangea

Wow Crazy night here in Donegal. Not for the faint hearted, Very heavy driving rain aswell.

ezryder

It's wild here tonight (Mayo)...love listening to it!

sparrowcar

In work at 0430 and can't sleep cause of the wind....awesome

280special

Still as windy in Louth as two tins of Heinz beans on an empty stomach.

saa

dbyrne wrote: »

very strong gusts here in templeogue

ha :pac: good one I'm in the hills of tallaght.. and I am worried the wind is going to set of my alarm I can feel it pushing open the patio doors. eee.

ch750536

Probably the windiest night in a good many months, no rain though so it doesnt feel so bad.

tylercollins

It's pretty damn awesome up here in Derry. Rain is pretty diagonal with the wind, it's bouncing that hard off the roofs, it causing a "spray" of water.

Haven't seen anything like this in a long time, going to try and get a video of it.

redsteveireland

Top gust of 67knots at Mace head!
The noise in the chimney is something else!

Su Campu

Su Campu wrote: »

It's interesting to note the relative calm at Sligo Airport tonight, despite the strong winds elsewhere in the northwest. This is due to the shielding effect of 1,100 ft Knocknarea Hill just to the south of the airport, but which can be a real danger to aircraft landing there in southerly winds due to the windshear (I can personally vouch for that!).

Latest winds:

Donegal Airport SW 33 G 43 kts
Finner S 23 G 37 kts
Sligo Airport S 11 kts
Connaught Airport S 23 G 41 kts
Belmullet S 31 G 48 kts

And now the wind at Sligo has swung around to westerly, where it's no longer blocked by the hill, and the strength has increased to 29 Gust 39 kts.

Su Campu

ASCAT (satellite-measured) winds at 20:30 Saturday night, showing gales in the northwest.

pauldry

Su Campu wrote: »

It's interesting to note the relative calm at Sligo Airport tonight, despite the strong winds elsewhere in the northwest. This is due to the shielding effect of 1,100 ft Knocknarea Hill just to the south of the airport, but which can be a real danger to aircraft landing there in southerly winds due to the windshear (I can personally vouch for that!).

Latest winds:

Donegal Airport SW 33 G 43 kts
Finner S 23 G 37 kts
Sligo Airport S 11 kts
Connaught Airport S 23 G 41 kts
Belmullet S 31 G 48 kts

enormously interesting SU

I was just saying today where are these winds

Well they are here now but when i looked at met earlier it was showing 30 to 40 knots everywhere and yet in Sligo town I saw no trees swaying much

Very interesting

Strangegravy

That squall line on the rain radar just passing over now, serious winds with it... Fun!!

4Sheets

In South Sligo ..still raining lightly ..and the wind has definitely picked up in the last hour since the front passed over..a stormy night to be sure .hope the leccy does'nt get cut.

ashblag

not constant wind here in waterford, but CRAZY fcuking gusts out there lights just flickered, thank god put that extra bolt on the front door!:eek:

mattser

Just heading for bed in Dubland here, lads. Only a small puff here, and I think that was ME !!! Nite Nite.