Severe Storm January 2nd/3rd 2012 (Malin records gust to 169km/hr)

gbee

Max wind from my sheltered position is 63 kmh @00:30
Rain about 9mm
Low Pressure 988.1 hPA @ 04:22

Never lost power. Slept all night
No serious damage reported, just a few isolated trees down.

davemc6832

Heavy hail and winds again in Letterkenny.

eskimocat

What a night ! thankfully no damage around here from what i can see from the window.. it will be interesting to see what the over all gusts stack up to once this baby is gone.

Had some hail a short while ago. Hope ye all escaped intact last night.

Sponge Bob

I'm still going to call this "The Dublin Storm" because that was the thread titile for most of its life so far, Ulli is a crap name for a storm.

davemc6832

Light snow now in Letterkenny. Lough Swillys disappeared. I've to drive back down to Dublin later. Crappo!

venturer

Hope everyone came through the night safely. It was a wild night on the West Cork coast, but no serious damage thankfully. Pressure is rising gradually after a rapid drop around midnight.

mickger844posts

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Mick where do you get the waterford airport information?

You can find the four Latest METAR for Waterford Airport here http://www.flywaterford.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184&Itemid=100083 But they don't hold an archive so you have to catch them within a certain time frame. The 56KT gust was recorded at 03.35

EIWF 030335Z AUTO 24034G56KT 200V280 4900 DZ BKN006 11/10 Q0989=

Wild Bill

Sponge Bob wrote: »

I'm still going to call this "The Dublin Storm" because that was the thread titile for most of its life so far

Seeing as it missed Dublin that's appropriate

Speak Now

mickger844posts wrote: »

You can find the four Latest METAR for Waterford Airport here http://www.flywaterford.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=184&Itemid=100083 But they don't hold an archive so you have to catch them within a certain time frame. The 56KT gust was recorded at 03.35

EIWF 030335Z AUTO 24034G56KT 200V280 4900 DZ BKN006 11/10 Q0989=

Sound

genie

That was a wild night, the worst for a long time IMO. Some violent gusts just before 4am. Electric went off for two hours 04:20 - 06:40 but is back again. No damage here in SE Co. Sligo. Hope you're all OK.

Irish Steve

Not going to be a national event by any stretch of the imagination, just been looking at the ME reports, the 1200 North Atlantic IR is showing a much more defined swirl around a second centre than was implied by the 0600 Atlantic chart, and the latest 3 Hr is showing a small patch of wind in the 50 Kts area on it's southern edge. If it goes due East, not too much, if it gets pushed further south by the effects of last night's remnants, which are still blowing well here, then it could catch Donegal and the North, and push the winds up again for a while.

The Met Buoy reports will be significant in giving an idea of if this second centre is deepening or not, at the momemt, it's nothing like as deep as last night's, but then again, it wasn't so defined on the 0600 forecast, so we're very much into nowcast territory.

davidsr20

Sponge Bob wrote: »

I'm still going to call this "The Dublin Storm" because that was the thread titile for most of its life so far, Ulli is a crap name for a storm.

Why would u call it the dublin storm if the west got most hit :rolleyes:

bnt

Central Scotland is getting hammered. This was the wind speed on the Forth Road Bridge this morning:



They closed the bridge, of course - didn't want cars flying off in to the Firth. :eek:

H2UMrsRobinson

davidsr20 wrote: »

Why would u call it the dublin storm if the west got most hit :rolleyes:

That's just how SB rolls, some people find it irritating, I however like his "edge"...:D

Min

The storm has killed a man in Wales after a tree fell on him.

knewbie

http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/giant_irish_visitor_washed_up_at_woolacombe_1_1167386?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed


Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere

gbee

knewbie wrote: »

http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/giant_irish_visitor_washed_up_at_woolacombe_1_1167386?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed


Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere

Funny thing is there has been a navigation warning for a buoy on the Irish Coast Guard Radio a buoy out of position, location unknown ~ I guess it's been found!

weathermaiden

knewbie wrote: »

http://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/giant_irish_visitor_washed_up_at_woolacombe_1_1167386?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed


Apologies if this is mentioned elsewhere

:eek:

DOCARCH

Looks like second small area of circulation heading SE towards the Donegal coast now. http://www.sat24.com/

WolfeIRE

A great shot of the storm, as seen by NASA's MODIS satellite at midday today.

You can also see that rain bearing front casting a shadow over the North Sea


By the way, I am not sure if this has been posted yet. I can't see it in this thread. Forgive me if this is a repost. From Met.ie

Provisional 10-minute Windspeed Record for Malin Head

At approximately 5.40 this morning, Jan 3, 2012, our station in Malin head recorded a 10-minute mean windspeed of 68 kts (78 mph, 126 km/hr, 35 m/s), making it a Beaufort Scale 12, hurricane force, wind. This exceeds the previous record for Malin Head of 67 kts, recorded 26 Dec, 1998.

The national 10-minute mean wind speed record of 71kts was recorded at Foynes, Co. Limerick on 18th January 1945.

The station also recorded a gust of 91 kts around the same time, however this does not exceed the Malin Head record of 98 kts, recorded in September 16, 1961.

It must be stressed that these are provisional data.

Pangea

All hell has broken lose here again, very heavy sleet, it is strange to look at, the winds and gusts appear to be going in two different direction, on one side of field gusts coming from the left and on the other it came from the right. I was just getting some sleep from last nights all nighter and got woken by an all mighty bang of thunder, I must be right under it!

John.Icy

davidsr20 wrote: »

Why would u call it the dublin storm if the west got most hit :rolleyes:

Casement had a Max gust of 62 last night, second highest gust in Ireland on the 6am report. Besides the major differences from Donegal, Max gusts were not too dissimilar from west to east, granted it was the squall, and I've only seen a handful of wind speeds from the west on here such as DE recording 53kts, another galway poster
, sligo airport and Knock. No major differences, from what I know.

In terms of Max gusts, an almost Countrywide event.

redsteveireland

Pangea wrote: »

All hell has broken lose here again, very heavy sleet, it is strange to look at, the winds and gusts appear to be going in two different direction, on one side of field gusts coming from the left and on the other it came from the right. I was just getting some sleep from last nights all nighter and got woken by an all mighty bang of thunder, I must be right under it!

Looks good up there, http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html?

Tom Cruises Left Nut

Temps starting to drop now, approx .2 degrees every 5 minutes

WolfeIRE

Pics from @NEWSLINEWEATHER account. Worth a follow if you are on Twitter.

Kilcorig rd, Lisburn. Picture from Anna Haslett via Twitter

Ballintoy Harbour. Pic by Cathy Clark, from Ballycastle via Twitter

Harps

Still alive up here on the NW coast! Turns out I was actually safer here than if I'd been in Letterkenny, neighbour called to say a 30 foot tree in the back garden blew over narrowly avoiding crashing through the roof of the house. Some minor damage to the house and a fence and gate destroyed but nothing too major luckily.

Worst night here in quite a few years though, not quite the 98 storm but probably the worst since then. I'm only out of bed 2 hours after the all nighter last night so not had a chance to survey the damage locally yet. Electricity back though so fair play to the ESB for working through the storm in darkness

IMBACKLATER

Siobhan Ryan of Met Eireann was on mid west radio saying that a 'mini' low will continue to keep things windy today???

John.Icy

During the squall last night, both Casement and Dublin airport gusted to Storm force 11 territory(62&58 kts). It's no Malin head, but very impressive.

pad199207

John.Icy wrote: »

During the squall last night, both Casement and Dublin airport gusted to Storm force 11 territory(62&58 kts). It's no Malin head, but very impressive.

that squall ploughed through here early this morning, with 70 +mm/hr rain rates and the wind was literally roaring when i stuck my head out the window. Bins and all sorts were crashing down the street. Alarms were going off left , right and centre too. Was actually frightening!

redsteveireland

some pictures here from UK news

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/severe-weather-batters-britain-1325593429-slideshow/9789078-photo-1325592367.html#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fsevere-weather-batters-britain-1325593429-slideshow%252F9789078-photo-1325592367.html