Lightning,Torrential Rain & Gale Force Winds for Wednesday Night/Thursday Morning

Deep Easterly

Wind beginning to make some noise here with few gale gusts achieved in last 15 mins.

Watching live cam from Mace Head, sky much more changeable out there than it is this side of the county with just some passing cumulus and cumulus fractus here.

http://macehead-webcam.nuigalway.ie:8650/

redsteveireland

Getting really wild here, about 22kms inland. Have to stick the head out in the next ten minutes, should be a fun walk.

If it supposed to be strongest around 3-4pm, what's it going to be like?!

CB19Kevo

Raining heavy in S. Kerry since 1am, Gusts have been severe as well.
48mm recorded in the last 24 hours.

Wolfe_IRE

80km/h gust at Shannon, Clare. 85km/h gust at Mace Head, Galway - 1pm

davidsr20

Getting very windy here and cloudy too, Craughwell Galway.

Wolfe_IRE

looking wild at mace head
http://macehead-webcam.nuigalway.ie:8650/

rhonin

Wind has picked up considerably in the last hour here in Sligo.

snaps

Very stormy here in south mayo. Bins scattered everywhere.

Tactical

Wolfe_IRE wrote: »

looking wild at mace head
http://macehead-webcam.nuigalway.ie:8650/

Link not working for me...

Blustry in West Limerick, southerly direction with the occassional shower. An interesting day. Was dead calm this morning before 0900z. Winds started to pick up after that gradually.

Still a bright day overall and not that cold.

dloob

Went for a walk there around Ballybrit in Galway and nearly got blown away!
Seems to be still strengthening, gusts definitely gale to strong gale force, could barley walk in some of them.

irish1967

Wind picking up here in Donegal Town in past 30 mins. Noticeable strong gusts.

Harps

Very windy along the prom in Salthill as expected, hard to walk into the wind but not quite strong enough to hold my weight, not quite sure what that means but at a guess force 8 or so. A great feeling walking right into it anyway!

Nothing special anywhere else though, breezey in the city with some moderately strong gusts but nothing remotely severe

Gerard93

http://macehead-webcam.nuigalway.ie:8650/

Link not working for me...

Tactical,
Google Mace Head webcam and you will get it from there or copy & paste link into web browser and it will work.

DOCARCH

Nice little hook now on radar just off the Dingle peninsula.

Pangea

Song strong gusts indeed, Wind whistling through the door and getting fairly noisy outside.
Lots of white foamy waves in Donegal Bay.

Sponge Bob

Ach, can we downgrade this to level 0 and go easy on the Levels for thursday!!!!

M.T. Cranium

Low level jet conditions illustrated by 12z Valentia sounding, 60 kt winds just above surface with steady rise to maximum at about 400mb or 4,000 m height, a general shift downward in profile with winds less strong than previous days at 250-300 mb levels.

Radar indicates rapid evolution into squall line type event, severe gusts are possible and tornadic wind streaks could develop from a southwesterly direction, if you live in west Munster, any part of Connacht, west or central Ulster, be alert to this risk using radar and visual (until sunset) obs to determine whether wind streak potential is heading your way, watch for narrow relatively bright echoes oriented SW-NE. These may contain much stronger winds than the general wind field of the trough moving inland.

Would say in general that stormy conditions will peak now to 5 p.m. in Clare and west Limerick, also Galway Bay, and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in north Mayo inland to about Roscommon, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. around Donegal Bay and into west Ulster, but this is a rough guide and you should be on alert for a few hours beyond that time frame in the warned areas. This probably won't affect most of Leinster except those counties bordering on Connacht and Ulster. However there could be some outliers so watch the radar just in case.

The large blob on radar that looks like a giant hook echo is probably going to shear apart into numerous linear cells moving into central and north Clare about 3:45 to 4:00 pm. This may mean that Galway (city) is in line for severe wind gusts if one of these cells happens to move through, but the region in general should be on alert, if you're driving, expect quite variable winds in hilly terrain as these gusts work their way around obstacles and as you encounter squally showers.

RoisinD

Plenty of strong gusts here over 80km. No rain as yet although it has clouded over and looking at ME it is not too far away.

Nice to have had the strong winds with blue sky and sunshine for a change.

NW Clare

Wolfe_IRE

93km/h gust at Knock, Mayo; 87 km/h at Claremorris, Mayo

Harps

Still nothing much in Galway and assuming the worst has passed it was no more than a breezy day immediately away from the coast, Mace Head reporting a mere 27 kts sustained which is only force 6. The HIRLAM chart I posted this morning looks to have been spot on

Our man in Havana

This should be the ramping thread.

rhonin

Seems to have calmed a bit again. Nothing too serious here anyway.

Aiel

In Galway City about 2 hours ago it was really windy,havent felt a strong consistent gale like that in a good while.Still blowing a decent gale outside right now as i type but its more sporadic gusts now.

weisses

Can anyone who found my garden furniture around Dingle send me a PM ? :P

flynnlives

jaysus some gale blowing here in south galway!

take your breath away kinda stuff

snaps

Wind died right down here in south mayo, but rain lashing. Garden completely flooded now.

cyclops999

Wind starting to gather a bit of pace in the Athlone area now ;-(

km79

Very very windy last hour
East galway

Sponge Bob

North South squall lines in Galway now, one west of the city ( Inverin-Oughterard) and one East (Craughwell-Ballyglunin) they appear to be converging towards Claremorris or Knock.

Be interesting to see what Athenry reports in the 17z but wind speeds in Mace and Valentia are now unremarkable.

Su Campu

ASCAT winds measured at 11:35 this morning, showing around 45 kt sustained winds off the tip of Kerry.