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

ninebeanrows

I must say the system looks very potent on present satellite imagery.

You can see the small system just to our southwest gathering strength

http://sat24.com/en/eu?ir=true

A short period of Storm Force winds likely for the Galway Bay region this afternoon and spreading into the midwest.

Sustained winds to 50kts combined with some heavy precipitation

I will upgrade to a phase 2

Su Campu

Mace Head is the one to watch

the keen edge

I'm in Galway City at NUIG.

Pretty much clear blue skies and ~10 knots of breeze atm:D

ninebeanrows

Here is our small but potent low centre.

Harps

Norweigen HIRLAM barely scraping gale force on the coast so it could still turn out to be nothing



I'm working down by the coast so I might take a walk around Salthill at lunch time if conditions warrant it, hard to believe there's anything on the way when its just about the nicest morning we've had all month!

ninebeanrows

Harps wrote: »

Norweigen HIRLAM barely scraping gale force on the coast so it could still turn out to be nothing



I'm working down by the coast so I might take a walk around Salthill at lunch time if conditions warrant it, hard to believe there's anything on the way when its just about the nicest morning we've had all month!

That Hirlam looks plain wrong, a simple look at the satellite tells one that.

A classic now-casting situation

ninebeanrows

I'm looking forward to the first few visible images of system.

IT appears to be showing a definite closed circulation something that many models have shown it to have lost by now.

The lack of obs in the area is annoying.

redsteveireland

http://www.galwaycityweather.com/ which is run by Lumi(fellow boardsie) will give you some live data even though it's a little bit away from Galway bay.
Also

http://www.galwayharbour.com/weather/index.htm

snaps

Fantastic morning here. Clear blue skies and mild. Calm before the storm perhaps

maquiladora

Issued at 20 November 2012 - 09:45

Wind Warning

Some severe winds for a time this afternoon in coastal counties of the southwest and west, and later northern counties, with gale force southwest winds gusting to 110km/hr.

Valid 12:00 to 19:00 20/11/2012

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/warnings.asp

downwiththatsor

The wind has really picked up in Dingle since 9am, 35kt gust at Valentia

Deep Easterly

Current stats from NE Galway.

9.6c/95% RH; 991.6 hPa now rising; 9 kts G 24knts SSW.

ninebeanrows

No more reports?

System looks poised to bring a really severe period of weather to western regions.

Satellite representation is excellant.

@1045


Do Not Reproduce

Wolfe_IRE

light occasionally moderate sw-w breeze here in west clare. Picking up in the past 20 mins only

ninebeanrows

Winds already increasing rapidly in the southwest.

VALENTIA(A) SW 29 Gust 44kt

This is still with the really tight gradient some miles southwest.

Expect peak winds in Valentia 1500hr report // Mace Head 1600hr report.

ninebeanrows

Deep Easterly

Weathercheck wrote: »

Satellite representation is excellant.

@1045


Do Not Reproduce

Another good satellite to watch from ukweatheronline

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/satellite?CONT=ukuk&CREG=im01&LANG=en&STRUCTUR=_&LOOP=12

Infrared and visible animation as well.

Pressure dropped by 0.2 hPa here in last ten minutes.

RoisinD

Thanks to everyone for the heads up on this. Much appreciated - all outside jobs done and everything put away. Still nice blue sky and sunny with a bit of a breeze - nothing major yet.

NW Clare

Wolfe_IRE

Winds picking up now. 82km/h gust at Valentia, Kerry. 76km/h gust at Mace Head, Galway

Sponge Bob

I'm in Galway and I feel I should ask whether todays event really warrants a Level 2. It'll be blustery but we is hardy bucks down here.

redsteveireland

Weathercheck wrote: »

Winds already increasing rapidly in the southwest.

VALENTIA(A) SW 29 Gust 44kt

This is still with the really tight gradient some miles southwest.

Expect peak winds in Valentia 1500hr report // Mace Head 1600hr report.

Perfect, i should be driving in to Galway city between 1430 and 1530, that should be fun!:D

Iancar29

Adding lightning reports to this thread to keep all info in one area

2 sferics recorded just of the coast of Galway

Harps

Still a lovely day in Galway, bit of a breeze but dry and sunny so far. Would agree with sponge that a level 2 seems a bit over the top but anyway we'll see how it unfolds. Great to have some active weather for a change anyway, still hard to believe its going to get stormy in a few hours!

Sponge Bob

Mace and Valentia ( uniquely) were gusting above 40kt in the 11z and in the 12z Valentia hit 48Kt while Mace hit 46kt and Cork joined the 40Kt club just about.

Wolfe_IRE

89km/h gust at Valentia, Kerry. 85km/h gust at Mace Head, Galway - midday

Sponge Bob

Max gust on Sunday was 48Kt in Sherkin I think so we have now matched Sundays max gust values.

Speaking of Nowcasting the Forecast Wind input to the grid has exceeded the forecast wind input in the last 30 mins.....meaning it is already breezier than 'expected' and wind generation has already exceeded the expectations for 16Z

http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/windgeneration/

Go back to sunday where a much better correlation was achieved overall. Given the lack of installed wind capacity in Galway the graph today indicates that it is notably windier than expected at this precise time somewhere else in Ireland, perhaps in the south west or Donegal..or both.

monster1

wind is fairly picking up here in Galway city now

Wolfe_IRE

Sponge Bob wrote: »

http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/windgeneration/

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that is class, sponge. thanks.

Harps

Wind has really picked up in the past 20 minutes, noticeable sustained wind now with gusts starting to get strong, off for lunch in 20 minutes so think I'll take a walk over to Salthill. Shall report on conditions there if I come across a Wifi signal!

galwaybabe

Getting very gusty around Kinvara way