Potential for extreme wind event Friday/Saturday

rhonin

Very strong winds here in Belmullet all morning with some big gusts. I've seen worse here but if does pick up later then it will be interesting.

maquiladora

Forget about Ireland, check out Iceland tomorrow. :P

Min

Guess that is why Iceland has a small population, blizzards in hurricane force winds, putting the ice into Iceland.

Spindle

The wind has really picked up here in Cork City now. Some large gusts and the sustained wind speed seems to be up. Will be interesting to see the 14:00 weather station report.

Also should start seeing an increase in what we have now as well from 15:00 on words.

Spindle

maquiladora wrote: »

Forget about Ireland, check out Iceland tomorrow. :P

Don't forget the Faroes, it is somewhere in that mess as well.

Kippure

Nice visiual map of the buoys around Ireland. So people can see where the highest winds and gust are.



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Courtesy of Met Eireann web site.


And a link to buoy reports.

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

http://www.marine.ie/home/publicationsdata/data/buoys

gbee

Kippure wrote: »

Nice visiual map of the buoys around Ireland]

That's on the Met Eireann site already. {???}

Tactical

Spare a thought for the crew inboard the M.V. Atlantic Wind, approx 100 miles West of the Shannon estuary.

Buoy M6 reporting 6.9mtr high waves! But the buoy is approx twice the distance off shore and further north than the research vessel.

maquiladora

Doesn't seem too bad at 2pm. As expected, Belmullet with the strongest winds so far, just above gale force. Still another 4-5 hours until the peak winds should be recorded there. The wind warning for the west is for 3pm to 11pm.

IMBACKLATER

ITS GETTING EXTREMELY WINDY HERE NOW ON THE WEST COAST.

_Whimsical_

It seems to have settled a lot in Galway since last night and this morning. Not a breeze out atm.Hoping there's some more ahead now.

maquiladora

NOAA chart for 12pm today. Notice the "developing hurricane force" south of Iceland. There will be some serious conditions at sea up there tomorrow.

snaps

maquiladora wrote: »

Doesn't seem too bad at 2pm. As expected, Belmullet with the strongest winds so far, just above gale force. Still another 4-5 hours until the peak winds should be recorded there. The wind warning for the west is for 3pm to 11pm.

yes doesn't seem to bad at all here either. Its calmed a lot since this morning. Just mucky rain.

tylercollins

Exactly 1 year since we had Storm Robert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQkWJJSO4Pw

Weathering

tylercollins wrote: »

Exactly 1 year since we got the remainder of ex hurricane Robert.

The hurricane season ends in November??

tylercollins

Meant to say Storm!

howlinwolf

not expecting too much down here in the south east esp if people in the west are sayin that its not too bad out there....were always at the wrong end of the counrty for the gales/storms:(

Tactical

howlinwolf wrote: »

not expecting too much down here in the south east esp if people in the west are sayin that its not too bad out there....were always at the wrong end of the counrty for the gales/storms:(

On the up side, you're in the sunny south east so when the rest of us are looking for sunshine we're jealous of you over there :D:D

IMBACKLATER

Roonagh pier about 1 hour ago.

eastmayo

I see belmullet got a gust off 50knots on 15 00 reports..my highest so far is 38mph...not to bad yet.but it should get stronger in a few hours.

Tactical

Fingers crossed it does:)

I have a small hand held anemometer which will give an indication of windspeed and although unscientific, I intend to use it in the comming hours to gague an idea of speeds it reports. Just for the heck of it, I may even put out a short streamer on a pole of some description to obtain a better idea of wind direction.

JanuarySnowstor

Snow showers into the West tomorrow evening going by the 12z.
Wont last but lying snow quite possible for hills tomorrow night

redsteveireland

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

It seems to have settled a lot in Galway since last night and this morning. Not a breeze out atm.Hoping there's some more ahead now.

Where abouts? I was down in Salthill a while ago, the wind was making walking difficult and there was a nice swell with the tide out, should be interesting at high tide. Might be a good idea to clear the aquarium carpark.

Sierra Oscar

Pretty wild here now in Newport, North Tipperary.

Chicken1

Just left the prom at Salthill a few minutes ago and there is nothing to report just a strong breeze and a choppy sea certainly not stormy or anything close to a storm

maquiladora

Storm force winds (red) should be fairly close to the west coast at 6pm.

Assassin saphir

Getting battered here in Cork really picked up in last half hour.

JanuarySnowstor

Yes Cork is rough right now, very windy

maquiladora

Strong gale force 9 at Kinsale Energy at 4pm. Probably starting to peak in the southwest around now.

Belmullet gusting to 100 km/h at 4pm.

JanuarySnowstor

Sun nights wind potential has been increased by both UKMO and gfs.
One to watch, any more upgrades could leave the south under stormy weather Sunday night.

The UKMO also ups the ante for snow showers in the South and West tomorrow night