Atlantic Storm Watch: Turning Unsettled with Gales

oisingeogho

Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi at around 4 p.m. was about 40 feet above the runway in Dublin airport and had to go back up again as it was too windy to land. The flight landed 20 mins later in Manchester.

Oneiric 3

sunbabe08 wrote: »

is there more winds on the way? not sure i can take much more. eeeek:eek:

If you are too young to remember Feb 1990, then the last couple of days would have seemed exceptionally calm in comparison. Gales recorded almost every day of the month with frequent, damaging storms that would put recent attempts (if you could even call them that) to shame.

The month started kicking ass from the very start

maquiladora

Friday's east coast winds have turned into France's west coast winds.

Thursday stll looks windy, but nothing dramatic.

sunbabe08

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

If you are too young to remember Feb 1990, then the last couple of days would have seemed exceptionally calm in comparison. Gales recorded almost every day of the month with frequent, damaging storms that would put recent attempts (if you could even call them that) to shame.

The month started kicking ass from the very start

i was 7, so i don't remember

20silkcut

I was 11 and I dont remember either.

Harry Deerpark

I was 3-and-a-half years old and I remember it. The Burns' Day Storm hit a few days beforehand on the 27th of January. I lived in London at the time and I remember broken trees all over the place.

red_bairn

I wonder was it the year I flew around in my red cloak and blue jumper with a big 'S' in red on a A4 sheet.

Bsal

Another windy day tomorrow.

Weathering

Thunder has just woken me up in donegal,very bad lightning wasn't expecting it
Look at the lightning radar http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/#?tab=map&map=Lightning&fcTime=1359481500&zoom=5&lon=-4.00&lat=55.67

snaps

Weathering wrote: »

Thunder has just woken me up in donegal,very bad lightning wasn't expecting it
Look at the lightning radar http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observations/#?tab=map&map=Lightning&fcTime=1359481500&zoom=5&lon=-4.00&lat=55.67

me too, massive amounts of flashes. Very hard to hear the thunder because the wind is howling, hail and rain hammering down on windows and roof. Kids now up too. South mayo.

Weathering

It's unusual lightning,it's double or triple flashes not the usual one. Calm here at present,doubt it will be for much longer

Pangea

Any chance of posting snapshot please, not showing up on mobile

snaps

Weathering wrote: »

It's unusual lightning,it's double or triple flashes not the usual one. Calm here at present,doubt it will be for much longer

same here, first of all thought someone was in our garden shining a torch at our window. 2-3 flashes per clap of thunder.

Weathering

link won't upload right pangea sorry,just seen another flash,counted 5seconds until i heard so only a mile away
the weather freak within is preventing me from going back to sleep until this passes ha
yeah perfect description there snaps

snaps

Pangea wrote: »

Any chance of posting snapshot please, not showing up on mobile

this link is working on my mobile. Some real beautys heading in!
http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html

Pangea

snaps wrote: »

this link is working on my mobile. Some real beautys heading in!
http://brunnur.vedur.is/athuganir/eldingar/i_dag_na.html

Thanks, not working on mines, had to get up to turn on pc, Impressive in Mayo

Weathering

massive hail,howling winds and the occasional flash now

snaps

Weathering wrote: »

massive hail,howling winds and the occasional flash now

the hail sounds like golf balls. Unreal noise. Lots of lights on around the neighbours houses, so many people have been woken up.

Pangea

Looks like theres quiet a thunderstorm going on not far from Tuam ..

M.T. Cranium

Squall line making rapid progress east across northern counties, will probably weaken soon, rest of day will be moderately windy then a more organized area of strong winds and cold front due in around 9 p.m. peaking midnight to 0400h, winds may gust to 110 km/hr from SW then veer westerly. More squally showers at times today and tonight.

Tuesday currently looks very windy (WNW gales) on 6-day charts, and some models are going very cold end of next week.

mickdw

Thunder, lightning hail and strong winds at 5am here in north west mayo. Lighting very close by for about 15mins.

Weathering

snaps wrote: »

the hail sounds like golf balls. Unreal noise. Lots of lights on around the neighbours houses, so many people have been woken up.

still lashing but haven't seen a flash for a while now. streets like a stream

irish1967

What a pleasant way to wake up. Thunder & lightening 6.06am

snaps

Wind seems stronger than any of the last few days. Walking to work was a struggle and wet!

Ger8

Definitely the wind is stronger than it was the last few days here in Galway. No thunder or lighting. Yet.

Conmaicne Mara

Very interesting night here in Connemara, lots of thunder, lightning and wind and hail. Been a long time since I've seen anything like it.

Harps

Very stormy morning in Galway, thunderstorm as usual missed me by a few miles but was awoken at 6.45 by some torrential hail battering the window and haven't slept since, easily the stormiest its been all week at the moment with some very strong gusts

ednwireland

thunder at 5am here in donegal - knocked the power out, twice this week !

shmaupel

irish1967 wrote: »

What a pleasant way to wake up. Thunder & lightening 6.06am

They were really long rolls of thunder, weren't they. Takes a lot to wake me from my sleep :-)

snubbleste

Very heavy squalls of rain sweeping galway. Ugh.
Also there was thunder and lightning around 0515..or whatever time it woke me.