Atlantic Storm Watch: Turning Unsettled with Gales

irishgeo

Weathercheck wrote: »

Yea latest sat imagery showing dry intrusion into centre of developing low.

Looks a mean system.

can we have that in layman's terms:D

ninebeanrows

11PM Reports

A rapid increase in winds underway as developing system tracks northeast.

Kinsale Energy
41 gust 55

M3
34 gust 54

VALENTIA(A) SW

31 Gust 61

MACE HEAD GALWAY(A)
S 31 Gust 56

irish1967

Despite radar sites showing ppn here it's dry at the moment.
(Donegal Town)

munsterlegend

Very heavy rain and squally winds here now. Also thunder no lightning yet.

themadchef

Lighting the sky in Achill now. Roaring thunder and the electricity is looking like... it cannay take no more of this!...

We lost power last night at 5.30..until 11.30 this morning.

Savage night out there now and i imagine the power will go again, time to let the fire down

TopOfTheHill

Lightening over clonakilty now as well

maquiladora

munsterlegend

Massive rumble of thunder..wow! Seemed so close!

maquiladora

It's really kicking off now. 18 strikes in the last 5 mins.

Not too far from Cork City now either.

ceolistic

Crazy thunder and lightening here, havent seen thunder like this in a long time

RuthieRose

Lightening in Galway!!!

maquiladora

Impressive squall line developing in the last 10 minutes.

shmaupel

irish1967 wrote: »

Despite radar sites showing ppn here it's dry at the moment.
(Donegal Town)

Give it a few minutes, it's lashing in mullinasole now!!

leahyl

Wind and rain and thunder and lightening UNREAL in Cork City at the mo!! I'm in bed listening to it!

Oscar Bravo

Torrential rain and strong winds-Castlebar. Sky gone....

Oscar Bravo

Met Eireann update again....their busy tonight!!
Rain in the west will spread across the country early tonight, The rain will turn heavy for a time with occasional thunderstorms as well. A clearance to isolated showers will follow later tonight. It will become very windy again with some severe gusts in exposed parts. Southwest winds will be strong to gale force with gusts up to 110 km/hr near west and north coasts. Lowest temperatures will range 4 to 6 degrees Celsius.

leahyl

By the looks of the radar we haven't seen the worst of it yet....

Lobsterlady

Just passed over now, but we had extreme gusts of winds and heaviest, loudest rain that i've heard in years ....living in East Limerick. It's completely died down now and eeriely quiet!

leahyl

Another loud boom of thunder!! No rain or wind though strangely enough!! It's died down for the moment!

efourc

Massive hail and lightening here in last twenty mins.

Solair

There's REALLY serious lightening in Cork City at the moment. Haven't seen lightening this dramatic in Cork ever before.

It was proceeded by pretty violent wind which seems to have calmed down a bit now, although it's still windy.

IMBACKLATER

pretty nasty conditions here now on the west coast of Mayo, squally showers, severe gusts of wind, hail, thunder,you name it.

But we sure are used to it.

amber2

Same here, would like to have seen that in daylight like being in the eye of a violent storm very heavy loud rain along with big bangs of thunder & lightening which moved along really quickly to no rain and a bit windy within minutes.

MiNdGaM3

Got a few nice video clips of the storm, will get them online as soon as I can:D

Birtles

IMBACKLATER wrote: »

pretty nasty conditions here now on the west coast of Mayo, squally showers, severe gusts of wind, hail, thunder,you name it.

But we sure are used to it.

Nasty thunder & lightening bout 20 mins ago. Power gone for the whole area. Some impressive fork lightening. Still the odd flash now

Solair

Are we in for more of this tonight, or is it just one system moving quickly across?

Hogzy

One crash of thunder just lasted a good 5-7 seconds in Douglas

_Whimsical_

A very very wild and windy night in Galway. The lights are flickering but they're holding out so far.

Solair

The ESB map is showing up a fault in Frankfield (Cork City Southside)
and clusters of faults on the Southwest Coast.

http://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/ shows the maps.

Might help track the storm's impact on the power grid anyway.

The reports come in automatically when a fault occurs. They've a fairly sophisticated SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) network.

Akrasia

Ennis is very quiet. All we've had all night has been a small bit of rain and breezy with a few gusts.