Atlantic Storm Watch: December 2013

maquiladora

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Looks similar alright Maq, though would reckon the pressure gradient at 500 mb would be considerably less tight in Friday's chart between north Atlantic & Europe (at least from 'eyeball' look over) though surface pressure gradient looks fairly equal alright.

The met have a nice, detailed summary of those Jan '74 storms on their site. Love the rough 'n' readiness of its presentation. No frills, just pure, unostentatious analysis complete with scribbles.

http://www.met.ie/climate-ireland/weather-events/Jan1974_Storm.PDF

Gusts > 70 kt seems to have occurred widely over the country. A long lasting storm as well it seems.

Yes, the old Met reports are great! I wonder if some of those gusts would have been from deep convection. Would you expect 850mb winds to get down to the surface at times in this kind of setup?

aboyro wrote: »

what's the measurement on that scale???

m/s

Oneiric 3

maquiladora wrote: »

Yes, the old Met reports are great! I wonder if some of those gusts would have been from deep convection. Would you expect 850mb winds to get down to the surface at times in this kind of setup?

Wouldn't be quite sure of that Maq. Just going by the CFS analysis charts, it does look like the strongest of the winds may have occurred in the warm sector of the system, though no doubt heavy post frontal showers may have given some strong gusts, initially at least.




map from here (great site with 6hr analysis charts going back to the late 19th century) http://www.wetter3.de/Archiv/

ninebeanrows

It looks very bad in Fridays low......

jirafa

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/london-christmas-wind-boxing/21324782

Smidge

jirafa wrote: »

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/london-christmas-wind-boxing/21324782

There's an actual place called "Embarrass" :eek:

M.T. Cranium

Yep cuz in French it means logjam or something similar.

There's also a place in Pennsylvania called Intercourse and it's in Amish country so I imagine there is less graffiti there than if it was anywhere else.

Meanwhile, in SK there's a place called Biggar. Their welcome sign says New York is Big but this is Biggar.

cyclops999

For the morning that we have just outside Athlone there's a place called Bethlehem

Smidge

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Yep cuz in French it means logjam or something similar.

There's also a place in Pennsylvania called Intercourse and it's in Amish country so I imagine there is less graffiti there than if it was anywhere else.

Meanwhile, in SK there's a place called Biggar. Their welcome sign says New York is Big but this is Biggar.

I guess who am I to talk, we have a place called "Muff" :)

maquiladora

0Z HIRLAM is very stormy...

M.T. Cranium

There's no quit in any of these models and they all look fairly similar. I would say it's level 2 time again, keep the old level 3 sign handy just in case.

ninebeanrows

Happy Christmas

JanuarySnowstor

Happy Christmas to all.
The situation tomorrow night is now v serious indeed with hurricane winds on our doorstep.
Theres pbly no time left for a downgrade and yes indeed it looks a bit of a cry wolf situation.
A red alert will be issued by Met Eireann before the day is out

force eleven

A Happy Christmas to all here. Nice day ahead. Real chance of stormy weather tomorrow evening.

Weathering

Merry xmas everyone

Merkin

A very happy, exciting and safe Christmas to all weather buffs!xx

Lumi

Happy Christmas Everyone!

M.T. Cranium

Santa, put down that egg nog and get moving, North America is waiting. And you've got a 300 mph headwind so maybe go the other way.

sunbabe08

um, did mother nature just decide to give us a break for christmas day? absolute calm here in cork & then tomorrow we shall b blown away again.

merry christmas to everybody

aboyro

big turnaround here. worst frost i've seen so far this winter after armageddon yesterday:D:D:D

cyclops999

Merry Christmas to MT and all the other guy's who make weather in Ireland enjoyable. ...

leahyl

Happy Christmas to everyone on one of my favourite forums! Hope Santa arrived wherever you are! :-D

greenpilot

cyclops999 wrote: »

Merry Christmas to MT and all the other guy's who make weather in Ireland enjoyable. ...

Who's the other guys? Jesus and Gerry? Lol.

ninebeanrows

Stormy morning Friday.

Say MetO will get message out tonight, looks like a widespread gale. Widespread gusts to 70mph.

Bigcheeze

Weathercheck wrote: »

Stormy morning Friday.

Say MetO will get message out tonight, looks like a widespread gale. Widespread gusts to 70mph.

Selfish question but does it improve in the afternoon ? And what direction will winds be? Presumably a straight westerly is best to minimize dublin airport disruption.

RobertKK

STATUS ORANGE

Wind Warning for the whole country

Becoming very windy or stormy again during the evening of St. Stephen's Day, continuing overnight and for much of Friday.

Southeast winds, becoming southwest during the evening, will increase to 55-75 km/h, with gusts of 90 to 120 km/h, and up to 130 km/hr in some coastal areas, leading to further disruption and possible damage.
Issued:
Wednesday 25 December 2013 09:00
Valid:
Thursday 26 December 2013 17:00 to Friday 27 December 2013 15:00

http://www.met.ie/nationalwarnings/default.asp

DOCARCH

Weathercheck wrote: »

Stormy morning Friday.

Perfect for me to try out one of my presents from Santa http://vaavud.com/

phenomenalcat

Regarding the leopardstown meeting from 26-29, would Saturday be the best of the 4 days going by the forecasts?

JanuarySnowstor

An orange alert is about right for the moment
As we saw from the last storm, things can and do change so a red would be left until maybe tomorrow morning if warranted at all.

Red Nissan

Ho Ho Ho, Christmas Morning and I've enjoyed the Panto on this thread catching up this am.

That storm was nothin,
Oh no it wasn't!!
Oh! Yes it was!

Look out behind you, it's coming.

Have a good one.

ZX7R

Happy christmas everyone:D