Atlantic Storm Watch & Coastal Flooding Events: January 2014

What is the black spot?

maquiladora

Deleted User wrote: »

What is the black spot?

Wave heights. The scale only goes as high as 48 feet there. Highest waves would be much higher, perhaps double that.

maquiladora

maquiladora wrote: »

Wave heights. The scale only goes as high as 48 feet there. Highest waves would be much higher, perhaps double that.

48 feet!

Time to leave ireland?

maquiladora

8pm plot drawn by computer using a mix of model and surface observations.

RobbingBandit

The area of that black spot is easily enough to cover both Ireland and Britain

aboyro

but remember that swell is for monday not tonights storm. wind just started frieght-training outside now.

tfromkerry

maquiladora wrote: »

Wave heights. The scale only goes as high as 48 feet there. Highest waves would be much higher, perhaps double that.

This must surely mean very very heavy floods for most of the country on Monday , with Kerry and Cork getting badly hit . Can somebody with more knowledge than me confirm this for us .:eek::eek:

irishgeo

cyclops999 wrote: »

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-3.07,51.59,2480

how often is that updated?

http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-Surf-Chart/1/

This does not look good

Press play top right, makes today's storm look like a slight breeze!

cyclops999

irishgeo wrote: »

how often is that updated?

updated every 3 hours

maquiladora

tfromkerry wrote: »

This must surely mean very very heavy floods for most of the country on Monday , with Kerry and Cork getting badly hit . Can somebody with more knowledge than me confirm this for us .:eek::eek:

Well luckily astronomical tides won't be quite as high on Monday as they will be tomorrow and Saturday, but I'd imagine there will still be a significant risk of coastal flooding anyway.

I put a green circle around the area of 40+ ft wave forecast to be off the west coast tomorrow morning.



Just to show the difference, here is the area 40+ ft waves for Monday morning highlighted in green.



I'm not an expert in coastal flooding but that doesn't look good.

Zzippy

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153699914935195&set=a.10150327367330195.578486.247386520194&type=1&theater

ninebeanrows

Highest Gusts So far are 52 knots @ Valentia & Sherkin Island @ 9pm.

tfromkerry

maquiladora wrote: »

Well luckily astronomical tides won't be quite as high on Monday as they will be tomorrow and Saturday, but I'd imagine there will still be a significant risk of coastal flooding anyway.

I put a green circle around the area of 40+ ft wave forecast to be off the west coast tomorrow morning.



Just to show the difference, here is the area 40+ ft waves for Monday morning highlighted in green.



I'm not an expert in coastal flooding but that doesn't look good.

:eek::eek:
Mother of god that dont look good at all , cork city is bad at the moment from this id say it will only get worse .

Any idea what counties will be affected and how bad in your opinion

brianville

The wind is roaring good and steady now in bandon

ninebeanrows

Bit of a battering into the west for 3am.

Latest NAE

q85dw7osi4lebg

http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-Surf-Chart/1/?size=190#?size=190&_suid=138869850158005004244702868164

200motels

Park road Waterford in the past hour or so.

aboyro

holy crap. the pill has overflowed. thats not good advertising for the flood controls!!!!

JanuarySnowstor

When you think about it the uk have serious flood warnings out and we are far closer to boththese in coming storms.
Am beginning to think we will be looking at a major news story by tomorrow morning with serious floods

irishgeo

200motels wrote: »

Park road Waterford in the past hour or so.

i would be moving the golf , if i was the owner.

Tactical

Sustained wind of 19km/h.
Gusting 26km/h.

More during showers (but not interesting enough to go out and measure just yet.)

West Limerick.

200motels

Taken about 20 mins ago Park Road.

_Whimsical_

Not so much as a breeze in galway yet.

kerrywez

200motels wrote: »

Taken about 20 mins ago Park Road.

Just brilliant, love it, well done mate, everything will be fine now.

Regards and respect Wez

budweiser6

Winds picking up now here near Limerick only noticeable the past 20 minutes to half hour though... some fairly strong gusts

Larianne

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Not so much as a breeze in galway yet.

Where in Galway are you? Sounds like it's blowing a gale outside where I am, in the east of the city.

Bicycle

Its beginning to get a bit blowy here in Limerick City Ennis Road area. But nothing significant. We have an outside Christmas tree in a south facing area and its steady as a rock at the moment (it rocked quite a bit the night of the 26th).

Its cold though. Very cold.

I have to say, we've never had such a romantic Christmas as we have had this year. Candles lit on a number of evenings anticipating a possible power outage A Big fire down to keep the place warm Not a bad thing at all!!

M.T. Cranium

Have been rather busy at a variety of tasks and my forecast seems okay so just hoping that west coast will survive the storm surge at the next high tides, I noticed a post back a few pages that should probably be reposted now for relevance, showing the high tides at Galway. Sorry but I have to run out again, will probably be watching from midnight on.

heard a bang said:

still waiting .. oh there it is.

redsteveireland

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Not so much as a breeze in galway yet.

A local weather station owned by a Boardsie tells a different story...

http://galwaycityweather.com/index.htm

This one could give a good indication in the morning - http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/ireland/Galway-Harbour/Galway-City