Very strong winds developing south, east; storm watch late Tuesday

BLIZZARD7

Wind picking up more in Dublin now.



Dan

Aerohead

Coastguard dealing with a number of incidents at sea, a huge cargo ship "Cape Elise" with a crew of 21 carrying 170,000 thousand tons of coal is adrift 180 miles of Loop Head having lost all power, a fishing trawler has been hit by huge waves that have smashed in the bridge windows she is trying to make port under escort of another fishing vessel and another ship has also suffered wave damage to her bridge

sandin

Id the officially called Storm Brigid or is it made up BS by independent newspapers?

Power Gear

The E.R. Bilbao
Anchored on a very stormy Shannon Estuary. Photo taken off Béal Strand. Photo taken by Ita Hannon.

Larbre34

Yes apparently the Weather Channel named it Brigid for the feast day during the week and it caught on.

acassells80

Any snow with this storm due to hit this evening?

maquiladora

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

If the latest hi res models are to be believed, Monday morning would see stronger gusts than today over inland areas of the south/east esp. Given the complex look of the synoptics, would say this is far from resolved but might be worth keeping an eye on.

Yep, looks a little stronger Monday morning for southern and eastern parts on the EURO4.

Today :



Early Monday :



And more lows to keep an eyes on in the days after that too.

Aimsir

tearing wind in Cork City south Side

mickger844posts

Surprisingly calm here in Waterford City with winds averaging just 13km/h and gusting to 40km/h. Raining currently.

www.waterfordcityweather.com

maquiladora

mickger844posts wrote: »

Surprisingly calm here in Waterford City with winds averaging just 13km/h and gusting to 40km/h. Raining currently.

www.waterfordcityweather.com

Yeah no comparison at all to previous storms for this part of the country anyway. Though in fairness the southwest/west always looked like getting the strongest winds from this.

Models are showing lows coming from a more southerly direction in the coming days that could give some strong winds at times to the south.

CB19Kevo

Anyone able to give a decent prediction on the level of flooding in Cork tonight.
Given there was not much damage this morning.

ednwireland

got very gusty again in donegal now

mullaghmore going off this morning again

El_Dangeroso

My flight from London to Shannon was cancelled this morning, managed to get the next flight to Dublin along with some people from two cancelled Cork flights, was lucky because most had to be put up in London tonight.

One of the bumpiest landings I have experienced for a long long time. The plane wasn't level at a shockingly low altitude.

I normally hate when people clap after landing but I had to join in this time, it was very hairy indeed.

lampsie

Sudden and heavy hailstone shower here in Galway city east

fits

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

My flight from London to Shannon was cancelled this morning, managed to get the next flight to Dublin along with some people from two cancelled Cork flights, was lucky because most had to be put up in London tonight.

One of the bumpiest landings I have experienced for a long long time. The plane wasn't level at a shockingly low altitude.

I normally hate when people clap after landing but I had to join in this time, it was very hairy indeed.

Hate that. happened twice to me since September. Landed in storms in Reykjavik in September, and Manchester just before Christmas. I do not know how they manage to level off those planes when they are rocking all over the place 50metres above the ground.

fits

Actually when I was in Iceland I met a guy whose father was a meteorologist there in the 50s. He used to phone up transatlantic pilots after they had landed to get a picture of weather conditions over the Atlantic. I wouldn't like to predict storms tracks like that and transatlantic traffic relied then and still do on the Icelandic met service. How times have changed!

DominoDub

The view from the Irish Naval ship L.É. RÓISÍN on patrol this weekend
Photo by Seaman Scott O Sullivan:eek:

Shady Tady

DominoDub wrote: »

The view from the Irish Naval ship L.É. RÓISÍN on patrol this weekend
Photo by Seaman Scott O Sullivan:eek:

That's some powerwasher!

aboyro

ednwireland wrote: »

got very gusty again in donegal now

mullaghmore going off this morning again

i see bundoran got thrashed over night too. the lads are calling mully 20-30foot today

Meteorite58

Flooding and coastal damage seems to be the main outcomes from this latest storm and further high tides and buckets of rain for the next few days will only prolong or worsen the flooding problems.

19mm of rain here on the Kerry coast so far today on top of 16mm yesterday ( 240 mm so far this year ) leading to flooded streams and rivers and most fields with some standing water. All this water trying to make its way out to sea being met by incoming extremely high tides can only mean serious flooding for the few days at least, especially places like Limerick.

Top Wind speed 88 kph W and still gusting well over 60 kph

Bar 984.3mb Rising Rapidly
Lowest Bar 970.3mb

Tactical

West Limerick is down to a light wind again. Overall a decent event and in the brief period available to me this morning I recorded as strong a gust as I have experienced in the area. Nothing spectacular and didn't exceed 50km/h. Having said that, my measurements were only 2mtrs agl so are not scientific. One day I will have a proper anemometer which I will mount 10mtrs agl for proper readings.

Enjoyed this wind event and am tired now so I think an early night for me. Already looking forward to the next one, however with the continual battering and saturated ground it must only be a matter of time before we see a rise in tree falls etc during one of these weather events.

eskimocat

Down the glen here in Leitrim, there is the odd squally shower, a smattering of hail occasionally so all in all a day for the fire!

Good forecasting on this thread by the boardsies once again, hopefully more people were able to take what measures they could in time before Bridgid or Nadja, whatever the storm was called, hit.

Stay warm, stay safe and stay away from the edge folks.

Tactical

eskimocat wrote: »

Good forecasting on this thread by the boardsies once again, hopefully more people were able to take what measures they could in time before Bridgid or Nadja, whatever the storm was called, hit.

Stay warm, stay safe and stay away from the edge folks.

Yes, well done to the forecasters and all those who contributed and to those who were able to post photos too.

CDSM101

Was down in Lahinch earlier. Place was in a sorry state. Does anyone know who owns this weather station on the promenade? I'd love to see that data from it, although I somehow doubt it's still working.

Villain

I think it belongs to a bar there, had info on their site

clownface95

Friend of mine going back auz tommorow , he's flying from shannon to heatrow at half five . Should he be worries about cancellations ?

Clonmel1000

mickger844posts wrote: »

Surprisingly calm here in Waterford City with winds averaging just 13km/h and gusting to 40km/h. Raining currently.

www.waterfordcityweather.com

same in clonmel mike. A horrible wet winter day but you wouldn't or couldn't describe it as stormy.

RoisinD

The same areas that were hit here last time have suffered again. Many local roads were closed due to flooding and further damage caused along the coast. Lahinch, Liscannor, Clahane, Doolin, Fanore etc all suffered again. More precautions were taken by the council so the damage could have been much worse. Power was out for around 2,000 homes in North Clare this morning but all restored now.

Check out some pics from all along the Clare coast today on Clare People's facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/theclarepeople

Once again despite pleas from the coastguard, Gardaí etc for people to stay away the amount of onlookers was high, particularly early this morning while it was still dark. A friend who lives in an isolated area right by the sea who thought she had seen everything was shocked at the amount of cars who passed along the road early this morning. This is a very narrow road,with the sea powering over it that goes nowhere since the last storm as the bridge was swept away. The risks people take without any thought for their own safety or those who may have to rescue them is staggering.

mickger844posts

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

same in clonmel mike. A horrible wet winter day but you wouldn't or couldn't describe it as stormy.

A max gust here of just 74km/h which is nothing exceptional. As Maq mentioned earlier it was never going to be that bad in our region but i was expecting higher gusts than what we got. On to the next storm early next week.

M.T. Cranium

Mods, if the thread stays open, would suggest a new title with Level 1 alert for now:

Renewed strong winds will hit southeast Sunday night, Tuesday potential level 2 by evening

The title tells you what I'm foreseeing for the next two events, gusts to about 110 km/hr from the south tomorrow night may be most significant around the southeast coast but also other parts of the south and east. Then on Tuesday later in the day and overnight, models indicate a more powerful storm moving northeast across the country, level 2 potential for now.

Having said that, the most problematic feature of the coming week may be excessive rainfalls on top of already moist to saturated ground. At least the tidal surge potential reduces steadily thanks to the lunar orbit more than anything else.

Thanks to all for many interesting obs and comments. I will forestall any grand discussions and say the storm probably required only a level 2 as previously, except for a handful of locations that might have benefitted from a level 3 advisory. Better safe than sorry when it comes to the power of the ocean.