Strong winds, heavy rains, high seas Monday night into Tuesday 20/21st Oct

Oneiric 3

More or less calm now again. Was short & sweet and I hope just a very small teaser for the violently stormy winter ahead.

Satellite taken at 11 50 pm. Low just off NW coast:

Oscar Bravo

yep defo, stormy conditions have set in now in Castlebar. from the north west.

Harry Palmr

Wind seems to have turned the corner, south to west (Waterford).

Sierra Oscar

The wind seems to have died down a little in Galway but I expect it will pick up again overnight.

Stella Virgo

was that it???? meh....

sunbeam

Winds turned round to the north west in Achill too. Seems more blustery now.

Oscar Bravo

Strongest gust on the 0000 reports is 49kts at Sherkin islands with a pressure of 988hpa at Malin Head. will begin to rise soon. (Kinsale had a gust of 55kts)

Bongalongherb

Tomorrow on the east coast looks set to be a blaster, 82 km/h with gusts of 100km/h. It might weaken by then though.

Joe Doe

1. nullschool's live wind shows it still mostly out west at midnight on the way in...

2. netweather's radar shows clear for West, with recent band moving off to East

3. netweather's jetstream indicates peak winds for 9am Tue rush hour


Maybe take it more handy in the morning than usual in that case if peak is 09:00 instead of 04:00...

Jpmarn

Doesn't sound too bad outside near Limerick City. I am supposed to be taking off at Shannon airport for Malaga Spain in the morning. I"m hoping it won't be too stormy then.

the2hurdys

wind sounds quite strong now has been building for a while. ..location: outside Tipperary Town

Bongalongherb

Some flights and ferries cancelled... http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/flights-and-ferries-cancelled-as-hurricane-hits-ireland-30680082.html


Heathrow has confirmed that 10pc of flights with the 20 biggest carriers into and out of the London airport would be cancelled, as the remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo arrive in the UK.

Aer Lingus flights affected are EI 158 and EI 159, and EI 168 and EI 169.

Elsewhere Irish Ferries has also cancelled its high speed HSC Jonathan Swift sailings between Dublin and Holyhead.

Video

some very strong gusts now, looked on a site there and it said the mean wind speed here is about 54 km/h... gusts must be at 90-100.. it def feels like it anyway

sunbeam

Wind is really howling in Achill now. I'm surprised we still have power.

Spanish Eyes

It's lashing and howling out there in Dublin. Always seems worse when it's dark outside!

The howling woke me up, so I'm downstairs having a cup of tea, so of course I had to see what the rest of you are experiencing!

Hope everyone will be safe. It probably won't be too bad after all here in Dublin, but who knows really?

M.T. Cranium

I'll keep up OB's reports on max wind gusts each hour ...

at 0100h (which is 00z) Mace Head was 39 kts G 54 kts

Newport was gusting to 52 kts and Sherkin was 50 kts, the M4 buoy had picked up also to 51 kts while Kinsale was reaching 59 kts (at elevation).

KKkitty

Heavy winds where I am in Carlow right now. Some showers too.

Xenji

Strongest gusts of the night so far in Castlebar, a few have sounded like a jet engine, storms are always more fun on the west coast.

mountainy man

Wind has just in the last half hour swung to the north west and have just had a high gust of 41.2 mph, gusts getting more frequent, nothing out of the ordinary for here as yet.
S.E Sligo.

pauldry

wind gusts of over 45 knots here in sligo

50 to 55 knot gusts in the West and North at present

ArraMusha

On citylink from dublin to galway, the doubledecker...jaysas it feels like its gonna topple with gusts
Fair play to driver for his piloting in this weather. At loughrea turnoff at 2:30am

Oneiric 3

Mean wind speed of 43 knots at Finner Camp in Donegal on 2am met reports. That equates to a full gale 9, with gust speed reaching 54 kt.

M.T. Cranium

Finner and Mace Head have eased slightly (gusts to 50, 52 kts at 0300h)

Newport had gusts to 56 kts past hour.

Malin Head now leads with the 03h (02z) report NW 44 kts g 60 kts.

The strongest gust so far in the east was 47 knots at Casement at 02h.

M.T. Cranium

Malin (56), Mace (49), Newport (48) and Finner (47) all a bit lower this hour
(04h, 03z).

Casement has reached the 50 kt gust club. Roches Point (48).

More widespread squally showers now on radar in the colder westerly flow.

mountainy man

Some wet hail in the showers now, 6.0C out there now.

Calina

Dublin 9: sounds to be somewhat of a lull atm and I don't think we are having the rain we had earlier.

Video

radar looks messy... i haven't seen showers all equally the same intensity like that before... they're all heavyish.

M.T. Cranium

After backing off a few knots at 05h and 06h, peak gusts are now back up to their highest levels of the storm at Malin Head (62kts) while Finner is back up to 53 kts. Otherwise the usual windy spots are in the high 40s at this hour.

Some hefty showers in the central counties moving southeast.

Burts Bee

A small breeze here in cork City suburbs....

Rikand

Dead calm in athlone. You wouldnt think we had anything last night