Strong Winds/Severe Gusts January 14/15th 2015

sjb25

Absolutely dead calm here in Wexford right now (don't no if that's a good or a bad thing) slept all night no problems and electric still on happy days

AnotherYear

Belmulet 66 knots highest gust for 7am. Highest gust over night goes to finner 69knots(127kmph) 130kmph yet to be broken

Rock Lesnar

Nothing in North Meath, just been up the fields and its Blustery at best.

chilipepper

Biggest damp squid ever, completely over hyped

Robxxx7

Graces7 wrote: »

Long list of school closures in Kerry http://www.radiokerry.ie/news/school-closures/ They learned a lot last February. Is that it weather wise now please? It is quiet and calm up here now. Stars shining through the trees and I watched a car on the top road driving very slowly

Think its due to pick up again from about 9am this morning for a few hours ....

fred funk }{

chilipepper wrote: »

Biggest damp squid ever, completely over hyped

Those big wet squids are very over rated alright.

NSAman

A bad night? Had the windiws open all night and noi issues at all. Sounds like a hyped event, listening to Conor Faughnan on TV3 and you would swear that armageddon had happened.... hyped?

irishgeo

NSAman wrote: »

A bad night? Had the windiws open all night and noi issues at all. Sounds like a hyped event, listening to Conor Faughnan on TV3 and you would swear that armageddon had happened.... hyped?

Where are you based

Pappacharlie

Just to say its very stormy here at present. Winds are getting stronger here near Castlebar. Wait until after mid-day to say "hyped".

noah45

Nothing bad here in Athlone, stormy but nothing major, would have thought only a yellow alert storm here.

NSAman

irishgeo wrote: »

Where are you based

Dublin..;)

luimneachboy

The wind that blew under the quilt last night was more than we got in north Kerry/west limerick !! Don't think it deserved red warning here in limerick!

Graces7

Robxxx7 wrote: »

Think its due to pick up again from about 9am this morning for a few hours ....

Thanks. I need to stretch my legs after last night trying to cope with an air mattress so will take wee dog out as soon as it is light. See what the lane is like. Maybe find a few bits of wood as the kindling is all gone. Feels bitter cold at the door though and getting rather breezy.

kingshankly

Live on some exposed hills in South armagh where it's always windy last night and this morning gaa been nothing unusual was actually worse last week

Special Circumstances

luimneachboy wrote: »

The wind that blew under the quilt last night was more than we got in north Kerry/west limerick !! Don't think it deserved red warning here in limerick!

We may be speaking too soon but on today's scale last February deserved about 3 days warning and "ultra mega disaster red" warning in limerick. If today's deserves plain old red...

ninebeanrows

The extreme gusts didn't really materialise in the north-west.

Strongest gusts probably still yet to come though, maybe 70/75kt at Belmullet.

More widespread gusts to 50-60kt during the early afternoon

--- Note to not take the EURO4 wind gust charts too seriously!

statto25

Lenny5 wrote: »

Very violent in Castlebar all night and no let up this morning. I'm amazed some of the schools are open around here.

The 3 secondary schools are closed. They hardly have the NS's open. That wind would blow a Junior Infant across the road!

Akrasia

chilipepper wrote: »

Biggest damp squid ever, completely over hyped

Either you are an IT crowd fan, or you've never seen it before

Strangegravy

Special Circumstances wrote: »

We may be speaking too soon but on today's scale last February deserved about 3 days warning and "ultra mega disaster red" warning in limerick. If today's deserves plain old red...

Ha, ha... Yeah was quite timid down here, blustery alright at times, a big hail shower around 4 or 5am was the highlight, but not a patch on last Feb.

But in fairness this was probably always gonna be worse further north anyway looking at the charts, wasn't expecting it to be as bad here as last time.

That time HIRLAM had predicted hurricane force gusts right over our heads here in Limerick, this time nothing like that was showing on the charts for here, was more severe up the coast and far north west.

force eleven

chilipepper wrote: »

Biggest damp squid ever, completely over hyped

More of a wet octopus I thought.

sunbabe08

is that it or is there more to come? just wondering is it safe to go to college today

circadian

This storm is just like yesterdays jam.

Jpmarn

Is the worst to come yet? So far Storm Rachel hasn't as bad as anticipated and doesn't deserve a red warning in the Limerick area. What organisation is responsible for naming the storm. The name Rachel is being bandied around British media. Looking at the GFS 00z model I'm looking at it peaking in the next few hours. The winds should easing down during the afternoon hours. At the moment I'm expecting a very windy day but nothing too damaging.

Clonmel1000

Most ramped/hyped event of the winter? From reading reports from the majority of the country last night was a bad January night and in a time before social media and the Internet would hardly have been mentioned....

Shiraz 4.99

In comparison to last winters big storm this was barely a zephyr.
Indeed in South Kildare where I'm from it was a lovely night for stargazing.

D.Campbell

Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »

In comparison to last winters big storm this was barely a zephyr.
Indeed in South Kildare where I'm from it was a lovely night for stargazing.

Well you wouldn't have been stargazing down here in cork last nite between 18:00 and 20:30hrs or you would've looked ike a scarecrow in flight never to be seen again

AnotherYear

Comparable winds to two nights last week. Windy yes but nothing unusual. Under cooked the snow and over cooked the wind sums it up for the North West this week

YFlyer

Just back from throwing out the rubbish in the skip. A light breeze is all I experience.

force eleven

70 kt gust Malin Head in the last hour. 80mph+ in old money.

yorlum11

All in all it could have been much worse. Over hyped maybe but we were prepared. Far worse storms last Jan.