Storm Gertrude - January 29th

Irish Steve

Met Eireann have issued a Yellow alert for Thursday / Friday 28/29 Jan

Southwest winds will reach mean speeds of 50 to 60 km/h gusting 90 to 110 km/h overnight on Thursday night and in to Friday morning.

Graces7

Irish Steve wrote: »

Met Eireann have issued a Yellow alert for Thursday / Friday 28/29 Jan

Southwest winds will reach mean speeds of 50 to 60 km/h gusting 90 to 110 km/h overnight on Thursday night and in to Friday morning.

For coastal areas there is an Orange alert Already gusting strong sw according to met ie for Kerry and sound effects concur with that. south Kerry mountains 400 asl

RazorT

Looks like the warnings have been upgraded. Orange for large parts of the country.

STATUS ORANGE

Wind Warning for Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Dublin, Longford, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Meath, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Waterford

Southwest winds later veering westerly will increase 65 to 80 km/h overnight and will gust 110 to 130 km/h at times. The strongest winds mainly in northern and western coastal areas.

Issued:
Thursday 28 January 2016 10:00

Valid:
Friday 29 January 2016 00:01 to Friday 29 January 2016 09:00




STATUS YELLOW

Wind Warning for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Westmeath, Roscommon, Limerick and Tipperary

Southwest winds later veering westerly will increase 50 to 65 km/h overnight and will gust 100 to 110 km/h at times.

Issued:
Thursday 28 January 2016 10:00

Valid:
Friday 29 January 2016 00:01 to Friday 29 January 2016 09:00

RazorT

Looks like the warnings have been upgraded. Orange for large parts of the country.

STATUS ORANGE

Wind Warning for Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Dublin, Longford, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Meath, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Waterford

Southwest winds later veering westerly will increase 65 to 80 km/h overnight and will gust 110 to 130 km/h at times. The strongest winds mainly in northern and western coastal areas.

Issued:
Thursday 28 January 2016 10:00

Valid:
Friday 29 January 2016 00:01 to Friday 29 January 2016 09:00




STATUS YELLOW

Wind Warning for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Westmeath, Roscommon, Limerick and Tipperary

Southwest winds later veering westerly will increase 50 to 65 km/h overnight and will gust 100 to 110 km/h at times.

Issued:
Thursday 28 January 2016 10:00

Valid:
Friday 29 January 2016 00:01 to Friday 29 January 2016 09:00

aisling86

Personally didn't expect to see an orange warning. Interesting night ahead & hubby working nights!

Larbre34

Botheration. Ive a 1630 flight out of Dublin on Friday, on a crappy regional turboprop. Liklihood of disruption anyone?

chris2007

STATUS Orange

Wind Warning for Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Dublin, Longford, Louth, Wexford, Wicklow, Meath, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Waterford

Southwest winds later veering westerly will increase 65 to 80 km/h overnight and will gust 110 to 130 km/h at times. The strongest winds mainly in northern and western coastal areas.

Issued:
28 Jan 2016 - 10:00
Valid:
29 Jan 2016 - 00:01 to 29 Jan 2016 - 09:00

STATUS Yellow

Wind Warning for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Westmeath, Roscommon, Limerick and Tipperary

Southwest winds later veering westerly will increase 50 to 65 km/h overnight and will gust 100 to 110 km/h at times.

Issued:
28 Jan 2016 - 10:00
Valid:
29 Jan 2016 - 00:01 to 29 Jan 2016 - 09:00

Storm 10

Very wild in Galway City right now so could be another sleepless night ahead, I recorded 72mph on Tuesday Morning.

Graces7

Storm 10 wrote: »

Very wild in Galway City right now so could be another sleepless night ahead, I recorded 72mph on Tuesday Morning.

Very wild here in South Kerry too already, And yes yet another sleepless night ahead I think.Seems no end to it. Heavy rain too. Shudders! Feels very cold

vickers209

Customer in work just told me the its being named Gertrude not sure if thats valid?

EDIT

Just seen met.ie

Weather Advisory for Ireland

A rapidly deepening Atlantic depression will pass to the north of Scotland during Friday. It will bring a swathe of severe winds across Ireland, Scotland and northern England through Thursday night and Friday.
Orange-status warnings have been issued by both Met Éireann and the UK Met Office for their respective areas of responsibility. The storm has been named Gertrude.
Issued:
Thursday 28 January 2016 12:00
Valid:
Thursday 28 January 2016 12:01 to Friday 29 January 2016 09:00

ninebeanrows

Yes, it is being called Gertrude, mainly because it is going to whallop northern Scotland with 100mph+ gusts.

Windy here yes, but nothing exceptional. Will get a few severe gusts tomorrow morning though ahead of the cold front passage.

snaps

This storm.naming is confusing. Why isn't it a K name as johnas was last named storm? Or will J be skipped when it comes to its turn?

dsmythy

snaps wrote: »

This storm.naming is confusing. Why isn't it a K name as johnas was last named storm? Or will J be skipped when it comes to its turn?

Jonas was American named. Had it fit the bill here it would have been Gertrude.

MJohnston

snaps wrote: »

This storm.naming is confusing. Why isn't it a K name as johnas was last named storm? Or will J be skipped when it comes to its turn?

Jonas wasn't named Jonas by us, it was the name given by the US authorities when it was dumping the snow on them, by the time it reached UK/Ireland it wasn't strong enough to be a named storm, but there was enough crap weather associated with it that the media still picked up on the name and used it.

Hooter23

Rain is very bad in Galway all afternoon

superhooper

Weathercheck wrote: »

Yes, it is being called Gertrude, mainly because it is going to whallop northern Scotland with 100mph+ gusts.

Windy here yes, but nothing exceptional. Will get a few severe gusts tomorrow morning though ahead of the cold front passage.

Didn't we have a Gertrude in December already??

MJohnston

superhooper wrote: »

Didn't we have a Gertrude in December already??

Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_UK_and_Ireland_windstorm_season#Storm_Gertrude

Hooter23

Ya I thought we had storm Gertrude already too

MJohnston

iirc after Frank there was a lot of media chat about there possibly being another named storm a few days later, but it never reached the naming threshold, so it was just ****e weather.

squarecircles

Hooter23 wrote: »

Ya I thought we had storm Gertrude already too

Probably down to media hype about potential strong winds that never materialised just before christmas,where the name Gertrude was thrown about.

Behind the Darkness

Strong enough gusts in ardee co louth now, rain pelting the glass..

squarecircles

Is the thread title going to be amended as it seems inaccurate???

MJohnston

squarecircles wrote: »

Probably down to media hype about potential strong winds that never materialised just before christmas,where the name Gertrude was thrown about.

Couldn't have been before Christmas as Storm Frank was over the new year weekend.

Aerohead

Looking at ME website do you not think the colour should be changed to Orange as it says status Orange for land and for the marine on their website.

weisses

Looking at the ME forecast we will have storm Henry on Monday

MJohnston

I'm sure the thread title will be updated as soon as a mod becomes available to do it

Graces7

So tonight we have gertrude? I see!I think. Loud and nasty up here already South Kerry mountains 400 asl

average_runner

If we ever get real storm the country will shut down.

ninebeanrows

That cold front will be interesting! Some violent gusts possible, with wind-speeds just above the surface extreme.


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DOCARCH

Just updated to Level 2/Orange, in line with ME warning.

average_runner

DOCARCH wrote: »

Just updated to Level 2/Orange, in line with ME warning.

Maybe we should update the title from when its valid from. Its for Friday only on level 2 it seems

Storm 10

Hats off to MT he flagged this 130k storm last week, well done and thanks to all who keep us so well informed and up to date here with the nasty weather as it comes..

Storm 10

average_runner wrote: »

Maybe we should update the title from when its valid from. Its for Friday only on level 2 it seems

With weather systems they could strike early or late they don't run to a timetable.

average_runner

Storm 10 wrote: »

With weather systems they could strike early or late they don't run to a timetable.

So why do MET issue a time frame ?

coillsaille

No word from Maquiladora at all?

He usually has both useful and interesting insights on these systems. (Along with others of course.)

JCX BXC

Mods- Please add the name Storm Gertrude and the latest warnings to OP if that's suitable, thanks.

JCX BXC

TAF's for DUB,ORK,SNN,NOC very uninteresting. Hardly a gust from Gertrude.

Meteorite58

Severe storm out to sea no doubt , some of the Scottish Islands will get some battering. Big gusts overland overnight but clearing away quickly tomorrow morning. Some big readings in coastal stations, possibly some of the highest wind readings this winter ?







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ninebeanrows

Strange, wind direction for Dublin Airport looks interesting and would expect gusts to 55/60kt for a brief period in the morning.

JCX BXC

Weathercheck wrote: »

Strange, wind direction for Dublin Airport looks interesting and would expect gusts to 55/60kt for a brief period in the morning.

The TAF is only giving a temporary gust of 46knots from 230 degrees between 2am-7am.

maquiladora

NMB

Yayyy Maq's back !!

Reckless Abandonment

NMB wrote: »

Yayyy Maq's back !!

Hey only shows up then there is wind or we are getting to excited about snow

Rock Lesnar

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

Hey only shows up then there is wind or we are getting to excited about snow

Or when theres rain on the way and lots of it

kmoneill

Return of the maq..

Wanderer78

assume this will cause problems at dublin airport in the morning?

Meteorite58

Will be interesting to see the 18z runs to see if the storm intensifies as it deepens or if the track is a bit more south. Must be quite close to a Red warning for a few W / NW counties.

Oscar Bravo

Winds picking up quite a bit here in castlebar

squarecircles

Ominous howling has begun,Can sense the storm coming here,winds steadily increasing here in coastal west Mayo.

JCX BXC

Wanderer78 wrote: »

assume this will cause problems at dublin airport in the morning?

Not by the current TAF as I have said already. Gusts of only 46kt forecast from 230 degrees so shouldn't cause problems.

vickers209

A level 1 was issued for the north-western British Isles mainly for severe wind gusts.