What's the weather like in your area 2

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Reports of a tornado today in south wexford.

Seemingly bad enough.

http://independent.ie/news/weather-ireland-local-farmer-describes-tornado-like-conditions-in-co-wexford-42114280.html

http://twitter.com/Beemur10/status/1587872348983681024

http://twitter.com/tpaulkelly/status/1587881637169463296

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Raining all day since late morning. Not measuring but it's heavy rain again on sodden land.

Went to look at the damage done yesterday in Foulksmills. It must have been a tornado. It was a narrow strip with damage done. Maybe 100 to 200 metres at it's widest and I think some are saying 6 miles long of damage.

Pics.

Full big sheets of cladding were blown off sheds and blown 300 metres away and wrapped around trees like plastic. Houses were damaged. Some extremely so. Cow sheds completely destroyed. Stock lost.

The pic with the sheets at the wall came from 300 metres away down the road. Against the travel path that the wind travelled. So there must have been a rotation on the wind as it moved. A sheet landed just in front of that house as well just feet from it looks like the living room window.

How nobody was killed on foot or driving on the roads is a miracle.

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https://www.farmersjournal.ie/weak-tornado-flattens-wexford-sheds-in-minutes-732584

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/video-livestock-killed-and-farm-damaged-as-tornado-like-winds-hit-wexford/

Agriland and Farmers journal. I think they're different farms?

Wildsurfer

In that first photo, is the house underneath the line of sight or has an entire roof been lifted and dropped?

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Underneath the line of sight.

There was a shed there in front of that house towards the road where all the mangled cladding came from. From where I was standing there taking the picture the cladding was beside me on the road.

You can see the trees in the background there unaffected by the wind too.

Unbelievable really. I live a bit away and driving there, there's no wind damage to see on any trees by the road and you'd be wondering what the fuss was about till you get to where it tracked over the roads and then it's like a bomb hit.

Absolutely devastating for anyone where it hit.

There was a bit on South East radio about it this morning on the morning mix . It'll be on podcast tomorrow and there'll be another bit tomorrow morning on the same show about damage done.

Dazler97

Currently on holiday in Vancouver and had extremely heavy rain for 24 hours place is pretty wet, i see met eireann have a weather advisory up for the next week for rain, reminds me of November 2009 with all that flooding

_Brian

Oddly mild out. Stiff breeze blowing at 15c on a November night. .

Reggie.

Lovely weather. Chance to get wash tanks out

Mooooo

Shite here, since 10 Oct been fairly constant rain. Have yearlings out, too warm to house them imo but running out of ground

blue5000

Our nearest weather station at Gurteen has had the same amount of rain for this year as the total was for last year. The rest will be a bonus.....

Reggie.

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It's all needed. The lack of rain last year lead to the droughtish conditions here last spring

whelan2

Frosty

zetecescort

Very red sky now

_Brian

Cracking dry frosty crisp morning. Beautiful sky as the light came in.

older by the day

Really let it down between 9.30 and 11 here tonight in west cork. I won't have to clean the yard tomorrow. Might have to empty a 5 bay slatted tank though

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River above the yard burst it's bank. I've never seen such a down pour

Bucketing down with strong winds wet Clare

older by the day

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Thankfully my builder left the wall of the tank nearly two feet above the yard. So I got away with it. So no harm done.

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Just a reminder to check the antifreeze in your tractors/loaders etc as it's predicted that we're heading for a spell of hardy weather. Also bring bottles of doses etc into the medicine press in your sheds - don't leave them in the back of your van/jeep/booth of the car. If any of ye are using wells check the heat lamp/heat element is working.

Chilly, just as I'm ready to go at concrete 😫

dohc turbo2

Seen cows back out in few places, even seen a young lad working for contractor knocking grass

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119960534#Comment_119960534

A local dairy farmer has cows out (crossbred herd) during the day for a nip of grass - I presume they are dry and probably due to calve after Christmas. They looked happy out munching away. There has been some amount of grass growing around here in the last two months.

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Mentioned to me this evening to turn off the field water supply and let the water out of the troughs too.

Then for anyone dried off. Let all water out of the milking parlour pipes and maybe give a run of saltwater before shutting up the parlour.

The way the forecasts have changed.. Yesterday it was giving milder weather and a frontal snow event Tuesday next week as the mild air and low pressure came up from the south. This evening there's no end to the cold spell with it getting colder every day. Forecast going to Wednesday with no sign of milder weather near Ireland.

Edit: Looked again and it looks like this cold spell that hasn't arrived yet will be here for the weekend next week too. There's a renewed push of arctic air Thursday next week from the north east. So it looks like that will still be there days later. There'll be snow for the north and east of Ireland from the air going over the North Atlantic to the north of ireland and the Irish sea to the east.

Bugger that anyway.

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119960716#Comment_119960716

TBH I love snow but I don't like severe minus temperatures like we had in Christmas of 2010/11 when it was -17c locally and more recently the Beast from the East in 2018. I loathe the East wind and all that it carries especially around the weeks before and aft the Winter Solstice.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119960877#Comment_119960877

East wind here usually means dry weather, everyone looking for more of it. That's usually when I'll slip in a mention of "talk of snow" to push them over the edge...

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Minus 10 is the lowest I can see forecasted for Ireland but it could be lower. All depends though on local conditions, snow, frost hollows, etc.

In England it's forecasted to be minus 19 degrees.

I don't like this what's being forecasted one bit. It's too early to be an ominous sign for next January and February too. And how quick the forecasts have the temperatures dropping. The upper air temperatures are going to be low too. Hence how we get this weather.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119961057#Comment_119961057

Ominous as in more cold/east wind, or something else? No snow, no sideways rain I am happy.

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Ominous as in the whole shebang of Arctic conditions.

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/gem.aspx?run=12&charthour=0&chartname=uk2mtmp&chartregion=uk&charttag=UK%20temp%20C

Probably one of the easiest ones to see a handle on.

I never could get a handle on those charts tbh

foxy farmer

Was rounding up a few cattle this morning for herd test. Whole place was white with frost almost like snow on the trees. Was starting to thaw around 11 but it changedto freezing fog for a few hours. Started raining around 4.00 and up to 3° Water frozen here yesterday morning coming to the house. Hopefully it'll thaw quick.

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The temperature hovered at 0c today amidst freezing fog and it's currently -2c according to a thermometer that I have hanging on a fence wire near the house.