Storm Fionn: PM Tues 16th/AM Weds 17th, Jan 2018

sryanbruen

STATUS ORANGE

Wind Warning for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork and Kerry
This evening and for a time tonight, storm Fionn will bring very strong westerly winds to Atlantic coastal counties with mean wind speeds of 65 to 80 km/h and gusts of up to 120 km/hr, strongest near coasts with a risk of flooding.

Issued:Tuesday 16 January 2018 10:00
Valid:Tuesday 16 January 2018 15:00 to Wednesday 17 January 2018 03:00

Soccarboy11

Storm fionn, so we have a name then!

sryanbruen

Soccarboy11 wrote: »

Storm fionn, so we have a name then!

Yes but it's for tonight, not Wednesday night, I just noticed.

sryanbruen

STATUS YELLOW

Wind Warning for Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Roscommon, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford
Update on previous warning:

Today and tonight, westerly winds will reach mean winds speeds of 55 to 65 km/h with gusts of 90 to 110 km/h.

Issued:Tuesday 16 January 2018 10:00
Valid:Tuesday 16 January 2018 11:00 to Wednesday 17 January 2018 03:00

DOCARCH

OK....this thread is for (named) Storm Fionn....for tonight.

Other thread is for expected (separate) wind 'event'/potential storm tomorrow night.

MJohnston

Well this one snuck up while we were all focused on the snow charts, I guess!

ECM:





I guess this is part of the concern?

MJohnston

AROME:



ICON:



WRF:



Not a particularly widespread or long-term event this one.

Rebelbrowser

Blizzards later? (he asked hopefully.....)

MJohnston

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Blizzards later? (he asked hopefully.....)

Looking at the AROME charts, Devon/Cornwall might actually be in for some fun of that nature

Meteorite58

Fairly wild and gusty in Kerry already, massive hail and rain showers sweeping through, winds picking up all morning . Looks like 3 nights of broken sleep in a row coming up.

sryanbruen

I didn't know where to put this.

https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/953249026786447361

As for Fionn:

https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/953250220464275458

vicwatson

sryanbruen wrote: »

I didn't know where to put this.

https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/953249026786447361

As for Fionn:

https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/953250220464275458

Liam is a little annoyed

Darwin

Some interesting points there from Liam Dutton, but a bit surprising he chose to use social media to show his exasperation.

sryanbruen

Darwin wrote: »

Some interesting points there from Liam Dutton, but a bit surprising he chose to use social media to show his exasperation.

You should see some of his tweets, he's an absolute legend, there needs to be more people like him.

ninebeanrows

The less said about this the better

munsterlegend

Weathercheck wrote: »

The less said about this the better

About Fionn or Liam?! Or both?

ninebeanrows

munsterlegend wrote: »

About Fionn or Liam?! Or both?

Haha I was referring to Fionn!

Villain

Gust of 89 knots at Fastnet Lighthouse earlier!!

fepper

Storm seems to getting stronger here in north Kerry with some nasty gusts with hail/sleet

Mr_A

Villain wrote: »

Gust of 89 knots at Fastnet Lighthouse earlier!!

Gust of 88 in latest update: https://twitter.com/FastnetLHouse/status/953300129834000390

Meteorite58

Ferocious gusty hail shower going through atm, gusts are rocking the car inside Tralee town.

ninebeanrows

Gust of 74 knots at Mace Head @4pm. So that is a gust to 137kph!
So Fionn going strictly by the Orange level wind warning = Storm naming was merited.

nagdefy

Weathercheck wrote: »

Gust of 74 knots at Mace Head @4pm. So that is a gust to 137kph!
So Fionn going strictly by the Orange level wind warning = Storm naming was merited.

That's a red gust, over 130km per hour is it not?

cyclops999

M6 buoy at 16:00
Wind Speed 45 gust 68 Kts
Wave Height 14 meters

nagdefy

Liam's twitter post was more than a little condescending towards 'our boys', hope someone tweets him back (if that's how it works?!) with that info.

M.T. Cranium

Pardon my ignorance living so far away, but who is Liam?

nagdefy

sryanbruen wrote: »

I didn't know where to put this.

https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/953249026786447361

As for Fionn:

https://twitter.com/liamdutton/status/953250220464275458

This is Liam MT.

sryanbruen

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance living so far away, but who is Liam?

He's a qualified UKMO weather forecaster, used to work with BBC weather but now works for Channel 4 News.

http://www.liamdutton.com/liam-dutton-meteorologist

M.T. Cranium

Thanks, more or less guessed right. I saw the earlier posts, just didn't know his association with Irish weather.

Well, I have the feeling that a red alert may be coming for Kerry, Limerick and Clare, possibly south Galway. M6 gusts above 65 knots are rare indeed. And recent gusts above 60 knots at Shannon also.

Will be borderline red for sure until at least midnight.

I am very interested in the next model run when they have the upper air data from Newfoundland and get a hold of the radar signature of the next storm, it really whipped across the Avalon at a high rate of speed. Currently the low appears to be around 150 miles east of St Johns NL.

The 12z upper air charts have quite the jet stream across the central Atlantic and it is unusually strong at 250 mb near Ireland now, a bit further south than we normally see this feature. This is probably translating down to produce Fionn out of what is essentially just a westerly flow.

RoisinD

Weathercheck wrote: »

Gust of 74 knots at Mace Head @4pm. So that is a gust to 137kph!
So Fionn going strictly by the Orange level wind warning = Storm naming was merited.

I think this has brought the worst winds of the winter so far around here. Bushes etc round here (don't do trees very well) uprooted, fencing looking dodgy. Tried to go out to car a few minutes ago (it is in what I would class as in a sheltered spot) and had to give up. Liam Dutton can stick his opinions where the sun don't shine.
NW Clare

Oneiric 3

It is during events like this that Maq is missed from this forum. Seems to be gone for a couple of years now.

sryanbruen

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

It is during events like this that Maq is missed from this forum. Seems to be gone for a couple of years now.

Yep, I joined in August 2015 and only got to see a handful of his posts until he disappeared in February 2016.... great poster! Would love to see him again.

Harry Palmr

Nothing happening down here in Waterford so far.

M.T. Cranium

Have to suspect there are power outages in Kerry and possibly other areas because of lack of posts from regular contributors in those areas. Checking 18z reports to see how gusts are doing.

Oneiric 3

sryanbruen wrote: »

Yep, I joined in August 2015 and only got to see a handful of his posts until he disappeared in February 2016.... great poster! Would love to see him again.

His last post:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98589166&postcount=669

Seems he was having trouble login in to the forum and that he was getting just a little peed off about it.

A real shame.

sryanbruen

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

His last post:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98589166&postcount=669

Seems he was having trouble login in to the forum and that he was getting just a little peed off about it.

A real shame.

That was after the DDOS attack to Boards.ie near the end of January.

gozunda

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Have to suspect there are power outages in Kerry and possibly other areas because of lack of posts from regular contributors in those areas. Checking 18z reports to see how gusts are doing.

Check out

https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/

Appears to be a number of Power outages along the western seaboard including Kilarney area ...

maiden

Aldi in Ennis closed about 2 hours ago due to weather conditions!

Meteorite58

10 min avg winds of 45 km/h , gust 84 km/h ( readings from 7m approx ) here near Tralee. Lights flickering hope the electricity holds up. Massive wintry showers and even getting snow in the mix now.

Laughing at RoisinD's post, good on ye! Certainly a wicked night out there.

squarecircles

Violent gusts now west mayo,power flickering.

Dank Janniels

Power on+off in N.E Galway

Meteorite58

https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/953325183963713536

M.T. Cranium

Some land stations saw slightly reduced gusts at 18z compared to 17z but the M6 buoy appears steady state at 64 knots this hour.

These fast flow windstorms are pretty much nowcasting situations as there's nothing much to track, the model guidance makes it appear that these strong winds should peak soon and diminish a bit by midnight, but I suspect that this energy will link up very rapidly with the next low and these very strong winds may only back off slightly before ramping up again tomorrow evening.

Missed most of last night's planned sleep (no particular reason, couldn't fall asleep) so having to down tools now, back when I can concentrate.

nagdefy

RoisinD wrote: »

I think this has brought the worst winds of the winter so far around here. Bushes etc round here (don't do trees very well) uprooted, fencing looking dodgy. Tried to go out to car a few minutes ago (it is in what I would class as in a sheltered spot) and had to give up. Liam Dutton can stick his opinions where the sun don't shine.
NW Clare

Fair play. A professional meteorologist who can't see the wind strengths meet criteria and then finishes with 'they'll be naming raindrops yet'. It's not much above Paddywhackery and made my blood boil.

YeaYeaSure

Very rough weather up the esturary in West Limerick here since about 2pm. Power out in a few places around. Had pretty constant thunder and lightning for a couple of hours as well earlier. The Limerick to Listowel coast road(N69) is also impassible due to the large swell and high winds.

Meteorite58

As a matter of interest I think the GFS and especially the WRF under called this and the ARPEGE, ECM and ICON did quite well.

sryanbruen

nagdefy wrote: »

Fair play. A professional meteorologist who can't see the wind strengths meet criteria and then finishes with 'they'll be naming raindrops yet'. It's not much above Paddywhackery and made my blood boil.

I love him because of his rants about the media and newspapers.

JCX BXC

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Have to suspect there are power outages in Kerry and possibly other areas because of lack of posts from regular contributors in those areas. Checking 18z reports to see how gusts are doing.

Very Gusty here in West Clare. No damage visible though. The sudden Gusty periods followed by some quiet is what sets this apart from normal storms.

Meteorite58

JCX BXC wrote: »

Very Gusty here in West Clare. No damage visible though. The sudden Gusty periods followed by some quiet is what sets this apart from normal storms.

Yes the big gusts seem to be very convective in nature accompanied by hail / wintry mix.

MJohnston

Meteorite58 wrote: »

As a matter of interest I think the GFS and especially the WRF under called this and the ARPEGE, ECM and ICON did quite well.

ARPEGE has been a pretty reliable performer for the season in general.

coillsaille

As others have said, it's a very squally event. Bouts of intense gusts and hail/rain coming sideways but separated by lulls when it falls back to just a breeze.
South Connemara.