Storm Ali : Weds 19 Sept 2018

NIMAN

10mins of incredibly intense rain, with thunder and lightning in North Donegal.

Seems to have eased now.

Sign of what's to come overnight?

Graces7

Storm 10 wrote: »

Flash of lightning in Galway Bay just now

There was one very bright flash of lightning and a crash of thunder here about that time too. West mayo; offshore island

tylercollins

Just had rain falling here in Eglinton at a rate of 76-96mm per hour. Reminded me of videos I've seen of weatherbombs.  So much rain and wind just blowing it everywhere.  Gullies couldn't keep up with the rate it was falling.

Fascinating to think that by morning it'll be worse.

On a different note, kinda raging that I've just come home from spending 3 nights in Clifden, Mayo.  Absolute torrential rain there for most of the day yesterday.

Oneiric 3

It is amazing how 'winterly' it looks and sounds out there tonight (though still very warm) and we only in the middle of September, which traditionally is one of the more settled and benign periods of the year. Hopefully just a taster of things to come this coming winter.

igCorcaigh

Wishing I was back in Galway now
Nice calm night in Cork city.

Liamalone

Quare dose of driving rain there for a bit up here in the NW, had to turn the tv up ffs

pauldry

yeah lashed here too in Sligo for 15 minutes and Id say there was near 10mm

Gusty too. Over 40 knots

Id say 60 to 70 knots tomorrow easily in Mace or Malin. Northern Ireland possibly 75knots

c.p.w.g.w

tylercollins wrote: »

Just had rain falling here in Eglinton at a rate of 76-96mm per hour. Reminded me of videos I've seen of weatherbombs.  So much rain and wind just blowing it everywhere.  Gullies couldn't keep up with the rate it was falling.

Fascinating to think that by morning it'll be worse.

On a different note, kinda raging that I've just come home from spending 3 nights in Clifden, Mayo.  Absolute torrential rain there for most of the day yesterday.

In Limerick City...no sign of bad weather very calm and dry...for now:D

Graces7

squarecircles wrote: »

ummm,its like mental outside,pink lightning flashing constantly ,torrential rain and crazy gusts of wind,west Mayo.

where the hell did this come out of.

i wonder how grace is doing.

All fine here. I was half asleep when I saw a flash through closed eyelids and heard thunder. Made sure all the critters were safe inside and that I had candles and matches by my bed and hunkered down . The noise was phenomenal. Easier now thankfully.

Graces7

Whispered wrote: »

I've to be out, 9am - 1pm, toddler in car for some of that time. Rural roads in Kilkenny. Considering cancelling plans but would need to do so in the next hour or so. Usually I'd be quick to take the safety first route but it's not even orange for the area. Conversation here though makes me think maybe it will be?

surely best to err on the side of caution?

Graces7

Graces7 wrote: »

There was one very bright flash of lightning and a crash of thunder here about that time too. West mayo; offshore island

Hope you've battened down the hatches out there Grace. Stay safe and cosy:)

HelloMrSnowman

How's it going everyone, first time back since the snow in March. Just wondering will Kildare and Dublin see much of this? Or will this be more of a Western event?

tashiusclay

I'm supposed to be going hiking tomorrow evening about 5pm along the coast outside Westport in Mayo, will it be looking like I'm going to be cancelling, or might the wind have died down by then..?

Gaoth Laidir

ECM has 85-kt winds at 925 hPa (<550 m amsl) along the west in the morning. Around 10 knots of shear between it and the 850 hPa level, so overall gusts likely to be 80-85 kt at Mace Head by 7-8 am. By 10 am the core of strongest winds has weakened slightly but still 60-70-knot 925 hPa winds over a wide portion of the country. Major disruption at Dublin Airport likely for a couple of hours around noon before winds swing from 220 to 250 °.

Andy From Sligo

9.20pm I was on the throne (TMI maybe? ) and the heavens absolutely opened up and then some for a good, nearly a minute, I would say - rest of fam downstairs said the Sky box lost signal and said "no signal can be found" - really windy along with lashing rain ... and then it stopped as quick as it started!

Whispered

Whispered wrote: »

I've to be out, 9am - 1pm, toddler in car for some of that time. Rural roads in Kilkenny. Considering cancelling plans but would need to do so in the next hour or so. Usually I'd be quick to take the safety first route but it's not even orange for the area. Conversation here though makes me think maybe it will be?

That's my neck of the woods too, - it looks like we won't get the worst of it. Still, there could be falling branches and dangerous gusts, - I'd be nervous in a car especially with a small child.

Gaoth Laidir

Graces7 wrote: »

All fine here. I was half asleep when I saw a flash through closed eyelids and heard thunder. Made sure all the critters were safe inside and that I had candles and matches by my bed and hunkered down . The noise was phenomenal. Easier now thankfully.

Grace, coming at you in particular early morning. Stay safe.

Graces7

squarecircles wrote: »

hope grace is ok, i for one would not like to be on an island off west mayo tonight,as remote as i am.

Well, bed is bed is bed! Well organised thanks to all the good warnings. The power is stable here and even my computer dish is OK.

Nothing to set foot out there for.

Had to open the door to let cats in and out until they started refusing to go out..

IT WAS VERY LOUD THOUGH!

Takes me back to the North Sea island though. There was one storm when gusts were measured at 124 MILES per hour. A neighbour's chicken house literally took off and I was hanging on to washing poles trying to get to feed my stock. You felt as if the very skin were being flayed off your face. Huge boulders blown across fields.

So now I just organise and hunker down.

JanuarySnowstor

If Sunday does happen as projected by this evenings gfs it will make tomorrow look like a sorbet

fifijk

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

It is amazing how 'winterly' it looks and sounds out there tonight (though still very warm) and we only in the middle of September, which traditionally is one of the more settled and benign periods of the year. Hopefully just a taster of things to come this coming winter.

Hopefully you say....omg I'm ****ting myself. Fecking hate this weather.

Graces7

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Preparations here earlier near the Kerry coast

LOVE it!!!!!

aisling86

My husband will be driving from macroom to Tralee in the morning, I've advised him to leave earlier so hopefully he gets to work before the worst of it. Thankfully Sundays event is falling on a weekend & people can hunker down for the day if needed.

MJohnston

I find it pretty remarkable Met E have stayed away from a Red warning on this, given that parts of the west will receive red-level amounts of gusts and rain at about the same time.

Perhaps they are using more judgement around 'impact' this year? Middle of the night storm should be less dangerous to most.

Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how lovely the AROME's wind gust animation is?

c.p.w.g.w

aisling86 wrote: »

My husband will be driving from macroom to Tralee in the morning, I've advised him to leave earlier so hopefully he gets to work before the worst of it. Thankfully Sundays event is falling on a weekend & people can hunker down for the day if needed.

Whats the forecast for Sunday?

Oscar Bravo

The likes of it not seen since The beast from the east.

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Oneiric 3

fifijk wrote: »

Hopefully you say....omg I'm ****ting myself. Fecking hate this weather.

Different strokes and all of that. I love this weather, always have. It feels alive.

Oscar Bravo

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Whats the forecast for Sunday?

Uncertain yet, but follow here https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057880548&page=36

aisling86

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Whats the forecast for Sunday?

It's in a separate thread FI...

c.p.w.g.w

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

The likes of it not seen since The beast from the east.

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Ah its storm season, most people will only come out for storm season:D

Graces7

fifijk wrote: »

Hopefully you say....omg I'm ****ting myself. Fecking hate this weather.

((HUGS))) I used to be like that. Old age helps...

Mac_

Frequent lightning flashes visible here in Antrim from those cells moving across the NW and N coast. Rain must be pretty intense.

sdanseo

MJohnston wrote: »

I find it pretty remarkable Met E have stayed away from a Red warning on this, given that parts of the west will receive red-level amounts of gusts and rain at about the same time.

Perhaps they are using more judgement around 'impact' this year? Middle of the night storm should be less dangerous to most.

They're using judgement on the basis that the masses in Dublin would ignore future red warnings because they can't see the effects seen in the areas where they are most extreme. Very serious risk of crying wolf, even though technically the red criteria are met and will likely be exceeded locally.

Combined with this is their slow speed at getting off the fence and moving to the impact based system, slow not due to individual forecasters who are fantastic but the "ah it'll be grand, sure we'll fix it when we really need to" attitude of Irish public services.

Net result: less effective warning in the areas where it's needed.

Xenji

Mace Head gusting 85 km/hr on the 23.00 report.

Max gust in Castlebar of 89 km/hr as it stands.

Oneiric 3

Graces7 wrote: »

((HUGS))) I used to be like that. Old age helps...

Not judging Grace but you live in one of the stormiest regions of the country. I imagine you are well 'hardened' to such conditions compared to us soft handed inlanders. :P

c.p.w.g.w

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Ah its storm season, most people will only come out for storm season:D

Now now, we're not all just blow -ins......some of us were here though snow, heatwave and drought:)

Kermit.de.frog

T'is a stiff breeze to blow a way the cobwebs.


Ye all be grand :cool:

Whispered

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Ah its storm season, most people will only come out for storm season:D

Like the opposite of fairweather friends.

Whispered

Graces7 wrote: »

surely best to err on the side of caution?

It's not really that simple. I have promised to help someone do something and I hate to let them down. Ordinarily I wouldn't even consider it. As it is I've managed to cut my drive to a short one straight down a main road and back

MJohnston

sdanseo wrote: »

They're using judgement on the basis that the masses in Dublin would ignore future red warnings because they can't see the effects seen in the areas where they are most extreme. Very serious risk of crying wolf, even though technically the red criteria are met and will likely be exceeded locally.

Combined with this is their slow speed at getting off the fence and moving to the impact based system, slow not due to individual forecasters who are fantastic but the "ah it'll be grand, sure we'll fix it when we really need to" attitude of Irish public services.

Net result: no effective warning in the areas where it's needed.

In fairness, I continue to be entirely sceptical about this 'boy who cried wolf' effect. I think most people in Ireland are born dismissive of weather warnings and similar things, and nothing will dispel those notions as they grow older. It's a subset of the "ah sure it'll be grand" personality syndrome.

Oscar Bravo

Max Gusts so far today (km/h):

95 Mace Head (Galway)
93 Finner (Donegal)
89 Belmullet
87 Newport (Mayo)
78 Knock Airport

Highest Temp (°C):
21.9 Phoenix Park

Most Sunshine (hours):
6.4 Casement Aerodrome (Dublin)

spookwoman

MJohnston wrote: »

In fairness, I continue to be entirely sceptical about this 'boy who cried wolf' effect. I think most people in Ireland are born dismissive of weather warnings and similar things, and nothing will dispel those notions as they grow older. It's a subset of the "ah sure it'll be grand" personality syndrome.

There is that and a lot of people felt the met forecasters over dramatized and seemed to be competing with each other last time.
Now add that their forecasting has gone downhill people are just rolling their eyes and say ah here we go again.

ednwireland

Just driven a couple of miles from work lots of leaves and a few branches. Assume the worst is tommorrow and have to be in at 8am !
Sw donegal

Oneiric 3

Latest WV image. 'Dry slot' evident. Interestingly, a minor 'wave' feature seems to be catching up with it which is probably what will give 'Ali' its forecast potency:

Oscar Bravo

There's a Met Eireann forecast on Rte1 radio 1(or sky 0160) at 1155pm with the very latest general and sea area forecast

mangobob

Ok I know I have asked this before a few pages ago, but I'm genuinely curious. How reliable is Ventusky in terms of forecasts? The latest projections on the site show gusts of 177 kmh in Dublin 16 at midday tomorrow (up from 155 kmh earlier).

I mean come on now. Seriously. If that is even remotely accurate, then forget tying down the bins. I may have to tie down my feckin' house!

Graces7

Whispered wrote: »

It's not really that simple. I have promised to help someone do something and I hate to let them down. Ordinarily I wouldn't even consider it. As it is I've managed to cut my drive to a short one straight down a main road and back

I am sure they would understand, Whispered. As my boss loves to say, you are no use to anyone dead..I would be mortified if anyone ran risks for me.

guil

Once again, interesting going to work in the morning. I presume nothing will be happening in South Kildare around 4:30am?

Oscar Bravo

guil wrote: »

Once again, interesting going to work in the morning. I presume nothing will be happening in South Kildare around 4:30am?

safe enough at that time

guil

I love strong wind. Crazy how much it blows around the truck though.

Oscar Bravo

From met eireann "extreme caution is advised tomorrow morning in coastal counties of Connaught,Clare and Kerry"