Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

Mr Velo

I know it's not due to hit until later this evening / tonight, but the wind has noticeably picked up in Galway in the past hour and a half. Passed a GAA pitch there a short while ago, and the flags at the gate were fairly blowing.

Mr Bumble

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Storm is still way off west coast probably 9 hours till it makes landfall, bunch of are we there yet the lot of ya.

Lorenzo has a huge wind field and the edge of it is now coming onshore. This will be a long event for Kerry.

Lollipop95

Quite windy in Galway city. Wondering if the buses into town will be effected? Got told by work to just stay at home if they are as I don't drive

Stevieluvsye

This nonsense has to stop. All people in work could talk about yesterday in work how this was going to be as bad as Ophelia, cause day saw it on facebook. Some of the qoutes i have seen "killer storm" "stay safe" "Code Red"

Crazy stuff

MillField

Dull and windy in Limerick.

Stevieluvsye

If anything we should open a chat thread for the pleasant temps due..............................

BDI

Lovely here in Dublin. Sky this morning was a very electric looking red at the docks. Girl came out of her coffee shop job to take a picture while I was in the que.

Can’t get good staff these days.

sporina

is it just me or are these weather warnings OTT these days?
Like the blizzard never happened on that Thursday during storm Emma..
and now, hardly a breeze here in Cork..

Mantis Toboggan

Lollipop95 wrote: »

Quite windy in Galway city. Wondering if the buses into town will be effected? Got told by work to just stay at home if they are as I don't drive

Any sign of Theresa Mannion yet?

Widdershins

I didn't catch any news reports and my only sources are boards and online reports plus met eireann's website. I haven't heard any theatrics anywhere. Where are the ott predictions? Daily Mirror?

VinLieger

sporina wrote: »

is it just me or are these weather warnings OTT these days?
Like the blizzard never happened on that Thursday during storm Emma..
and now, hardly a breeze here in Cork..

No, firstly it hasn't properly started yet and secondly if they didn't give a high enough warning people would be complaining for the other reason so its better to be safe than sorry

DOCARCH

sporina wrote: »

is it just me or are these weather warnings OTT these days?

The warnings themselves are not OTT. There are criteria for the warnings.

It's the way the media deal with the warnings that is OTT.

Stevieluvsye

Widdershins wrote: »

I didn't catch any news reports and my only sources are boards and online reports plus met eireann's website. I haven't heard any theatrics anywhere. Where are the ott predictions? Daily Mirror?

Everywhere, all tabloids, TV, Sure go to indo.ie now and they seem to be giving rolling updates

We had this same ****e last year too

CJhaughey

Big hole in the Atlantic shows that this is no joke at sea.
Its already claimed mariners lives.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-18.8/centery:47.5/zoom:5

old goat

Seriously bad now in Tralee. Rain arrived about 10 mins ago, and wind has increased noticibly.

SleetAndSnow

Windy in cork city, definitely yellow level though.

But as a i said in the technical thread it’s a different type of yellow. Saturated ground + leaves I’m still ok trees (more then Ophelia) can still cause plenty of trees down and possibly damage so just because it was downgraded still remain vigilant.

Some of the gusts are strong enough and meant to get stronger as the day progresses (though remaining in yellow level)

Graces7

They turned the volume and wind speed up out here. … getting very wild as they said it would.. Easier to forecast on the coast,, west mayo offshore

OUCH! That was a bang! sudden shocks starting... ,background loud noise then a real crash.

Knitting and youtube!

0gac3yjefb5sv7

Anything happening in Dublin today or tomorrow of note?

John.Icy

sporina wrote: »

is it just me or are these weather warnings OTT these days?
Like the blizzard never happened on that Thursday during storm Emma..
and now, hardly a breeze here in Cork..

You could have picked several examples of misguided warnings BUT you went with the one that delivered several feet of snow drifts to plenty of the East?

NIMAN

Graces7 wrote: »

They turned the volume and wind speed up out here. … getting very wild as they said it would.. Easier to forecast on the coast,, west mayo offshore

OUCH! That was a bang! sudden shocks starting... ,background loud noise then a real crash.

Knitting and youtube!

Keep us updated how you're doing Graces

Storm 10

If ME are looking here get George Lee of the radio Mr Doomsday Man

Mantis Toboggan

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Anything happening in Dublin today or tomorrow of note?

As I walked into work this morning there was a few leaves on the trees starting to twinkle.

Also I noticed an unusually high number of blackbirds around, they had formed a guard of honour style formation on the electricity poles and were looking anxious, maybe they're aware of whats coming.

Sierra Oscar

Storm 10 wrote: »

If ME are looking here get George Lee of the radio Mr Doomsday Man

He’s the RTÉ correspondent, nothing to do with Met Éireann. Not their call to make.

In fairness Evelyn was on the radio this morning and has made it clear this is not in the same league as Ophelia intensity wise. Not a whole lot more Met Éireann can do be be honest. Their warnings seem spot on to me.

lleti

Earthnull has it pretty much level with the south coast now, is this it?

Or will it go up and then across?

SleetAndSnow

lleti wrote: »

Earthnull has it pretty much level with the south coast now, is this it?

Or will it go up and then across?

Up the west coast until mayo or donegal and then goes southeast across the country again.

Mental Mickey

Only thing I noticed in Newbridge was the wind getting up a bit.

Cw85

You know it's going to be a very minor event for most of the country when boards is this quiet. Usually when there's a major event I can't keep up to date with the thread.

Graces7

Remembering the metrical version of the Lorica, Breastplate of St Patrick...

"The whirling wind's tempestuous shocks... The deep salt sea around the old eternal rocks.."

Some things do not change .

John.Icy

John.Icy wrote: »

You could have picked several examples of misguided warnings BUT you went with the one that delivered several feet of snow drifts to plenty of the East?

Cork is not in the east

realdanbreen

Cw85 wrote: »

You know it's going to be a very minor event for most of the country when boards is this quiet. Usually when there's a major event I can't keep up to date with the thread.

I think it's called the calm before the storm.