Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

endainoz

Hooter23 wrote: »

So this is where they throw all the rejects that disrupt the main storm thread;)

Yeah somehow lumped in with after hours morons aswell, you can take my place. I'm out of this one!

Looptheloop30

https://blackfield.com/webcam/

For those oddballs who want a live stream off the situation on the west coast (while its still bright)

easypazz

easypazz wrote: »

Are you seriously suggesting a total shutdown every time there is an orange warning. Close schools, cancel non urgent hospital ops, shops closed, close airports, pay everybody who can't get to work?


Totally unworkable.

Can we keep Money’s row about shutting down in the chat thread?

To the rest of ye, I appreciate the “should be fine”, but it’s my light car in the wind I’m worried about. That’s why I’m looking at windspeeds. I need an over-under number.

Update: those concerned about long journeys are being allowed leave early. Unpaid, but I don’t mind. Looking at the conditions coming up now, happy to stick it out for a bit before I go.

easypazz

things would want to get very serious in the next 60 seconds.

c.p.w.g.w

JamesBond2010 wrote: »

The trees arent even blowing yet

I know, it's absolutely bizarre

freesia1

Very calm in Dublin 7 at the moment. Could this be the calm before the storm. !!!

Graces7

GooglePlus wrote: »

Looks like that tree had already been uprooted and moved there, the roots look finely cut. If so, it was always falling over with a bit of wind and no real root system.

can trees of that size be moved? I doubt it. And why?

Snow Garden

Starting to pick up in Galway. Could be wishful thinking though. Breezy but no rain.

is_that_so

Latest situation.

https://www.met.ie/forecasts/meteorologists-commentary

At 6pm, the orange level wind warning for western coastal counties of Galway, Mayo, Clare, Kerry and Limerick will come into operation, and the yellow wind warning will become confined to Sligo, Leitrim, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary and Wexford.

Graces7

pauldry wrote: »

50knots still seems the highest gust so far

Belmullet hit 49knots just now

A tame affair so far. Wel see what night brings

nothing tame out here.

easypazz

Deleted User wrote: »

Can we keep Money’s row about shutting down in the chat thread?

To the rest of ye, I appreciate the “should be fine”, but it’s my light car in the wind I’m worried about. That’s why I’m looking at windspeeds. I need an over-under number.

Update: those concerned about long journeys are being allowed leave early. Unpaid, but I don’t mind. Looking at the conditions coming up now, happy to stick it out for a bit before I go.

So you are going to take some number off a complete stranger on the internet and make your decision on that. Okaay.


PS this is the chat thread.

323

On the coast, Donegal, maybe peaked at 30 knots, over and done with.


Whole lot of hype over nothing, yet again.

HorrorScope

323 wrote: »

On the coast, Donegal, maybe peaked at 30 knots, over and done with.


Whole lot of hype over nothing, yet again.

6-6am.......

JamesBond2010

Looptheloop30 wrote: »

https://blackfield.com/webcam/

For those oddballs who want a live stream off the situation on the west coast (while its still bright)

bridie forgot to bring in the washing there.:D:D:D

DOCARCH

323 wrote: »

On the coast, Donegal, maybe peaked at 30 knots, over and done with.

Storm has not arrived yet.

Laurali

Graces7 wrote: »

nothing tame out here.

How is it out on the island?

c.p.w.g.w

JamesBond2010 wrote: »

bridie forgot to bring in the washing there.:D:D:D

But there's great drying out there tho

Graces7

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

It depends where you live.
I’m in Galway and you wouldn’t be going out walking here now and it’s promised worse.

same out here. These folk are out of touch with reality. I had to go out and check the gate a while ago and it was a struggle getting there and back
could hardly get the door open to get back in

west mayo offshore island

is_that_so

DOCARCH wrote: »

Storm has not arrived yet.

Donegal doesn't look like it'll be hit.

Man Vs ManUre

What a waste of a good storm if it’s only gonna be here while we are all asleep in bed. It reminds me a bit of the Super Bowl.

YFlyer

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Yeah in Limerick myself wet and grant really...but a few stores are closed early in the Cresent due to the "Storm"

That's mad. Maybe business in the city centre would benefit.

Not sure too bad in Galway city atm.

GooglePlus

endainoz wrote: »

Yeah somehow lumped in with after hours morons aswell, you can take my place. I'm out of this one!

What exactly are you expecting from this thread?

It has been designated for chat, with the technical aspects being discussed in the other.

You can't expect every member of boards to rock up with a weather chart, these are real people discussing their experiences of this storm.

HorrorScope

Graces7 wrote: »

same out here. These folk are out of touch with reality. I had to go out and check the gate a while ago and it was a struggle getting there and back
could hardly get the door open to get back in

west mayo offshore island

Stay safe out there and stay indoors if you can. I enjoy your posts here but I would not fancy being where you are this evening - how far offshore are you? Highest winds seem to be sustained off the coast around the islands tonight.

is_that_so

I see Tipp, Cork and Waterford are off yellow alert on the latest map.

UsBus

HorrorScope wrote: »

What don’t you understand about the warning? 6pm-6am is the orange warning time. You are writing it off here now because its 5:42pm and a bit breezy....

I understand clearly what the warning is. I've gathered that from the more intelligent posters you may have seen with knowledge of weather systems who have shared their expertise here. I also understand not to take any notice of some halfwit with a microphone who's only brief is to ramp the agenda of their employer, not to seriously advise those who aren't capable of distinguishing between either.

Graces7

paleoperson wrote: »

I said a few days ago about how so many people were larping and fantasizing about fearsome winds, howling storms, epic floods, battening down the hatches, bravely trying to keep hopes up, knowing that with this storm only the strongest would survive.... proven right. And that I excepted a small breeze.

I'm just back from the shops and god you couldn't even call it a breeze! It's the calmest day, hardly a whisper, you can scarcely feel anything at all. Literally everyone was out and about as normal, if anything I saw more people walking the dogs right now than on a sunny day. Old people, young people, all taking a **** on the big warnings because they heard it all before and it never turns out bad. The fearsome Lorenzo... what a joke! yeah like I know the main of it hasn't hit yet but there's literally nothing at all.

YOU WILL HAVE TO SPEAK UP , YOUNG PERSON! Lorenzo is howling and shrieking and throwing cold water at the windows so I can hardly hear myself think! and this is to go on all night here

west mayo offshore island

SeaFields

Teresa mannion playing a blinder again.

fisgon

In Sligo at the mo, a bit of drizzle, a little wind, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. We're in the yellow warning area.

These weather warnings are getting a little tiresome, I have lost count of the catastrophes that have been predicted that have not actually happened.

Two events I had been planning to go to tonight have been cancelled because of "fear of people's safety". It's a normal autumn day!

easypazz

Mannion giving it welly on the news now.