Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

dsmythy

easypazz wrote: »

From following the experienced people on the technical thread.

The media have hyped this to the last.

RTE live now from Killybegs and it looks like a perfectly calm evening.

One trawler hasn't bothered returning to shore.

Live from Kerry now and its a perfectly calm evening, almost one hour into an orange alert.

No orange alert for Kerry.

Oh wait there is. Well maybe wait and see its a long warning period.

HorrorScope

JamesBond2010 wrote: »

that will be up the other end of the country by then up the north end of the country

It’s turning SE after landfall, that’s not north as far as basic geography and orientation goes.

JamesBond2010

dsmythy wrote: »

Started at 6pm the warning. It depends where exactly you are too.

i'm munster part of the country.

dsmythy

JamesBond2010 wrote: »

i'm munster part of the country.

Even then it depends. If you're tucked up behind a hill from where the wind is blowing your experience is different.

igCorcaigh

irishgeo wrote: »

It's happening tonight.

Thanks, interesting.

Why has it stalled so much off the coast?
Must be losing a lot of strength now surely.

eddieoregan

There’s more wind from my backside :-) :-)

JamesBond2010

HorrorScope wrote: »

It’s turning SE after landfall, that’s not north as far as basic geography and orientation goes.

changing again i thought it was coming up corkish direction

irishgeo

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Thanks, interesting.

Why has it stalled so much off the coast?
Must be losing a lot of strength now surely.

No idea. You'll have to wait for one of the expert's to show up.

dsmythy

JamesBond2010 wrote: »

changing again i thought it was coming up corkish direction

It has gone past Cork to the west heading north. Then it will turn Donegal Sligo region and move cross country.

iamwhoiam

A kite surfer had to airlifted after smashing into rocks in high winds

JamesBond2010

iamwhoiam wrote: »

A kite surfer had to airlifted after smashing into rocks in high winds

****ing twat !! what kind off fool is he

JamesBond2010

dsmythy wrote: »

It has gone past Cork to the west heading north. Then it will turn Donegal Sligo region and move cross country.

It would have been easier take the motorway LOL

PokeHerKing

iamwhoiam wrote: »

A kite surfer had to airlifted after smashing into rocks in high winds

Yeah George scraping the bottom of the barrel to push his sensationalist agenda.

iamwhoiam

JamesBond2010 wrote: »

****ing twat !! what kind off fool is he

And putting rescue service personnel at risk

HorrorScope

JamesBond2010 wrote: »

****ing twat !! what kind off fool is he

Danger seekers who ignore orange warnings to stay away from coastlines, but they have to go in to the ****in sea instead. No sympathy from me.

Sam Quentin

iamwhoiam wrote: »

A kite surfer had to airlifted after smashing into rocks in high winds

He certainly wont have a brain injury .

glaswegian

lleti wrote: »

There's a status yellow for Dublin where the sun is shining and a lovely sunny afternoon and there's a yellow warning in Sligo where trees are getting bent over and it's pissing rain.

Nothing much happening in Sligo at all,a few gusts earlier on but nothing more than you would expect on a winters day.

easypazz

HorrorScope wrote: »

Danger seekers who ignore orange warnings to stay away from coastlines, but they have to go in to the ****in sea instead. No sympathy from me.

It happened in Wexford, nothing to do with the storm I suspect.

But no doubt RTE will latch onto it.

GooglePlus

GooglePlus wrote: »

My comment about this tree was moved to the chat discussion because it wasn't technical but the photo of the fallen tree remains..

You gave valuable technical information about the root structure iirc, which justified that this weather event was not typical.


whereas the OP was on the lines of 'oh look, a fallen tree'

Snow Garden

Sam Quentin wrote: »

I remember years ago when I was a kid,.in this type of weather you would always see loads of wigs flying about the place, sticking on windscreens of cars and stuff,.we use to play a game called 'wig catching'... ohhhh how I miss those days,.What kind of glue do people use on their wigs nowadays??????

I was talking to someone from Salthill, Galway today. He remembers in the 70s and 80s that the local kids would love big storms. They would all head out to the promenade with their roller skates and let the wind bring them up and down the path/road. That would be frowned upon in today's safety first world.

HorrorScope

easypazz wrote: »

It happened in Wexford, nothing to do with the storm I suspect.

But no doubt RTE will latch onto it.

Well Wexford was in the yellow warning all day and until 6pm, so maybe there is a moral to this story...

iamwhoiam

easypazz wrote: »

It happened in Wexford, nothing to do with the storm I suspect.

But no doubt RTE will latch onto it.

Yellow warning in operation in Wexford at the time

igCorcaigh

Snow Garden wrote: »

I was talking to someone from Salthill, Galway today. He remembers in the 70s and 80s that the local kids would love big storms. They would all head out to the promenade with their roller skates and let the wind bring them up and down the path/road. That would be frowned upon in today's safety first world.

Oh yeah! Back in mid 80's (I was around 12) my dad brought the whole family up the mountains, when a blizzard struck. I remember crawling through the snow down the mountain in what must have been 100mph winds. You couldn't stand up.

kod87

Take care people, tis slightly breezy out there.

Storm 10

Do met Eireann update the storm it's the same since 12.19 today surely they could tell us the latest info

GooglePlus

Snow Garden wrote: »

I was talking to someone from Salthill, Galway today. He remembers in the 70s and 80s that the local kids would love big storms. They would all head out to the promenade with their roller skates and let the wind bring them up and down the path/road. That would be frowned upon in today's safety first world.

It's not that we're a safety first world now. It's the media jumping on it because the interest is there since Ophelia hit two years ago.

Ophelia set the tone and now any bit of wind has their knickers wet for the money that will follow every Joe Soap that clicks into these articles depicting a doomsday storm.

easypazz

HorrorScope wrote: »

Well Wexford was in the yellow warning all day and until 6pm, so maybe there is a moral to this story...

Lockdown on yellow warnings?

HorrorScope

kod87 wrote: »

Take care people, tis slightly breezy out there.

Is it slightly Dublin where you are??

iamwhoiam

easypazz wrote: »

Lockdown on yellow warnings?

Lockdown ? He was out in a stormy sea . Hardly lockdown to ask people to stay out of the sea for 24 hours

dsmythy

The blanket countrywide yellow was probably not necessary but it will hardly have caused disruption.