Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

Graces7

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

It has been a significant event near the west coast. Otherwise some central counties are about to get the weakening remnants as the old centre finally moves inland near Donegal Bay (heading southeast now towards Dublin by mid-day).

This means about 2-3 hours more of the moderate to strong winds and high seas, then a fairly rapid improving trend in the west, while for the east, things will deteriorate a little, no big storm or event, but some blustery winds at times and some steady rain for 2-3 hours as the decaying remnants move through Leinster around mid-day. Some parts of the south coast may have almost zero impact from the whole thing as it loops around well to their north.

I think some attention had to be drawn to the storm even though a lot of guidance showed a glancing blow or weak impacts in some areas. I think the met service did what needed to be done, and I think boards handled the situation well also (speaking of these threads). People knew generally what to expect, and that more or less has happened. So it's all good. I'm hoping there is not much disruption in the west although would imagine there are a few spots with some damage to clean up.

Thanks … I gather that there have been no fatalities or serious accidents which speaks for itself. WONDERFUL

Most of the naysayers are in areas that were not in the warning and none as far as I can see expressed any concerns re those who were.

Not been outside yet but I am aware that there is damage out there. And the supply ferry due today may not get across either .

The worst here was that sudden attack a few hours ago! POW!

But we owe a great deal to met.ie's forecast on this one. We really do. WELL DONE and WELL DONE boards.ie

Personally I do not have radio or TV and never read newspapers. the internet and here is enough for me. Stands to reason that any kind of journalist or presenter has vested interests in creating interest and attention. Why are folk so... gullible?

One poster even told me I did not count as my location is " extreme"... a/c to him there was no storm anywhere...

Still howling out here..

West mayo

oeb

fin12 wrote: »

Update on Kerry last night please preferably Killarney/Killorglin/Glenbeigh area.

Just want to know if electricity went out?

Not in Killarney, heard reports of some outages in Dingle and Ballybunion though.

Doctors room ghost

Winds still up in Galway.
No sign of It settling yet.very strong wind with persistent rain.
It’s a bad one

d'Oracle

BDI wrote: »

Cycled across north Dublin to the docks/ point depot area. Worse summer mornings.

Big hype

I mean, year man Gerry from Met Éireann was ón the 9 o'clock news saying "this won't be an event in the East".

And what's left of the actual storm hasn't even got here yet.

prunudo

malinheader wrote: »

Met Eireann do what they're supposed to do and do it very well. It's the likes of rte, and the tabloids that are complete as-ho- es.

They don't help but I think a real problem is social media or in particular Facebook. Yesterday I saw people sharing posts from the likes of Dublin Live, Radio Nova, Irish Mirror all mentioning Storm Lorenzo and red warnings in the headline, its not until you dig deeper into the article you see the real albeit sketchy detail.
Then you also have people sharing 2 day old articles from where there was still a possibility it could be worse but people taking it as realtime and fact.
At the end of the day the problem isn't Met Eireann, some of the blame lies with regular and social media but ultimately the fault lays at people who are too lazy to look into the finer details and who lap up the hype from this click bait society that has developed around us.

The chan chan man

sjb25 wrote: »

Rte renting a few chainsaws this morning to cut a few trees down for a few pictures

The media still cant let it go. The examiner are saying “storm is gone..:BUT BEWARE STING IN THE TAIL!!!” They were all creaming themselves over the possibility that carnage would ensue..

Graces7

anyone heard from tatranska? He is in a vulnerable situation.

Graces7

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Winds still up in Galway.
No sign of It settling yet.very strong wind with persistent rain.
It’s a bad one

same out here; exhausted! Not going out to take photos today! All I would get is solid grey anyways..;)

Only "damage" so far is a couple of wet patches on the floor.. cats could not get out.... they are forgiven totally.!

Sheesh; the din out there now.

west mayo offshore

schizo1014

Lots of flooding in Donegal here in places that never usually flooded

Snow Garden

Breezy morning in Galway. Slept right through the storm but haven't seen any damage yet. Not much rain either. What was highest gust in Mace head?

Widdershins

We're feeling the windy aftermath now, as M.E predicted. Although it's mild and humid. I woke up to full power in my house.
Relieved

pburns

The west & NW get a bit of blustery wet weather. Rest of the country...barely noticeable... Why does everything about weather (and by extension climate) have to be so sensensationalist these days? Its like they're trying to prove it's an unprecedented event but in the end...its nothing out of the ordinary...

realdanbreen

Hooter23 wrote: »

I seen enough rte I think it time to smash the telly:pac:

But what about Fair city and Decco and Anto and Mondo !

d'Oracle

Abba987 wrote: »

There was massive hype. Not from met eireann , from the media. Dublin websites and radio stations certainly over did it . And the media is hugely influential

Mad like. I got an article with photos of "Storm Lorenzo battering Ireland" and its a load of photos of a windy day in Dublin".

Doctors room ghost

schizo1014 wrote: »

Lots of flooding in Donegal here in places that never usually flooded

The same here in Galway.land is still saturated since last week and she can’t take anymore water. The tables are full
Rivers were high last week and haven’t gone back any yet.

vladmydad

pburns wrote: »

The west & NW get a bit of blustery wet weather. Rest of the country...barely noticeable... Why does everything about weather (and by extension climate) have to be so sensensationalist these days? Its like they're trying to prove it's an unprecedented event but in the end...its nothing out of the ordinary...

Because they are laying the groundwork for tax increases and Rte are helping

Widdershins

I think they just don't know definitively which way it will go. They have to inform the public of the possibilities. Some people then hear only the dramatic parts and ignore the other possibilities.

Gaoth Laidir

The top news item at 8 am is that there is no news. No major incidents, flights and trains running as normal. Just 4000 withoutn power George has gone into hiding.

Still, it is fairly muck here in Celbridge. Steady rain and just breezy enough to make difficult to stay dry.

Beechwoodspark

RTÉ journalist reporting that a “couple of twigs” on the roads in county Clare !!

DOCARCH

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

The top news item at 8 am is that there is no news. No major incidents, flights and trains running as normal. Just 4000 withoutn power George has gone into hiding.

Reports coming in of some twigs down in Clare! :P

Storm centre only now just ashore in/around Sligo.

Shefwedfan

So I’m up now, have all the door and windows boarded over....we are all gathered in the most central room in house.....we slept here all night on floor so my back is broke

When is it safe to come out? This is my 5th day off work

d'Oracle

Widdershins wrote: »

I think they just don't know definitively which way it will go. They have to inform the public of the possibilities. Some people then hear only the dramatic parts and ignore the other possibilities.

That's pretty much it, like.

lleti

What a joke from all involved. No warnings should have been sent for the east of the country. No worse than a normal winters night.

Not once did they say the midlands/east would not be affected. All headlines and news reports and M.E comments should have lead with "west coast", not "countrywide warnings for storm lorenzo".

lleti

RTE know that if carbon taxes are increased there'll be more tax money in the pot they can claim.

DOCARCH

lleti wrote: »

No warnings should have been sent for the east of the country.

There were no storm warnings for the east coast of the country!!!

lleti wrote: »

Not once did they say the midlands/east would not be affected. All headlines and news reports and M.E comments should have lead with "west coast", not "countrywide warnings for storm lorenzo".

They did!!!

Problem is people can't or don't want to read!!!

lleti

DOCARCH wrote: »

There were NO warnings for the east coast of the country!!!

There was a yellow warning yesterday up to 6pm.

And even if there wasn't, why would they lead with headlines like "country bracing for impact of storm Lorenzo2?

lleti

DOCARCH wrote: »

There were NO warnings for the east coast of the country!!!



They did!!!

Problem is people can't or don't want to read!!!

And give over, if you can't trust your state broadcaster who can you trust?

SleetAndSnow

Can we quit bashing M.E? They did an excellent job forecasting this. It’s not like they made the entire country Orange they made 6 counties and lowered it to 5 and then got rid of 3 counties from the late night warnings over all. They did a great job with this. Dublin was yellow, not orange or red. Maybe next time try to look at the actual forecasts instead of just basing everything on tabloids like Dublin live. RTÉ were very bad in this storm and tbh it should be looked into.

BDI

For the record I’m not criticizing met Eireann.

Facebook and media on the other hand. Trump is right about this fake news trend.

The media needs censoring for fake news. If you publish fake news or hype you should have to mention it at the top of the article, like an advertisement.

I was going to get the first bus this morning and would have been late over this hype if I wasn’t a hardy tough guy with an attitude.

Some people get in trouble in work for being late. I’m sure all over Dublin there is lads turning up for work an hour late because of this hype.

Dublin live and radio nova should be fined. Facebook should take people’s likes or shares or whatever off people who publish bull**** and fake videos of the police arresting scrotes with a headline that claims he was just in the library renting a book and the police came in and arrested him.

Beechwoodspark

George Lee should be stood down from reporting on climate and weather.

He has lost whatever credibility he ever had on this over the Last week.