Storm Brendan Monday 13 Jan 2020 ** See Mod note in OP before posting**

ChikiChiki

Just like that. Worst seems to have past and blue skies on the horizon in Dublin.

Snow Garden

Now we're talking. 14:00 readings (max gusts).

Mace Head = 117
Belmullet = 119

Solid Orange territory.

stevek93

A good blast of wind Dublin Airport there 5 minutes ago, back to normal now.

Hooter23

Looks like some thunderstorms coming in from the west in the next few hours...

Pyjamaninja27

Very wild here again in Limerick city. Squally shower passing.
Nasty again after a quieter lunchtime.

banie01

banie01 wrote: »

Had 6hrs of gusts and gales in Limerick city. From @6a.m up until not long after 12p.m

Its bright and calm now, but it was bad enough that i kept the kid in from school (as he walks).

Starting to blow hard again now in Limerick.

Has been quite a bit of disruption with trees down, and even a trampoline blown onto the M7.

Stay safe for the rest of this if you are in the western half of the country folks.

lintdrummer

And it's all gone relatively calm and quiet here in Celbridge. Amazing how quickly it can change. Have been out to put a fallen fence panel back up. Plenty of rubbish and empty bins blown around the estate. Dogs are telling me it's safe for walkies.

Kermit.de.frog

Hooter23 wrote: »

Looks like some thunderstorms coming in from the west in the next few hours...

They'll be turning wintry overnight through the midlands and north with a mix of hail, sleet and snow.

Wine Goddess

All brightening up here in Firhouse D24 - looks like it has passed through.
I really feel sorry for Squarecircles, Graces7 and others here who still have hours of this to go........

FrancieBrady

And as if it was on a switch, all calm here in Monaghan/Fermanagh.

Graces7

Truly appalling out here all afternoon and worsening now.. Feel like yelling SHUT UP ! at it.

Is it ever going to end? Screaming wind now and battering rain.

I know; we are in marine red out here but enough is enough!

squarecircles wrote: »

im not sure how much longer will have power here,its raging outside again,coastal west Mayo has taken a battering.

pad199207

Elderly man was blown clean over outside the credit union branch in Main St Naas. Ambulance was called

M5

What a difference an hour makes

Danno

Top gust in south Laois was 56mph - cumulus/website only reporting 54mph for some strange reason. Always worth to check the console itself.

SeaFields

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

And here I was thinking Scrooge had something to do with Christmas. But it's the 13th of January.

To be fair, they're both works of fiction.

Brock Turnpike

Seems to have passed in Dublin 18

Villain

Great forecasting by weather models and Met Eireann to be fair, within the criteria they are using Orange was correct.

All eyes on West coast now when high tide hits, M6 buoy had significant wave of 13 meters and max wave of 17 meters!

Hooter23

Wind gusts getting stronger now in Galway...I wonder is the storm still on its predicted track

pad199207

The back edge of the front looks brilliant

Cantona's Collars

At least ME were on the ball saying that it'd clear the country fairly quickly. Grand here in Wexford now. A lot without power though.
The West will get a second lashing though.

Another low to bring wet weather to the SE tomorrow.

Jpmarn

Tree down just down the road from me. But cleared up. Also my fibre drop line has come loose but is still working.
https://www.facebook.com/100007032480306/posts/2555428901368168/
Near Limerick City.

nacho libre

Hooter23 wrote: »

Wind gusts getting stronger now in Galway...I wonder is the storm still on its predicted track

it has a large windfield, so this is the second round as the low moves away. This will really only impact the west and north west of the country.

Mortelaro

Villain wrote: »

Great forecasting by weather models and Met Eireann to be fair, within the criteria they are using Orange was correct.

All eyes on West coast now when high tide hits, M6 buoy had significant wave of 13 meters and max wave of 17 meters!

Yeah the Met did a good call with the orange land marine&coastal red
However this mornings ECMWF was WAY out
It had winds peaking in south wexford at 140kmh round about now...
Pretty poor for a major model 12hrs out

Snow Garden

Yeah I agree that Met Eireann did well here. Their initial warnings were probably the most accurate: S, W & NW coastal counties.
They probably erred on the side of caution for the nationwide orange but that's ok.
However that weatherman (Derik?) need to cop on, his input was reckless.

nacho libre

Jpmarn wrote: »

Tree down just down the road from me.

Is it ok to ask where you are exactly?

Snow Garden

nacho libre wrote: »

Is it ok to ask where you are exactly?

Up the road from that tree that fell.

Jpmarn

nacho libre wrote: »

Is it ok to ask where you are exactly?

Near Limerick city sorry about that.

silverharp

A very cycling-commuter friendly bit of weather, was grand coming into work this morning and now the sun just came out. Hopefully a nice westerly breeze to coast home

kingshankly

Crazy an hour ago thought the roof was coming off here in the north east currently digging out sun cream

Macy0161

Snow Garden wrote: »

Yeah I agree that Met Eireann did well here. Their initial warnings were probably the most accurate: S, W & NW coastal counties.
They probably erred on the side of caution for the nationwide orange but that's ok.

Appears to have been more damaging in Wicklow than a standard "Yellow" storm, whatever the stats ultimately show.