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

ninebeanrows

John.Icy wrote: »

Dublin Airport is incredibly unwindy. Syran's chart would almost have you believing the equipment is faulty. Consistently in the lowest 2-3 stations and hasn't reached yellow criteria in 6 storms which makes it the least windy location in the country when it comes to the ME bunch. But I'd well believe it. Here in D9 a few km south of the airport it's been forever since it's been actually windy. You're talking Doris in 2017, as I don't exactly consider 105km/h reached in Ophelia or Ali as overly bad. A mere breeze to other locations in the country!

Yeah it's been a very long time since north Dublin had a good storm.

buggles201

Long time lurker here, just wanted to thank you all for the updates over the past few days. Wouldn't have had a clue how bad this was supposed to hit without them

Darwin

Nice one Syran, thanks for the updated table. Amazing to see Fastnet had a gust of 191Km/h during Ophelia! A lot of the models seemed to overestimate the wind potential for parts of the country today, particularly the Icon model.

kenmc

Picking up a fair bit in d16 now, some rain also. Was much calmer coming home around 5.30 than it is now.

redsteveireland

Brendan just letting us know he's not gone yet, squally hail shower with some nice meaty gusts.

Ficheall

Just landed in Toronto - that was without a doubt the most turbulent takeoff I've ever been in.

Snow Garden

Great table Sryanbruen. It was a decent storm alright.

Ali is still the only one with no green.

Gaoth Laidir

Pressure at 18Z was 941 hPa, 2 hPa higher than forecast 24 hours ago. Very similar otherwise.

These are the 6-hourly central pressures since it was a flabby 1005-hPa low over New Foundland early yesterday. The highest 24-hr fall was 53 hPa between 00Z on the 12th and 13th, with the most rapid rate of fall of 68 hPa/24 h between 18Z on the 12th and 00Z today (i.e. 17 hPa in 6 hours). Overall it spent 24 hours in RACY mode.

Time | hPa

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13-18Z | 941
13-12Z | 945
13-06Z | 948
13-00Z | 952
12-18Z | 969
12-12Z | 988
12-06Z | 997
12-00Z | 1005

Gaoth Laidir

ItsLikeThis wrote: »

Good call by Met Eireann. I think there is a red warning for Deric's face

It looks like the idiot saw sense and removed the chart from his Twitter. The job was done, he got the clicks he was looking for and got the chart into the rags. Twit is right...

Very quite in Clare now just a lull or has the worst past?

Oscar Bravo

Some nice bolts of lightning and explosive sounding thunder here in Castlebar at the moment

Goldfinch8

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Some nice bolts of lightning and explosive sounding thunder here in Castlebar at the moment

And another good bolt just now. Close enough to Castlebar there.

Meteorite58

Very wet blustery morning here near Tralee, 18mm Rainfall.

Highest gust 108 km/h peak of frontal passage at 10.32
Lowest pressure 977.8 hPa at 10.32

Current pressure 985.2 hPa Rising Rapidly














NASA PIC Today

Early afternoon , front had cleared here in Kerry

NIMAN

It's been as windy in north Donegal the last couple of hours as it's been all day.

We seem to be getting an extended blast in the north west?

FrancieBrady

NIMAN wrote: »

It's been as windy in north Donegal the last couple of hours as it's been all day.

We seem to be getting an extended blast in the north west?

I thought that was how it was predicted?

corsav6

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Some nice bolts of lightning and explosive sounding thunder here in Castlebar at the moment

That sounded directly over my house just outside Newport. The roof rattled and the lights flickered a few times.

uck51js9zml2yt

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Very wet blustery morning here near Tralee, 18mm Rainfall.

Highest gust 108 km/h peak of frontal passage at 10.32
Lowest pressure 977.8 hPa at 10.32

Current pressure 985.2 hPa Rising Rapidly

The big question I have now is will I see snow in the morning on the Reeks as I drive to work?

Akrasia

Went for a walk on Lahinch Prom today at around 3pm

It was pretty wild but not exceptional

Meteorite58

Eliana Skinny Fruit wrote: »

The big question I have now is will I see snow in the morning on the Reeks as I drive to work?

What was the wind and rain like in your spot Eliana Skinny Fruit. Around Tralee reports of trees and ESB poles down, saw a guy in a cherry picker at 14.00 cutting a tree that had become dangerous or fallen against a building near the Brandon Hotel.

Some big hail showers in the late afternoon.

Most of the power out was S Kerry and Dingle it seems but a lot of it got re connected quickly.

Council reported lots of trees down around the county especially S Kerry but nothing too major it seems.

Tralee town was very quite today, very few around.

Hooter23

The showers we are getting in Galway now are 100 times worse than the actual storm....

LadyMayBelle

Eh, Galway is now waaaay worse than earlier!! Torrential hail and rain, windows flexing scarily with the howling gusts

Danno

sryanbruen wrote: »

That is great work SYB! Would it be possible to have the N/A from FastNet shaded in white for your next update?

Interesting that Mullingar has never got Status Orange top gusts out of all those storms!

If Durrow was added, it would read like this:

23/05/2011 - 76kmph - No Name Storm
08/12/2011 - No Data - Bawbag
13/12/2011 - No Data - Hergen
03/01/2012 - 93kmph - Ulli (05/01/2012 had 100kmph)
23/12/2013 - 71kmph - Dirk
27/12/2013 - 103kmph - Erich
12/02/2014 - 122kmph - Darwin
14/01/2015 - 89kmph - Rachel (09/01/2015 had 90kmph)
17/11/2015 - 113kmph - Barney
23/02/2017 - 90kmph - Doris
16/10/2017 - 116kmph - Ophelia
21/10/2017 - 79kmph - Brian
02/01/2018 - 93kmph - Eleanor (04/01/2018 had 103kmph)
19/09/2018 - 89kmph - Ali
12/10/2018 - 85kmph - Callum
28/11/2018 - 100kmph - Diana
15/12/2018 - 85kmph - Deirdre
08/02/2019 - No Data - Eric
12/03/2019 - No Data - Gareth
26/04/2019 - No Data - Hannah
03/10/2019 - 63kmph - Lorenzo
08/12/2019 - 76kmph - Atiyah
18/12/2019 - 93kmph - Elsa
13/01/2020 - 90kmph - Brendan

jimbobaloobob

LadyMayBelle wrote: »

Eh, Galway is now waaaay worse than earlier!! Torrential hail and rain, windows flexing scarily with the howling gusts

Yep I agree. That in the city? I'm 450m from the sea it sounds like it's pouring against the walls outside.
Gusts are severe too. West Connemara

LadyMayBelle

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Yep I agree. That in the city? I'm 450m from the sea it sounds like it's pouring against the walls outside.
Gusts are severe too. West Connemara

Coast road Oranmore but about 50m from an inlet. Nuts

gifted

LadyMayBelle wrote: »

Oranmore but about 50m from an inlet. Nuts

In oranmore as well...coast Rd, estate is white from hail stones

LadyMayBelle

gifted wrote: »

In oranmore as well...coast Rd, estate is white from hail stones

Putting baby back to sleep so can't look out!! Walked home from station this eve, Jesus some breeze!!

Donegal Storm

Some decent squalls with the showers pounding in here now, definitely worse conditions than earlier with heavy rain and hail

Hard work getting a proper storm up here these days though, odd how the general storm track has so consistently moved south towards Galway/Kerry over the past decade. Seemed almost a given Donegal would get the strongest winds in the decade before that

bodhrandude

Was at a funeral up in Rossinver, Leitrim at eleven am which is in the middle of no where, just in my suit, sideways rain and hail and the wind driving it into our faces, scary stuff, got absolutely drenched. Back in Galway now, seems like a normal stormy day down here now at Salthill, in contrast Bundoran was pretty wild, some pretty amazing surf waves there and a tremendous wind.

redsteveireland

Some overtopping in Salthill at high tidehttps://galwaydaily.com/news/salthill-roads-closed-in-case-of-late-flooding/

M5

Hooter23 wrote: »

The showers we are getting in Galway now are 100 times worse than the actual storm....

The storm warning is until midnight, the storm hasn't left yet