Storm Ciara - Reports/Chat/Non Technical

Harry Palmr

Quiet enough this morning, I take it the second helping of wind is coming later.

fryup

Laurali wrote: »

Blue skies now but bad hail and thunder & lightning about 30 mins ago in Westport. Looks like a summers day now.

OOOOoooooooooooooooooooh look at the house you have

win the lotto?

Donegal Storm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Quiet enough this morning, I take it the second helping of wind is coming later.

Strongest winds have already passed, won't drop much further until Wednesday now though

The chan chan man

Interslice wrote: »

A spring low tide should be way out. 100 metres from the shore. Wind is pushing water into the bay. River at the end of the beach adding to it. Could be nasty at 4 o clock when its back near high tide.

Very interesting, never knew that! Thanks!

The chan chan man

zell12 wrote: »

Who gets to name the storm? I assumed it was just our name for it? Do the UK call it whatever name we pick?

Hooter23

The storm is so bad in Galway that I saw a leaf violently falling of a tree:rolleyes:

Calibos

fryup wrote: »

OOOOoooooooooooooooooooh look at the house you have

win the lotto?

You shall refer to her as Lady Laurali henceforth.....you peasant!

zell12

The chan chan man wrote: »

Who gets to name the storm? I assumed it was just our name for it? Do the UK call it whatever name we pick?

Pre-chosen name by UK Met Office

Akrasia

The chan chan man wrote: »

Who gets to name the storm? I assumed it was just our name for it? Do the UK call it whatever name we pick?

Ireland, UK and Netherlands agree on the names between them based on suggestions from the public

Graces7

igCorcaigh wrote: »

One for Grace.

https://twitter.com/HeaneyDaily/status/1226248875171864576?s=19

Think they might give me a job!?

TheBody

Power gone in Longford now. Lightning and torrential rain.

RobbingBandit

ESB power check always useful in these events

silverharp

impressive white horses in Dublin bay this morning, not much water coming over the wall in sandymount at high tide.

Darwin

Seems to be a second peak of winds in the last 40 minutes or so (first peak was this morning after 8.15), no convection around but some really powerful gusts out there. UK is be bearing the brunt of it according to xcweather

Graces7

redsteveireland wrote: »

Lots of strikes showing up across Mayo, North Galway and into the Midlands.

You mean..... lightning?

munsterlegend

Should we have a separate thread for the snow/ice warning? I know it’s nothing too severe but we have had threads for less now that met Éireann have given it credence.

Graces7

Wind chill is ferocious. And squalls so it will be calm then take off again.

cyclops999

Thunder, Lightening ,Hail and very strong winds now in Athlone

Longing

Live at Heathrow. Some crazy landings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gln7T-xxE4k&feature=emb_logo

Couple of aborted landings

NIMAN

Was that one of those A380 that just aborted for the 2nd time?

Rikand

cyclops999 wrote: »

Thunder, Lightening ,Hail and very strong winds now in Athlone

Yeah great big flashes of lightning out here in cornamaddy. Was a wonderful show. Serious auld squall that came through

BanditLuke

Just got a Whatapp from a friend flying into Gatwick on a flight that landed 20 minutes ago. He said it was terrifying and the guy is a regular flyer. Grown men and women in genuine fear as the plane made the approach to the runway. Seems to be brutal over there.

Way worse in Navan since the the orange alert was lifted lol!

Torrential rain now, bucketing down

Goldfinch8

Good rumble of thunder here now near Castlebar.

Mickeroo

Couple of thunder claps just now in castlebar.

Been a pretty tame affair wind wise here apart from an hour or two in the early morning where it got pretty bad.

YanSno

Squall making it way towards Dublin in the next 30mins expect heavy rain and gust of 100km.

Lenny5

Goldfinch8 wrote: »

Good rumble of thunder here now near Castlebar.

Yes black clouds rolling in over Castlebar big sheets of rain, flashes of lightning and loud rumbles of thunder.

Mickeroo

Lenny5 wrote: »

Yes black clouds rolling in over Castlebar big sheets of rain, flashes of lightning and loud rumbles of thunder.

Yeah rain rolled in now, wind picked up with it.

United road

Meteroite - dont want to ask you this on techincal thread,

Will there be a thread for the snow threat that follows this storm?
Strange we have snow ice warnings on ME but no thread, aware snow is in title of existing technical thread on Storm Ciara so wonder if it will go there or have its own thread?
TIA

munsterlegend

United road wrote: »

Meteroite - dont want to ask you this on techincal thread,

Will there be a thread for the snow threat that follows this storm?
Strange we have snow ice warnings on ME but no thread, aware snow is in title of existing technical thread on Storm Ciara so wonder if it will go there or have its own thread?
TIA

We await the snow king Kermit for a thread.