Storm Dennis ** Please read Mod Note in OP**

seamusk84

Teeming down in North Kildare now. Properly cold too.

Managed to get out this morning, glad I did.

Oscar Bravo

Mace head getting some impressive gusts all day.
4pm gust 63 knots .

Mace Head 16/2 Max gusts/hour Nothing spectacular but remarkably sustained
00.00 98km/h
01.00 104km/h
02.00 107km/h
03.00 96km/h
04.00 102km/h
05.00 100km/h
06.00 100km/h
07.00 119km/h
08.00 122km/h
09.00 104km/h
10.00 94km/h
11.00 107km/h
12.00 120km/h
13.00 117km/h
14.00 107km/h
15.00 98km/h
16.00 117km/h

Itssoeasy

Wind is picking up in cork again. I can hear alarms going off in the distance.

Video

We havent had this much thunder and lightning in years, was going through the night with storm ciara and again last night with dennis. Some sleep would be nice.

OneEightSeven

Briefly snowed in Ashbourne.

Gonzo

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Briefly snowed in Ashbourne.

I got caught out in that shower, lots of sleet and it and it turned more towards snow at the very end.

whomenonotme

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

A strong positive lightning strike of 48 kA near the Pigeonhouse Chimneys in Dublin. Anyone see it? There was an even stronger one of 81 kA near Castleisland in Kerry. Click on each strike here to see details.

https://meteologix.com/ie/lightning/ireland/20200216-1515z.html

I was beside Sean Moore Road but only noticed a general flash of lightning, there was a rumble of thunder in the middle of the hailstones shower.

Cork Boy 53

All sorts of weather in my area today. Sunshine, wind, rain, hail and some thunder and lightning as well. The only things missing are snow and sleet.

ChikiChiki

They have got it very bad across the water. Wales looks destroyed in parts.

zetecescort

ChikiChiki wrote: »

They have got it very bad across the water. Wales looks destroyed in parts.

I'm a weather novice so excuse my ignorance but how can they get it much worse than us from the same storm

giveitholly

zetecescort wrote: »

I'm a weather novice so excuse my ignorance but how can they get it much worse than us from the same storm

Have a look at bbc news or sky news if you can,torrential flooding,they got way more rainfall than ireland,think we escaped the worst of the rain,well in my area anyway

easypazz

zetecescort wrote: »

I'm a weather novice so excuse my ignorance but how can they get it much worse than us from the same storm

Presumably the heaviest bands of rain were centred up the irish sea and drifted across into Wales.

NIMAN

zetecescort wrote: »

I'm a weather novice so excuse my ignorance but how can they get it much worse than us from the same storm

A lot might depend on river location, houses built on low ground below sea level, tree cover, etc .

Lot of factors come into play.

Gonzo

giveitholly wrote: »

Have a look at bbc news or sky news if you can,torrential flooding,they got way more rainfall than ireland,think we escaped the worst of the rain,well in my area anyway

certainly for Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis we got off lightly compared to parts of the UK, especially Wales. Its very wet here in Ireland too but probably not to the same extent that we had in October and November.

leavingirl

Logan Roy wrote: »

Yellow warning cancelled, orange under review.

Bit late. We are nearly 7 hours into it. FFS. It's a good thing climate change is not the same as weather.

nthclare

I was in Spanish point earlier, the swells abs huge.
Ground swell mixed-up with the wind swell, absolutely epic sight.

Super-Rush

We got caught just on the edge of one of the squalls.

Temp dropped by 4° in about 500 yards with rain turning to hail and then wet snow as you go around every bend in the road.

Lightning and ferocious gusts knocked trees down behind us and we were waiting for one to fall in front of us at any second. We took the wrong car out and got thrown all over the road but luckily we were driving away from it in the end.

Crossing from Carlow to Wexford.

LollipopJimmy

I'm crossing the sea again.. I picked a right weekend for a weekend in Wales

Esel

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I'm crossing the sea again.. I picked a right weekend for a weekend in Wales

Send us a message in a bottle. We know you have an empty one!

Graces7

Itssoeasy wrote: »

We've gotten off very lucky relatively speaking. I was watching Sky News and they had a reporter in a town somewhere( the name escapes me) but she was reporting live and she was standing on one of the few places of high ground in the town. The rest was flooded and flooded badly.

Agree how dreadful it is in my homeland. They got the Army in yesterday as the forecast was so bad so they prepared. Someone posted from Wales earlier. We have been so very lucky this time.

Gaoth Laidir

Mace head reporting a gust of 65 knots in the 6 pm report.

Graces7

Had to go outside briefly, and the brute strength of that wind is breathtaking. A living force, and not a friendly one. The sky is that odd presnow shade but doubt it will fulfil its colour..

Gaoth Laidir

Live Mace Head windspeeds (live graph).

dmc17

Nice sky over the sea

uck51js9zml2yt

Was in the beach for a few minutes this afternoon..until the hail stones bat me back to the car.

Waves on the canal which was amazing to watch.
The only ones enjoying the water were the cormorants
Blowing a gale outside the house now.

Kermit.de.frog

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I'm crossing the sea again.. I picked a right weekend for a weekend in Wales

Graces7

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Ouch. Watched the documentary of the sinking of the Mikael Lermontov today and yesterday the Penlee Lifeboat disaster....

SleetAndSnow

Wind beginning to pick up again in cork city now

riggerman

Lighting 10 mins ago here in West Cork. North west of bandon