Storm Jorge : February 29th

Oneiric 3

pistolpetes11 wrote: »

Sorry wrong person

Gaoth Laidir

Pain in the ass...

Oneiric 3

Wind beginning to make some noise again here.

Larbre34

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Pain in the ass...

Should not have departed, stupid airline operators.

Rebelbrowser

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Pain in the ass...

They were nearly closer to their destination before they took off!

Igotadose

Just received a delivery from a garden supply company for an order placed a week ago. On Saturday. In this storm. Impressive, the local delivery services don't do this well. This was shipped by 'fastway.ie,' from the northwest to the Dingle peninsula.

poppers

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Pain in the ass...

Whats the story of the route around the donegal.

pauldry

Storm no longer red.

Is Galway and Clare ok?

We are in for a severe evening in Sligo I'd imagine.

120kph gusts and trees down and 2000 customers without power. That's my guess.

Storm 10

You can tell that this was not as bad as expected given the lack of updates normally the place would be full of posts , big fall off in the wind in Galway now guess the worst is over

Gaoth Laidir

poppers wrote: »

Whats the story of the route around the donegal.

It's the border between Shannon (Irish) and Scottish airspace.

aido76

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

They were nearly closer to their destination before they took off!

Why didnt they go to kerry? Stansted to cork did that and landed....

nthclare

Whipping up again now in Lahinch
Lots of white horses and visibility around a mile.
There's something on the way, rain or hail.

The swell looks like its in slow motion.

nthclare

Storm 10 wrote: »

You can tell that this was not as bad as expected given the lack of updates normally the place would be full of posts , big fall off in the wind in Galway now guess the worst is over

Give it 15 minutes

Doctors room ghost

Storm 10 wrote: »

You can tell that this was not as bad as expected given the lack of updates normally the place would be full of posts , big fall off in the wind in Galway now guess the worst is over

It’s not really nationwide though with the worst predicted for Galway and Clare and it’s playing out that way.
If the dubs were getting a hammering the place would be hopping

Humberto Salazar

Getting an earful off relatives for saying orange wind alert would be justified this time. It hasn't been, at least in the Midlands and south. They are simply saying they'll if ignore any warnings now as crying wolf from met Eireann and the naming of storms is also a joke. The whole warning system needs looking at.

Discodog

Pressure rising near Galway

spookwoman

Met downgrading by looks of it

STATUS YELLOW - WIND WARNING FOR LEINSTER, CAVAN, MONAGHAN, ROSCOMMON, CORK, KERRY, LIMERICK, TIPPERARY AND WATERFORD
Strong and gusty winds associated with Storm Jorge (Hor-Hay) will continue before easing later tonight. Southwest winds veering westerly will reach mean speeds of 50 to 65km/h and gusts of 90 to 110km/h, higher in exposed places until 6pm.

Issued: 14:58 Saturday 29/02/2020

Valid from: 15:00 Saturday 29/02/2020 to 22:00 Saturday 29/02/2020

Status: Orange
National
NATIONAL WEATHER WARNING
STATUS ORANGE - WIND WARNING FOR DONEGAL, GALWAY, LEITRIM, MAYO, SLIGO AND CLARE
Update: Severe winds associated with Storm Jorge (Hor-Hay) will continue. Southwest winds veering westerly will reach mean speeds of 65 to 80km/h with gusts of 110km/h to 130km/h at times through the rest of the period. Winds will gradually ease from the south through the evening as the storm centre drifts away northeastwards. There continues to be an elevated risk of coastal flooding.

Issued: 14:51 Saturday 29/02/2020

Valid from: 15:00 Saturday 29/02/2020 to 23:59 Saturday 29/02/2020

harr

Humberto Salazar wrote: »

Getting an earful off relatives for saying orange wind alert would be justified this time. It hasn't been, at least in the Midlands and south. They are simply saying they'll if ignore any warnings now as crying wolf from met Eireann and the naming of storms is also a joke. The whole warning system needs looking at.

I am on the kildare Laois border and definitely some gusts over the last two hours have warranted an orange warning , a good number of trees down around kildare county.

Gaoth Laidir

3 pm.

Casement reporting a 55-kt (102 km/h) gust at 2 pm, while Dublin (only 17 km away) is only 43 kt (80 km/h).

Others are

Mace Head (66 kt (122 km/h)
Shannon 53 kt (98 m/h)
Athenry 52 kt (96 km/h)
Kerry Airport 43 kt (80 km/h)
Belmullet, Newport 41 kt (76 km/h)

Doctors room ghost

With the ground water logged for weeks with floods I’d say it wouldn’t take much for it to bring down a tree

Cw85

Considering this was the first storm this winter to hit us '' head on'' it hasn't faired out so bad. Definitely wasn't an orange level alert here in Carlow. Rain hasn't been heavy and I've seen worse winds when no warnings were in existence. I hope we never get an actual really bad storm as I think people are just paying less attention nowadays as the storms are never as bad as predicted.

ChikiChiki

It's been bad here in West Roscommon. Apparently a good dust of snow in Longford. But fine is Westmeath. Some people will always moan about the warnings. Hard to get it spot on.

happyoutscan

After a peaceful 30 minute lull its picked up again here in West Mayo.

fryup

super windy in east-clare, its Ophelia like

yop

happyoutscan wrote: »

After a peaceful 30 minute lull its picked up again here in West Mayo.

It's gone pretty nuts for sure. :eek:

BarryD2

Cw85 wrote: »

Considering this was the first storm this winter to hit us '' head on'' it hasn't faired out so bad. Definitely wasn't an orange level alert here in Carlow. Rain hasn't been heavy and I've seen worse winds when no warnings were in existence. I hope we never get an actual really bad storm as I think people are just paying less attention nowadays as the storms are never as bad as predicted.

We'll see, may get heavier for a while later? Definitely not ORANGE in SE so far anyway - I'd generally ignore the Yellow warnings as a waste of time. Basically to tell numpties to bring a raincoat. But would be more wary around their Orange standard, but seen far with stronger winds than this in SE and with little or no coloured warning. That's the issue with them - too blunt. Met Eireann should go back to synoptic charts and a description of same, letting people make up their own minds.

theMountain

GreyRock Lass wrote: »

We ventured to Doolin pier at 1pm...wild horses out there! Visited Lahinch too...lots of people driving round prom and people out walking!!!

Living in Spanish Point, 7 miles south of Lahinch and no one out walking here.

silverharp

wow

https://twitter.com/GolfCentralDoc/status/1233734570702524416

Assetbacked

spookwoman wrote: »

Met downgrading by looks of it

STATUS YELLOW - WIND WARNING FOR LEINSTER, CAVAN, MONAGHAN, ROSCOMMON, CORK, KERRY, LIMERICK, TIPPERARY AND WATERFORD
Strong and gusty winds associated with Storm Jorge (Hor-Hay) will continue before easing later tonight. Southwest winds veering westerly will reach mean speeds of 50 to 65km/h and gusts of 90 to 110km/h, higher in exposed places until 6pm.

Issued: 14:58 Saturday 29/02/2020

Valid from: 15:00 Saturday 29/02/2020 to 22:00 Saturday 29/02/2020

Status: Orange
National
NATIONAL WEATHER WARNING
STATUS ORANGE - WIND WARNING FOR DONEGAL, GALWAY, LEITRIM, MAYO, SLIGO AND CLARE
Update: Severe winds associated with Storm Jorge (Hor-Hay) will continue. Southwest winds veering westerly will reach mean speeds of 65 to 80km/h with gusts of 110km/h to 130km/h at times through the rest of the period. Winds will gradually ease from the south through the evening as the storm centre drifts away northeastwards. There continues to be an elevated risk of coastal flooding.

Issued: 14:51 Saturday 29/02/2020

Valid from: 15:00 Saturday 29/02/2020 to 23:59 Saturday 29/02/2020

Only ever got to yellow in Dublin, was about an hour of some gusts until now despite having an orange warning until 7pm tonight.

Oscar Bravo

Strong gusts here in Castlebar now