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Storm Franklin - Sunday 20th/Monday 21st Feb 2022

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  • Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭forestgirl


    Stormy in offaly all day.I really miss Grace's updates from the island though and hearing about her cats.It was like we were forewarned of what was to come,please come back for all the people that loved you here as we miss you an awful lot,irs really not the same without you



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,134 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    This is worse than Dudley and Eunice in Galway. Awful ferocious gales and rain/sleet roaring all day



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6


    How is Belmullet getting lower windspeed readings than Newport? It's further west and more exposed. Furnace weather station is not on the coast and would be more sheltered than Belmullet.

    It's fairly consistent here now in Newport, certainly a warranted orange.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,981 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Red warnings are for extreme weather. Orange is more than appropriate tonight imo, afterall its the second headline on the news so it's not as if people are going to be caught out!



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    According to the Met Eireann website the wind speeds peaked in west Mayo between 5-6 pm. Forecast to remain high for the rest of the night but not quite at the same level.

    Is there data to suggest this is a mistake?



  • Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Donegal Ken


    No fault or anything but it is fairly extreme here in the west and northwest. Anyone this part of the country will tell you that. Between flooding and trees down everywhere and worst to come later I would call that fairly extreme. Met Éireann will end up getting a lot of backlash and normally I think there on the ball but today there way off. Still wouldn't be surprised if the issue one in the coming hours.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    55mph gust in South Laois this evening, exceeds Dudley and Eunice. Frequent sleet and wet snow too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Absolute brutal gusts just north of Cork City. I'd echo some of the posters above, seems far more powerful than Friday.


    It's actually quite unnerving.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭Sandor Clegane


    Fairly wild in Clonmel today and still going on, worse than Friday by a long ways, down here anyway.





  • I would imagine that the stability of quite a few trees were damaged during Eunice and today finished them off. It's been a wild day from start to finish.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6


    Lights flickered a few times here outside Newport. Genuinely hoping this doesn't get much worse later. Some gusts were very powerful earlier.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,207 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Shannon 9pm gusting 60 knots. bang on with taf



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭jimbis


    Unexpected light bit of snow just now in South Dublin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,970 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    We had nothing of note in Galway with Eunice Franklin is a proper storm the wind gusts are very strong and sustained , friend had a large mobile holiday home in Mayo he was in it today when it was torn apart he never saw anything like it nothing left .



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,584 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    I would say the very strong winds will continue to come at similar levels in Mayo and Galway, with slight variations hour by hour, easing slightly by midnight there, but Donegal and Sligo could see even slightly stronger gusts at times for quite a few hours yet as the strongest gradient winds are indicated around midnight to 0300h. In Donegal I would watch for heavy sleet or snow to develop as there is an area of enhanced satellite imagery moving in there from the northwest fairly soon. In those winds, it will become a total whiteout especially over higher stretches of road travel. Those conditions could come and go further south into Connacht too. This won't really ease off much until past sunrise in some areas. I would expect more variable conditions on the east coast and in Munster with intervals that get quite stormy then intervals that are more benign, that being because it's a longer overland travel for both the wind gusts and the convective showers. But even if you're driving in relatively good conditions be aware that earlier squalls that may have missed you could have brought down tree branches where you're driving.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    Plenty of the white schtuff has fallen in D24 tonight. All the cars on my estate are white.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,987 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    ... and the power is gone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,901 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Temperatures rising now from the west so any sleet/snow at low levels should be turning back to rain shortly.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,961 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    This evening not as bad as yesterday evening in Meath, some gales but it was much more noticeable last night and earlier today. Managed to avoid all the showers as well this afternoon and evening.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 48 cashcow




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6




  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,467 Mod ✭✭✭✭mickger844posts


    Gust of 75kt or 139km/h at Mace. 6 stations reporting 100km/h plus gusts.

    Here in Waterford City a wild day with torrential downpours and gusts near 80km/h. Snow in the mix in the last shower.

    Defintely a worse weather day than Friday.



  • Registered Users Posts: 48 cashcow


    I'll take a guess at weather station location, theirs a hill to the west of it so surely some shielding there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,207 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    That is some gust at mace head. I dunno how the power is on here in Mayo.Fair play to the ESB. If that was 20 years ago most of Mayo/Sligo would be in the dark



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,597 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Bit of thunder to accompany the squally hail in Ennis this evening



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Huge flash of lightning outside Limerick City.

    Followed by a few rumbles of thunder.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6


    There's no hill sheltering Belmullet, I've been beside it several times. Newport Furnace is south of a mountain close to a lake, not much shelter from the west but north, south and east would see some shelter.


    Edit; Belmullet 9pm max gust was 91km/hr whereas Newport Furnace max was 120km/hr. That's a decent difference for two stations so close, especially since Belmullet has less shelter and is slightly further west and north.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭shmaupel


    Agree. Also not wanting to start a blame game. But it's fecking ferocious.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,338 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    I went for a long walk this afternoon and walking along the river lee into cork city, the wind would cut through you, and got caught in the rain twice and hailstone once. It was that cold that when I took my keys out to open the front door it took me a few seconds ti get the feeling in my hands. Also, my cat who will go out in most weather is curled up on the chair next to me and is showing no signs of moving.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Power gone here SW Donegal, a proper storm :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    With such an already saturated ground it won't take much for trees and branches to come down, I've my gas stove, touch, candles and flask at the ready just in case power goes here in carrick on Shannon, very gusty out now



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Just to add that was the ladies football match between wexford and wicklow

    Tough women!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,597 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭lottpaul


    Very wild night (and most of the afternoon) in west Kerry even though we are in a yellow warning. Some ferocious gusts - eases for a while and you think it's passed and then back again like a train!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    I'm in the dark here.... the wind is roaring. First wild winter storm in years....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Shannon Airport had a 62-knot gust between 2100-2150Z (hourly SYNOP report). In the past 10 minutes (METAR) it gusted to 40 knots.

    Satellite-derived winds at 6 pm (overpass only caught a section of the strongest windfield), with hurricane-force (purple) edging closer to Donegal.




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    Mace Head has 10 min average of 107kmh at 2200



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭mcburns07


    Wild today in Cork. Got caught in a heavy shower out walking and was dry 10 mins later such was the strength of the wind.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭coillsaille


    I'm around 30km southeast of Mace Head and not surprised at what it's recording. This is definitely the strongest wind we've had here in quite a while.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,595 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Galway is some county. While Mace Head is getting a 133 km/h gust at 22:00, Athenry can only manage a measly 57kmh in the same hour.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Monkeynut


    Cheers I was contemplating on putting the washing out. You've made my mind up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,970 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Mace head on the Coast Athenry well inland never going to get Mace Head winds



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,595 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020




  • Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Irishjg


    No power in Kilmeaden Waterford at the moment. Lights went out at 9.30pm.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,981 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    It's wild enough now in Cork!!



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