Unseasonable weather with warnings Fri 4th / Sat 5th Aug 2023

JanuarySnowstor

Unusual for such a low that the areas highlighted will see some torrential rain and other areas further South little or nothing. As some have already noted the direction of the wind could be a factor regarding potential damage in the South/Southeast. A Northerly gale, albeit temporary is a disruptive event

Meteorite58

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Overnight rain will test your repair Caibos, best of luck, hope it holds, tec7 is good stuff.

That's some serious rain falling in a short space of time into early morning by ICON 18Z, been very consistent in its projections.

GFS 18Z also showing high totals especially in the East.

.Donegal.

Uk met office orange wind for parts of SW Britain. Gusts widely 40 to 50mph inland, possibly 60mph. 70mph possible exposed coasts and hills.

sdanseo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120940439#Comment_120940439

A bit stunned that a chart of any kind is showing a gust within 6kmh of a red warning criterion, a mere 5 days after the end of July. Mad.

(even though if it by some miracle verified it would be at the summit of Lugnaquilla)

aisling86

Going to bed nice and calm in eagle point, I can’t imagine we will wake to the same calmness but hopefully it won’t be as bad as expected.

Meteorite58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120941235#Comment_120941235

Have a great sleep .Got a bit windy here near the coast outside Tralee.

Blustery early tomorrow morning along Southern counties, AROME 18Z picked up the winds again a little bit from earlier runs.

nacho libre

It looks like we will avoid the heaviest of the rain from this.

A named storm this early August. Who would have thought it? Due to the unusually warm seas temperatures we may well get several wind storms in the next few months.

Meteorite58

Position of Lp, heaviest of the rain overnight into tomorrow morning

hawley

Getting very windy here now in Cork. More like a night in October/November than the first week in August.

.Donegal.

Rain pretty heavy now

mcburns07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120941300#Comment_120941300

We had one a couple of years back too if I recall, lot of branches down in Cork after that one.

ninebeanrows

rain band appears a bit further north than that ARPEGE loop at present. Some strong echoes in Donegal

Best of luck to all tonight!

John.Icy

The northern portion of the front looks worse IMO. I know the Dublin radar is poor enough (without Shannon backing it up) and can't portray any sort of intensity or structure to fronts a lot of the time, but I'm not seeing those huge totals in the likes of Dublin.

Below is the ICON 18z for e.g. and it looks miles off it for now, it really didn't think much would be happening up north by now. Perhaps that really heavy pulse is being hidden by Shannon repairs but I'm not sure. We shall see in the totals tomorrow.

Oscar Bravo

Radar fairly useless which is a shame. Met reports from midnight show its raining heavy out west

Belmullet 4.7mm

Athenry 4.1mm

Newport 4.2mm

Knock 3.6 mm

spookwoman

Wind is starting to pick up here in Waterford and direction has changed to the Southerly South Easterly. Looks like it will turn to a more northerly when it picks up in the morning which is better for the trees here.

snowgal

Heavy enough rain already near Trim, hope no one wakes up to anything bad…

.Donegal.

Status Yellow - Rain warning for Donegal

Limerick the only county without a warning now.

john why

Sweet jaysus, some wind and rain in sliver strand in wicklow, mobile home is rocking but not the good type of rocking.

spookwoman

Dead calm in Waterford city at the moment.

DOCARCH

SE wind starting to be heard now in Greystones. 28kts gusting 39kts. Very wet. 20.0mm since midnight.

M.T. Cranium

Radar showing signs of gusty winds and thunderstorm over southeast Wexford, possible small tornado in development? Will be off the coast by time anyone reads this.

ninebeanrows

Sounds grim out there now

Driving rain 30mm has fallen in large parts of Dublin in last few hours

Low winding up. A rough few hours ahead.

fits

I’m in Dingle. Was fairly wild and gusty for a while around 4 am. It’s windy here alright but not raining.

Clamball

Very gusty here in Cork City now, gusts woke me up. Two flights have taken off from Cork Airport, but the summer laden trees in the back gardens are being put under pressure. I can hear some of the garden furniture moving on the patio as well.

DOCARCH

Wind has picked up further in Greystones. 34kts gusting 42kts. Rain has eased. 25.6mm since midnight.

aisling86

We are awake since about 5am with some strong gusts. Thankfully it’s dry. There are trees down not far from here on the cousane road.

4Ad

Very quiet here in East Clare.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120941503#Comment_120941503

Ah flip, I was quietly gloating that we finally escaped something for a change.

Supercell

Wettest day here since August 2nd 2014 which had 70.4mm and is the station record. Currently on 42.8mm so not going to break that. Still pretty impressive. So roughly a one in five year event.

DellyBelly

Monsoon like conditions in Dublin...think there will be lots of flooding