Storm Elin⚠️ Saturday 9th Dec 2023 ( also Storm Fergus Sun 10th )

Archeron · 09-12-2023 12:51pm

Christmas market in botanic gardens cancelled. Very gusty in Glasnevin

Oscar Bravo · 09-12-2023 12:53pm

Some heavy showers just off the SW coast with lightning.

Hontou · 09-12-2023 12:54pm

Very windy in South Longford between 10am and 11am. Some tree branches down in the garden and the top of my metal chimney has blown off. Seemed to be about 20 minutes of very strong gusts around 10:30am. Calmer now.

squarecircles · 09-12-2023 12:55pm

STORM FERGUS NAMED FOR TOMORROW

Status Orange - Wind warning for Clare, Galway, Mayo

Met Éireann Weather Warning
Very strong onshore winds due to Storm Fergus, coupled with high waves and high tides.
Potential impacts:
Localised coastal flooding and wave overtopping
Valid: 15:00 Sunday 10/12/2023 to 20:00 Sunday 10/12/2023
Issued: 11:44 Saturday 09/12/2023

ednwireland · 09-12-2023 12:57pm

Is the storm for Sunday afternoon evening ? That looks much nastier. Except it's missing the NW at the moment 😀

Oops just read the post above !

esposito · 09-12-2023 12:58pm

Ah jaysus. Hopefully Fergus is the last of the storms for this winter 👎

pureza · 09-12-2023 1:14pm

Gusting over 80 kmh in Arklow Currently

Oscar Bravo · 09-12-2023 1:17pm

Midday:

Casement gusting 51 knots(94km/h)

Mace head 49 knots

Dunsany 46 knots

Meteorite58 · 09-12-2023 1:23pm

Yeah didnt get the initiall wind speeds that AROME was showing for the West, will see what Dublin/ Wicklow gets in the next hour or two.

UKMO might be a fair representation of the winds so far and maybe topping 90 -100 km/h around the East in the afternoon.

Storm 10 · 09-12-2023 1:26pm

West gone orange now for tomorrow with a new storm Fergus

adocholiday · 09-12-2023 1:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121474567#Comment_121474567

That's for tomorrow, Storm Fergus.

Edit: Never mind, you caught it before my reply 😁

Kutebride · 09-12-2023 1:30pm

Horrible day of wind and rain Meath. Just the excuse to do nothing 😲

Storm 10 · 09-12-2023 1:31pm

Yeah I had changed it as you posted but when I looked at ME they had it orange for today as well back to normal now

gmisk · 09-12-2023 1:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121474458#Comment_121474458

Christmas market closed at Dublin castle too.

Meteorite58 · 09-12-2023 1:39pm

A section of the models for tomorrows named storm. ICON I must say has been showing some constraint recently, cant say it overdone the wind speeds for today ( it is showing he strongest streak of wind gusts running along the border counties for today).

I suppose we are going to have to see these charts as the absolute Max in most cases and be prepared for the possibility of actual wind speeds 5,10 or 15 km/h below what is being shown on the predictions as is often the end result.

Storm 10 · 09-12-2023 1:40pm

Screenshot_20231209-123827_Met ireann.jpg

This is what I saw

sdanseo · 09-12-2023 1:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121474480#Comment_121474480

I wouldn't give that bet to Paddypower, it's only the 9th day of winter!

OT, I noticed there was a brief TAF for Dublin Airport last night with a 30% probability for 58kt gusts between 1200-1600 today. That was downgraded this morning to 45kts, and there has already been a gust of 46kts at 1230. Speaks to the unpredictability of this one.

nacho libre · 09-12-2023 1:45pm

It's fairly breezy here, but certainly not stormy. It looks, at least for my area, that the arome model, which is usually fairly reliable, got this one wrong

ninebeanrows · 09-12-2023 1:47pm

Gust of 51 knots at Dublin Airport in last minutes

David1 · 09-12-2023 1:52pm

Fergus seems to be heading south on most models.

Meteorite58 · 09-12-2023 1:58pm

The center of the system just off the North coast at present.

Casement

Storm 10 · 09-12-2023 2:10pm

Picked up in Galway now gusting over 45 knots

ninebeanrows · 09-12-2023 2:14pm

Dublin Airport 29 (54) gust 53 (98)

pureza · 09-12-2023 2:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121474645#Comment_121474645

Gust of 84kmh last 10 mins here in Arklow or about 45knots

That's 2km's inland of the sea

Meteorite58 · 09-12-2023 2:31pm

ECM showing a stripe of strong winds running in aline from Sligo to Dundalk during the afternoon, ICON showing similar. Will see if we get reports re same. Getting windier in the NW and N through the afternoon into the evening.

flazio · 09-12-2023 2:36pm

What's the furthest in we've ever got to in the naming system? J?L? Could have been more if some of the storms weren't already named in other territories.