So this Hurricane

Spudmonkey · 15-10-2017 10:14PM

When is this thing supposed to hit?

LordSutch · 15-10-2017 10:15PM

backspin. wrote: »

Anyone interested in a bit of golf tomorrow the courses should be quiet with all these worriers about.
Might be a bit windy and a bit wet but should be mild enough.

Only if you want your balls blown all over the place

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The_Valeyard · 15-10-2017 10:15PM

Spudmonkey wrote: »

When is this thing supposed to hit?

6am West Coast I think

so....9am East Coast?

DivingDuck · 15-10-2017 10:17PM

Turtwig wrote: »

This "storm" is changing from a hurricane to ex-hurricane but that's largely semantics over its structure than anything else.

I really wish they hadn't changed its categorization. I'm seeing a lot of people saying "but it's not even a hurricane anymore!" and thinking it definitely means it is no longer a threat as a result.

I appreciate there are conditions that need to be met to fulfill the criteria of "hurricane", but people in this part of the world are so used to relatively mild weather that I don't think they realize how bad it's going to get tomorrow, and hearing "we're having a hurricane like they do in America, it's going to be more serious than usual" might have woken them up a bit.

BillyBobBS · 15-10-2017 10:18PM

A lot of those crappy celtic tiger apartments and houses are going to be tested tomorrow.

mzungu · 15-10-2017 10:19PM

backspin. wrote: »

Anyone interested in a bit of golf tomorrow the courses should be quiet with all these worriers about. Might be a bit windy and a bit wet but should be mild enough.

Better to go for a cycle. You will have the road all to yourself.

lazybones32 · 15-10-2017 10:22PM

JimmyMcGill wrote: »

You can be sure they know. They have far better sense of danger than us humans do.
All animals do.

And do the animals tell you this, Mr. Doolittle?

Until i hear weather forecasts from squirrels, cows or crows, i'm sticking with humans having the best means to detect dangerous weather events.

lazybones32 · 15-10-2017 10:26PM

mzungu wrote: »

Better to go for a cycle. You will have the road all to yourself.

A day like any other in the mind of a cyclist.

Mountainsandh · 15-10-2017 10:27PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Honestly? Do you think they know?

Yeah, I do actually.
I see them every day, every evening. When they're more agitated than normal, I notice. Even the magpie was hanging around near the crows, that'd normally never happen.

fryup · 15-10-2017 10:27PM

mzungu wrote: »

Better to go for a cycle. You will have the road all to yourself.

and the wind at your back, you'd be faster than mark cavendish

JimmyMcGill · 15-10-2017 10:27PM

lazybones32 wrote: »

And do the animals tell you this, Mr. Doolittle?

Until i hear weather forecasts from squirrels, cows or crows, i'm sticking with humans having the best means to detect dangerous weather events.

:-)

Who says I haven't?

We're so far removed from our primitive instincts at this stage we've lost most or all capabilities to survive our natural world unaided by any form of technology or otherwise.

lalababa · 15-10-2017 10:30PM

There's a building site in lehenaghmore cork city with slates piled up on the roof ready to be hammered on Tomo. I wonder will they get it done before the wind hits?

Deusexmachina · 15-10-2017 10:31PM

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Yeah, I do actually.
I see them every day, every evening. When they're more agitated than normal, I notice. Even the magpie was hanging around near the crows, that'd normally never happen.

I can’t imagine they can sense it from so far out. Maybe they can feel a change in air pressure but surely not that far in advance? Maybe you are right.
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Mountainsandh · 15-10-2017 10:33PM

lazybones32 wrote: »

And do the animals tell you this, Mr. Doolittle?

Until i hear weather forecasts from squirrels, cows or crows, i'm sticking with humans having the best means to detect dangerous weather events.

Me too, doesn't mean I can't observe what goes on around me.

I didn't go out and ask the birds, if that's what's bothering you.

snowflaker · 15-10-2017 10:33PM

I just remembered I dont have any food in! Freezer bingo it is! (unless the electrity goes!)

Pac1Man · 15-10-2017 10:33PM

Should I go into work tomorrow or what? I work in Dublin but live in the midlands.

CFlat · 15-10-2017 10:33PM

BillyBobBS wrote: »

A lot of those crappy celtic tiger apartments and houses are going to be tested tomorrow.

Way more chance of old houses being affected then the newer ones. We generally had very skilled tradesmen building houses, even in the boom years. Of course there were dodgy builders, but there always are.

lightspeed · 15-10-2017 10:35PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

You seem to really resent me saying its only a storm. It's going to be very windy and there will be heavy rain. Like in a storm - because that's what it is.

No its not its hurricane. That is the exact scientific reason they have not called it a storm and called it a hurricane.

Mountainsandh · 15-10-2017 10:35PM

Deusexmachina wrote: »

I can’t imagine they can sense it from so far out. Maybe they can feel a change in air pressure but surely not that far in advance? Maybe you are right.
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I'm in the South East, near enough to the sea. I'd say it's the air pressure alright, and there's this clingy dewy little mist, and the really mild temperature. Maybe they can instinctively put 2 and 2 together.

15-10-2017 10:38PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Is that stationery, or is it moving in real time?

I don't think it could be 'real time' as forecasts don't provide real time data (instead they are usually made for 3 or 6 hours timesteps and I guess anything showing higher resolution is just an interpolation or possibly an extrapolation) and observations alone wouldn't provide so much detail

The_Kew_Tour · 15-10-2017 10:39PM

The rain has started here in Cork.

Stay safe everyone. For love of mankind dont go outside tomorrow. Stay safe to you and family.

Surreptitious · 15-10-2017 10:39PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

The rain has started here in Cork.

Stay save everyone. For love of mankind dont go outside tomorrow. Stay safe to you and family.

Where are you? I can't hear any rain yet.

fryup · 15-10-2017 10:40PM

the monster is getting closer folks

i want my mammy

Arsemageddon · 15-10-2017 10:40PM

Pac1Man wrote: »

Should I go into work tomorrow or what? I work in Dublin but live in the midlands.

Sounds like you already know your not going in tomorrow.

Pac1Man · 15-10-2017 10:41PM

I have written a prayer for those tracking the bitch Ophelia.

Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
It shall not end until my death.
I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children.
I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
I shall live and die at my post.
I am the sword in the darkness.
I am the watcher on the walls.
I am the shield that guards the realms of men.
I pledge my life and honour to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

The real mccoy 91 · 15-10-2017 10:42PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

6am West Coast I think

so....9am East Coast?

Is that going by the speed limit??

The_Valeyard · 15-10-2017 10:43PM

The real mccoy 91 wrote: »

Is that going by the speed limit??

No, just from what was said on another forum. Between 9-12 or something

The_Valeyard · 15-10-2017 10:44PM

fryup wrote: »

the monster is getting closer folks

i want my mammy

I also want your mammy

Pac1Man · 15-10-2017 10:45PM

Mr.S wrote: »

You'll get to work no bother, the issue is coming home. I'd stay at home to be safe, no point risking it.

That's the battle I'm having in my head; having to ring the boss to tell him I won't be in when I can easily make it in.

Roger_007 · 15-10-2017 10:45PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

The rain has started here in Cork.

Stay safe everyone. For love of mankind dont go outside tomorrow. Stay safe to you and family.

Are you Theresa Mannion?

So this Hurricane

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