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Storm Ophelia - General Discussion/Local reports - See MOD NOTE Post #1

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'Scuse me if I'm breaking any rules of Weather here with another thread, but didn't want to derail the main thread with too much chatter.

Guessing a lot of people (particularly us mostly-lurkers) might be in the same boat as me - not really sure what this all means on the ground in terms of preparation - and even if it's not too awful, I for one would prefer to be over-prepared rather than under-prepared! (At the moment, I don't feel that prepared at all!)

I'm living in a pretty exposed place for this particular set of indicators (on a narrow, south-west jutting peninsula off the Galway coast) and thus somewhat nervous about it. We're moving the bedroom to the sitting room as I've always been a bit dubious about the tall trees on that side of the house, but apart from that, sheltering the car (somehow) and ensuring there's as little potential debris as possible, I'm a bit at a loss. Water, candles might be an idea to get in.

Any more experienced people have ideas? Or what are others in the firing line doing?

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kippy

jcd5971 wrote: »

West clare nicest day in weeks so far non event here.
Overstated as usual glad I came into work.

Fair play, ya trooper ya.

...And Justice

Louche Lad wrote: »

Claim on Reddit that Luas to be curtailed from 10 a.m., ceasing at 12 noon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/76p736/just_overheard_announcement_at_the_luas_drivers/

It's true rte are reporting that.

d.pop

Drove from west cork to cork city this morning to send people home that I couldn't reach by phone or email.
Drove back home again around 8:30.
Some debris on road but nothing serious, some old trees have fallen over alright.
Bit windy now but to be honest can't see it currently being much worse than a typical winter storm.

Steviesol

from_atozinc wrote: »

Any reports so far of what its like once it has hit land ?

Im in West Cork and I don't think I havewas ever seen srronger windsup, and I domt know if iy has fully reached us. Electricity gone

LuckyGent88

Sent home from work. Not to sit back and relax for the day.

awec

Cranes beside me in south Dublin are starting to blow a bit in the wind now.

_Dara_

Hubsie is coming home from work shortly. Some hurricane afternoon delight on the cards.

:P:pac:;)

randylonghorn

road_high wrote: »

Car sprinkled with dust this morning (Kilkenny)...?

She picked up some Saharan dust on the way, and kindly donated it to us!

FrancieBrady

from_atozinc wrote: »

Any reports so far of what its like once it has hit land ?

Hasn't hit land yet.

Meteorite58

road_high wrote: »

Car sprinkled with dust this morning (Kilkenny)...?

A lot of Sahara dust travelling up with the Storm I believe.

dudara

Noticeable pick up in breeeze in Ranelagh

Sierra Oscar

Sight808 wrote: »

Luas services terminated now.

https://www.luas.ie/travel-updates/

I'm surprised they ran at all given the weather warnings. Plenty of commuters thought it was OK to travel into the city for work given the transport services were running and now many of them are stuck.

Luckily a lot of employers sent workers home immediately after they landed in as they suspected transport services would be terminated.

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Semena Mertvykh wrote: »

Can't post links yet, but Ventusky's a belter of a website for tracking weather, suggest it to anybody who thinks it's a non-event/they've seen the worst of it.

Getting windier in Cork City now and we won't even catch the strongest gusts until around midday.

Here you go. https://www.ventusky.com/?p=53.3;-6.2;4&l=temperature&t=20171017/08

jacksie66

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retro:electro

Wind is fairly picking up in Galway now. Gone awful dark too.

pad199207

Really picked up in Naas now with a gust of 70KPH

from_atozinc

Any reports so far of what its like once it has hit land ?

hmmm

CeilingFly wrote: »

Remember the storm is about 3 hours long, by going home time it will ahve abated in the southern half of the country.

It's a longer event than that. Trees are already down in parts of the South West, public transport is being curtailed - many employees had to take what could potentially have been a risky trip into work, and many more will find it difficult to get home.

There will be little work done today in the typical office or retailer. It was a waste asking staff to turn up.

This will be a judge of employers, particularly for people like myself who work in I.T. and have plenty of choice as to where we work.

RebelButtMunch

Picking up in south Dublin now. Gone from calm to sporadic gusts

_Dara_

Alun wrote: »

Wind just starting to pick up here in Bray. Some people still have their bins out :eek:

At my apartment building in Dublin, people still have all sorts of things left on their balconies - BBQs, chairs etc.! :eek:

Wind is picking up here.

Widdershins

VinLieger wrote: »

It hasn't hit clare yet, have fun getting home though

Yes. This is it. Well, my relatives are in West Clare. It's just now starting to get quite strong again. It calmed for about forty minutes. It's very deceptive when it does that.

It's been made very clear that it hasn't fully landed in Ireland yet, so of course West Clare isn't getting much of it yet.

morgana

Lombardstown North Co. Cork
978 hPa, gusting from the south (my wind readings are unfortunately unreliable and significantly underreading, so won't post them).

Picking up significantly now.

Sight808

Luas services terminated now.

https://www.luas.ie/travel-updates/

road_high

Car sprinkled with dust this morning (Kilkenny)...?

Aimsir

8-10 wrote: »

Still calm enough in north Wicklow with periodic gusts.

One thing I thought of when I woke up...theres something like 80 cranes on the Dublin skyline. How do they ensure the safety of cranes at times like this? Can they weight them down or something? Probably a stupid question but was curious and thought someone here might know?

I'm no expert but during Irma the news reports explained that the crane's boom (long arm) swing around allowing for strong winds, some others were bolted onto the buildings but they did say to stay clear of cranes as these can break and this has happened in storms.

Mantis Toboggan

Seems like it drifted to the west so we should be OK in the east.

highdef

jacksie66 wrote: »

I'm off to get some beer before everywhere closes. Gonna ride this out in style..

You can't purchase alcohol until 11am:D

Akrasia

jcd5971 wrote: »

West clare nicest day in weeks so far non event here.
Overstated as usual glad I came into work.

This post is like somebody complaining that a party is boring when they arrived an hour before it was supposed to start

FrancieBrady

ednwireland wrote: »

BTW useful app to have on your phone is the esb powercheck app, you can check if the power outage has been reported in.

looks like power outages accross the whole SW At the moment

ESB asking people not to phone in faults today BTW. They will be aware of them. They want to keep lines for emergencies.

Witchie

hmmm wrote: »

After this is over we should compile a list of every company that made their staff go to work, or told them to go home only after they arrived for work - because these are companies I wouldn't want to work for.

He had no contact from the company, had no way of getting touch with them unless he went in. He had to take 2 buses to get there. While he was waiting on the 2nd bus I almost convinced him to just go home but he wanted to do some work that needed doing today so he went on and was glad as everyone showed up.

Then they were told they could go home when they wanted. He said he was going to clear what he needed to do and go home.

I think it is ridiculous that the management don't have a system of sending texts/email/whatsapp etc to let them know and that he had to go in to be told he could go home.

Am fuming. I told him if his boss doesn't let him go home that I am going to sue his ass for my stress. :mad: