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

Still getting gusts of 50 / 60 in waterford

Just back from fixing an overturned strip of barriers in Dublin's docklands which had North Wall Quay closed briefly. Could have been serious if the usual traffic had been going by.

Generally, all building sites closed which is far from a regular occurrence but rightfully so today.

Also, saw this lad on the way home hiding from the clampers on New Wapping St:

I'm in North East mayo and haven't seen anything outside the usual storms we get this time of year, we got far worse in 2014. Did they overestimate the power of this storm or did we just miss the worst of it here?

It is still wild here in West Cork

rebel456 wrote: »

Same with North Cork (Duhallow area) where the home-place is. We suffered much worse in 2014. My local village was virtually impassable. A tree did fall locally this time, but certainly no damage to the scale of 2014 - and no power loss.

The original predictions were correct. The South-Western, Southern, and South-Eastern coastal regions took the brunt of the hit. South Kerry, West-Cork, Cork-City, Waterford, all took a hammering.

I'm currently in Dublin and bar strong wind around 2pm-ish, there was nothing else to notice. Happy to be at home for it though - good advice to get everyone off the streets, better be safe than sorry. But certainly not as bad for some areas as predicted.

It was bad in certain parts of north cork. Loads of trees down around Mallow, buttevant and Doneraile as well as power cuts.

franklyon wrote: »

very quiet here in Mayo now, even though it didnt get too bad at all today. Think we got off lucky.

We did. Not particularly windy here in Westport at any stage. Very lucky compared to the south.

Im very happy I followed the boards threads. Predictions we're almost on point. Had plenty of time.to prepare for the storm, and right now it's still raging here in cork. School roofs blown off, stadiums collapsed, rafts blown through roofs in kinsale, cobh and.monkstown hammered, the road by pairc up chaoimh has every second there down, thousands of houses with no power, costal areas hammered.. and still being hammered.

It's also an awful shame about the people who got died. Thoughts are with their families.

IMO the ness is focsing too much on the west coast, mainly Galway where there was only some flooding (that I can see). Mayo looked very calm at the time on the tv, while it's still strong here as compared to the south counties like Kerry, Cork, Waterford and Wexford.

Just my opinion but I'm very happy with how early met eireann gave out that yellow advisory, the updates and thanks to everybody who was posting on the boards!

Still very stormy in Arklow.

Many people here do not seem to realise that there are still large unknown variables in weather forecasting.

One of these is the unpredictable nature of wind strengths in and around extreme low pressure areas. There is the weird concept of a sting jet which brings much higher winds outside the immediate storm area and cannot be forecast in advance.

Also, computer modelling is precise to the extent that storm tracks can only be accurate to within 50 to 100 miles. That's superb compared to the pre-computer days but is still a wide variation in a small country like Ireland.

For those reasons a red warning was fully justified and if it didn't hit your neck of the woods then that's the luck or bad luck of the draw.