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Storm Hannah : Fri 26 - Sat 27 April 2019

Meteorite58

Time to start a thread for the potentially stormy weather in the SW for Fri /Sat coming. Bit of a spread on the models yet which is to be expected at this stage but it is being well flagged for a number of days now.

Warning levels will probably change upwards as we get closer to the event.

EDIT: Updated Fri 16.11

STATUS RED - WIND WARNING FOR KERRY
Northwesterly winds, associated with Storm Hannah, will reach mean speeds in excess of 80km/h with violent gusts of 130 to 150 km/h in places this evening between 6pm and 8pm.

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 15:00

Valid from: Friday 26 April 2019 18:00 to Friday 26 April 2019 20:00

Status Red - Wind warning for Clare
Northwesterly winds, associated with Storm Hannah, will reach mean speeds in excess of 80km/h with violent gusts of 130 to 150 km/h for a time this evening.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 20:00 to Friday 26 April 2019 23:00

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 11:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 11:00

Status Orange - Wind warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick
Northwesterly winds, associated with Storm Hannah, will reach mean speeds of 65-80 km/h with gusts of 110 to 130 km/h this evening/early tonight.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 16:00 to Saturday 27 April 2019 01:00

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Status: Orange
Wind warning for Galway
Status Orange - Wind warning for Galway
Northwesterly winds, associated with Storm Hannah, will reach mean speeds of 65-80 km/h with gusts of 110 to 130 km/h this evening/early tonight, strongest along the coast.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 19:00 to Friday 26 April 2019 23:59

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 10:00

Status Red - Wind warning for Clare
Northwesterly winds, associated with Storm Hannah, will reach mean speeds in excess of 80km/h with violent gusts of 130 to 150 km/h for a time this evening.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 20:00 to Friday 26 April 2019 23:00

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 11:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 12.32

Status: Orange
Wind warning for Tipperary and Waterford
Status Orange - Wind warning for Tipperary and Waterford
In addition to the yellow wind alert for these counties: Southwest winds veering northwest will reach mean speed of 65 to 80km/h and gusts of 110 to 120km/h for a time tonight.

Valid: Friday 26 April 2019 22:00 to Saturday 27 April 2019 02:00

Issued: Friday 26 April 2019 04:00

Updated: Friday 26 April 2019 04:00

From met eireann

After an unseasonably warm and settled Easter Weekend, our weather is looking very disturbed and unsettled as we head through the rest of this week, with potentially stormy conditions for the southwest of the country later on Friday, 26th April. With many trees now in leaf, this system has the potential to result in trees down leading to power outages and dangerous driving conditions, so stay up to date with the forecast over the coming days.

Met Éireann forecasters are monitoring a developing low pressure system currently tracking towards Newfoundland just off the northeastern Canadian coast, which is expected to engage with the Jet Stream and travel eastwards across the Atlantic over the next couple of days. Conditions look ripe for rapid deepening of the low to take place as it comes across the North Atlantic, and a storm system is likely to form at sea by Friday morning.

Present indications suggest the storm system will be starting to fill as it comes towards Ireland’s west and southwest coasts on Friday evening, however, the track of the system is still a little uncertain. We’ll obviously be firming up on the details over the coming 24 hours, but, for now, a wind advisory has been issued for counties Cork and Kerry.

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JCX BXC

Heathrow flights cancelled for the evening from Shannon. You'd imagine anything after 8 won't be flying, or at least not on purpose.

munsterlegend

Iancar29 wrote: »

Sting jet looks likely and heading for Kerry/Clare. Good calls with the red warnings this time.

Will it clip cork coast as well?

JCX BXC

monty_python wrote: »

Just went outside for 10 mins and the wind has picked up. Nothing Worthy of a warning just yet

That's good because the warnings not active yet!

ninebeanrows

Real blast of winds going to hit SW imminently.

Visible satellite is a thing of beauty- perfectly structured wind-storm hitting its peak at it nears landfall.

Yikes.

SleetAndSnow

JCX BXC wrote: »

Heathrow flights cancelled for the evening from Shannon. You'd imagine anything after 8 won't be flying, or at least not on purpose.

Heathrow and AMS cancelled from Cork by AL aswell, same reason I am assuming?

monty_python

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Out fishing, by any chance?

Lol,. Definitely not

SleetAndSnow

warnings not even active yet, but can hear the gusts hitting my house here in Cork City already. Gusting up to 37kts at Cork Airport

RobertKK

lab man wrote: »

Its southerly south west wind

The strongest winds are the north westerly winds on the south western flank of the storm.

uck51js9zml2yt

Birtles wrote: »

Suppose I had better avoid the Tarbert-Killimer Ferry this eve??!!

It will only be running from tarbert out as far as the county boundary in the middle of the river and then turning back

Yakult

Wind is really starting to show here now in Listowel (North Kerry). Very noticeable increase within the last 30 minutes. 43kts registered in Ballybunion so far.

kyomi

Strong winds becoming more constant here on the Mizen Peninsula but interspersed with periods of brilliant sunshine! Weird weather...

uck51js9zml2yt

Yakult wrote: »

Wind is really starting to show here now in Listowel (North Kerry). Very noticeable increase within the last 30 minutes. 43kts registered in Ballybunion so far.

Starting to blow in Killarney as well. Think it's time to make my away home .

uck51js9zml2yt

Red issued for Kerry:)

thomil

Noticeably picking up here in Ballincollig now. Strong gusts, and sustained winds have picked up as well. Rain has sopped though. Air pressure holding at 996.1mb, temperature hovering around 11.8°C

Graces7

a wind springing up up here and heavy rain. west mayo offshore island

Kermit.de.frog

Everybody remain calm!

SleetAndSnow

58kts on fastnet now: https://twitter.com/FastnetLHouse/status/1121788501182128130

shes comin!

Pops_20

Red warning for Kerry very last minute.. this has really gone down to the wire. Could we see a red warning for Cork yet?

irishfeen

What’s the forecast wind gusts for north Cork at this stage? It was looking like a Red this morning but I presume we are well below that now?

Shane O' Malley

irishfeen wrote: »

What’s the forecast wind gusts for north Cork at this stage? It was looking like a Red this morning but I presume we are well below that now?

Have a look at www.windy.com

Seems to fit well with the warnings that ME are giving.

JanuarySnowstor

You would have to question the benefit of issuing a red for kerry so late. Kerry was always going to take a direct hit and should have been included this morning. Cork is borderline and I can understand the hesitancy there

endainoz

The wind forecast video on the met eireann app is brilliant!

Oscar Bravo

4pm ,Roaches point gusting 56 knots

JanuarySnowstor

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

4pm ,Roaches point gusting 56 knots

Almost as high already as the highest gust forecast

munsterlegend

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Almost as high already as the highest gust forecast

Roches Point is a bit offshore though!

YFlyer

The Clare side of the University of Limerick campus be shut down at 8 pm. Limerick side of the campus stays open.

Storm 10

Guys if you are posting Storm Hannah conditions as it happens will you please say the location, the number of posters who give conditions and don't say where they are is annoying to say the least.

jasper100

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

You would have to question the benefit of issuing a red for kerry so late. Kerry was always going to take a direct hit and should have been included this morning. Cork is borderline and I can understand the hesitancy there

As I said earlier county wide warnings are pointless. Ballybunion and the aran islands have been far more in the firing line all day than say scarriff but were excluded earlier.

Public service in east clare would be in shut down even though its possibly unnecessary, relative to say inismor.

Clamball

munsterlegend wrote: »

Roches Point is a bit offshore though!

Not Roches Point the weather station is on the road down to the lighthouse. On the mainland.

Shane O' Malley

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

You would have to question the benefit of issuing a red for kerry so late. Kerry was always going to take a direct hit and should have been included this morning. Cork is borderline and I can understand the hesitancy there

The system is quite restricting and straightforward.. The forecast has changed and now Kerry comes into the criteria of Red wind warning. (Gusts over 130KPH) I dont think they have the flexibility to issue a red warning if the forecast at the time do not meet the criteria.

It is an advantage and disadvantage of the system IE The fact that the trees have full leaves cannot be taken into account or the direction it is coming from. However those details can be discussed in the details of the forecast such as they are doing now. The colour of the warning is only an indication which may help those possibly affected to seek more details.