So who here thinks Ireland will ever be hit by a Hurricane?

beauf · 01-10-2019 12:45AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Yep, remember it well. It was 1986 and I was just going into 6th class in primary school. There must have been very strong winds because a lot of big old trees in the Phoenix Park were blown down.

I flew into Dublin that night roughest flight I've ever been on.

beauf · 01-10-2019 12:46AM

Some of us have been waiting for hurricane for quite a while...

https://youtu.be/m3_vMk4FCQw

Hobosan · 01-10-2019 12:48AM

Hurricanes in Ireland... more like Hindericanes!

paleoperson · 01-10-2019 12:50AM

Seriously who gives a toss. Just avoid travel at the time it's hitting if that.

I'm tired of Irish people larping about the "extreme weather" conditions we're getting every time there's a strong breeze or a bit of snow. Grow up.

TheValeyard · 01-10-2019 12:59AM

That MT Cranium dude in the weather forum thinks it will be a near miss by the west coast. He seems to know his stuff, say we're grand so.

US2 · 01-10-2019 01:02AM

Rhys Essien wrote: »

It reached 191kmph during Ophelia.

https://twitter.com/severeweathereu/status/919891856774885376?s=21

At fastnet though which is out at Sea

Arghus · 01-10-2019 01:08AM

Ophelia was a great day around here - Galway City - we all got a day off work and it was pretty much just a blustery day, nothing more.

C'mon Lorenzo, more of the same please.

Graces7 · 01-10-2019 05:44AM

Interesting how the naysayers live where the bad storms have less effect.

Out here on the west coast? Never yet (!) as bad as when I lived on a North Sea island. Once 72 hours of gale, with gusts of 124 MILES an hour. My neighbours stable chicken shed flew. Huge boulders in the fields near the sea. Flung there by the gale.

Feeding my stock clinging to washing poles and feeling as if the skin was being flayed off your face.

We are getting nearer that now. It has been getting nearer the score of years I am here.

The landscape here is as it was there; no real trees. a pleached landscape.

But nowhere near hurricane ;; watch the film from rthe Bahamas

Still serious though and not to be downplayed

Would not live anywhere else though!

US2 · 01-10-2019 06:54AM

Graces7 wrote: »

Interesting how the naysayers live where the bad storms have less effect.

Out here on the west coast? Never yet (!) as bad as when I lived on a North Sea island. Once 72 hours of gale, with gusts of 124 MILES an hour. My neighbours stable chicken shed flew. Huge boulders in the fields near the sea. Flung there by the gale.

Feeding my stock clinging to washing poles and feeling as if the skin was being flayed off your face.

We are getting nearer that now. It has been getting nearer the score of years I am here.

The landscape here is as it was there; no real trees. a pleached landscape.

But nowhere near hurricane ;; watch the film from rthe Bahamas

Still serious though and not to be downplayed

Would not live anywhere else though!

Grace they're not naysayers. It's literally impossible for a a hurricane to hit Ireland, the water is too cold. Also, you are not the only one who lives on the coast. The Atlantic is literally at the end of my garden .

Graces7 · 01-10-2019 07:04AM

US2 wrote: »

Grace they're not naysayers. It's literally impossible for a a hurricane to hit Ireland, the water is too cold. Also, you are not the only one who lives on the coast. The Atlantic is literally at the end of my garden .

apologies; badly worded on my part. I was meaning those who say gales ware trivial when they happen on the west coast as we are apparently so used to them we are not affected.

I totally agree we will never see a hurricane in Ireland. Thankfully. I have faith family in Nova Scotia and Newfie who lost their homes earlier this year. They are not to be desired.

Glad to meet thee fellow coastdweller!

smelly sock · 01-10-2019 08:02AM

Arghus wrote: »

Ophelia was a great day around here - Galway City - we all got a day off work and it was pretty much just a blustery day, nothing more.

C'mon Lorenzo, more of the same please.

It hit the east worse to be fair. Then again we dont get 363 days of rain a year like galway.

Harry Palmr · 01-10-2019 08:19AM

Climate change could be what stops hurricanes becoming a threat, the Gulf Stream could be weakened or even break down due to Arctic ice melt being fed down the Labrador current this would cool the North Atlantic so reducing the energy available to hurricanes as they move north.

weldoninhio · 01-10-2019 08:49AM

Should I hide under my bed now?? Or when is it coming?? :rolleyes:

Feisar · 01-10-2019 09:02AM

Maggie Benson wrote: »

Anyone remember Debbie?

Dad talks about it when storms come up, it was back in 61, still the strongest to hit Ireland since records began.

AtomicHorror · 01-10-2019 09:04AM

Arghus wrote: »

Ophelia was a great day around here - Galway City - we all got a day off work and it was pretty much just a blustery day, nothing more.

C'mon Lorenzo, more of the same please.

Also 3 dead and €68 million in damage. Great craic.

It could have been worse, sure. Particularly if we'd listened to the people who kept insisting (and are still here insisting) that it was no big deal.

I really doubt we're about to see full hurricane force storms making landfall here, but seeing two of them form this far to the north east and then promptly track straight towards Ireland is a worrying trend. If not for us, maybe for our kids.

topper75 · 01-10-2019 10:38AM

Much of the hype originates in the extrapolation from ludicrously small datasets.
Biggest/hottest/wettest/coldest ever = only biggest/hottest/wettest/coldest in two centuries
Nothing we can do about that. Just tough luck for us that the Victorians were the first to start keeping serious weather records.
Of course many annals do refer to unusual weather back the centuries but it is hard to do science on that.

topper75 · 01-10-2019 10:45AM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Climate change could be what stops hurricanes becoming a threat, the Gulf Stream could be weakened or even break down due to Arctic ice melt being fed down the Labrador current this would cool the North Atlantic so reducing the energy available to hurricanes as they move north.

Hard to know. Climate change has always been a meaninglessly empty phrase to me. Climate changes. That is what it does. By definition. Nowhere on earth has a permanent climate. However, if we talk about global warming then that doesn't mean much for hurricanes. Hurricanes are really about warm water near the equator and the coriolis effect brings them spinning up here. These are relatively permanent features of the earth's physics. Melted ice from the Arctic isn't enough to outweigh the temperature differential effect of latitude.

So who here thinks Ireland will ever be hit by a Hurricane?

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