Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

BarryD2 · 03-10-2019 05:27PM

Carol25 wrote: »

Where do you live might I ask? Wind yellow is a useful warning with quite high gusts of between 90-110km/h. Why on earth would that be scrapped? I always have to put things away and secure the garden during a yellow warning.

Because that's what was called a bog standard gale for many years, nothing exceptional, quite common. In old money, the forecast would simply have said 'gale force winds' for a time in xyz and people understood that. These colour warnings should be confined to events of more possible significance, not precautionary warnings to roll up your parasol. Causes unnecessary confusion.

HorrorScope · 03-10-2019 05:28PM

irishgeo wrote: »

Indeed. All whining because they didn't get a day off.

Nobody got a day off, Lorenzo is a slimeball in that regards - waits till evening time to arrive

easypazz · 03-10-2019 05:28PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

It depends where you live.
I’m in Galway and you wouldn’t be going out walking here now and it’s promised worse.

Not ideal for a walk maybe but its hardly going to be a severe storm or weather event (compared to what we have seen over the last 5 or 6 years anyway)

Sam Quentin · 03-10-2019 05:30PM

If yellow is considered to be the best of a bad lot,.then yellow weather warning will be issued.....
If yellow is considered to be the worst of an average lot,.then yellow weather warning won't be issued...
Quite simple really and very understandable.

m17 · 03-10-2019 05:30PM

Westport 03/10/19

Stevieluvsye · 03-10-2019 05:31PM

this thread is nastier than Lorenzo

03-10-2019 05:35PM

Hi guys

Apologies if this is the wrong thread, I wasn’t getting a straight answer, just glib comments in the other one.

Our shift in Galway city is finishing at 12am. It looks like we’ll be expected to stay until finish, no scope to leave early. I have to drive to the midlands on the motorway. An option is to shelter in place at work until the weather lifts. I’ve worked nights before, we wouldn’t be working on but resting here, our shift starts late enough tomorrow that we could stay until 6 and still have enough rest for the next one, though I’d expect only to stay an hour or two.

While I do expect to travel, and for it just to be a bad drive home, I don’t know what to base that on. I’m not asking “will i be ok?”. What I’d like to know is what windspeeds would the go/stay decision need? I’ll be going off windspeed reports local to here, but without a baseline of what’s safe & what’s risky, I have no idea what to risk & what to wait for. Even if windspeeds go nowhere near it, I’d like an idea of “stay put if it’s X or above” so I can decide.

Thank you.

Graces7 · 03-10-2019 05:36PM

m17 wrote: »

Roonagh pier co mayo 03/10/19

:eek:

Carol25 · 03-10-2019 05:37PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Fair enough. It only takes a few seconds on the app BTW, to read a whole week's worth of forecasts. Far more information than bandying colours about IMO.

The app just gives general wind speeds for a given day, it doesn’t specify for say 3 hours of gales, etc. That’s why I find the warnings useful. I don’t think met eireann hyped up this event. They just did their job. Can people not read, comprehend where the warnings are for, and what is involved...if they can’t they certainly wouldn’t be able to live without the colour coded weather warning system. I suspect without it we’d have people jumping onto these threads saying why wasn’t there a warning issued...etc.
Maybe the weather warning system needs to be dumbed down even more? Something like red=really really bad weather, orange=bad, yellow=not great..

zerosugarbuzz · 03-10-2019 05:38PM

TV3 News trying to brew up a storm, literally. Makes sad viewing Scarlet for Colette.

easypazz · 03-10-2019 05:38PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Hi guys

Apologies if this is the wrong thread, I wasn’t getting a straight answer, just glib comments in the other one.

Our shift in Galway city is finishing at 12am. It looks like we’ll be expected to stay until finish, no scope to leave early. I have to drive to the midlands on the motorway. An option is to shelter in place at work until the weather lifts. I’ve worked nights before, we wouldn’t be working on but resting here, our shift starts late enough tomorrow that we could stay until 6 and still have enough rest for the next one, though I’d expect only to stay an hour or two.

While I do expect to travel, and for it just to be a bad drive home, I don’t know what to base that on. I’m not asking “will i be ok?”. What I’d like to know is what windspeeds would the go/stay decision need? I’ll be going off windspeed reports local to here, but without a baseline of what’s safe & what’s risky, I have no idea what to risk & what to wait for. Even if windspeeds go nowhere near it, I’d like an idea of “stay put if it’s X or above” so I can decide.

Thank you.

In fairness motorways are wide open and its hardly like a tree can fall on you. That would be the main issue I think, along with flooding. I would be avoiding narrow country roads myself.

YFlyer · 03-10-2019 05:39PM

Calm in Limerick city.

HorrorScope · 03-10-2019 05:40PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hi guys

Apologies if this is the wrong thread, I wasn’t getting a straight answer, just glib comments in the other one.

Our shift in Galway city is finishing at 12am. It looks like we’ll be expected to stay until finish, no scope to leave early. I have to drive to the midlands on the motorway. An option is to shelter in place at work until the weather lifts. I’ve worked nights before, we wouldn’t be working on but resting here, our shift starts late enough tomorrow that we could stay until 6 and still have enough rest for the next one, though I’d expect only to stay an hour or two.

While I do expect to travel, and for it just to be a bad drive home, I don’t know what to base that on. I’m not asking “will i be ok?”. What I’d like to know is what windspeeds would the go/stay decision need? I’ll be going off windspeed reports local to here, but without a baseline of what’s safe & what’s risky, I have no idea what to risk & what to wait for. Even if windspeeds go nowhere near it, I’d like an idea of “stay put if it’s X or above” so I can decide.

Thank you.

I feel for you man, we are in an orange warning area and were told yesterday to make sure we are home by 6 - that’s just a company being considerate but your place sound like assholes. You “should” be ok traveling motorways apart from the cross winds, but as previous poster said avoid back roads if you can. It’s very likely trees will fall given the ground saturation at the moment.

auspicious · 03-10-2019 05:41PM

Reporter in Galway on V.M. News a.t.m. reporting that winds are picking-up significantly now.
Well, he must be using STRONG hair gel! Not even one hair bobbing in the gale/ breeze.

UsBus · 03-10-2019 05:41PM

TV 3/Virgin Media would make you sick with their pathetic ramping up of a breezy afternoon. 5 or 6 reporters based around the country ala Fox news style reporting.
All of them standing out in the 'storm', but hardly a hair moving on their heads..

If the Irish media want to encourage viewership, they need to stop with this fake news clickbait style and ramping up of non events. No wonder younger people are opting for Netflix, Amazon prime etc..

Graces7 · 03-10-2019 05:41PM

is_that_so wrote: »

So we're about to hit the worst of it?

well actually the worst of it is about to hit US.

is_that_so · 03-10-2019 05:42PM

Carol25 wrote: »

The app just gives general wind speeds for a given day, it doesn’t specify for say 3 hours of gales, etc. That’s why I find the warnings useful. I don’t think met eireann hyped up this event. They just did their job. Can people not read, comprehend where the warnings are for, and what is involved...if they can’t they certainly wouldn’t be able to live without the colour coded weather warning system. I suspect without it we’d have people jumping onto these threads saying why wasn’t there a warning issued...etc.
Maybe the weather warning system needs to be dumbed down even more? Something like red=really really bad weather, orange=bad, yellow=not great..

Each to their own. It gives enough weather information to do what you've done. As I've already said I think they are overused, often far too wide in their predicted effect and a lot of the time they just describe normal weather at particular times of the year.

is_that_so · 03-10-2019 05:43PM

Graces7 wrote: »

well actually the worst of it is about to hit US.

In a pincer movement?:)

HorrorScope · 03-10-2019 05:43PM

UsBus wrote: »

TV 3/Virgin Media would make you sick with their pathetic ramping up of a breezy afternoon. 5 or 6 reporters based around the country ala Fox news style reporting.
All of them standing out in the 'storm', but hardly a hair moving on their heads..

If the Irish media want to encourage viewership, they need to stop with this fake news clickbait style and ramping up of non events. No wonder younger people are opting for Netflix, Amazon prime etc..

What don’t you understand about the warning? 6pm-6am is the orange warning time. You are writing it off here now because its 5:42pm and a bit breezy....

easypazz · 03-10-2019 05:43PM

HorrorScope wrote: »

I feel for you man, we are in an orange warning area and were told yesterday to make sure we are home by 6 - that’s just a company being considerate but your place sound like assholes. You “should” be ok traveling motorways apart from the cross winds, but as previous poster said avoid back roads if you can. It’s very likely trees will fall given the ground saturation at the moment.

Are you seriously suggesting a total shutdown every time there is an orange warning. Close schools, cancel non urgent hospital ops, shops closed, close airports, pay everybody who can't get to work?

Totally unworkable.

HorrorScope · 03-10-2019 05:45PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Each to their own. It gives enough weather information to do what you've done. As I've already said I think they are overused, often far too wide in their predicted effect and a lot of the time they just describe normal weather at particular times of the year.

Maybe they need a simple level called “Not Dublin”, so the whingers can all take their heads out of their assholes and stop complaining about something they won’t see anything out of? The current system is a bit too complex for them to understand it seems.

Graces7 · 03-10-2019 05:46PM

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

A lot more of that to come yet.

There won’t be a kettle boiled in the west come morning.

The wind is whipping mad here now
Chimney howling like a soon to be released Irish wolf

oh yes there will! My trusty gas cooker...;)

Does this ….. intruder not have a volume control? Some of us would like to sleep.. banging at the window and banshee wailing..

GooglePlus · 03-10-2019 05:47PM

m17 wrote: »

Westport 03/10/19

Looks like that tree had already been uprooted and moved there, the roots look finely cut. If so, it was always falling over with a bit of wind and no real root system.

c.p.w.g.w · 03-10-2019 05:47PM

YFlyer wrote: »

Calm in Limerick city.

Yeah in Limerick myself wet and grant really...but a few stores are closed early in the Cresent due to the "Storm"

squarecircles · 03-10-2019 05:50PM

can anyone clarify what gerry murphy said on the afternoon show on RTE ONE,

something about leitrim and roscommon

Varta · 03-10-2019 05:50PM

Met Eireann employees seeking media attention, an all too willing media, and people who have grown up fearful and anxious have all led to a weather warning system that is not fit for purpose. I remember winter after winter when I was a nipper watching the weatherman on TV using his pointy stick to tell us to expect strong gales. I do not remember my father ever getting a day of work as a consequence or ever missing a day from school.

is_that_so · 03-10-2019 05:50PM

HorrorScope wrote: »

Maybe they need a simple level called “Not Dublin”, so the whingers can all take their heads out of their assholes and stop complaining about something they won’t see anything out of?

It's more about how they pitch the warnings and where they determine their effect. This one has not been helped by the extreme advance warning and it being a hurricane to start off with, never mind the wild media coverage of it. Even on this thread very few bar Grace have seen much evidence of the thing. One might call it the Ophelia Effect for a lot of people. It may cause problems or it may be just fairly normal winter weather.

JamesBond2010 · 03-10-2019 05:53PM

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Yeah in Limerick myself wet and grant really...but a few stores are closed early in the Cresent due to the "Storm"

The trees arent even blowing yet

torres9kop · 03-10-2019 05:55PM

Will there be any snow with this storm? Freezing out Dublin bay south

Hooter23 · 03-10-2019 05:55PM

So this is where they throw all the rejects that disrupt the main storm thread;)

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