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.
irishgeo wrote: » Indeed. All whining because they didn't get a day off.
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.
m17 wrote: » Roonagh pier co mayo 03/10/19
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.
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.
[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.
is_that_so wrote: » So we're about to hit the worst of it?
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..
Graces7 wrote: » well actually the worst of it is about to hit US.
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..
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.
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.
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
m17 wrote: » Westport 03/10/19
YFlyer wrote: » Calm in Limerick city.
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?
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"
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