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Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

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The suggestion was made earlier in the 'Lorenzo' thread to open up a separate thread for general discussion on this potential storm. I think this is a good idea as that thread is now incorporating both technical discussion and more banterish posts, which is making it harder to follow.

It is probably best if we keep the original thread where more technical discussions & charts etc can take place to allow people to have a quicker access to the latest thoughts on the storm, and keep this one for more general chit chat and reports etc.

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Bigboldworld

My experience over the years with the craze around weather warnings is that when met eireann and particularly the press go into overdrive like they are doing now in reality the impact is never that bad however it’s the times when you don’t have any advance warning or hear anything out of the ordinary from the authorities that you get caught out and after you think how the hell did they not have an advance warning for that weather!!

washman3

LastLagoon wrote: »

Why ? storm wasn’t in progress earlier. Kite surfers can have accidents any time. Actual rescue services don’t get their knickers in a twist about stuff like this unlike the online outrage queens

Naturally enough the rescue services take this in their stride.
The 'online outrage queens do' Probably because their taxes foot the bill.;)

bennyl10

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Is anything happening in Dublin? Seems like absolutely nothing different than a usual Thursday.

It hasn’t even reached the county fully yet.

It slowed down and is approaching the west coast.

Dublin will avoid the worst but won’t see any impact until late night

0gac3yjefb5sv7

Is anything happening in Dublin? Seems like absolutely nothing different than a usual Thursday.

Drifter50

Well, we are now 3 hours into it and its a regular autumn evening. ME says it will be past by 6am

Looking forward to hearing George talk his way out of this at 9pm RTE1

Doctors room ghost

LastLagoon wrote: »

Still in Sligo,still nothing happening, still a nothingburger.

Anyone who uses the term nothing burger should be blasted into space.
There’s no place on earth for that sort of sh1te

washman3

limericklad87 wrote: »

Doesn't happen

Probably not, but it definately should.
Might teach clowns like this to heed danger warnings.

easypazz

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Has anyone said there hasn't been far worse?

The fact that there was worse doesn't lessen the potential impact of this storm (which is only hitting the country about now)

I think the point is that the media were really hyping this one before it happened, and by all accounts apart from the usual places getting what is a regular enough battering (Lahinch, Salthill, Shannon in Limerick city etc.) this won't transpire to be anything out of the ordinary for those areas, or for anybody else either.

RTE seemed to have 5 correspondents live on the west coast for the 6pm news.

SEPT 23 1989

Is it not arriving around five or six am?

People giving about about the lack of utter devastation before it’s even started

George Lee promised it would be like returning to the Stone Age by the time it passes

Let us wait and see

DellyBelly

Wind getting stronger now in Dublin City centre. Heavy squall earlier

Zoney

Welp, after just a fairly breezy day and even a recent calmer spell, it’s unmistakably an orange warning affair in southwest limerick city.

Had to block letterbox, draught excluder at the door and block the fireplace. Bay window frame shaking and trees just being tossed around.

Somedaythefire

Do some of ye get paid to complain? It still hasn’t fully hit the west coast yet.

HeidiHeidi

teednab-el wrote: »

Unbelievable hype by the media about this storm. There has been far worse.

Has anyone said there hasn't been far worse?

The fact that there was worse doesn't lessen the potential impact of this storm (which is only hitting the country about now)

corsav6

A few decent gusts in the last couple of hours here in Newport, Mayo. I'd say low level orange warning for now is accurate, certainly wouldn't like to be driving in it.

Does anyone know if there will be a timeframe for peak gusts?

LastLagoon

Still in Sligo,still nothing happening, still a nothingburger.

easypazz

Comhra wrote: »

Don't ever remember the media making such a spectacle of a storm before. I know it's a storm, but dammit, we've had far worse ones - even in the West and Northwest. Getting a bit silly at this stage. Virgin One are making a mountain of it just now.

The problem is that it was a named hurricane since about a week ago. It is the most easterly hurricane in the atlantic on record. Ophelia was only 2 years ago, still fresh in the memory. The computer simulations were providing the media with fancy looking images with a cone pointing towards Ireland with a "H" in the middle.

It smashed the azores (while it was much stronger) and provided more dramatic pictures to the media.

All of the above combined to hype it up nicely.

teednab-el

Unbelievable hype by the media about this storm. There has been far worse.

LastLagoon

washman3 wrote: »

Hope he's landed with a hefty bill from the rescue services.!!
Clown of the highest order.:mad:

Why ? storm wasn’t in progress earlier. Kite surfers can have accidents any time. Actual rescue services don’t get their knickers in a twist about stuff like this unlike the online outrage queens

limericklad87

washman3 wrote: »

Hope he's landed with a hefty bill from the rescue services.!:

Doesn't happen

Widdershins

The wind is really swirling here or the past 20 minutes in mid West Clare. If I didn't already know about Lorenzo, I'd have classed this as another normal wintry night. As it is I'm wondering if this is the build up.

washman3

iamwhoiam wrote: »

A kite surfer had to airlifted after smashing into rocks in high winds

Hope he's landed with a hefty bill from the rescue services.!!
Clown of the highest order.:mad:

Comhrá

Don't ever remember the media making such a spectacle of a storm before. I know it's a storm, but dammit, we've had far worse ones - even in the West and Northwest. Getting a bit silly at this stage. Virgin One are making a mountain of it just now.

Stallingrad

Hmmm, should I take the trampoline net down (thing is anchored to the ground), wind does not look to bad on the east coast.

Comhrá

fryup wrote: »

he is handsome though

:eek::eek::eek::eek: .....ah, never mind...

fineso.mom

josip wrote: »

Graces, do you think you're a bit more sheltered where you are than some other parts of the Mayo coast that would be fully exposed to the Atlantic?

I'm guessing that the winds will be just as high, but do you expect your island to be impacted by the storm surge?

I'd imagine Achill island would provide some shelter surely if the wind is coming from the northwest?
Blustery here in west Limerick and a lot of leaves and twigs down, but I'm on the east of a big hill so am a bit sheltered.

happyoutscan

pad199207 wrote: »

How’s Grace doing? Has she posted in a while?

I'd say its pretty rough out on Clare Island right now in fairness.

pad199207

How’s Grace doing? Has she posted in a while?

bunderoon

Heavy rain and bigger wind here in central Mayo for last few hours.

fisgon

Pretzill wrote: »

It's calmer here and drier than this morning - granted I'm 20 miles inland and not in an Orange county - is the general consensus the severity of this weather event has been over hyped? I know there's an entire night to go yet and I'd be far happier if the predicted wind just died off the coast before reaching land...but the general public will start ignoring these if they are handled this way again. What's wrong with just giving us a clear weather forecast without all this bluster (pardon the pun)

Sligo 90m asl

Exactly what I was saying - the thing is, this is not the first time. It must be the third or fourth time that the apocalypse was predicted, without anything really materialising (as yet, though we are well into the "danger period" and I am in a yellow warning county and it is a mild, calm, almost pleasant evening).

fryup

buried wrote: »

Eoghan Murphy pointing at radar images like he was some actual authority on something, thanking the Christ nobody is talking about his actual brief which he is totally useless and inept at.

he is handsome though