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Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

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    #1052
    limericklad87
    Registered Users Posts: 717 ✭✭✭limericklad87


    washman3 wrote: »
    Hope he's landed with a hefty bill from the rescue services.!:

    Doesn't happen


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    #1053
    LastLagoon
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭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


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    #1054
    teednab-el
    Registered Users Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭teednab-el


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


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    #1055
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭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.


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    #1056
    LastLagoon
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭LastLagoon


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


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    #1057
    corsav6
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭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?


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    #1058
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,981 ✭✭✭✭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)


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    #1059
    Somedaythefire
    Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭Somedaythefire


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


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    #1060
    Zoney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭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.


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    #1061
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


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


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    #1062
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #1063
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭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.


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    #1064
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    limericklad87 wrote: »
    Doesn't happen


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


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    #1065
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭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


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    #1066
    Drifter50
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭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


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    #1067
    0gac3yjefb5sv7
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    Is anything happening in Dublin? Seems like absolutely nothing different than a usual Thursday.


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    #1068
    bennyl10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,526 ✭✭✭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


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    #1069
    washman3
    Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭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.;)


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    #1070
    Bigboldworld
    Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭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!!


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    #1071
    M.T. Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 14,387 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    corsav6 wrote: »
    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?

    Thinking that there might be a slight increase in gusts around midnight, the trends of storm getting closer to land and overall weakening will tend to compensate. Reports from K4 buoy indicate that peak waves are probably 50 to 150 miles south of the centre, which may mean that higher seas will develop as the centre drifts closer to land.

    The actual landfall event will be somewhat anti-climactic as by then the cyclone will be considerably weaker. So the trade off between closer approach and weakening trend will likely mean a peak 3 to 5 hours ahead of landfall for wind gusts along the exposed coast to the southwest of the landfall.

    Anyone reading this in Donegal should note that winds there will start to back slowly from southeast to east and eventually northeast in response to the track of the centre. Along the north Mayo coast, would expect a trend to weaker winds towards landfall then strong northwest to north winds for a time. Around Galway Bay to Newport, winds will slowly veer southwest to west then eventually northwest and remain in roughly the same intensity with a few peaks around midnight near 110 km/hr.


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    #1072
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,981 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Is anything happening in Dublin? Seems like absolutely nothing different than a usual Thursday.
    There's a yellow rainfall warning, and a gale warning for the Irish Sea - so no, not a lot different to a lot of Thursdays over this side!


    Once again, this was always going to be a W/NW coast event.


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    #1073
    Andrew00
    Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    Can't believe RTE are doing a special programme on this in the morning. Small bit of wind in EAST GALWAY here that it. Scandalous


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    #1074
    LastLagoon
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭LastLagoon


    washman3 wrote: »
    Naturally enough the rescue services take this in their stride.
    The 'online outrage queens do' Probably because their taxes foot the bill.;)

    RNLI is funded by donations and legacies. So don’t worry the excise from your cans of Dutch gold and fags aren’t going towards rescuing kitesurfers


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    #1075
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    bennyl10 wrote: »
    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

    There is no wind warning at all for Dublin, only a yellow one for a bit of rain.


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    #1076
    LastLagoon
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭LastLagoon


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    There's a yellow rainfall warning, and a gale warning for the Irish Sea - so no, not a lot different to a lot of Thursdays over this side!


    Once again, this was always going to be a W/NW coast event.

    Met said it peaks in the west between 6 and 7 . It’s over.


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    #1077
    Carol25
    Registered Users Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Carol25


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    I was talking to someone from Salthill, Galway today. He remembers in the 70s and 80s that the local kids would love big storms. They would all head out to the promenade with their roller skates and let the wind bring them up and down the path/road. That would be frowned upon in today's safety first world.

    You can’t stay upright or control any direction in which you’re going on the prom in a storm. Maybe he brought them out in gales, of which there are many along the west coast. Also a major problem today for the Prom during storms is it’s usually underwater during these events. Or waves crashing over the path where they would be supposedly ‘skating’ wild and free. Would you recommend these children to skate into water, or risk being pulled by a nearby overtopping wave out to sea?


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    #1078
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,981 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    LastLagoon wrote: »
    Met said it peaks in the west between 6 and 7 . It’s over.
    Status Orange - Wind warning for Galway, Mayo, Clare, Kerry and Limerick

    Update
    Southwesterly winds veering westerly will reach mean speeds 65 to 80km/h with gusts generally of 100 to 130km/h, higher in some coastal regions.
    Storm surges will produce coastal flooding and damage.
    Valid: Thursday 03 October 2019 18:00 to Friday 04 October 2019 06:00


    Status Yellow - Wind warning for Leitrim and Sligo

    West veering northwest winds of mean speeds of 50 to 65km/h with gusts of 90 to 100km/h.
    Valid: Thursday 03 October 2019 18:00 to Friday 04 October 2019 06:00


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    #1079
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    What’s it like in Kerry?


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    #1080
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    bennyl10 wrote: »
    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
    ME's regular forecast just says heavy rain, possible spot flooding in Connacht and Ulster and strong to gale force winds with damaging gusts in the west and south but with winds easing in the morning. Other areas looking at wind for a time and some outbreaks of heavy rain.


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    #1081
    JamesBond2010
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭JamesBond2010


    LastLagoon wrote: »
    RNLI is funded by donations and legacies. So don’t worry the excise from your cans of Dutch gold and fags aren’t going towards rescuing kitesurfers


    It was Coastguard not RNLI 2 different organisations


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