Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

Zoney · 03-10-2019 08:35PM

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.

DellyBelly · 03-10-2019 08:35PM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-10-2019 08:39PM

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

easypazz · 03-10-2019 08:39PM

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.

washman3 · 03-10-2019 08:42PM

limericklad87 wrote: »

Doesn't happen

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

Doctors room ghost · 03-10-2019 08:44PM

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

Drifter50 · 03-10-2019 08:44PM

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

0gac3yjefb5sv7 · 03-10-2019 08:45PM

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

bennyl10 · 03-10-2019 08:46PM

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

washman3 · 03-10-2019 08:46PM

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.;)

Bigboldworld · 03-10-2019 08:48PM

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!!

M.T. Cranium · 03-10-2019 08:48PM

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.

HeidiHeidi · 03-10-2019 08:49PM

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.

Andrew00 · 03-10-2019 08:50PM

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

LastLagoon · 03-10-2019 08:50PM

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

easypazz · 03-10-2019 08:50PM

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.

LastLagoon · 03-10-2019 08:51PM

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.

Carol25 · 03-10-2019 08:53PM

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?

HeidiHeidi · 03-10-2019 08:54PM

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

fin12 · 03-10-2019 08:54PM

What’s it like in Kerry?

is_that_so · 03-10-2019 08:54PM

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.

JamesBond2010 · 03-10-2019 08:56PM

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

Weltsmertz · 03-10-2019 08:56PM

Are we being conditioned to be afraid of the weather?

Frankie Cortese · 03-10-2019 08:56PM

fin12 wrote: »

What’s it like in Kerry?

Very gusty, no rain yet. Just like any other bad night of weather so far.

sporina · 03-10-2019 08:56PM

storm my grannies aunt.. hardly a breeze here in cork city

fin12 · 03-10-2019 08:57PM

Frankie Cortese wrote: »

Very gusty, no rain yet. Just like any other bad night of weather so far.

Just wondering will it be bad enough for the electricity to cut out?

SleetAndSnow · 03-10-2019 08:57PM

sporina wrote: »

storm my grannies aunt.. hardly a breeze here in cork city

We arent under any warning..

LastLagoon · 03-10-2019 08:58PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

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

That’s the time period the warning lasts for, I’m talking about when wind peaks

piplip87 · 03-10-2019 08:58PM

Pheonix10 wrote: »

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

Have you checked met Eireann a website ? It takes shorter than writing a post on here ?

is_that_so · 03-10-2019 08:59PM

Weltsmertz wrote: »

Are we being conditioned to be afraid of the weather?

No just certain colours of weather!

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