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Storm Jorge : February 29th

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    #782
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Sryanbruen posted a comparison of past storms some weeks ago, using Max gusts as the benchmark, and clearly (apart from Darwin) recent storms are definitely weaker. The eighties and nineties had some ferocious storms, much worse than the ones we've had over the past decade or more, and that is borne out by the facts.


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    #783
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,907 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    You can tell that this was not as bad as expected given the lack of updates normally the place would be full of posts , big fall off in the wind in Galway now guess the worst is over

    Worst is only starting everywhere else. Strong winds for 8hours starting just an hour ago


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    #784
    bazlers
    Registered Users Posts: 694 ✭✭✭bazlers


    So is it an under performing storm or forecasting models?


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    #785
    Mickeroo
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    Oscar Bravo wrote: »
    Strong gusts here in Castlebar now

    Seems like the strongest it's been all day in the last 20 minutes or so.


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    #786
    harr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,478 ✭✭✭harr


    Jesus it’s a rough day , very heavy snow/sleet and very violent sudden gusts...
    Any drop in flood levels will definitely be back up after today..
    Kildare..


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    #787
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,907 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Power gone for 100 plus customers in Tubbercurry ...others nationwide too but I'm just looking at Sligo


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    #788
    aido76
    Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭aido76


    Still constant rain rain here. Wind has quietened down a good bit but still some gusts


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    #789
    SophieLockhart
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭SophieLockhart


    Humberto Salazar wrote: »
    Sryanbruen posted a comparison of past storms some weeks ago, using Max gusts as the benchmark, and clearly (apart from Darwin) recent storms are definitely weaker. The eighties and nineties had some ferocious storms, much worse than the ones we've had over the past decade or more, and that is borne out by the facts.

    Here it is, a very useful chart. Thanks Syranbruen -

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=499951&d=1578938738


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    #790
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Rough now in Dublin 16 with some strong gusts.


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    #791
    Mickeroo
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    https://twitter.com/galwayad/status/1233772791788429319?s=19

    https://twitter.com/adrianweckler/status/1233767263112716289?s=19


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    #792
    aido76
    Registered Users Posts: 614 ✭✭✭aido76


    Finnis bouy reporting 71kts gust, 35kts avg... picking up again


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    #793
    An Ri rua
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    harr wrote: »
    Jesus it’s a rough day , very heavy snow/sleet and very violent sudden gusts...
    Any drop in flood levels will definitely be back up after today..
    Kildare..

    Yes, steady wet snow here near Mountmellick for the past hour.

    Can't say the winds are the worst by any means, in terms of gusts or sustained winds, but combined with the driving rain/sleet/snow, and the intense cold of it, it would be a brutal day to be monitoring floodwater , flood defences or even just herding cattle or lambing.

    No doubt about it, a very tough day out, statistics be damned.


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    #794
    John.Icy
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    Definitely worst it has been all day right now in D9. Not overly wintry yet in terms of precipitation though.


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    #795
    Faoilean mara
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    Still very gusty though longer periods of calm so maybe we are through the worst.


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    #796
    sdanseo
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    Some fairly bad disruption at Dublin Airport. More the wind direction than strength, from 210-220 degrees so a significant crosswind component for all runways. Lots of go arounds and cancelled approaches. Gusting to 44kts.

    Currently light to moderate rain with some sleet. Radar seems to show nothing but more of the same behind that followed by just light rain later.


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    #797
    Speak Now
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    Max gust in Waterford airport just recorded at 46 kts. Wild day here on the coast but still short of yellow warning nevermind orange. As often with these west coast storms we're well protected in the south east.


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    #798
    Monkeynut
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    Really stepped up now. Very strong gusts. North county Dublin


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    #799
    Kingswood Rover
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    Really wild around the Curragh now winds have been building for the last hours equal to other recent wind events. Wet eireann spot on for this area imo


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    #800
    Logan Roy
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    Very little impact in East Cork, been dry all day and breezy but far from stormy.


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    #801
    Xertz
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    Logan Roy wrote: »
    Very little impact in East Cork, been dry all day and breezy but far from stormy.

    Not a million miles away, but same in Cork City. There's the odd bit of blustery wind and an occasional mild gust, but so far, nothing dramatic.


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    #802
    Daz_
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    Just a few gusts here and there now with some rain mixed in . Nothing crazy . Won’t be remembering Jorge . Co Kildare


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    #803
    Little snowy old me
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    Fortunately the storm has not been as severe as forecasted. The warnings yet again were excessive and Mer Eireann have to drop the warnings being based on a county basis.


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    #804
    Funsterdelux
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    SophieLockhart wrote: »
    Here it is, a very useful chart. Thanks Syranbruen -

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=499951&d=1578938738

    Darwin was a beast alright, but for us in Cork Ophelia will always be the big one.


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    #805
    tom_tarbucket
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    Ten Pin wrote: »
    One of the replies, poking fun at the journalists...
    https://twitter.com/rorymcevoy/status/1233775105722941441?s=20



    Don’t get the sneer.


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    #806
    Logan Roy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Logan Roy


    Little snowy old me wrote: »
    Fortunately the storm has not been as severe as forecasted. The warnings yet again were excessive and Mer Eireann have to drop the warnings being based on a county basis.

    The warnings are ridiculous. They're working with they have so I don't blame them, but we definitely need to look at the system. The local farmers market wasn't held here today as a result of them but the weather was completely fine. It didn't really pick up much until after 1pm.


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    #807
    Gaoth Laidir
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    4 pm

    Mace Head 65 kt (120 km/h)
    Casement 57 kt (106 km/h)
    Shannon 53 kt (98 km/h)
    51 kt bar


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    #808
    Xertz
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    They really need to split the large counties on the coasts into multiple chunks for warnings. It makes absolutely no sense to call a serious storm warning for say the far reaches of West Cork, which might be 100% accurate, but then apply that to Cork City or way up in Northeast Cork somewhere.

    Similar probably applies to Galway and Donegal and a few others.

    Counties just aren't granular enough nor are they all similarly sized. Take Cork for example, it's more than half the size of Northern Ireland and more than 8 times larger than County Dublin and far more varied in terms of having inland areas and Atlantic facing coasts, as well as a large urban centre that isn't on the coast at all, and is completely sheltered by a big harbour.

    The granularity has to improve for those kinds of areas or it's meaningless.

    I mean why not give a forecast for say: West Cork, Cork City / Harbour and South Cork and another for East and North Cork. They're bigger both in terms of geography and population than many other actual counties.

    We can't seem to think beyond the GAA shirt way of breaking the country into geographical units.


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    #809
    Funsterdelux
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    Logan Roy wrote: »
    The warnings are ridiculous. They're working with they have so I don't blame them, but we definitely need to look at the system. The local farmers market wasn't held here today as a result of them but the weather was completely fine. It didn't really pick up much until after 1pm.

    It might be fine early in the day but imagine the traders trying to put away their gear when the wind picks up and then driving home in the thick of it.


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    #810
    Goldfinch8
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    Some of our strongest gusts of the day here now in Central Mayo.


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    #811
    John.Icy
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    Still only an 81 km/h gust at D.Airport at 4pm. Amazing the drop off in storm intensity over the last few years in Dublin (barring DA being totally unfavourable for high wind). Think it's the last 7 named storms on Sryan's list that didn't even reach yellow here.


    The people of Dublin will lose the plot the next 120km/h storm that comes along.


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