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Storm Ellen - 19th/20th August 2020

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  • #452
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Get a free pass? ME are routinely slaughtered for scaremongering for issuing too many yellow and orange warning yet this eejit is predicting 185km/h winds and a red warning for half the country and people are trying to defend him.

    Edit: Even if the red warning does end up getting extended to other counties it doesn't excuse his carry on. He's constantly giving OTT warnings and getting it correct once shouldn't give him a free pass. We're not going to see anything close to 185km/h, let alone the 200km/h he was going on about earlier.

    185 kph to 200 kph winds are absolute wipeouts.

    Throw a bag of rubbish out of a car at 185 to 200kph and you'll see what I mean.

    Imagine that in a gust... constant for hour's.
    Windows would be blown in.
    Historical buildings, thatched roofs in Doolin and other places bwould be blown to the Arran Islands.
    Because if the winds blowing offshore the east side of a lot of buildings couldn't take the shock and push due to not much pressure on the joists that the western side would be used to.

    185kph to 200 seriously


  • #453
    m17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    sA76SpJ.jpg


  • #454
    fonecrusher1
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    How accurate is this website? Is it a load of rubbish or somewhat based on actually weather data?

    https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=351.70,54.98,861


  • #455
    swarmberg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭swarmberg


    aisling86 wrote: »
    https://www.facebook.com/740149726003564/posts/3502589533092889/

    He's on Todayfm now :rolleyes:


  • #456
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Status Yellow - Wind warning for Leinster

    So, just a bit of wind for Dublin then?

    Any “yellow” warning we’ve gotten so far has resulted in very little. So much so, that no one really takes that one seriously, at all. And rightly so.

    They need to “look at” the warnings and amend them so that people can take them seriously again.

    We’ve been fooled too many times, at this stage.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • #457
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    some serious rain forecast aswell that seems to be flying under the radar if you'll pardon the pun.


  • #458
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Went from no wind here on the west cork coast to a sudden appearance of wind, like a normal autumunal day now. Seagulls have also appeared which is usually a sign of storms at sea!


  • #459
    weisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,758 ✭✭✭weisses


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Yes, GFS is earlier, what i meant is by 7pm should have both....after that it's storm time!

    You just made model watching sound badass .... Well done sir ;)


  • #460
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    So, just a bit of wind for Dublin then?

    Any “yellow” warning we’ve gotten so far has resulted in very little. So much so, that no one really takes that one seriously, at all. And rightly so.

    They need to “look at” the warnings and amend them so that people can take them seriously again.

    We’ve been fooled too many times, at this stage.

    well it is a yellow warning. what do you expect?


  • #461
    odyboody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭odyboody


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    How accurate is this website? Is it a load of rubbish or somewhat based on actually weather data?

    https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=351.70,54.98,861

    If you click on the menu, bottom left, it tells you it is based on the GFS. So not a lot of rubbish but then again its just one of the possible models


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  • #462
    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    40-60 knots (avg. ~92 kph) is a prediction that is more realistic, but that is at the worst of it. +100 knots would be about +185 kph

    https://www.windy.com/?51.696,-6.531,7


  • #463
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,560 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    swarmberg wrote: »
    He's on Todayfm now :rolleyes:

    Mister 150-160km/hr gusts inland himself?


  • #464
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,046 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Noticed similar in maynooth earlier

    It put chills up and down my spine.

    An ominous high Pitched mournful/lonesome keening for the summer that never came maybe

    It didn’t help I was near a graveyard at the time

    An awful racket from our feathered friends


  • #465
    Laurali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭Laurali


    [can we stop talking about weather forecast personalities on this thread PLEASE!!!!! Absolute drivel.]


    Really calm in Galway West here. Calm but very wet.


  • #466
    Oglaigh84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭Oglaigh84


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    So, just a bit of wind for Dublin then?

    Any “yellow” warning we’ve gotten so far has resulted in very little. So much so, that no one really takes that one seriously, at all. And rightly so.

    They need to “look at” the warnings and amend them so that people can take them seriously again.

    We’ve been fooled too many times, at this stage.

    Or you could just read what the various levels mean instead of having them being changed because you assume yellow means hurricane type weather


  • #467
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,560 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    So, just a bit of wind for Dublin then?

    Any “yellow” warning we’ve gotten so far has resulted in very little. So much so, that no one really takes that one seriously, at all. And rightly so.

    They need to “look at” the warnings and amend them so that people can take them seriously again.

    We’ve been fooled too many times, at this stage.

    Both the wind direction and leaves on trees should mean Dubliners will see something of an aftermath. Trees can get messy fast.


  • #468
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    nthclare wrote: »
    185 kph to 200 kph winds are absolute wipeouts.

    Throw a bag of rubbish out of a car at 185 to 200kph and you'll see what I mean.

    Imagine that in a gust... constant for hour's.
    Windows would be blown in.
    Historical buildings, thatched roofs in Doolin and other places bwould be blown to the Arran Islands.
    Because if the winds blowing offshore the east side of a lot of buildings couldn't take the shock and push due to not much pressure on the joists that the western side would be used to.

    185kph to 200 seriously

    the rubbish thrown up during the celtic tiger is what I would worry about

    we will see tomorrow


  • #469
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    froog wrote: »
    well it is a yellow warning. what do you expect?

    No warning. Until one is “necessary”. The yellow should be the orange. Then split the red into 2 parts.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #470
    2smiggy
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    swarmberg wrote: »
    He's on Todayfm now :rolleyes:

    that sums of the state of Today Fm


  • #471
    odyboody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭odyboody


    froog wrote: »
    well it is a yellow warning. what do you expect?

    yellow warning have constantly being talked up by DJ's on various radio stations without them obviously looking to see what the definition of the level is:rolleyes:


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  • #472
    weisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,758 ✭✭✭weisses


    Looking at ME forecast kerry could be a yellow warning


  • #473
    irishfeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,069 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    Very dreary and wet day here in North Cork, so calm at the moment though, not a breath of wind. Currently 18.8 DegC, 991.7hpa


  • #474
    weisses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,758 ✭✭✭weisses


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    It put chills up and down my spine.

    An ominous high Pitched mournful/lonesome keening for the summer that never came maybe

    It didn’t help I was near a graveyard at the time

    An awful racket from our feathered friends

    You could be related to graces7 :D


  • #475
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    No warning. Until one is “necessary”. The yellow should be the orange. Then split the red into 2 parts.

    so you just want to recolour the three warning levels into something more confusing? righto.


  • #476
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Met Éireann in another awkward "damned if you do and damned if you don't" situation. Very difficult to forecast such an unpredictable track over Ireland from a rapidly developing system. I'll still accept their expertise before an "award winning" spoofer forecasting gusts up to 200km/h.


  • #477
    Misguided1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Misguided1


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    No warning. Until one is “necessary”. The yellow should be the orange. Then split the red into 2 parts.

    Red and REALLY RED??;)


  • #478
    Graces7
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    SleetAndSnow wrote: »
    Very heavy, warm air on the west cork coast atm. Dry still, but not a breeze which is very unusual when your right across from the sea. Not even the neighbours flag is blowing. Seems like thunder type of weather but unsure of that

    That sounds much like here; but we have a very slender breeze if you know where to stand. It is so calm I keep wondering if this is some kind of.... Darker than usual at this time..


  • #479
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Misguided1 wrote: »
    Red and REALLY RED??;)

    Haha, almost. The current “yellow” needs to be ditched. All it seems to do is give news outlets something to push.

    “Yellow” should become “orange” and with the low end of the “red” changing to “orange” and the high end staying “red”.

    At this stage people don’t even pay attention to “orange”, certainly not in Dublin anyway. I get that people living on the west coast can’t ignore them. Even the “red” warning we got here a couple of years ago was a complete “farce”.

    EmmetSpiceland: Oft imitated but never bettered.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #480
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,591 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    Ok lads enough colours. Focus on Ellen!!


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  • #481
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Looks like some very heavy rain coming into the coasts now


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