Storm Barra - December 7th/8th 2021

Living in South Kilkenny, are we likely to be upgraded or is yellow appropriate. Just trying to figure out if schools will be open or not tomorrow.

Many people will not have a choice but to go to work even in a RED area's ... as OPHELIA showed from what I remember - ignored, its only advice

I can't remember everything that was on the BINGO card, do you have these?

-- Looks like it is coming in faster than expected.

-- When will this reach Dublin?

-- I don't understand why people want to see damage and hazardous conditions.

-- I find the BBC much more reliable.

No Ophelia didn't affect you is what you mean. 400,000 homes were without power. That's nearly a quarter of all homes in Ireland. I live nowhere near the coast or the fringes as you say. The southern half of the country was very badly hit by Ophelia. Two big cities in Ireland Cork and Waterford were badly affected along with many large towns. When it went past the midlands it probably weakened a lot but it was by far the worst storm i witnessed in my life.

Position at midday at noon.

Quite a decent gradient to the east of the low centre aswel, which is a little unusual.

Kerry looks like getting crunched

Schools in orange warning zones advised to stay closed tomorrow.

It's because the red for Clare is mainly because is for the second part of the storm when the wind direction changes to a north westerly. The early wind won't affect Clare as much, but sure yeah blame met eireann

Any chance of Laois going orange?

In the good days it would mean a day off.....now they'll be told to go online......lots not going to be happy

ICON has struck out in its search for a soulmate and I think that its 15z run (yes it has one) returns to the herd, although that is based on the precip as there does not seem to be an update for pressure. But you can see from that the circulation is back north again (on the 15z ICON).

ECM and Hirlam also tracking straight for Galway Bay, there's almost no model disparity on track now, landfall timing ranges from 1100h to 1400h. The Hirlam would suggest that the Dingle peninsula might see the worst winds, in WNW flow just after the low has reached about the Aran Islands, about 1030h to 1330h would be the peak. Clare would be worst hit around 1430-1630h. Other models seem to have a more uniform outcome across the region so that timing should be regarded as just a suggestion from the one regional model. I think it has a good record though.

Yep, messages just received from 2 schools here to that effect. Remote learning will not be in effect either which is fair enough.

Schools in all counties with Red and Orange weather alerts will shut.

That includes Cork, Kerry and Clare. all of which have red alert.

It also covers Limerick, Waterford, Galway, Mayo, Wexford, Dublin, Louth, Wicklow and Meath.

Yeah for the sake of one day, it's hardly worth it