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Storm Franklin - Sunday 20th/Monday 21st Feb 2022

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    #182
    Multipass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    South Mayo, the roaring noise outside is incredible - worst storm of the season for me.



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    #183
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,906 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    I hope tonight isn't the night ICON gets dialled in, looks particularly strong from around midnight for hours .

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    #184
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Ferocious weather on the outskirts of Limerick City.

    Heavy showers of rain, hail and sleet have been passing through all day.

    Extremely breezy now. Worse than Storms Dudley and Eunice.



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    #185
    Balagan1
    Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭Balagan1


    West Clare had awful gusts in last hour. Way worse than Eunice.



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    #186
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    We are getting nailed in Castlebar .Breaffy House Hotel Castlebar just after 5pm

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    #187
    Dazler97
    Registered Users Posts: 2,392 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    I'm putting donegal, Sligo and North leitrim into a red warning here and now because met Éireann won't, I know I'm only an ameture but I even know by models and how Titley packed those isobars are



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    #188
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Thunder and lightning right now in Donegal



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    #189
    weisses
    Registered Users Posts: 9,448 ✭✭✭weisses


    ME droping the ball big time here .... apparently no one is working the weekends



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    #190
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,684 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    The gusts are strong up here and snowy sleety stuff sticking to the grass - just out with the dogs in the garden and it's gone really cold too. We are in orange warning since 7pm but had some wickedly strong gusts well before that and lots of reports of trees down in the county - how much worse can it get? South Sligo 90m asl



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    #191
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Satellite-measured signigicant wave heights out to our west just after midday. Up to 49 feet (15 metres). As this is signigicant wave height (the average of the heighest one-third of the waves), individual wave heights can be up to double this height.

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    #192
    StevenToast
    Registered Users Posts: 3,424 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Limerick is shocking at the moment....far worse than any storm in the last year or so....

    Met Eireann and RTE shut down at the weekends....asleep at the wheel

    The fact that its not a red warning is really poor...there should be no one out in that...

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #193
    Northernlily
    Registered Users Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭Northernlily


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664729#Comment_118664729

    But sure it's clear here where I am. So that means definitely no storm. Nice fabrication. ;-)



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    #194
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Satellite-derived winds at around 3 pm today were above 70 knots out to our northwest.

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    #195
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Sligo METARs this afternoon and evening. Several gusts above 60 knots.

    SPECI EISG 202036Z AUTO 25025KT 5000 BR FEW016 BKN026 OVC049 04/02 Q0996=

    METAR EISG 202030Z 25026G42KT 6000 FEW016 BKN041 OVC048 04/01 Q0995=

    METAR EISG 202000Z 27035G46KT 7000 SCT018 BKN031 OVC038 05/00 Q0995=

    SPECI EISG 201941Z AUTO 27034G56KT 6000 FEW010 SCT020 BKN029 05/01 Q0995=

    METAR EISG 201930Z 27031G46KT 6000 -RA FEW008 SCT014 BKN019 03/03 Q0995=

    SPECI EISG 201914Z AUTO 27036G57KT 5000 BKN015 BKN023 OVC033 04/01 Q0995=

    SPECI EISG 201913Z AUTO 27035G57KT 5000 SCT015 BKN023 OVC043 05/01 Q0995=

    SPECI EISG 201909Z AUTO 27036G49KT 6000 BKN015 BKN022 OVC042 04/01 Q0995=

    METAR EISG 201900Z 27037G55KT 5000 RA SCT015 BKN022 OVC046 03/02 Q0995=

    SPECI EISG 201852Z AUTO 27036G55KT 5000 SCT015 BKN030 OVC043 05/00 Q0995=

    SPECI EISG 201851Z AUTO 27035G55KT 6000 SCT016 BKN034 OVC044 05/00 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201849Z AUTO 27032G45KT 6000 SCT016 BKN034 OVC050 05/01 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201835Z AUTO 27036G51KT 6000 BKN015 BKN029 OVC034 05/00 Q0994=

    METAR EISG 201830Z 28034G51KT 6000 SCT015 BKN024 OVC034 05/01 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201829Z AUTO 28034G47KT 7000 BKN015 BKN024 OVC034 05/01 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201817Z AUTO 28038G51KT 5000 BKN014 BKN022 BKN031 04/01 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201803Z AUTO 27038G56KT 5000 SCT013 SCT020 BKN027 04/00 Q0994=

    METAR EISG 201800Z 27036G62KT 7000 SCT016 SCT024 BKN036 04/01 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201748Z AUTO 27038G68KT 3000 FEW009 BKN019 OVC036 03/01 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201743Z AUTO 27035G68KT 5000 SCT012 BKN019 BKN025 05/01 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201741Z AUTO 27033G47KT 6000 FEW009 SCT014 BKN019 05/01 Q0993=

    METAR EISG 201730Z 27036G61KT 3600 SCT010 BKN019 BKN026 02/02 Q0994=

    SPECI EISG 201722Z AUTO 27037G61KT 2900 FEW008 SCT024 BKN029 03/01 Q0994=

    METAR EISG 201700Z 27038G51KT 5000 FEW013 BKN027 OVC040 05/01 Q0993=

    SPECI EISG 201658Z AUTO 28037G51KT 5000 SCT013 BKN029 OVC040 05/01 Q0993=

    METAR EISG 201630Z 26027G44KT 5000 SCT015 SCT022 BKN034 05/02 Q0993=

    SPECI EISG 201604Z AUTO 27037G54KT 5000 FEW012 SCT017 BKN025 04/00 Q0993=

    METAR EISG 201600Z 28036G54KT 8000 SCT014 SCT024 BKN043 05/00 Q0993=

    SPECI EISG 201547Z AUTO 27035G47KT 6000 BKN014 BKN041 06/01 Q0992=

    METAR EISG 201530Z 27033G55KT 7000 SCT014 SCT025 BKN037 06/01 Q0992=

    SPECI EISG 201527Z AUTO 27030G50KT 6000 SCT015 SCT023 BKN032 06/01 Q0992=

    SPECI EISG 201525Z AUTO 27029G40KT 6000 SCT016 SCT023 BKN033 06/02 Q0992=

    SPECI EISG 201508Z AUTO 27037G52KT 3000 FEW012 SCT024 BKN033 03/02 Q0992=

    SPECI EISG 201502Z AUTO 27030G52KT 5000 FEW025 BKN034 06/03 Q0992=

    SPECI EISG 201501Z AUTO 27028G51KT 6000 FEW025 SCT034 06/03 Q0991=

    METAR EISG 201500Z 27027G40KT 7000 FEW025 SCT031 SCT037 06/03 Q0991=

    SPECI EISG 201459Z AUTO 27026G38KT 7000 FEW013 SCT025 SCT039 06/03 Q0991=

    SPECI EISG 201440Z AUTO 27031G62KT 4400 FEW010 SCT015 BKN026 06/03 Q0992=

    METAR EISG 201430Z 27029G50KT 3700 FEW009 SCT016 BKN024 05/03 Q0991=

    SPECI EISG 201425Z AUTO 26026G50KT 5000 FEW019 SCT025 SCT039 06/03 Q0991=

    METAR EISG 201400Z 26028G40KT 5000 FEW014 SCT021 BKN029 05/02 Q0991=




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    #196
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,540 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118664994#Comment_118664994

    What windspeed are you getting?



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    #197
    recyclebin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,504 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    Very windy hear in Castlebar. Trees down blocking roads near McDonalds and cars damaged in Breaffy.

    Photo from Connaught Telegraph Facebook:

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    #198
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Lashing snow and sticking

    Newcastle Dublin



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    #199
    Dazler97
    Registered Users Posts: 2,392 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Heard from a friend and seen the video that it's snowing and sticking in clondalkin



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    #200
    Wine Goddess
    Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭Wine Goddess


    Lashing snow and NOT sticking...

    Firhouse Dublin 24



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    #201
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭pauldry


    This is one of the first storms where I'm a bit fearful not excited. It's been ferocious all day and now from midnight to 6 is supposed to be worse. The kids window faces the Northwest. Will it hold against 130 to 140kph winds.

    It's like the media hyped up Eunice so much they are weather weary. Wait till they wake up on Monday and see the number of trees down and power cuts will probably be 100,000.



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    #202
    forestgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭forestgirl


    Stormy in offaly all day.I really miss Grace's updates from the island though and hearing about her cats.It was like we were forewarned of what was to come,please come back for all the people that loved you here as we miss you an awful lot,irs really not the same without you



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    #203
    pjohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 23,362 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    This is worse than Dudley and Eunice in Galway. Awful ferocious gales and rain/sleet roaring all day



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    #204
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users Posts: 35,859 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    https://twitter.com/LavelleRoisin/status/1495493687236775940




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    #205
    corsav6
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6


    How is Belmullet getting lower windspeed readings than Newport? It's further west and more exposed. Furnace weather station is not on the coast and would be more sheltered than Belmullet.

    It's fairly consistent here now in Newport, certainly a warranted orange.



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    #206
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Red warnings are for extreme weather. Orange is more than appropriate tonight imo, afterall its the second headline on the news so it's not as if people are going to be caught out!



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    #207
    [Deleted User]
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    According to the Met Eireann website the wind speeds peaked in west Mayo between 5-6 pm. Forecast to remain high for the rest of the night but not quite at the same level.

    Is there data to suggest this is a mistake?



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    #208
    Donegal Ken
    Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭Donegal Ken


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118665209#Comment_118665209

    No fault or anything but it is fairly extreme here in the west and northwest. Anyone this part of the country will tell you that. Between flooding and trees down everywhere and worst to come later I would call that fairly extreme. Met Éireann will end up getting a lot of backlash and normally I think there on the ball but today there way off. Still wouldn't be surprised if the issue one in the coming hours.



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    #209
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    55mph gust in South Laois this evening, exceeds Dudley and Eunice. Frequent sleet and wet snow too.



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    #210
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,468 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Absolute brutal gusts just north of Cork City. I'd echo some of the posters above, seems far more powerful than Friday.


    It's actually quite unnerving.



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    #211
    Sandor Clegane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Sandor Clegane


    Fairly wild in Clonmel today and still going on, worse than Friday by a long ways, down here anyway.



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