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Storm Debi : Mon 13th Nov 2023

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,048 ✭✭✭.Donegal.


    I think around 8pm is when M.E usually update warnings in the evening. More counties added and rain warning upgraded is my guess.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,775 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    The logistics of a 10am start means traffic will be a disaster in Dublin area during the middle of the warning if people were to get in on time. Seems an odd decision unless they believe it will actually have been and gone in commuter belt by 8am? So everyone setting out at 8am.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Ye but with warnings and guidance issued at 6pm on Sunday, any employer who expects a worker in be at 9/10 is not the kind of employer I would work in.

    We've had a couple of red warnings in recent years and the reality is people go out and unfortunately not everyone comes home. I've issued a clear instruction to my my team that if the red warning is extended to our county they are not to travel to the office. There's no chance my boss will send me such a message but I won't be leaving my house if it's red. My boss can get fuc!(ed he thinks I'll be in in a red warning.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    In general I agree, but if the teachers and crech workers can't be in for 10am then how would that work for everyone else with knock on effects? They have to be in place before many others can go to work. But catch-22 with their own children's care/schooling. Also, some services, including my own, really cannot be cancelled unless real risk to life and even then, without alternatives in place it may have to go ahead - and that's outdoors. 6pm on a Sunday is too late for alternatives for me anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    And to even catch you unawares is indeed very unusual!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    It was a light thought imagining the omen of the name Debi for Ireland. Hope all ends well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    When talking about this event being done and dusted tween 3am and 5am I suppose we should consider this .. Storm Debi is sounding like a biggie and maybe we are not factoring in the possible LOTS of damage, trees down etc etc .. making travel at 8am, 9am etc very tough.

    We will know at these times tomorrow after the event .. I wonder will it be worse than any of us are imagining right now, esp in red and orange areas? Is it one of those rare ones vs an over hyped storm that "doesnt deliver"?

    So all this angst around creches and schools not opening or opening at 10am maybe a moot point



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭Bigus


    I agree completely, and I’d be of the opinion that there’s a high degree of unpredictability about something that develops this quickly unforecast.

    so it could be a lot worse or not as bad as predicted, which is unprecedented.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,424 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    I would think by tomorrow morning most schools across the Midlands and East will be staying closed. Damage could be significant and schools will need time to assess. I'd say Dept of Education will advise this later this evening. Rest of country looks to be largely unaffected



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭setanta1984


    It looks like Cork might be escaping the worst of this? considering what its had to endure recently it'd be a small mercy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    This is where the information on schools closing until 10am in Orange and Red counties came from.

    Like I said above:

    I wonder will it be worse than any of us are imagining right now, esp in red and orange areas? Is it one of those rare ones vs an over hyped storm that "doesnt deliver"?




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    We can all apply a bit of common sense to our own situations. There's no one size fits all.

    My wife is a nurse. I'm an accountant. Different circumstances but we can apply our own common sense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭sparrowcar


    Met.ie down for me, anyone else?

    I'd imagine lots of people are only finding out now saying "what storm, what warning?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Balmed Out




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,097 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Red changed again marine red off Galwway gone now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    One of my team, replied to my message "thanks for letting me know....I didn't know about the weather warning"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,320 ✭✭✭tabby aspreme


    If Debi causes power outages, the schools in these areas will probably remain closed for the day



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 inyoup


    met.ie is down for me too, I've 6.15am flight from Dublin airport, trying to figure out whether I should travel to the airport but can't find any info on aerlingus, dublin airport etc ... airlingus says flight is on time.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    All good here in Carrigaline Cork on de laptop ( Voda Gigabit Bband ). If you on phone with data, try wifi instead ( turn off data first ) .. or visa versa. If on puter try mobile data hotspot instead of wifi



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,623 ✭✭✭munsterlegend




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    School transport in my son's school in Dublin is not running because of the late start. Forces more people into the action so to speak. My own son is in respite tonight and would usually be brought to school in the morning. If I don't get him and it turns red overnight I'll be forced out to get him first thing.


    A lot of pressure on various organisations involved with multiple scenarios like these playing out. No breather tonight for them I imagine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    Aha down now - 502 Bad Gateway



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,676 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Down here - "bad gateway"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    Uk netweather forum saying gusts ofx105 mph off galway !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭aidanodr




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    Significant downgrade on the ECM 12z unless all the action is between 3am-6am

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    This doesn't look right to me, bug in the ECM?



  • Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭ Miracle Dirty Halogen


    6Z ECM indicating that the storm is at peak strength over the midlands around 6am rather than the SW earlier on.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,859 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


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