STORM CHANDRA

Not often a named storm comes and we dont have to worry about it in Donegal.

Im surprised I hadn't heard about this on the news. Very low key. Even the Indo, who love a good scare story about storms, have it way down their list.

Arome has been upgrading run to run since the 00z. It's showing widespread borderline orange gusts for a lot of the southern half of the country now. Arpege looks pretty nasty for some areas too. However none of the other models are really on board, even ICON and UKMO are taking a relatively conservative view of it given their tendency to over estimate top gust potential and in all cases the strongest winds are moving through pretty quickly in a 3 hour or so window in the morning with potentially some further strong but not stormy winds later in the evening.

At this stage I expect the yellow warnings will remain I don't see any upgrades unless the model output changes significantly this evening.

Potentially could be an orange rainfall warning for Wicklow, there is a lot to come in the next 36 hours and it's falling on very wet ground and already swollen rivers. Potential for flooding is high I think.

Harmonie also looks pretty nasty for the SE at first. It seems the highest-res models are showing the worst of it. Since it's a small, quickly developing, fast moving system maybe the lower-res models are having trouble with the details.

That looks to be a different Harmonie model than the one I see on Meteologix. I'm looking at the 06z run for 3pm tomorrow here which is the latest one on Meteologix.

By strange coincidence we are having chicken tickka massala tonight.

Some nasty gusts expected along the south and southeast probably been a while since there has been a storm from the south of the country usually it's coming in from the west and northwest , I'd say upgrades could happen

Been constantly raining heavy here for hours ... North Wicklow. I feel sorry for anyone who has to travel in that.

Many good friends of mine here in Portrane are fearing this event with a justifiable degree of trepidation. Years of cumulative storm damage to low lying sand dunes has resulted in spectacular erosion that now poses a threat to many nearby homes. Thankfully mine isn't among that vulnerable chort. But it's of particular concern here if a storm carries the triple whammy of low atmospheric pressure, strong easterly winds and seasonal high tides. In other words, the "perfect storm" ☹️

Blanket yellow warning across the border and orange for Down, Antrim and a part of Derry.

Models really are all over the place on this one. latest ECM much further west, showing Kerry/Clare getting highest gusts. East coast very gusty in the early hours of the morning, south coast barely gets a breeze (where there are currently Orange marine warnings).

How is anyone supposed to forecast this, if I was calling this in Met E, I'd just stick the whole country on Orange, go to bed, and quit my job in the morning lol

I better go out and put the bungee cords on the bins and attach them to the tree. But what if the tree falls down, then it's the flippin house! 😮