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Potential Stormy - Sun/Mon (Media hyped storm, never forecast by Met/Boards)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭anoble66


    pressure at 969 here and still dropping, temp on the increase too. Wind seems to have died down a little.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭mickger844posts


    Wind getting stronger here now, 19km, gusts of 37km, pressure 986.2, rainfall 8.1mm since 6pm

    Live stats: www.waterfordcityweather.com


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    just gos to show what a funny little island we are for weather.

    45knots winds down south and less then 15 miles its 14 knots

    2zpo51x.gif

    Around midnight you should some strong gusts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    nothing out of the ordinary,Wagner got through in the x-factor again
    & oh its still gusty here :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    What the f... :eek::eek:

    134089.jpg

    Thought I was seeing things! 402 active users currently!!!! :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Thought I was seeing things! 402 active users currently!!!! :pac:

    That my friend, is the true power of Hurricane Tomas. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    it's raining. Pffft.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭Tactical


    I note the NRA have changed the way they present their data from the roadside stations.

    http://www.nratraffic.ie/weather/default.asp?RegionId=0


  • Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭carlmwan


    Im going sailing tomorrow in Carlingford Lough with my m8s dad what will i be like im going around 10 or 11


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    delw wrote: »
    nothing out of the ordinary,Wagner got through in the x-factor again
    & oh its still gusty here :D




    Some real "Wagner" music to go along with storm watch 2010:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    The gusts inland and along the east that are going on right now will die down later tonight and tomorrow but as the system moves to the southeast those winds will pick back up and blow from the opposite direction on Tuesday, roughly the same strength gusts along the east and midlands that are happening now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    Rain is easing up here. Atrocious driving conditions earlier on with a lot flooding on the roads.

    Pressure down to 975.2 mb. Falling rapidly as the low moves down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    John mac wrote: »
    need a bit of help with this one.. I have collected 500L of rainwater in 5 hours from 32^2M roof.
    so that works out at avg 100L per hour .

    How do you calculate the mm rainfall from this?
    a degree in mathematics and meteorology, a powerful calculator and an award winning amount of patience.

    Or you could ask Su Campu, Deep Easterly, Villian, MT or Maq


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Vain wrote: »
    What part of south Kerry? Im in Tralee was a lull of over a hour with just light rain seems to be getting bad again now.

    Just outside Cahersiveen. Rain has eased here now...just under 25mm and not rising.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Just put the head outside
    Wow! Its really bad out there now , VERY stormy, might be something special after all!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,543 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    There are reports coming in of a serious bus accident in Galway - road conditions are awful out there, if your driving do be careful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭The Paws


    pouring rain here in west cork...any floods in Cork city??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    There are reports coming in of a serious bus accident in Galway - road conditions are awful out there, if your driving do be careful.
    Two people are believed to have died in a collision involving a bus and a van on the outskirts of Tuam, Co Galway.


    It is understood up to 12 people have been taken to hospital.


    The collision occurred on the main N17 Galway to Tuam road shortly before 8pm.


    Gardaí have closed a section of the road and diversions in place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    *WEATHER* Rain will continue through the night and into Monday morning (8th) and there may be a risk of localised flooding. The strong winds are expected to die down during the night. Motorists are urged to continue driving with care, slow down, watch out for debris on the roads and be aware that crosswinds may cause hazardous driving conditions. *MAIN TRAFFIC* *N2/MONAGHAN* Reports of debris on the N2 around Corracrin, north of Monaghan Town. Gardai are en route. *KERRY* Reports of flooding on the N70/Castlemaine Rd out of Tralee and also around Annagh.

    http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/AA-Roadwatch.aspx


  • Registered Users Posts: 501 ✭✭✭Aiel


    Was around Salthill earlier to see Galway Bay and then the Spanish Arch to see the River.The Bay was really rolling,waves crashing right up onto the Proma few brave souls out walking.At 5.31 the time of high tide the river had not over the top but was pretty close to doing so.Not much of a storm surge had developed as the winds were only really getting going at that point.A photographer for a local newspaper took a pic of us looking at the river though so we might be locally famous:).The rain really started then so we headed back.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,654 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    John Mac, here's a rough calculation:

    a litre is 1,000 c.c.

    therefore 100 litres would be 100,000 c.c.

    32 sq metres would be 320,000 sq cm.

    One cm of standing water on that surface would give 320,000 c.c.

    You measured 100,000 c.c., therefore to get that much water off the flat surface would require 0.32 cm which is 3.2 mm.

    So your hourly rainfall rate seems to be 3.2 mm/hr.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    i would only be out driving tonight if it was an emergency


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭sillybird


    double post sorry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭alfa beta


    what's the size of the roof again john?

    it looks like 32 metres by 2 metres - but that can't be right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Aiel wrote: »
    A photographer for a local newspaper took a pic of us looking at the river though so we might be locally famous:).

    that was more likely the Health and Safety Authority taking a pic for their upcoming publication 'How Accidents Happen' :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭sillybird


    There are reports coming in of a serious bus accident in Galway - road conditions are awful out there, if your driving do be careful.

    Yes unfortunately just outside Tuam there was a bus and a car involved with fatalities :( Stay safe peeps


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    John mac wrote: »
    need a bit of help with this one.. I have collected 500L of rainwater in 5 hours from 32^2M roof.
    so that works out at avg 100L per hour .

    How do you calculate the mm rainfall from this?

    1mm of rain is the same as 1 ltr/m².

    The roof is 32 x 2 = 64m²
    500L over roof area = 500 / 64 = 7.81 ltr/m², ie. 7.8mm of rain.

    Averages out as 1.6mm/hr

    EDIT: I thought it read 32 x 2m, but it's only 32m², so double the rate, ie. 3.2mm/hr (as MT said)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭homolumo


    alfa beta wrote: »
    what's the size of the roof again john?

    it looks like 32 metres by 2 metres - but that can't be right.


    Think he meant 32 square metres


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭alfa beta


    Su Campu wrote: »
    1mm of rain is the same as 1 ltr/m².

    The roof is 32 x 2 = 64m²
    500L over roof area = 500 / 64 = 7.81 ltr/m², ie. 7.8mm of rain.

    Averages out as 1.6mm/hr

    yup - but who lives in a house with a roof 32 metres by 2 metres - unless john mac really really likes corridors!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭tylercollins


    Just back in from a mountain forest in Ballykelly getting some wood for the fire. Very very very windy, with real proper snow. It was like a blizzard!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Gust of 116kph at Malin Head at 9pm.

    48knt wind, so thats Storm Force 10 at Malin Head now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 501 ✭✭✭Aiel


    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    that was more likely the Health and Safety Authority taking a pic for their upcoming publication 'How Accidents Happen' :p

    We were at least 5 metres from the edge.We did see a few people walking out a causeway during the storm,thats how people end up on the RTE news.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    There are reports coming in of a serious bus accident in Galway - road conditions are awful out there, if your driving do be careful.

    That's terrible I heard ambulance sirens around that time was hoping it wasn't to serious the weather in Galway was at it's worst around that time there was also some damage to a building near the Spanish arch


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    Another wave of torrential rain moving through at the moment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Excellent wind predictive site here
    http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=47736

    keep an eye on thursday and friday. Further heavy rain and strong winds on the way.

    As for tonight. main rain belt passed a half hour ago. Some beefy showers now showing up behind it. Having a heavy hail, sleet, rain shower right now.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    is this a joke lads?
    a little drizzle for the last few hours and a mild wind here in north dublin :confused:
    boards weather forum hyping things up as usual! hope im wrong


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,138 ✭✭✭John mac


    Thanks all . yes it is 32 square meters. (its the garage) .

    brain dead this evening should have been able to work that one out:o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭tvbrat


    Dublin City
    Windy moderate rain
    temp 5.7 Deg
    Pressure 984


  • Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭jimbojazz


    Hooter23 wrote: »
    That's terrible I heard ambulance sirens around that time was hoping it wasn't to serious the weather in Galway was at it's worst around that time there was also some damage to a building near the Spanish arch

    sadly two killed and up to 12 injured in that accident


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,529 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Hooter23 wrote: »
    That's terrible I heard ambulance sirens around that time was hoping it wasn't to serious the weather in Galway was at it's worst around that time there was also some damage to a building near the Spanish arch

    Two dead according to Twitter.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    The rain is absolutely sheeting down in Galway at the moment - 4.5mm in the last hour and driving conditions are horrendous!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    adamski8 wrote: »
    is this a joke lads?
    a little drizzle for the last few hours and a mild wind here in north dublin :confused:
    boards weather forum hyping things up as usual! hope im wrong
    have had 30mm of rain since 4pm. It's still belting down. Rain has not made it's way to you yet. Winds were never going to effect Dublin badly until Monday am so you will see some weather.

    As for 'boards weather forum hyping things up', your pass for the Winter Rollercoaster has just been revoked.:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    adamski8 wrote: »
    is this a joke lads?
    a little drizzle for the last few hours and a mild wind here in north dublin :confused:

    If you lived on this side of the country pal, you might think the opposite. There is an Ireland outside of Dublin you know. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    Lightning strike near Kerry more out west on their way to us


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The weather in Dublin is bad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭tylercollins


    Hooter23 wrote: »
    Lightning strike near Kerry more out west on their way to us

    Does anyone have that link which shows reports of lighting strikes around the world on a map?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    I like this one tyler as it loads quickly on mobile as well
    http://www.lightningradar.mobi/

    updates with each refresh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭tylercollins


    Thanks for that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭Yrag2E


    The weather in Dublin is bad

    Hardly BUT it is only 9pm..the next few hours, the rain (if any) should become a bit heavier. Winds def picking up


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