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

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    #1052
    ch750536
    Registered Users Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    I emailed Met Eireann and was told they never mentioned a Hurricane it was the media, they only thing I was told they issued was a small craft warning. Now I saw somewhere a press statement by them saying we were going to get the remains of hurricane Tomas but cant find it now

    Thats because it never existed.

    Was the media not only ramping but getting everything completely wrong.
    Anyway, was one of the wettest 24hrs here in the last 5 years.


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    #1053
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Thank God it was not a serious storm.

    btw over in Cumbria in England they are forecast to get upto 5cm of snow above 400 metres.

    http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/nw/nw_forecast_warnings.html


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    #1054
    irish1967
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭irish1967


    I guess the Thurs/Fri thread will be opening sometime soon :)


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    #1055
    briany
    Registered Users Posts: 13,569 ✭✭✭✭briany


    It was going strong here in North Dublin from about 8 PM last night to 2AM this morning and then it was like someone just flipped a switch and then it was all birds chirping and blue skies.

    Hurricane?

    My ársé!!


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    #1056
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    irish1967 wrote: »
    I guess the Thurs/Fri thread will be opening sometime soon :)

    Just don't tell the media.


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    #1057
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    irish1967 wrote: »
    I guess the Thurs/Fri thread will be opening sometime soon :)

    Met Eireann don't seem to be making anything of this though - just wind and rain. Could we be in for an 'event'?:D


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    #1058
    weisses
    Registered Users Posts: 9,446 ✭✭✭weisses


    Su Campu wrote: »
    Well you should mention it then!! :D


    I will do that

    This was mainly a reaction to the 71 pages of hype ... try to see it in context but i get your point ;)


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    #1059
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    "Morning " People! :).... slept through the whole nite so i can just guess it didnt get any "better" .
    Anyone know if there is any snow on the mountain tops?


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    #1060
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    The poor ship TBWUK35 that was reporting 49 kts off the Clare coast yesterday evening is now in Biscay, reporting 48kts and 10m waves at midday today! I'd say the boys have nothing left to give over the side at this stage!

    Just south of it, another ship A8S3G is reporting 12m seas and 32kts.

    Chart here


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    #1061
    oterra
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭oterra


    Just wondering if any of the expert posters could explain to me what makes a storm "great". What conditions as in pressure, windspeed.rainfall, Wind direction etc are the ideal make up of a storm with talking about!
    I find all this very interesting and want to learn slot more!
    Cheers everyone for all the very qualified input up til now!


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    #1062
    adamski8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    If you lived on this side of the country pal, you might think the opposite. There is an Ireland outside of Dublin you know. ;)
    i am aware :)
    from reading this thread earlier on I had got the impression the east coast was going to be the worst.
    should have listened to met eireann.


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    #1063
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    adamski8 wrote: »
    should have listened to met eireann.
    yes. and if you did you would have been sorely disappointed last night to realise that Thomas was not coming to visit our shores.


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    #1064
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    adamski8 wrote: »
    i am aware :)
    from reading this thread earlier on I had got the impression the east coast was going to be the worst.
    should have listened to met eireann.

    Sher if you think the advice here is no good then why are you here, Clearing acting the plonk. P*ss off.


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    #1065
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    oterra wrote: »
    Just wondering if any of the expert posters could explain to me what makes a storm "great". What conditions as in pressure, windspeed.rainfall, Wind direction etc are the ideal make up of a storm with talking about!
    I find all this very interesting and want to learn slot more!
    Cheers everyone for all the very qualified input up til now!

    Deep Easterly is your man for that question. :D

    But basically for a good windstorm I'd consider it as a low pressure system, about as low as last night's would be fine, but with a more intense core and isobars packed up tightly to give much stronger winds and also it needs to track in a certain way so that we would get exposed to the strongest of those winds in the SW quadrant.


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    #1066
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    "Morning " People! :).... slept through the whole nite so i can just guess it didnt get any "better" .
    Anyone know if there is any snow on the mountain tops?
    I believe snow fell in the Glenshane Pass in Derry's Sperrin mountains.

    Tragic story from the Midlands this morning, following on from last night's tragedy in Galway which was also weather related.

    A Brazilian man has drowned in an accident on the Offaly Westmeath border.

    It is understood the man died when the car he was driving went off the road between Rhode and Rochfortbridge, hit a bank and rolled on its roof into the water.

    The vehicle was discovered at about 8.30am this morning and his body was later recovered from the River Monagh.

    The man had been living in the Midlands region.


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    #1067
    Not
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Not


    Is all over, or are we in the eye now ? Is the east coast going to get a battering this afternoon evening ?


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    #1068
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    View from my house looking due west at 1pm.

    A beautiful sunny afternoon after a horrible night.
    134153.jpg


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    #1069
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Not wrote: »
    Is all over, or are we in the eye now ? Is the east coast going to get a battering this afternoon evening ?

    No not a battering at all but it will be a bit windy/gusty along the east coast from early tomorrow I'd say. Nothing to be concerned about. No gusts higher than about 60kph I'd say.


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    #1070
    Not
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Not


    maquiladora wrote: »
    No not a battering at all but it will be a bit windy/gusty along the east coast from early tomorrow I'd say. Nothing to be concerned about. No gusts higher than about 60kph I'd say.

    Thanks, was just wondering was the system still over us or had the whole thing whizzed past us in one night, just used the term battering a bit too casually :o Last nights 'storm' didn't even knock over garden furniture that usually keels over when it get windy, but that may be down to the direction the wind was coming from.


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    #1071
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Not wrote: »
    Thanks, was just wondering was the system still over us or had the whole thing whizzed past us in one night, just used the term battering a bit too casually :o Last nights 'storm' didn't even knock over garden furniture that usually keels over when it get windy, but that may be down to the direction the wind was coming from.

    Yes, it's over us, we are in the slack 'eye', its tracking down towards the southeast and once it does we'll get the weaker winds coming from the opposite direction.

    http://www.xcweather.co.uk/GB/forecast

    If you play around with the animation on that you can get a rough idea of the winds.


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    #1072
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    Some intense downpours to spread across Munster over the next 2 hrs. Showers also movinga cross Galway and Mayo.

    Some hail can be expected.

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    UPDATE FROM MET EIREANN
    Issued at 08 November 2010 - 12:00
    Weather Advisory
    A depression of central pressure 962hPa will track southeastwards over Ireland today,Monday, 08-11-2010.
    High sea/swell on the west and southwest coast; 6 to 10 metres.
    At the times of high tides there is a slight risk of some local coastal flooding on all coasts due to varying combinations of strong winds, high waves and low pressure.

    Valid from: 12:00 Monday 8/11/2010
    Valid to: 12:00 Tuesday 9/11/2010


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    #1073
    weisses
    Registered Users Posts: 9,446 ✭✭✭weisses


    weisses wrote: »
    I will do that

    This was mainly a reaction to the 71 pages of hype ... try to see it in context but i get your point ;)


    Weather is much worse then yesterday ..... High winds heavy rain (hail) bitterly cold (proves my point the day after) :rolleyes: :D


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    #1074
    John2009
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭John2009


    Plenty of fairly heavy intense showers passing by here with lots of low hanging cloud, could cause some spot flooding in low lying areas as the day goes by

    i have a 15min clip currently uploading from the shower that passed at 1:20pm


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    #1075
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Very nice in Dublin City now. Wished I'd cycled instead of taking the car. :(


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    #1076
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    John2009 wrote: »
    i have a 15min clip currently uploading from the shower that passed at 1:20pm

    Look forward to seeing it ~ my weather station has stopped reporting rain again!!!!!!!!!! Fumes and wished he had bought the Davis started instead and added the rain gauge later.


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    #1077
    Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    Huge shower awhile ago in Tralee Co kerry another on the way i think sky going black and winds picking up. Gf text me from Cork saying it was raining and she never seen a shower as bad before.


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    #1078
    John2009
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭John2009


    Some photos of the heavy clouds overhead me and whats on the way looking northwest in the last photo,

    still uploading the shower from earlier, its over 1gb in size and its takings its time to finish

    P1010156.jpg
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    #1079
    John2009
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭John2009


    Jesus some intense shower here now :eek:


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    #1080
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    John2009 wrote: »
    Some photos of the heavy clouds overhead me and whats on the way looking northwest in the last photo,

    still uploading the shower from earlier, its over 1gb in size and its takings its time to finish

    I think i recognise the area in those photos:D Might be wrong though


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    #1081
    John2009
    Registered Users Posts: 788 ✭✭✭John2009


    leahyl wrote: »
    I think i recognise the area in those photos:D Might be wrong though

    Better take them down then :)


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