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Ex Katia storm thread - TECHNICAL DISCUSSION, FORECASTS AND OBSERVATIONS ONLY!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭lilymc


    eddiem10 wrote: »
    MIDWEST NEWS HAS REPORTS OF ELECTRICITY OUTAGES IN THE NORTH MAYO AREA THIS MORNING – IN THE ENNISCOE AREA AND OTHER AREAS IN THE CROSSMOLINA REGION.

    THE ESB AS YET, HAVE NOT PROVIDED ANY REASON FOR THE DISRUPTION TO SUPPLY. :D:D:D


    I have family in Crossmolina, must see what the story is!


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


    irish1967 wrote: »
    All over here now I'd say calmed down a lot and brightened up on the last half hour.

    Hmm, are you sure??
    Latest Met Éireann forecasts for the Regional Airports, valid 1000 - 1900 Z:

    Donegal Airport: SW 55 gust 75 knots
    Sligo Airport: SW 45 gust 65 knots

    More here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,945 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Ok here's the latest from your rover weather reporter - just walked the dogs by the sea near Galway !

    Skies clearing & wind starting to edge NW.

    Winds as low as 10mph at times but then longer gusts to 30mph & two very short "punches" at 40mph & 47mph. The higher gusts only lasting for a few seconds - just enough to measure them.

    Also it felt like the strongest gusts were coming more from the SW even though the clouds are moving WNW.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,171 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    There's barely a light breeze here in Cork city.............


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Very windy along the Shannon in Athlone. Some power outages across the bridge. One tree down from what I could see, some shop signs blown over to the other side of town which made me laugh.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭smallwonder


    137kmph gust of wind recorded at Aran Island, Donegal:eek:

    Got that off the irishweatheronline site...should probably read Arranmore


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Definitely worse in now in the last hour, spent the last 20 mins trying to secure 20ft planks as they were been lifted up in the air even with 10 4" solid blocks left on top of them!! They now have 30 blocks on top, hope the hell that holds them!!!

    Still power here, for now!!! Tide is on its way in in the next few hours so we can expect the peak of it then. Always see that around here, when the tide comes in the wind hits hardest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    hellboy99 wrote: »
    Gusts here of 60 - 74 km/h so far, hope it doesn't get much worse.

    Few classic whistling gusts and sustained rumble here the last 20 minutes, definitely kicked up a notch on the beaufort.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    There's barely a light breeze here in Cork city.............

    Gentle breeze my WS says :) 23.4km/h currently


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


    137kmph gust of wind recorded at Aran Island, Donegal:eek:

    Got that off the irishweatheronline site...should probably read Arranmore

    I wonder who recorded that. No station there I think.


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


    No sign of it dieing down here, winds getting stronger now.
    Nuala Carey said winds will get even stronger up here in the afternoon.


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


    Wind must have shifted a bit here then Pangea. If it shifts from SW to WSW I become sheltered. Definitely not a strong here ad at 10.30ish.


  • Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭NIALL D


    jus after gettin very windy again around here in the last half hour ..

    pity my new weather station hasnt landed yet !! bet it will land tomorrow when this is over :(


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


    Again I ask people to keep this thread for technical discussion, forecasts and observations only, and use the chat thread for all other discussion.

    And for the sake of those users on their phones, if you're posting an observation, please put in your location, as your profile location does not come up in the mobile version of boards.

    Thanks


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


    wind has shifted in the last hour to westerly here ,(foxford)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭hinault


    Very windy here in Thurles : 35-40mph winds and blowing consistently.
    edit : temperature is 15 celsius and it is dry at the moment. Winds veering west/south westerly.


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


    Satellite animation I did up for IWO for the last 18hrs or so of the northeast Atlantic region.
    Katia-ani.gif
    You can almost see the surge of strong westerly winds developing and aiming for Ireland as the low pressure moved off the northwest coast.

    Image source: Meteogalicia


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 624 ✭✭✭jimogr


    Gusting 49 knots in Dun Laoghaire, peak gust just a few mins ago.

    http://www.dlharbour.ie/weather/index_24hrs.php


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


    Wind's getting quite dangerous here now.

    This was taken from Donegal Daily

    9wap2.jpg

    http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/09/12/updated-donegal-in-the-eye-of-hurricane-katia-storm/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭eskimocat


    http://http://www.windfinder.com/report/donegal_airport_carrickfinn


    Link to Carrickfinn aerport in Co. Donegal. Not sure what exactly the red vertical lines are on the graph but at a guess i would say gusts.... and therefore Violent storm 11 force gusts...


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


    Here are live metars for Donegal and Sligo Airports

    http://www.dawn-it.com/met/


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


    Highest gust on 11am met reports 56 knots at Dublin Airport:

    http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp


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


    Highest gust on 11am met reports 56 knots at Dublin Airport:

    http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

    that was 12:00 .. malin was 65


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


    Pangea wrote: »
    Wind's getting quite dangerous here now.

    This was taken from Donegal Daily

    9wap2.jpg

    http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/09/12/updated-donegal-in-the-eye-of-hurricane-katia-storm/

    That guy was lucky he didn't crack his head open on the bottom of that sign while he was performing that stunt!


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    06Z this morning.
    Rtavn001.png

    And into Tuesday morning
    Rtavn181.png

    Looks like we'll have strong winds through the day and into tomorrow morning, albeit not as strong as we currently have


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,945 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Were there any reports of thunder especially with the temperature staying so high ? I wonder if the still relatively strong sunlight, that's breaking through in the West, will trigger any convective activity & squalls ?

    EDIT I reckon that Donegal pic is rigged. You would need a serious windspeed to hold a man horizontal & it would be very difficult to hold a camera steady.


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


    John mac wrote: »
    that was 12:00 .. malin was 65

    Thanks, defo need new glasses!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    A 64mph gust at Dublin Airport.

    Quite impressive really.

    74mph at Malin Head


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,363 ✭✭✭naughto


    That guy was lucky he didn't crack his head open on the bottom of that sign while he was performing that stunt!

    surly thats a photoshop job


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Not


    Discodog wrote: »
    Were there any reports of thunder especially with the temperature staying so high ? I wonder if the still relatively strong sunlight, that's breaking through in the West, will trigger any convective activity & squalls ?

    EDIT I reckon that Donegal pic is rigged. You would need a serious windspeed to hold a man horizontal & it would be very difficult to hold a camera steady.

    The 'wind' is not even ruffling the blades of grass :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,945 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    A 64mph gust at Dublin Airport.

    Quite impressive really.

    74mph at Malin Head

    But the gusts here seem to be very short lived, literally a few seconds so unlikely to be damaging. Some were so short that I wonder if the anemometer has time to spin up & record them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    There is a shocking unconfirmed report of a large caravan having being sighted floating in the middle of Clew Bay. :eek:

    It is thought it could be a slave ship having been blown off course from the trade winds.





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


    Not wrote: »
    The 'wind' is not even ruffling the blades of grass :rolleyes:

    Theres not much grass there but it is moving in the same direction as him in fairness .

    Still stormy here at the moment, no huge waves yet really , just moderate ones and some crashing off cliffs. Tide is pretty low at the moment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Not


    Pangea wrote: »
    Theres not much grass there but it is moving in the same direction as him in fairness .

    Still stormy here at the moment, no huge waves yet really , just moderate ones and some crashing off cliffs. Tide is pretty low at the moment.

    That must be a renegade blade then so in the foreground :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,726 ✭✭✭jd


    A 64mph gust at Dublin Airport.

    Quite impressive really.

    There was a tree down earlier at Northwood, partially blocking the main avenue through the park. Be careful there , some of the trees are quite old.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,945 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Even at peak winds the waves in Galway bay were not especially high. I think that the wind was too gusty - not enough sustained wind. So the seas are chaotic rather than high.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Keep an eye out on the roads for flying debris, a car in front of me clattered a piece of plywood on the motorway this morning. Plywood more or less exploded showering my car and people behind me with shrapnel. Luckily no accident or damage to cars, i think.


  • Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Strangegravy


    Discodog wrote: »
    Were there any reports of thunder especially with the temperature staying so high ? I wonder if the still relatively strong sunlight, that's breaking through in the West, will trigger any convective activity & squalls ?

    EDIT I reckon that Donegal pic is rigged. You would need a serious windspeed to hold a man horizontal & it would be very difficult to hold a camera steady.

    Ah you're winding us up surely?? Of course it's rigged, he held onto the sign and jumped sideways!! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,429 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Apparently we have about 6,000 homes without power here in Donegal. Thankfully I'm in one of the more sheltered areas.


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


    Gust wind speed chart updated up to 1.pm: (Malin Head data from 6am now included)
    174113.JPG

    A linear decline at Belmullet whereas speeds are fairly constant at both Oak Park and Dublin Airport. Malin Head doing well although speeds seem to be flattening out over the last couple of hours here.


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Wind about 1/3 of what it was since 8am here in Cbar. Either is blowing itself out or gone out for the lunch! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,867 ✭✭✭crushproof


    Keep an eye out on the roads for flying debris, a car in front of me clattered a piece of plywood on the motorway this morning. Plywood more or less exploded showering my car and people behind me with shrapnel. Luckily no accident or damage to cars, i think.

    Lucky you weren't crusing around in a convertible!

    Pretty hectic in Dun Laoghaire harbour, 2 yachts have ripped off their moorings and clattering against the pie while another yacht was bowled over and capsied by the waves, fun time to be out for a healthy stroll along the pier! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,494 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    my weatherstation maxed at 50.9kmh (a new record recorede 48 in may) considering its fairly sheltered thats pretty windy

    http://www.edcoconsulting.com/weather/start.html

    2 miles outside donegal town (still have electric)


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




  • Registered Users Posts: 501 ✭✭✭Aiel


    The amount of seaweed along Salthill Prom earlier suggests that the sea was definetely out onto the road earlier during 6am high tide,huge pools of water in Blackrock too.I live in Salthill and the amount of sand on my window right now is incredible,havent seen it like that before.Im heading down at 6pm for this evenings high tide.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    Wind back from lunch. Not as bad but still blowing a nice one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,945 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    It seems like the only real difference between this storm & typical Autumn gales will be the duration of the winds & not the strength. Most gales blow themselves out pretty quickly whereas it still looks like it will be windy tomorrow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    In kilkee now just back from a walk up the cliffs. WOW is all i can say, the strength in the wind is crazy and its a constant force, like a permanent gust or something. The waves look great tooka few video but probably not great as on phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    My hunch about the duration of the wind being the most notable thing about this system, rather than the strength of the wind, seems to be correct. In a major storm we get gusts of well above 90 mph. Actually in a normal Irish winter it's not unusual for Belmullet to gets gusts in the high eighties.


  • Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭IMBACKLATER


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXFe9fbyj28

    conditions earlier on the coast near louisburgh, nothing spectacular...


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