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    Atlantic Storm Watch: December 2013

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    • #1112
      irish1967
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      Donegal Town.. Vicious out there... sitting here just waiting for a massive bang from something. Lights flickering (but its ok Fair City is on)


    • #1113
      hoody
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      Some pics on the Galway Advertiser Facebook page


    • #1114
      SpaceTime
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      Nothing too dramatic down here. Just child and blustery.

      Cork City.

      Any risk of it picking up again this far south


    • #1115
      Lissavane
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      mike65 wrote: »
      500 people on the forum, 100,000 thread views! Its not even that awful a storm in the scheme of things.
      I'm in Claremorris now, not far from Met Station.

      You're right - this doesn't seem much worse than what we had last weekend.

      Barometer has been rising here for last hour or so.

      Am I right in thinking that barometer pressure is at it's lowest when storm is at it's peak?


    • #1116
      peasant
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      As per 20:00 h readings on XC weather there's only a few km/h between windspeeds in Belmullet vs Strandhill airport (78/111 vs 72/107) ...that's scary.
      In a usual storm there's a good 20 km/h of a slowdown between out there and back here

      EDIT ...forget that ...the Belmullet reading is one hour older :o


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    • #1117
      Red Nissan
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      gugsy wrote: »
      Fecking mobile keypads
      Why?


    • #1118
      Weathering
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      post-8246-0-42653900-1387397832.jpg


    • #1119
      whitebriar
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      acassells80 wrote: »
      Electricity is out in Parts of South Dublin. Expected the west to lose power but not Dublin
      Well when a tree falls on a line,the electricity it carries won't care if it's in Dublin or Donegal...
      Winds were forecast to be strong enough in the Dublin area to down trees too(just not as many as in the west) and down them it has.


    • #1120
      Terry Wogans Inner Thigh
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      I'm at work now in Rosses Point, Sligo. Very windy indeed. I do not have access to a letterbox here but I am concerned for the state of my letter box at home.


    • #1121
      maquiladora
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      Belmullet gusting to 130 km/h now.


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    • #1122
      yop
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      Electricity gone in Louisburgh side of Westport from what I hear and also out towards Leenaun in Westport.

      Oddly there is a lull here, I can hear it when I stick my head outside the back door, its high in the sky at the moment. May it stay there!!!


    • #1123
      Xenji
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      Electricity gone in parts of Castlebar.


    • #1124
      Red Nissan
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      Lissavane wrote: »
      Am I right in thinking that barometer pressure is at it's lowest when storm is at it's peak?

      Depends on the event and your proximity to its center. However, I see I have a 977 hPa @ 14:59 today and I have a maximum wind gust today @ 15:04 and we had the rood collapse on a train at Kent Station at 15:05 according to 'eye witnesses'.

      So for me, yes, elsewhere I suspect not.


    • #1125
      ninebeanrows
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      Wind picking up here now in Dublin. Quite gusty. Any showers will aid brining the high winds to the surface.


    • #1126
      byhookorbycrook
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      https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/
      There is also a free smart phone app .


    • #1127
      Supercell
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      Power gone in Dun Laoghaire and just down the road from me in Deansgrange (Dublin), was a few flickers here, looks like we just escaped it.
      https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

      Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



    • #1128
      Storm 10
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      Some pictures and video on this guys facebook of flooding in Salthill Galway

      https://www.facebook.com/brian.mcgrath.908


    • #1129
      Pretzill
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      Seeing as I'm one of the masses following - it seems to be easing South Sligo - did see some lightening earlier - wind gone from scary gusts to I think those gusts aren't as bad ...


    • #1130
      rizzodun
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      Pretzill wrote: »
      Seeing as I'm one of the masses following - it seems to be easing South Sligo - did see some lightening earlier - wind gone from scary gusts to I think those gusts aren't as bad ...

      In Sligo town and the wind just blew my sky dish right off the wall, luckily it missed my car :eek:


    • #1131
      Fitzo
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      Calmed down a lot here I though!


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    • #1132
      Pete M.
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      Meanwhile here in north Sligo, just as you think it may be easing a bit, back it comes again with renewed vigour.

      Some of the gusts are up there with the strongest I've ever experienced.


    • #1133
      Aestivalis
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      I have work in Kilkenny tomrrow afternoon. Shouldnt be too bad around this part?


    • #1134
      Lenny5
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      Windy out tonight !


    • #1135
      Weathering
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      Fitzo wrote: »
      Calmed down a lot here I though!

      here? where?


    • #1136
      Pretzill
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      rizzodun wrote: »
      In Sligo town and the wind just blew my sky dish right off the wall, luckily it missed my car :eek:

      Some benefits to living 15 miles or so inland (- mind you my clothes line is lying in the yard) And now those gusts sound stronger again.


    • #1137
      maquiladora
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      Aestivalis wrote: »
      I have work in Kilkenny tomrrow afternoon. Shouldnt be too bad around this part?

      Tomorrow will be fine. Scattered wintry showers.


    • #1138
      mountainy man
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      It does seem to be calming down a bit now, barometer rising, just been out to check that the hen house is still there.


    • #1139
      Fitzo
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      Weathering wrote: »
      here? where?

      Sligo Town.


    • #1140
      irishgeo
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      just back from claremorris , seems to have calmed down a bit castlebar . the roads are very quiet.

      all my lights are still on.

      i think the worst maybe.


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    • #1141
      brembo26
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      Picking up here in Galway City again it seems. Not as bad as earlier but noticeable all the same.:cool:


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