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Atlantic Storm Watch & Coastal Flooding Events: January 2014

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    #1232
    ninebeanrows
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    fletch wrote: »
    Anyone in Howth/Malahide...is the sea still rough? I'm thinking of taking a spin over for a look. Obviously I won't be putting myself in any danger but I'd like to see the sea in all its anger.

    High Tide was at 3ish, so you've missed it.


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    #1233
    maiden
    Registered Users Posts: 798 ✭✭✭maiden


    This night 175 years ago was the night of Oiche on Gaoithe Mor, night if the big wind! The waves came over the cliffs of moher, and many died, makes interesting reading!

    http://realityweather.eu/oiche-na-gaoithe-moire-night-of-the-big-wind-january-1839/


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    #1234
    Gavlor
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    road_high wrote: »
    Can usually drive onto Duncannon beach can't you? Mad because it's quite a sheltered beach and not directly on the coast (is up the Barrow estuary a little).

    It's at the mouth of the suir estuary a few Km's down from hook head and in direct line of south westerly winds and currents...


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    #1235
    Hooter23
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    Its windier now than it has been all day here in Galway just as met eireanns warning was over at 7pm :rolleyes:


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    #1236
    Fear_an_tarbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭Fear_an_tarbh


    Here's how you deal with a swell like this, embrace it, get inside it! Mullaghmore earlier today...not even the biggest day we've had there
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    #1237
    mickmackey1
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    maiden wrote: »
    This night 175 years ago was the night of Oiche on Gaoithe Mor, night if the big wind! The waves came over the cliffs of moher

    I'm sure plenty of those stories from 1839 were true but like who was standing around to actually see the waves come over? :P


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    #1238
    _Whimsical_
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    It's remained a very wild night in galway.


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    #1239
    corsav6
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    Been fairly windy for a few hours here in west mayo. Nice flash just there and a lovely rap of thunder, very impressed with it. Not really a storm outside but some fairly strong gusts, interesting to see how long it lasts.


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    #1240
    [-0-]
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    I don't see this posted yet.

    Lahinch this morning. Unreal! :eek:

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=578629382220310


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    #1241
    fits
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    I was near Dingle last night and it most certainly wasnt a non event. You couldnt sleep between the gusts of wind and the thunder and lightning which knocked out our power.
    I have been going there all my life but never saw waves like this before. The waves covered the road in Minard with massive boulders again (they were just cleared on Saturday) and the bridge is badly damaged. The waves going in Dingle Bay were absolutely awesome. Can only imagine the damage at Rossbeigh.


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    #1242
    RuthieRose
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    Wild outside in Galway city by way of listening to the chimney. Athenry saying 12knots but sounds more!!


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    #1243
    Hooter23
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    Ya alot more windier Now than last night/today in Galway


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    #1244
    RidleyRider
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    There's gusts out here in Tipperary that are enough to knock a traveler off his sister! Thunder and lightening early lit the room up too. It's passed now, thank god!


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    #1245
    _Whimsical_
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    Yes it's a surprisingly wild night in Galway. Today saw the only damage to our house and garden of these storms, thankfully it wasn't bad, but it's a really windy day and night here.


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    #1246
    _Whimsical_
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    This was a lovely sandy beach on Salthil prom up until last week. There isn't a grain of sand left.

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    #1247
    RuthieRose
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    RidleyRider wrote: »
    There's gusts out here in Tipperary that are enough to knock a traveler off his sister! Thunder and lightening early lit the room up too. It's passed now, thank god!

    RidleyRider thanks for the giggle. Haven't heard that saying in years!!!


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    #1248
    corsav6
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    Still blowing away here in mayo, just normal winter winds, nothing major. Seems to pick up for a while and then die down a bit, the odd shower but quick to pass. I think we got away a bit lighter than the south on this occasion.


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    #1249
    HeidiHeidi
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    Here's a question.....

    I'm a regular up in North Donegal where this happens to the beach (Magheraroarty if anyone knows it) every couple of years - where once there was pristine white sand as far as the eye can see, suddenly (well I'm sure it doesn't happen THAT suddenly, but it's sudden when you're only up there occasionally :D) the first couple of hundred yards of the beach is covered - and I mean properly covered - with rocks.

    I've often wondered - is it that the sand is washed away, or that the rocks are washed up?

    Same question applies to all those poor locations up and down the west coast where once there were beaches and now there's just miles and miles of rubble :eek:

    I've always wondered.....
    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    This was a lovely sandy beach on Salthil prom up until last week. There isn't a grain of sand left.

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    #1250
    Y2KBOS86
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    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    This was a lovely sandy beach on Salthil prom up until last week. There isn't a grain of sand left.

    I always found Salthill beach kind of rocky and pebbly, compared to the beaches in Kerry and Donegal.


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    #1251
    _Whimsical_
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    Y2KBOS86 wrote: »
    I always found Salthill beach kind of rocky and pebbly, compared to the beaches in Kerry and Donegal.

    There are two pebbly areas on salthil prom but there were three lovely sandy areas. There definitely were no rocks on that beach.


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    #1252
    _Whimsical_
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Here's a question.....

    I'm a regular up in North Donegal where this happens to the beach (Magheraroarty if anyone knows it) every couple of years - where once there was pristine white sand as far as the eye can see, suddenly (well I'm sure it doesn't happen THAT suddenly, but it's sudden when you're only up there occasionally :D) the first couple of hundred yards of the beach is covered - and I mean properly covered - with rocks.

    I've often wondered - is it that the sand is washed away, or that the rocks are washed up?

    Same question applies to all those poor locations up and down the west coast where once there were beaches and now there's just miles and miles of rubble :eek:

    I've always wondered.....

    I always wondered that too. I think though that on this occasion sand was washed away. It said on the news tonight that a mllion tonnes of sand from a beach and surrounding dunes were washed away from a beach in Kerry.


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    #1253
    RidleyRider
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    RuthieRose wrote: »
    RidleyRider thanks for the giggle. Haven't heard that saying in years!!!

    No problem, it can't be all doom and gloom!

    I'm terrified of the thunder and lightening and living in a timber house amplifies everything. After a while of listening too it I got hungry so ran out to the kitchen, grabbed the George foreman, burgers and BBQ spice. I'm sleeping in a BBQ joint tonight after that!


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    #1254
    Mech1
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    I wonder who is getting a new sandy beach this year? Surely its gonna end up somewhere?


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    #1255
    Iancar29
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    Some photos from howth earlier where a person was injured being washed off the top pier down to the lower walkway just near the harbour's water edge.

    Hope link works.

    https://www.facebook.com/ian.carruthers.395/media_set?set=a.10152147817016718.1073741842.631736717&type=1


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    #1256
    delw
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    Link not working (for me anyway) Ian

    Edit :yes it works, helps when you sign into facebook,silly billy i am :(
    Great pics


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    #1257
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,030 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Some photos from howth earlier where a person was injured being washed off the top pier down to the lower walkway just near the harbour's water edge.

    Hope link works.

    https://www.facebook.com/ian.carruthers.395/media_set?set=a.10152147817016718.1073741842.631736717&type=1

    Worked for me.

    Are there enough Darwin Awards in the world for these numpties? :mad::mad::mad:


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    #1258
    loubian
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »

    Are there enough Darwin Awards in the world for these numpties? :mad::mad::mad:

    They really are silly!


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    #1259
    HeidiHeidi
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    loubian wrote: »
    They really are silly!

    Silly would be the VERY polite version of what I'd like to call them :mad:


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    #1260
    CB19Kevo
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    loubian wrote: »
    They really are silly!

    What are they actually thinking,Standing on slippy benches as waves crash around them..
    Everyone wants a good view but that is sheer stupidity.

    Edit - Starting to get wild again here in south east Kerry.


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    #1261
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,030 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Sounds pretty wild here (Dublin city centre-ish), but Dun Laoghaire pier (the only wind instrument I have access to) showing F4, gusting F6.... feels like a lot more than that, and certainly did about an hour ago when a gust nearly took my car boot lid off!


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