whats the weather like in your area?

delaval wrote: »

Well Con would be useful cleaning out sheds with a sprong and Reggie keeping crows out if barley.

Stop, ye couldn't afford expertise and experience like mine :cool:

We had the usual blustery rain overnight and it has continued in one guise or another all day, and no signs of a clearing at all. It's just horrible.

Wind last night was strong enough to blow over the tall cylinders of gas at the house and blow the wheels bins into the middle of the lawn - a fine mess.

nhg wrote: »

They said on the rte news that the south east had hurricane force winds, it was serious at around 7pm yesterday evening

sherkin island had one gust,that would have lasted 5 seconds that was 74mph yesterday, that's hurricane force for 5 seconds in one very exposed off shore island location.
means never went anywhere near hurricane strength.
Average speeds near the south and east coast at peak strength yesterday were somewhere in the low 50s for sure briefly at times.That's windy for sure and noisy near tree's but not a hurricane.
The thing is,there have been so many storms now,that structures and trees are weakened,so its taking less and less to do damage.


Inland locations had lower speeds.Rain is becoming a problem though given the time of year and the things we would like to be doing.I've recorded 53mm since Sunday alone here in East wicklow and I won't mention what's fallen in December and January as ye will have a cardiac.

whitebriar wrote: »

sherkin island had one gust,that would have lasted 5 seconds that was 74mph yesterday, that's hurricane force for 5 seconds in one very exposed off shore island location.
means never went anywhere near hurricane strength.
Average speeds near the south and east coast at peak strength yesterday were somewhere in the low 50s for sure briefly at times.That's windy for sure and noisy near tree's but not a hurricane.
The thing is,there have been so many storms now,that structures and trees are weakened,so its taking less and less to do damage.


Inland locations had lower speeds.Rain is becoming a problem though given the time of year and the things we would like to be doing.I've recorded 53mm since Sunday alone here in East wicklow and I won't mention what's fallen in December and January as ye will have a cardiac.

I may be remembering wrong from the Weather forum, but there's no such thing as "hurricane force gusts". I believe hurricane force has to be a sustained wind and not a flash in the pan gust.

It's the meeja hyping again.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

I may be remembering wrong from the Weather forum, but there's no such thing as "hurricane force gusts". I believe hurricane force has to be a sustained wind and not a flash in the pan gust.

It's the meeja hyping again.

true,it's a gust that reaches hurricane speed to be pedantic about it.

Reggie. wrote: »

The cheek of you sir, everyone is entitled to a rain check every now and then

Bob would find it fierce hard to write a rain cheque

case 956 wrote: »

Bob find it hard to write a cheque in any weather :P

wrote a cheque to glanbia during the real bad snow a few years ago, bank came back that signature wasnt like my normal one, like it was -10 or something

sheebadog wrote: »

Jeez Con I thought the average wage in ESB is circa €74k with a pension made in heaven. My heart bleeds.

I never mentioned the pensions. Averages are a questionable statistic.

They do earn their money working at height, at night, in bad weather, with electricity.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

I never mentioned the pensions.

They do earn their money working at height, at night, in bad weather, with electricity.

Did I mention AVERAGE wage? In fairness Con where I come from average wage of EDF is €21k. They also get wet now and again.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Yes, twice now. I disagree with you.

Ok. Your perogative. Relations in ESB?