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The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

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  • #692
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    maquiladora wrote: »
    There's been some already.

    https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/

    Yup, my manager is in Macroom and her electricity is gone

    A bit calmer it seems now - for the moment anyway....


  • #693
    Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    Very clam here in ennis Co clare. How come?


  • #694
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    leahyl wrote: »
    Yup, my manager is in Macroom and her electricity is gone

    A bit calmer it seems now - for the moment anyway....

    Yeah, it's definitely dropped a bit the last few minutes...

    I'm home today, hope we don't lose power.


  • #695
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Jaysus, nothing is happening now! It's very calm.....eerie you might say...;)


  • #696
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    gah walked from the bus station to college, i'm pretty in the most intense rain i've experienced in my life


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  • #697
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    northgirl wrote: »
    Yeah, it's definitely dropped a bit the last few minutes...

    I'm home today, hope we don't lose power.

    Lucky thing!


  • #698
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    sunbabe08 wrote: »
    gah walked from the bus station to college, i'm pretty in the most intense rain i've experienced in my life

    Why didn't you get a bus?!


  • #699
    Shiraz 4.99
    Site Banned Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Shiraz 4.99


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Kinsale Energy ramping up now. 59kts gusting 72kts.

    72kts = 133km/hr = 83mph in case anyone is interested


  • #700
    BionicRasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    High Wind - 61 kts from 150° at 08:11 recorded in Cobh
    http://86.43.106.118/weewx/


  • #701
    whitebriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭whitebriar


    Vain wrote: »
    Very clam here in ennis Co clare. How come?
    initial winds -main rain band and the winds associated
    temp lull as is the usual
    low approaches-wind


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  • #702
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    leahyl wrote: »
    Why didn't you get a bus?!

    i did get the bus. but sadly the bus does not stop outside the college :mad:


  • #703
    red_bairn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    leahyl wrote: »
    Why didn't you get a bus?!

    Maybe a bus doesnt go from his home to the college.


    I got my trousers fairly wet. I underestimated the wind and rain when leaving this morning. I will be throwing on these dry pants on later before leaving work.


  • #704
    aisling86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭aisling86


    leahyl wrote: »
    Arrived in work in one piece :pac: Couldn't get the computer on fast enough - it is ATROCIOUS here!!! Never seen anything like it, unbelieveable gusts :eek:

    And we got a ferocious burst of rain just before I got out of the car to go into my building....typical!
    I never remember it being this bad in Cork - There are people arriving into work like drowned rats!


  • #705
    chipsdave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭chipsdave


    very heavy rain 6-7.30am , quite extreme wind then until 8.30 , brightened and calmish since.


  • #706
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    red_bairn wrote: »
    Maybe a bus doesnt go from his home to the college.


    I got my trousers fairly wet. I underestimated the wind and rain when leaving this morning. I will be throwing on these dry pants on later before leaving work.

    ahem her

    this enough excitement for one, but it's only getting started


  • #707
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Question for the posters here - are funnel clouds possible with this system? Pretty certain I just spotted one off the Cork side of M7 in Limerick


  • #708
    hawkwing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    leahyl wrote: »
    Yup, my manager is in Macroom and her electricity is gone

    A bit calmer it seems now - for the moment anyway....

    Killorglin lost power from 0750-0800.


  • #709
    cali_eire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭cali_eire


    cali_eire wrote: »
    Gone much calmer here in West Cork in the last few minutes.
    It's started up again, the wind is getting stronger again ....


  • #710
    Tom Cruises Left Nut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,064 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    Updated now for 11AM

    3hr-wind.gif?0857


  • #711
    Dickerty
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    Vain wrote: »
    Very clam here in ennis Co clare. How come?

    I dunno, would expect the weather to show it's mussels... :D


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  • #712
    maquiladora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Some areas could be quite well protected from the second phase of winds, because of the change in direction and shelter from mountains. So while the second phase of the winds will be much stronger for a lot of places, some places will be better sheltered at times.


  • #713
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Hirlam placing sustained winds to around 45 knots over Dublin @ 5pm.


  • #714
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    Well that was the heaviest most intense rain fall I've ever seen in Ireland here for about 5 minutes Dublin 14 area.


  • #715
    Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    Dickerty wrote: »
    I dunno, would expect the weather to show it's mussels... :D

    Smart phones not so smart lol.


  • #716
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,616 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    maquiladora wrote: »
    Some areas could be quite well protected from the second phase of winds, because of the change in direction and shelter from mountains. So while the second phase of the winds will be much stronger for a lot of places, some places will be better sheltered at times.

    Which direction are those winds coming from>


  • #717
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,439 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    maquiladora wrote: »
    Some areas could be quite well protected from the second phase of winds, because of the change in direction and shelter from mountains. So while the second phase of the winds will be much stronger for a lot of places, some places will be better sheltered at times.

    Like Cork City?


  • #718
    whitebriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭whitebriar


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    hawkwing wrote: »
    Killorglin lost power from 0750-0800.
    10 mins means it was a main switch out to allow the esb to disconnect somewhere else,it would not mean damage on your line.
    Things aren't fixed in 10 mins.


  • #719
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    leahyl wrote: »
    Like Cork City?

    here's hoping


  • #720
    snowbabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭snowbabe


    Sleety consistant rain on east coast,greystones,windy gusts with roads streaming water already,localised flooding inevitable


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  • #721
    Birtles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 157 ✭✭Birtles


    Liam Neesons Ballbag wrote: »
    Updated now for 11AM

    3hr-wind.gif?0857


    Met Short Range showing sustained hurricane force winds on shore at 12 in areas of the south west later this morning. would imagine Sherkin & valentia should pick these up.

    http://www.met.ie/forecasts/short-range.asp


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