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The Great Storm of Wednesday 12/02/2014

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    #902
    Wine Goddess
    Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭Wine Goddess


    ��Tree and esb pole down at Grange Road, Waterford city; crews working to clear it pic.twitter.com/NEAdqlNcB4

    Stay safe everyone.


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    #903
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    63knts at Waterford airport (117kph), I think 65knts was the winter high here on Dec 26th.


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    #904
    KingdomRushed
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭KingdomRushed


    zerks wrote: »
    The warning came very late,today I've talked to several people who seem to think the weather alert is for snow,already in Wexford the winds are stronger & more sustained than what we've had previously & the worst is yet to come.

    Sorry anyone who misread wind warnings for snow warnings are to blame themselves. Pretty dopey


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    #905
    Vanolder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Vanolder


    Is this going to hit Limerick?


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    #906
    pistolpetes11
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 7,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭pistolpetes11


    maquiladora wrote: »
    Latest ME updates mentions "extreme gusts likely in many areas". Very rare to see that kind of wording. I think we'll see updated warnings after the reports from the southwest come in.

    I think I will upgrade our warnings ,

    On a side note , nipped back to bed for a power nap ( I blame the baby ) and a gust just hit the house and the walls just shook as did the bed ,

    Never felt anything like this from the wind before .


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    #907
    Cantona's Collars
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    KingdomRushed wrote: »
    Sorry anyone who misread wind warnings for snow warnings are to blame themselves. Pretty dopey

    People hear the word snow & their brains go into overdrive.

    In work the other evening & at times it seemed as if the roof was going to come off,it's gonna be even worse later.


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    #908
    DarkJager
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    Vanolder wrote: »
    Is this going to hit Limerick?

    Yes, in the next 1-2 hours


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    #909
    jkforde
    Registered Users Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭jkforde


    Vanolder wrote: »
    Is this going to hit Limerick?

    yes, avoid doing outside stuff during the afternoon... like Gerry said, stay indoors

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    #910
    ThaitaniumM
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭ThaitaniumM


    Vanolder wrote: »
    Is this going to hit Limerick?

    I suspect 2pm onwards we will have our strongest winds. Atm we are near the centre of the low


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    #911
    jamescolm
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    Couple hundred wheelie bins blown over in Ballyphehane area of Cork city.
    Rubbish blowing everywhere !


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    #912
    SeaFields
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    Unreal gusts here in south west kerry. Lots of debris on the road. Power gone. Driving rain. The gusts sound like they are going to rip the roof off. Some change from yesterday when we arrived down here to sunny spells and snow!


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    #913
    lottpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭lottpaul


    This is really frightening - slates flying off a neighbours roof, two trees down in the garden - I walked to the end of our house to check on a shed and was nearly blown over -- and I'm not a small guy! Can't see power lasting much longer here. The whole thing is terrifying -- a real monster.


    edit -- and the power has gone :(


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    #914
    jkforde
    Registered Users Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭jkforde


    bloody hell, this thing has an eye.....

    🌦️ 6.7kwp, 45°, SSW, mid-Galway 🌦️



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    #915
    patneve2
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    Should be an interesting set of 1200 hr met eireann reports, don't even want to think of the gusts that will show on the 1300 and 1400 reports


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    #916
    northgirl
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    Gone very dark and rain becoming torrential now..


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    #917
    ninebeanrows
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    Looks like it really is coming ashore.

    Good luck guys and really do stay indoors.

    Sky News beginning to hype this up now, so I am sure we will get good coverage.

    Stay safe.


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    #918
    wretcheddomain
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    jamescolm wrote: »
    Couple hundred wheelie bins blown over in Ballyphehane area of Cork city.
    Rubbish blowing everywhere !

    Glad to hear things are still the same!


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    #919
    leahyl
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    SeaFields wrote: »
    Unreal gusts here in south west kerry. Lots of debris on the road. Power gone. Driving rain. The gusts sound like they are going to rip the roof off. Some change from yesterday when we arrived down here to sunny spells and snow!

    Eeek! And it's all headed our way! :eek: Stay safe down there!


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    #920
    northgirl
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    lottpaul wrote: »
    This is really frightening - slates flying off a neighbours roof, two trees down in the garden - I walked to the end of our house to check on a shed and was nearly blown over -- and I'm not a small guy! Can't see power lasting much longer here. The whole thing is terrifying -- a real monster.


    edit -- and the power has gone :(

    sounds scary... will it get as bad here i wonder.


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    #921
    pistolpetes11
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 7,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭pistolpetes11


    Not enough lines in the title to fit in all I want / need to say ,

    It will have to do for now .


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    #922
    yellowlabrador
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    power gone in Dunmanway West Cork. It's brutal out there. The schools should have closed. It's going to be a struggle getting the children home safe and sound.


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    #923
    D.Campbell
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    hoodwinked wrote: »
    what time is due to end in cork? its all quiet at the moment and blue sky and sun?
    Im in Cork City and its very bad are you saying its going to get worse more trees down here with 30 mins


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    #924
    ThaitaniumM
    Registered Users Posts: 215 ✭✭ThaitaniumM


    You can see part of the tail of the low on the rainfall radar on met.ie. Just passing over the Dingle peninsula


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    #925
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Tornadoes in Roscommon according to RTE


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    #926
    downwiththatsor
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    @countykerry: Severe weather warning for anybody travelling in the Dingle Peninsula. Extremely strong winds. Be v careful of flying debris.


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    #927
    Wine Goddess
    Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭Wine Goddess


    Athleague tornado and damage to Roscommon hospital outside the town just heard on RTE R1.

    A car damaged also.


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    #928
    RobertKK
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    weisses wrote: »
    Structural damage here ... Just saw the wind take down a big barn ... Unreal hope everyone is okay

    Seen nothing like it in my life

    Saw that happen to my own place and a neighbour's place in 1997, it just looks like a piece of paper in the wind except it is metal.

    I hate that this is heading this way.

    Staying safe is the main thing.


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    #929
    dave1982
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    Just got very dark and very calm!!!


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    #930
    fryup
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    M.T. Cranium wrote: »
    Severe windstorm is about to hit your area, within an hour, you are currently pretty much in the eye of the storm (actually it's just to your northwest but anyway expect a sharp increase in wind speed there very soon). When it hits, it will last most of the afternoon.

    but the eye of the storm is the calmest part? isn't it?


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    #931
    Zoney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Zoney


    Incredibly dark with torrential rain just started last 5 mins or so in limerick city.


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