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Atlantic Storm Watch 2014: February/March

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    #1112
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,749 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Is this the end of the Storm Conveyor belt? or is there more potential storms lurking out there in the mid Atlantic?


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    #1113
    Says I To Bridey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭Says I To Bridey


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    It's absolutely pouring rain in Cork City right now and the wind is howling.

    I wouldn't be surprised if there's flooding.

    If this becomes the new normal, I'll have to emigrate. I don't think I could actually live in this kind of weather long term. It's starting to really become more than just 'interesting'.

    The summer was good though. If we had good summers I wouldn't mind bad winters.


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    #1114
    Rock Lesnar
    Registered Users Posts: 11,880 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    After the threat of Snow before the rain in this part of the country, i can confirm that........there is no Snow, it is the Good old Rain again.


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    #1115
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Is this the end of the Storm Conveyor belt? or is there more potential storms lurking out there in the mid Atlantic?

    This looks like the end of it for the near term anyway. Things can change though.


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    #1116
    KingdomRushed
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭KingdomRushed


    I was talking to a guy from England who lives in the Thames Valley yesterday, he's under threat of evacuation and he said there's an apocalyptic mood. A feeling that it's almost something biblical or medieval, that it's that bad, the slow rising of the rivers...jaysus


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    #1117
    pistolpetes11
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 7,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭pistolpetes11


    KingdomRushed wrote: »
    I was talking to a guy from England who lives in the Thames Valley yesterday, he's under threat of evacuation and he said there's an apocalyptic mood. A feeling that it's almost something biblical or medieval, that it's that bad, the slow rising of the rivers...jaysus

    I know we have had flooding over here but the sheer scale of the floods over there is unreal ,

    Scary stuff , we think we can control nature but in truth it controls us.


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    #1118
    dave1982
    Registered Users Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭dave1982


    Cork and its ****ty windy wet weather!!


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    #1119
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    maquiladora wrote: »
    This looks like the end of it for the near term anyway. Things can change though.

    Until the jetstream moves back to its normal trajectory, it's possible and likely this will continue.


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    #1120
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,806 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Looking at rain today radar and it looks like where I am in Bray might get off lightly from this. Only spitting rain ATM


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    #1121
    murphym7
    Registered Users Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭murphym7


    In Cork, Windy as hell. Some big enough gusts. Had to move a tree away from the front of the estate earlier with a few other lads. Big estate with one way in and out. Workers were all thanking us, school kids were giving us the evils!! Ha.


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    #1122
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Gusting to 90 km/h in Waterford now.

    The heaviest rain over the southwest now will be moving eastwards over the morning and early afternoon.


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    #1123
    D.Campbell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 194 ✭✭D.Campbell


    no power in cork city on and off what is going on, could there be more trees falling please not ,
    ESB workers are great fair play to them hard workers


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    #1124
    Zoney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Zoney


    Foul wet and windy weather in Limerick. Damage not over yet, lots weakened from the storm. Woke this morning to find fascia from neighbours gable in bits over our garden. A lot of roofs with holes for the wind and rain to get into, loose slates ready to fly.


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    #1125
    northgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,434 ✭✭✭northgirl


    dave1982 wrote: »
    Cork and its ****ty windy wet weather!!

    Never seen so much surface water in the city. In a 10 minute walk I was completely drenched, cars also played a part in it but I don't think i remember driving rain/hail and wind like it.

    Definitely time for the spare change of clothes at work.:rolleyes:


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    #1126
    Power Gear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Power Gear


    Wind and rain has changed to wind and snow. Miserable out there.

    North Kerry


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    #1127
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    56kt gust at Valentia. I wonder if it being an Easterly gale - complete opposite from Wednesday - has an even more weakening effect on loose trees or structures particularly in the South and Southwest?


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    #1128
    mountainy man
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    Just started to snow here again.


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    #1129
    paperclipgrad
    Registered Users Posts: 365 ✭✭paperclipgrad


    Planning to drive from Limerick to Mayo this evening, think it'll be OK or advise against it? It'd be motorway as far as Gort.


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    #1130
    Tazio
    Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Tazio


    It's not as bad as Wed!

    CORK AIRPORT 31 Gust 52

    Kinsale Energy 45 gust 59


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    #1131
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    Very heavy rain on the way to Carrick-on-Suir this morning, a few fairly strong gusts as well but nothing very bad. About a half hour ago there was a heavy rain shower with some hailstones but it's died back to rain now.


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    #1132
    Birtles
    Registered Users Posts: 157 ✭✭Birtles


    D.Campbell wrote: »
    no power in cork city on and off what is going on, could there be more trees falling please not ,
    ESB workers are great fair play to them hard workers

    for average wage of 85K, id be out there too!


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    #1133
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    If this becomes the new normal, I'll have to emigrate. I don't think I could actually live in this kind of weather long term. It's starting to really become more than just 'interesting'.

    It will for a while it's just another pattern change, they happen all the time, we've been in a relatively benign pattern for the last twenty years, at varying times children grow up never knowing a fine summer, I was lucky as my own childhood was filled with very warm summer [thought I did not appreciate it then].

    They say that this pattern is more suited to Iceland, but one will find evidence around our coast that would suggest this is not so robust an idea.

    We have left a period of 'cold' and are entering a period of warm, warm bring more wet and stormy weather interspaced with blinding scorching sunshine.


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    #1134
    eireannBEAR
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    Bad morning out there,thank god i didnt make any repairs from the last one!! my heating is on full blast but my house is still freezing from the wind gusts!


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    #1135
    thomasm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭thomasm


    Fierce wind and rain in Waterford City at moment. Sat in car waiting for a lull to get out. Car is shaking with force of wind


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    #1136
    Gosub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    Red Nissan wrote: »
    It will for a while it's just another pattern change, they happen all the time, we've been in a relatively benign pattern for the last twenty years, at varying times children grow up never knowing a fine summer, I was lucky as my own childhood was filled with very warm summer [thought I did not appreciate it then].

    They say that this pattern is more suited to Iceland, but one will find evidence around our coast that would suggest this is not so robust an idea.

    We have left a period of 'cold' and are entering a period of warm, warm bring more wet and stormy weather interspaced with blinding scorching sunshine.
    Yep, I'll take that. I can handle a wet and windy winter if I get a warm sunny summer.

    I'm old enough to remember long hot summers here in Ireland. I got the worst sunburn of my life as a young lad.... at Easter! My Birthday is very early May and I remember many a birthday party in the garden in warm sunshine.

    I lived in southern Spain for many years and you get to the stage where you yearn for a good winter spell with air that you can takle a deep lungful of, and feel that you've just had a refreshing cold drink. I love it!


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    #1137
    setanta1984
    Registered Users Posts: 818 ✭✭✭setanta1984


    Is this expected to carry on all day in Cork? Or is the system expected to pass fairly quickly? Horrible rain up at the airport, wind doesn't seem to be as bad


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    #1138
    JanuarySnowstor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    Its coming down like a monsoon in cork.
    Surface flooding is very bad.
    Tonight is a cert for tidal flooding perhaps the worst yet!


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    #1139
    whitebriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭whitebriar


    Turning to wet snow here now west of Arklow.
    Rain/wet snow mix just 2 miles inland meaning snow highly likely in west Wicklow kildare and hills.
    Very heavy.


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    #1140
    TheBigGreen
    Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭TheBigGreen


    Rain is very bad here in Ringaskiddy. Still no power in the house at home!!!


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    #1141
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    33kt crosswind at Waterford airport.


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