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Tuesday - Friday windstorms & snow - REPORTS AND CHAT THREAD

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    #122
    snow ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    Wind really blowing here now - interpsersed with heavy hail.

    I said it earlier on another thread, the wind tonight has a very angry menacing tone to it, even at this stage. And I don't say that lightly, I have rarely heard it like this before, it sounds different... like very heavy deep sounding wind; booming thunder and a roaring ocean rolled into one angry bastard hell-bent on destruction and mayhem. There is a badness about it.

    I fear this will be a Biggie and a Baddie - be extremely careful out there folks, keep safe in the coming hours.


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    #123
    IMBACKLATER
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    just had a brief power cut here in louisburgh


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    #124
    WolfeIRE
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    snow ghost wrote: »
    like very heavy deep sounding wind; booming thunder
    Anything like my moaning ghost wind from last year? I know exactly what you mean.


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    #125
    Hooter23
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    snow ghost wrote: »
    Wind really blowing here now - interpsersed with heavy hail.

    I said it earlier on another thread, the wind tonight has a very angry menacing tone to it, even at this stage. And I don't say that lightly, I have rarely heard it like this before, it sounds different... like very heavy deep sounding wind; booming thunder and a roaring ocean rolled into one angry bastard hell-bent on destruction and mayhem. There is a badness about it.

    I fear this will be a Biggie and a Baddie - be extremely careful out there folks, keep safe in the coming hours.

    I had same feeling omg:eek::pac:
    I just heard a can violently flying down the alleyway lol


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    #126
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Tornando9 wrote: »
    Spot on its exactly 977 mb in Naas. My online station is just outside Naas www.killvillage-weather.com

    Bookmarked! That's my hometown:D


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    #127
    WolfeIRE
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    An excellent animation showing low pressure systems to our nw and the showers winding up to our west and swinging anticlockwise toward us.

    http://www.yr.no/satellitt/europa_animasjon.html

    Takes 30 secs to load or longer depending on your ISP


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    #128
    snow ghost
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    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    Anything like my moaning ghost wind from last year? I know exactly what you mean.

    Worse than that I fear.

    Seriously Wolfe, it has a different sound about it tonight - I can't put my finger upon it, it just sounds very nasty compared to usual heavy wind and storms. Maybe it is carrying the sound of a very rough Atlantic in it or something?

    Perhaps Imbacklater could confirm from Louisburg way? It sounds bad enough here in Westport?


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    #129
    WolfeIRE
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    snow ghost wrote: »
    Worse than that I fear.

    Your description matches exactly what I heard last winter. In fact, I was told that aside from the wind the low, constant, rumbling noise I heard was the sea being churned up and the sounds echoing off hills to where I am 10 miles inland.

    A very odd and ominous sound. A night for the earplugs and eye mask. Make sure you have your shotgun at the front door in case a thick seafog descends on Westport.
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrwVWJ3K-udWLA1GLu_LNXUgDgXb_dmPVfG_sd_sq806ZOsH1FblhXoOV5


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    #130
    Oscar Bravo
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    Its not to far away from 2355 so lets head over to Met Eireann on Radio 1 for the latest....


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    #131
    IMBACKLATER
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    yup i'd agree ,its making that really erie noise between the telephone poles.

    gone quiet now.


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    #132
    Musefan
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    Forgive me if I am posting this question in the wrong place. I am a long time lurker, to this forum but I have only posted once or twice. Mostly I just spend lots of my time watching weather documentaries, so this forum compliments that nicely!

    Anyway, I am in South Dublin at the minute, studying furiously for an exam. I was wondering if this storm is coming anywhere near here during the night, and if so, would it be sufficiently bad enough to cause a power cut..I need to make contingency plans for having some light, by which to study! Thanks, :)


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    #133
    irish1967
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    Wind finally picking up here but nothing unusual yet.


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    #134
    WolfeIRE
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    Highly unlikely that the wind will be strong enough to result in a power cut in Dublin overnight. Thunderstorms are unlikely to reach the east coast before morning.


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    #135
    irish1967
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    Remembering last years 'ghost wind' Had forgotten about that. :)


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    #136
    Musefan
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    Thank you very much :) Greatly appreciated! I can relax now. I was worried as the local centra has started selling hurricane lamps yesterday, and I thought they might know something I didn't know :eek:


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    #137
    pad199207
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    Only a light breeze in Naas here atm. www.naasweather.com


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    #138
    snow ghost
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    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    Your description matches exactly what I heard last winter. In fact, I was told that aside from the wind the low, constant, rumbling noise I heard was the sea being churned up and the sounds echoing off hills to where I am 10 miles inland.

    A very odd and ominous sound. A night for the earplugs and eye mask. Make sure you have your shotgun at the front door in case a thick seafog descends on Westport.
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrwVWJ3K-udWLA1GLu_LNXUgDgXb_dmPVfG_sd_sq806ZOsH1FblhXoOV5

    How did you know that a thick fog was drifting in from the sea? There seems to be a lot of people walking out in it, clothes torn and dripping, one has a fish in his pocket.... ****TTTTT :eek:


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    #139
    WolfeIRE
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    snow ghost wrote: »
    How did you know that a thick fog was drifting in from the sea? There seems to be a lot of people walking out in it, clothes torn and dripping, one has a fish in his pocket.... ****TTTTT :eek:
    Mayo West Fianna Fail canvassers


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    #140
    Deep Easterly
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    Sferics being picked up along the west coast alright:

    http://www.meteox.co.uk/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=satradar

    Looking out for flickering here but no joy yet.


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    #141
    snow ghost
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    WolfeIRE wrote: »
    Mayo West Fianna Fail canvassers

    Stag do from Clare.


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    #142
    Ahorseofaman
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    Oscar Bravo wrote: »
    Its not to far away from 2355 so lets head over to Met Eireann on Radio 1 for the latest....
    and they said? Oscar


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    #143
    delw
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Sferics being picked up along the west coast alright:

    http://www.meteox.co.uk/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=satradar

    Looking out for flickering here but no joy yet.
    DE you must be in your element with all this weather coming at you :D


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    #144
    nacho libre
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    i thought i heard thunder a few minutes ago, could have been the beans i had earlier though;)


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    #145
    Not
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    Deep Easterly wrote: »
    Sferics being picked up along the west coast alright:

    http://www.meteox.co.uk/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=satradar

    Looking out for flickering here but no joy yet.

    UPC TV signal here in Dublin was flickering like mad for a while, but seems to have settled down in last half hour. Thought it might be to with the weather, wind or lightening somewhere, as it doesn't usually do that.


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    #146
    Not
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    Ahorseofaman wrote: »
    and they said? Oscar

    snow !


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    #147
    Deep Easterly
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    delw wrote: »
    DE you must be in your element with all this weather coming at you :D

    That's the problem Delw, it's always coming, but never actually arrives! :D Stuck between a rock and a hard place here, or as Nacho would eloquently say, 'the 9th circle of hell' !


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    #148
    IMBACKLATER
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭IMBACKLATER


    its becoming extremely windy now in louisburgh!!!
    id stick mt cam out but its making flashes of lightning...


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    #149
    OwenM
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    Askmoby.com giving hurricane level wave heights off the coast, 15m waves...not for the faint hearted.

    http://www.askmoby.com


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    #150
    Oscar Bravo
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    "Blizzard like conditions during the showers in the NW/N espically before and after dark"


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    #151
    Sierra Oscar
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    OwenM wrote: »
    Askmoby.com giving hurricane level wave heights off the coast, 15m waves...not for the faint hearted.

    http://www.askmoby.com

    ME were giving warnings for violent storm force 11 winds off the coasts just now, I wouldn't like to be out on the sea tonight!


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