Orange Wind Warning for Cork & Kerry - Strong Winds 10th & 11th March

Wearing of The Green · 10-03-2021 6:46pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I see that that Joint Cyclone Center guy (I know!) is calling it Storm Evert.

??

After Chris Evert Lloyd

Could be a lot of back and forth with this one!

Tyrone212 · 10-03-2021 6:47pm

The previous orange wind warning wasn't named either. Must have changed the criteria.

Graces7 · 10-03-2021 6:49pm

happyoutscan wrote: »

How's it out on the island Grace?

Getting louder and gustier; we are safe inside for the night. Hunkered down with the stove piled with turf and plenty to eat. Snugged in deliciously...

I have excellent wax ear plugs now which help greatly..

Hoping all out here are safe and that the storm passes over without damage. ( Still waiting for the obligatory flying trampoline though; we had the bins already.. )_

SouthWesterly · 10-03-2021 6:51pm

Just back from a 90 minute walk in North kerry at 176m plus. Blustery but no rain.
Wind picked up in the last few minutes

Graces7 · 10-03-2021 6:52pm

met ie mention sleet, snow, ,and wintry showers … oh and thunder!

Oscar Bravo · 10-03-2021 6:54pm

Stormy now here just outside Castlebar.

Meteorite58 · 10-03-2021 7:04pm

Blustery and some big squally showers going through here near Tralee.

Fenit, Co Kerry at about 16.30

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Captain Snow · 10-03-2021 7:12pm

Ninja Snow Showers from Thursday to Saturday .....:D

cheezums · 10-03-2021 7:13pm

this is a proper nasty one.

Graces7 · 10-03-2021 7:20pm

Battered by sudden vicious-sounding deluges and wailing of wind .. Highly dramatic now..... ]

west mayo offshore

Graces7 · 10-03-2021 7:26pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Blustery and some big squally showers going through here near Tralee.

Fenit, Co Kerry at about 16.30

Forgive please my poor memory of Fenit but that is a statue? St Brendan? I used to visit Fenit often but not for years now.

Magnificent photo...

pad199207 · 10-03-2021 7:26pm

Winds have eased down here Kildare if anything

nigeldaniel · 10-03-2021 7:38pm

The birds in my garden have been missing all day and that's a sure sign it's going to get rough.
I did stand in the yard for a while and it was blustery but not the worst I can remember.
North Kerry.

igCorcaigh · 10-03-2021 7:41pm

Graces7 wrote: »

Forgive please my poor memory of Fenit but that is a statue? St Brendan? I used to visit Fenit often but not for years now.

Magnificent photo...

It truly is a magnificent photo!

Meteorite58, you should share that with the media?

igCorcaigh · 10-03-2021 7:41pm

Can hear the wind picking up now in Cork City centre.

Hooter23 · 10-03-2021 7:47pm

Bad enough gusts at times in Galway...so when they name a storm we get no storm...and when they dont name it we do get one

adocholiday · 10-03-2021 7:58pm

Winds have been considerably weaker than I expected here in Wicklow. I know the event is primarily a West coast one but even the Met Eireann forecast gusts don't seem to have materialised here. Let's see what the rest of the evening brings us.

Beersmith · 10-03-2021 8:05pm

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

I guess they turned the ship into the southwest wind to stay upright and then had to keep veering with the wind, at one point looks like they might have thought of continuing east and that either failed or proved impossible so they turned around again and headed northwest -- I would think those are 15 min intervals given the positions I know from the NDBC site. There again, another mystery is that no reports globally since this ship got into the hurricane winds.

Maybe everybody jumped out of their chairs at NDBC and knocked the servers off line.

Anyway, this other report seems to be saying they have gotten to a position with only 45 knot winds so maybe they will make it back to port. You have to wonder what the heck they were doing on their navigation yesterday to get into this situation. Being this far north, I assume the ship came from a Canadian port not U.S. because that ship route would be closer to 40 N if heading for Europe. Their briefings would be from the Canadian agency with access to maps that I saw three days ago with this storm clearly shown at its correct location. So somebody screwed up here.

Picture of the STI Mystery and other info here ...

https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/STI-MYSTERY-IMO-9829461-MMSI-563063900#:~:text=The%20vessel%20STI%20MYSTERY%20%28IMO%3A%209829461%2C%20MMSI%20563063900%29,flag%20of%20Singapore.%20Track%20on%20Map%20Add%20Photo

What happened to it?

redsteveireland · 10-03-2021 8:15pm

Hooter23 wrote: »

Bad enough gusts at times in Galway...so when they name a storm we get no storm...and when they dont name it we do get one

Hasn't been that bad but just had a big gust that rattled the roof and loosened a roof tile, bits of mortar on top of the bins when I went out to check.

Widdensushi · 10-03-2021 8:20pm

Beersmith wrote: »

What happened to it?

Seemed to just dodge, bow up to the weather for a day or so till the worst of the weather passed,could have had a repair they were carrying out, back on his course now again.

Nqp15hhu · 10-03-2021 8:20pm

Captain Snow wrote: »

Ninja Snow Showers from Thursday to Saturday .....:D

Mostly on hills.

highdef · 10-03-2021 8:20pm

Some pretty serious squalls in north Kildare recently, the most recent being both the most severe and the longest lasting I've experienced in quite a while. Very well defined on radar.

SlowBlowin · 10-03-2021 8:21pm

As its Orange status, and a direct hit, I have gone for Kronenburg this storm.

Its quite wild out there but still not an "event" compared to recent weather history.

600FT ASL - McGillycuddy Reeks - Kerry

Nqp15hhu · 10-03-2021 8:22pm

Very calm

poconnor16 · 10-03-2021 8:35pm

North Cork, back from a walk with the dog and that’s as bad as it has been in a while. The gusts are quite strong, in between is not too bad.

typhoony · 10-03-2021 8:38pm

looks like an active feature developing to the south of the Low heading for Kerry in a few hours, hope it's not a sting jet.

Hooter23 · 10-03-2021 8:41pm

They did name lots of other storms much weaker than this...but I think they should only name red warning storms from now on...especially when the media hype up every little bit of wind that is named

SleetAndSnow · 10-03-2021 8:43pm

Gusts earlier seem to have been stronger but the orange warning is for 8pm on so dont expect much yet. Just had a very heavy shower.

Edit: oh here comes the wind now

Meteorite58 · 10-03-2021 9:03pm

Forgive please my poor memory of Fenit but that is a statue? St Brendan? I used to visit Fenit often but not for years now.

Yeah that is St Brendan The Navigator, great view up there , former site of an old WW2 lookout hut .

Series of shots below, the two people were gas, ran through the waves, not a bother to them

Macdarack · 10-03-2021 9:11pm

Bad gusts in West Clare now , it'll be a long night I fear.

endainoz · 10-03-2021 9:26pm

It's pretty wild in north Clare also.

M.T. Cranium · 10-03-2021 9:34pm

The strongest portion of the wind field is predicted to hit the coast around midnight, it may mix through to the extent of producing a flat peak of wind gust values 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., but you'll recall that ship was due south of the centre when hit by the 85 mph winds, which were from 240 deg (WSW), from the looks of 12z guidance that component is still at the base of the pressure trough which is still at least 200 miles off the coast. The slight reduction in winds noted in Mayo in past few hours is due to the approach of this feature which has a slacker gradient at that latitude. So up that way, would expect a relative lull to midnight then a peak around 0200h when the pressure rises set in.

Given that gusts are around 105-110 km/hr in the southwest now, they may peak at 120-130 km/hr in a few more hours.

STB. · 10-03-2021 9:35pm

On the coast here in Wexford.

To say its wild would be an understatement.

Polytunnel disappearing act weather.

Good call MT.

Mooooo · 10-03-2021 9:49pm

Up there with the worst wind of the winter this year here anyway, mid to west cork, damage already done to a shed

Chris_5339762 · 10-03-2021 9:53pm

Max gust at my weather station in Cobh so far 75kmh. Its an odd one so far, relatively calm for a few minutes then much worse for a few minutes then settling again a bit.

SouthWesterly · 10-03-2021 9:53pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Yeah that is St Brendan The Navigator, great view up there , former site of an old WW2 lookout hut .

Series of shots below, the two people were gas, ran through the waves, not a bother to them

Was tempted to head over that way today

CJhaughey · 10-03-2021 10:03pm

M6 weather buoy reported a max wave height of 9.9m at 2000hrs.
Lumpy out there for sure.
edit M3 not M6

Meteorite58 · 10-03-2021 10:04pm

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Was tempted to head over that way today

Plenty of energy and that was an hour and a half after high tide, probably a bit of extra height in it with the onshore wind and Low Pressure.

Anemometer not working properly here, gusty and seen the window flex a few times but not too extreme

Barometer 9777.1 hPa Falling Rapidly near Tralee

7.8mm

8.3C

https://twitter.com/BallybunionBuoy/status/1369755292473425920?s=20

SeaBreezes · 10-03-2021 10:10pm

Electricity gone, near kinsale..

Kiith · 10-03-2021 10:14pm

South West Kerry is crazy at the moment. Extremely strong winds and power briefly went out there. Would be very surprised if it doesn't go again.

Oscar Bravo · 10-03-2021 10:16pm

9pm

Roaches point gusting 63 knots (117km/h)
Sherkin 62 knots(115 km/h)

Speak Now · 10-03-2021 10:16pm

Noisy out gusting between 80 and 90 kmph , location between Waterford city and Tramore.

Storm 10 · 10-03-2021 10:24pm

Serious strong wind gusts in Galway now, good job the tide is out might be different matter around 3am

thomil · 10-03-2021 10:31pm

Western outskirts of Cork city.

Things are pretty nasty here right now. Windows visibly flexing (how much flex can modern windows take?), the trees in the yard are rocking out to speed metal judging by their motions, and the entire apartment has been rumbling and vibrating for the last 15-20 minutes.

mickger844posts · 10-03-2021 10:37pm

Max Gusts of 80km/h at Waterford Airport and 71km/h at my semi-sheltered to the SW station.

corsav6 · 10-03-2021 10:39pm

thomil wrote: »

Western outskirts of Cork city.

Things are pretty nasty here right now. Windows visibly flexing (how much flex can modern windows take?), the trees in the yard are rocking out to speed metal judging by their motions, and the entire apartment has been rumbling and vibrating for the last 15-20 minutes.

I don't like the flexing windows myself either, but unless something hits them then it's unlikely the wind will damage them.

It's calm then some strong gusts and back to calm again here outside Newport. Not the strongest wind we've had but the most exposed part of our fence has come loose and the timber gate has lost some facing.

SleetAndSnow · 10-03-2021 11:01pm

Rains really coming down in cork city, very heavy in the last 10 minutes and gusts are really hitting the house at times before calming down and then building again with a lot of strength

Davaeo09 · 10-03-2021 11:12pm

Time's like this I miss being on sherkin, so long as the ferrys resume within 48 hours :P

Oscar Bravo · 10-03-2021 11:15pm

10pm

Sherkin gusting 59 knots (109km/h)
Roaches point 58 knots
Valentia 54 knots

Nqp15hhu · 10-03-2021 11:18pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Plenty of energy and that was an hour and a half after high tide, probably a bit of extra height in it with the onshore wind and Low Pressure.

Anemometer not working properly here, gusty and seen the window flex a few times but not too extreme

Barometer 9777.1 hPa Falling Rapidly near Tralee

7.8mm

8.3C

https://twitter.com/BallybunionBuoy/status/1369755292473425920?s=20

Really? Only had a 28mph gust here.

Orange Wind Warning for Cork & Kerry - Strong Winds 10th & 11th March

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