Storm Brendan Monday 13 Jan 2020 See Mod note in OP before posting

Hooter23 · 12-01-2020 3:24pm

It really is the calm before the storm...Light winds and sunny in Galway

m17 · 12-01-2020 3:25pm

Discodog · 12-01-2020 3:26pm

Xenji wrote: »

Can we have a technical thread please........please?

Please. It's getting bad when you have to plead to the Gods

nthclare · 12-01-2020 3:28pm

Doolins going to get hammered and Lahinch will be bracing itself.
The new automatic barriers along the promenade will hopefully stop the boulders from smashing into the carpark.
It'll be interesting there tomorrow evening after 6, 19ft swell at 16 seconds.

It won't be as bad as the last carnage but quit big all the same

Super-Rush · 12-01-2020 3:32pm

Xenji wrote: »

Can we have a technical thread please........please?

Discodog wrote: »

Please. It's getting bad when you have to plead to the Gods

Why don't either of ye start one?

Little snowy old me · 12-01-2020 3:33pm

I relish the prospect that someday a storm will hit that will rival or exceed the big one of 1839. Many on here do too but unlike me, are afraid to admit it. Anyway, from what I can gather is that this will be a strong but not notable event on the west coast with a normal windy day inland. The centre is just to far west to really cause trouble for us. Its a wasted opportunity. I love storms. Will never apologise for that.

easypazz · 12-01-2020 3:35pm

nthclare wrote: »

Doolins going to get hammered and Lahinch will be bracing itself.
The new automatic barriers along the promenade will hopefully stop the boulders from smashing into the carpark.
It'll be interesting there tomorrow evening after 6, 19ft swell at 16 seconds.

It won't be as bad as the last carnage but quit big all the same

Coastal damage due to big swells and spring tides is the risk with this one.

Discodog · 12-01-2020 3:36pm

Little snowy old me wrote: »

I relish the prospect that someday a storm will hit that will rival or exceed the big one of 1839. Many on here do too but unlike me, are afraid to admit it. Anyway, from what I can gather is that this will be a strong but not notable event on the west coast with a normal windy day inland. The centre is just to far west to really cause trouble for us. Its a wasted opportunity. I love storms. Will never apologise for that.

? Identical posts an hour apart

Logan Roy · 12-01-2020 3:37pm

Discodog wrote: »

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They turn up with their shtick every so often. Best to ignore.

Graces7 · 12-01-2020 3:38pm

Ah no; then we would have to send rescue folk out for them; maybe send them ou tto assist the rescue workers....

Gale forecasts always remind me of Orkney; of one 3 day storm with gusts of over 127 MILES per hour. I had livestock and had to feed them and it felt as if the skin was literally being flayed off your face. The noise was appalling,

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

Should put the people who post that in a boat and send them out into the Atlantic. Let's see them update their status then.;)

endainoz · 12-01-2020 3:41pm

covey09 wrote: »

Brendan not the only one around here full of bluster:D

That ignore button is very handy!

nthclare · 12-01-2020 3:43pm

Little snowy old me wrote: »

I relish the prospect that someday a storm will hit that will rival or exceed the big one of 1839. Many on here do too but unlike me, are afraid to admit it. Anyway, from what I can gather is that this will be a strong but not notable event on the west coast with a normal windy day inland. The centre is just to far west to really cause trouble for us. Its a wasted opportunity. I love storms. Will never apologise for that.

Same here I love extreme weather, wouldn't wish anyone's lives interfered or anyone hurt.

But there's nothing like standing in a safe place near a headland and hearing the boulders collide and that metallic sound when a huge wave explodes with an epic shore break.
Dogfish getting tossed ashore is a common one, you'd see them wriggling back towards the waters edge, but usually the next wave pulls them back to safety.

Duggie2012 · 12-01-2020 3:47pm

Is there a chance this will go red along the west coast? If so wont it have to be soon to give people time to adjust for tomorrow?

Graces7 · 12-01-2020 3:48pm

But n serious injury and deaths are almost inevitable . as is serious damage to property so there is something very unsavoury about wishing so openly for a storm like that.
It shows a disregard for reality.

I doubt though that those who wish this would cope with bad weather! "Exiting and scared" they would be.

So no it is not normal.

Widdershins wrote: »

I think that's normal. Exciting and scary. Seeing the elements show us what they can do. Doesn't mean enjoyment of others being harmed.

Larbre34 · 12-01-2020 3:51pm

Little snowy old me wrote: »

I relish the prospect that someday a storm will hit that will rival or exceed the big one of 1839. Many on here do too but unlike me, are afraid to admit it. Anyway, from what I can gather is that this will be a strong but not notable event on the west coast with a normal windy day inland. The centre is just to far west to really cause trouble for us. Its a wasted opportunity. I love storms. Will never apologise for that.

It devastated the country. It would devastate the country today.

Would you settle for some wildfires, maybe a tsunami?

Ffs.

Graces7 · 12-01-2020 3:51pm

At these times always wise to "hope for the best but prepare for the worst. "

Orange is bad enough to make full preparations surely?

Duggie2012 wrote: »

Is there a chance this will go red along the west coast? If so wont it have to be soon to give people time to adjust for tomorrow?

easypazz · 12-01-2020 3:51pm

Duggie2012 wrote: »

Is there a chance this will go red along the west coast? If so wont it have to be soon to give people time to adjust for tomorrow?

I get the impression they have pretty much said exposed western areas may see red alert conditions but they won't be giving county wide red warnings, as that results in a complete shutdown of areas of a county that are unlikely to experience anything more than a blustery day.

The warning system is seriously flawed, and need to be changed.

squarecircles · 12-01-2020 3:54pm

easypazz wrote: »

I get the impression they have pretty much said exposed western areas may see red alert conditions but they won't be giving county wide red warnings, as that results in a complete shutdown of areas of a county that are unlikely to experience anything more than a blustery day.

The warning system is seriously flawed, and need to be changed.

itlll be more than a blustery day but certainly not a red alert across the majority of the country. high end yellow/orange.

Duggie2012 · 12-01-2020 3:54pm

easypazz wrote: »

I get the impression they have pretty much said exposed western areas may see red alert conditions but they won't be giving county wide red warnings, as that results in a complete shutdown of areas of a county that are unlikely to experience anything more than a blustery day.

The warning system is seriously flawed, and need to be changed.

Just thinking about work tomorrow

ldy4mxonucwsq6 · 12-01-2020 3:56pm

Graces7 wrote: »

At these times always wise to "hope for the best but prepare for the worst. "

Orange is bad enough to make full preparations surely?

But red means there's no expectation to get to work/school etc and people know to stay indoors.

Yellow and Orange means people are expected to go about their day.

secman · 12-01-2020 3:56pm

Little snowy old me wrote: »

I relish the prospect that someday a storm will hit that will rival or exceed the big one of 1839. Many on here do too but unlike me, are afraid to admit it. Anyway, from what I can gather is that this will be a strong but not notable event on the west coast with a normal windy day inland. The centre is just to far west to really cause trouble for us. Its a wasted opportunity. I love storms. Will never apologise for that.

Repeat and rince...and rince .and repeat..repeat and rince..repeat... i think we know what you want...no need to be repeating... no amount of repeating yourself will make any diffetence to the storms.

easypazz · 12-01-2020 4:00pm

Naggdefy wrote: »

Not too many pensioner, grandad's, as you have stated you are many times, wish for the extremely of extreme weather events. This makes your personal on here incredulous.

Wishing for a big storm is the same as the lads here wishing for snow. Nothing any of us wish for will change the weather that arrives.

I never see people around here wishing for mass deaths because of extreme weather.

scooby77 · 12-01-2020 4:03pm

To my untrained eye the Harmione predication included with Evelyn Cusack's commentary, although severe, doesn't seem quite as bad as images from other models I've seen here. Worst winds seem offshore.
2 quick questions for those more knowledgeable:
Do Met Eireann rely solely/mainly on this Harmione model, or do they also use the others?
Has Harmione been proven as more accurate?

Naggdefy · 12-01-2020 4:07pm

easypazz wrote: »

Wishing for a big storm is the same as the lads here wishing for snow. Nothing any of us wish for will change the weather that arrives.

I never see people around here wishing for mass deaths because of extreme weather.

A pensioner

He felt a big storm was coming yesterday he told us

Already in tantrum mode, 20 hours pre storm. Like when his 'promised' snow doesn't arrive to show the grandchildren. Something bizarre about Little Snowy Old Me aka Fraxinus.

sdanseo · 12-01-2020 4:15pm

scooby77 wrote: »

To my untrained eye the Harmione predication included with Evelyn Cusack's commentary, although severe, doesn't seem quite as bad as images from other models I've seen here. Worst winds seem offshore.
2 quick questions for those more knowledgeable:
Do Met Eireann rely solely/mainly on this Harmione model, or do they also use the others?
Has Harmione been proven as more accurate?

Harmonie and ECM seemingly with a little more emphasis on Harmonie for some reason.

HIRLAM also used for short range although again I think most of what they have posted in the last couple of years has been Harmonie so probably a bias towards that on the short range side also.

Cork981 · 12-01-2020 4:15pm

Few counties removed from the orange warning.

https://www.met.ie/warnings

igCorcaigh · 12-01-2020 4:18pm

Cork981 wrote: »

Few counties removed from the orange warning.

https://www.met.ie/warnings

Are they updating the warnings?
Always found it odd that they do this...

igCorcaigh · 12-01-2020 4:19pm

Now nationwide orange it seems?

pad199207 · 12-01-2020 4:19pm

NATIONWIDE ORANGE NOW

Status Orange - Wind warning for Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Clare, Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford

Update: As Storm Brendan tracks to the northwest of Ireland, southerly winds will reach mean speeds of 50 to 70 km/h with gusts of 100 to 120 km/h, higher in exposed areas.

There is a significant risk of coastal flooding due to the combination of high spring tides and storm surge.

Valid: 08:00 Monday 13/01/2020 to 15:00 Monday 13/01/2020

Graces7 · 12-01-2020 4:21pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Now nationwide orange it seems?[/QUOTE

JAFFA IRELAND! !

Never seen that before!

Need a nap; back later...

pad199207 · 12-01-2020 4:22pm

Good chance of Mayo, Galway, Sligo, Donegal going Red now

easypazz · 12-01-2020 4:22pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Good chance of Mayo, Galway, Sligo, Donegal going Red now

Don't forget Leitrim!!

pad199207 · 12-01-2020 4:25pm

easypazz wrote: »

Don't forget Leitrim!!

Ofcourse and the “mile” long coast of Leitrim.

Little snowy old me · 12-01-2020 4:29pm

Discodog wrote: »

? Identical posts an hour apart

I accidentally posted that twice

Larbre34 · 12-01-2020 4:30pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Are they updating the warnings?
Always found it odd that they do this...

Aaaand that's Blockbusters!

Meteorite58 · 12-01-2020 4:31pm

Little snowy old me wrote: »

I accidentally posted that twice

Mod Note: Noted.

Graces7 · 12-01-2020 4:33pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Good chance of Mayo, Galway, Sligo, Donegal going Red now

That is what I thought was happening just now

Came back as just seen BreakingNews .ie re coastguard warning … words fail

watlantic · 12-01-2020 4:33pm

Red Marine Warning now from Met Eireann:
MARINE WARNINGS

Status: Red
Gale Warning
Status Red - Gale Warning

Gale force 8 to storm force 10 southerly winds will develop overnight and on Monday morning on all Irish coastal waters and on the Irish Sea. Winds will reach violent storm force 11 at times from Mizen Head to Slyne Head to Malin Head.

aisling86 · 12-01-2020 4:34pm

I reckon kerry, donegal & connacht will go red after being split out

Meteorite58 · 12-01-2020 4:37pm

Harmonie, doesn't cover the W, SW coast on this site but good idea of gusts for the rest of the country.

uck51js9zml2yt · 12-01-2020 4:41pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

A closer look at where might get some of the strongest winds, mapa bit crude but very useful.

To note that the wind speeds in bold white are generally high ground.

Looks like the Conor pass is a no go zone...I'm on high ground. I'm in deep do-do.

Meteorite58 · 12-01-2020 4:42pm

Some close up gust predictions from the HARMONIE

Flippyfloppy · 12-01-2020 4:43pm

easypazz wrote: »

I get the impression they have pretty much said exposed western areas may see red alert conditions but they won't be giving county wide red warnings, as that results in a complete shutdown of areas of a county that are unlikely to experience anything more than a blustery day.

The warning system is seriously flawed, and need to be changed.

County councils should really retain some responsibility in that regard.

Meteorite58 · 12-01-2020 4:43pm

Eliana Skinny Fruit wrote: »

Looks like the Conor pass is a no go zone...I'm on high ground. I'm in deep do-do.

Yeah, looks like the Dingle peninsula could get a fair battering.

Meteorite58 · 12-01-2020 4:57pm

ICON 12Z bringing the storm in a bit lower on this run and clipping the W with the core. Showing extremely strong winds from Donegal down to Kerry, very strong along the S and SE.

I saw the ECM 06Z and no great change from earlier. Would need to verify the ICON by comparing with other models, can overdo it sometimes.

Either way very powerful storm.

Guffy · 12-01-2020 5:13pm

Wish i could read the above models

gozunda · 12-01-2020 5:15pm

Eliana Skinny Fruit wrote: »

Looks like the Conor pass is a no go zone...I'm on high ground. I'm in deep do-do.

Similar here. Just been out to tie things down before tmrw.

John Hutton · 12-01-2020 5:18pm

Folks, am I right in saying that the east coast should be fairly ok? I rely on the train to get from Drogheda to Dublin and also cycle a fair bit on either end. Going to leave the bike at home tomorrow but do you think there is a probability the train line would be affected? Perhaps at the estury at malahide or donabate?

(Thinking of just taking the day off if there's a decent chances trains would be cancelled from downed lines or trees)
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12-01-2020 5:21pm

Guffy wrote: »

Wish i could read the above models

One guy in 12 is colour blind and diagrams like those are impossible or very difficult to read.

Icyseanfitz · 12-01-2020 5:26pm

Do ye think this is going red for costal Kerry?

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Storm Brendan Monday 13 Jan 2020 See Mod note in OP before posting