Storm Atiyah Sunday - Monday, 8th - 9th Dec 2019

aisling86 · 08-12-2019 4:50pm

munsterlegend wrote: »

Who said Cork shouldn’t be red?!

Will be interesting to see what actually comes ashore wind wise. Nothing significant in mid cork yet expecting a rapid deterioration in the next 90min.

Oneiric 3 · 08-12-2019 4:52pm

Gone apocalyptically dark here.

Meteorite58 · 08-12-2019 4:52pm

https://twitter.com/MuireannNic/status/1203699195556900867?s=20

RobertKK · 08-12-2019 4:53pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

To finish off an earlier discussion, Storm Darwin also had a red wind warning. Here's all the red national warnings that have been issued by Met Éireann that I could think of or find.

And yes, the usual storm comparison table will come tomorrow or sometime during the week.

Storm Darwin was upgraded to red for Kilkenny and some other areas when the storm was at full impact with trees falling, roofs blown off and electricity gone.
So they were very late for that storm in most parts.

SleetAndSnow · 08-12-2019 4:53pm

Heavy showers in cork city (Mahon point at the moment). Dark skies.

Clamball · 08-12-2019 4:53pm

munsterlegend wrote: »

Who said Cork shouldn’t be red?!

The Fastnet is off shore and high up, conditions inland and at ground level not so severe.

Nothing unusual in Cork city at present, but I would not be volunteering for a trip out around the Fastnet. It all depends on your specific location.

pad199207 · 08-12-2019 4:56pm

Clamball wrote: »

The Fastnet is off shore and high up, conditions inland and at ground level not so severe.

Nothing unusual in Cork city at present, but I would not be volunteering for a trip out around the Fastnet. It all depends on your specific location.

Indeed it’s not really representative of any conditions likely onshore. Although it’s always interesting to see what it does record out there.

m17 · 08-12-2019 4:56pm

Cumbria England this morning

munsterlegend · 08-12-2019 4:59pm

Clamball wrote: »

The Fastnet is off shore and high up, conditions inland and at ground level not so severe.

Nothing unusual in Cork city at present, but I would not be volunteering for a trip out around the Fastnet. It all depends on your specific location.

I was joking. Well aware where the fastnet rock
Is.

m17 · 08-12-2019 5:00pm

Supercell · 08-12-2019 5:05pm

Most windy its been here in a very long time, had an unpleasant jog by Killiney beach earlier, power of the wind was impressive.

Storm 10 · 08-12-2019 5:07pm

Pretty normal windy day in Galway with some strong gusts and heavy showers nothing out of the ordinary for this part of the Country I was expecting worse to be honest

Oneiric 3 · 08-12-2019 5:12pm

Looks like the center of that first low will more pass over N. Kerry now than Clare, with, as M.T mentioned earlier, the strongest of the winds being to the south of it initially, but following on from its more western flank as it pushes further SE'wards. Winds here in S. Connacht still westerly and blustery but nothing of norm.

Rougies · 08-12-2019 5:12pm

Storm 10 wrote: »

Pretty normal windy day in Galway with some strong gusts and heavy showers nothing out of the ordinary for this part of the Country I was expecting worse to be honest

Round 1 is only getting started now, mostly affecting the far SW. Round 2 will be from about 20:00 onwards mostly affecting the W and NW.

Sardonicat · 08-12-2019 5:13pm

Calm in Tralee at present, i(n fact it was much wilder late morning,) but going by Meteorite's post above not for much longer! Hope the folks on the coast aren't hit too hard by flooding.

downwiththatsor · 08-12-2019 5:14pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Calm in Tralee at present, i(n fact it was much wilder late morning,) but going by Meteorite's post above not for much longer! Hope the folks on the coast aren't hit too hard by flooding.

The Ryanair flight to Stansted left Kerry Airport ten mins ago without any problems.

squarecircles · 08-12-2019 5:14pm

Storm 10 wrote: »

Pretty normal windy day in Galway with some strong gusts and heavy showers nothing out of the ordinary for this part of the Country I was expecting worse to be honest

Yeah unfortunately met Éireann got it wrong for Western areas and have failed to revise their forecast accordingly, the severest winds will be in the southwest and later in the North, they just don't have the resources seemingly and fail to communicate this in the forecast warnings. Just a normal windy winters day here on the coast in Mayo.

08-12-2019 5:16pm

Facebook showed me a post I made this day last year. It went "Fierce windy out there. I've the kettle on".

Bit of Deja vu right now.

Basq · 08-12-2019 5:19pm

Basq wrote: »

Flying out of Knock Airport this afternoon.. wish me luck! :eek:

All good bar torrential rain.

Ropey enough landing in Bristol... weather not much better over here.

Stay safe all!

Sardonicat · 08-12-2019 5:20pm

downwiththatsor wrote: »

The Ryanair flight to Stansted left Kerry Airport ten mins ago without any problems.

That's good. If Kerry Airport was on the Dingle Peninsula it wouldn't be going anywhere . Wind picking up here (Tralee) in last 2-3 mins

Meteorite58 · 08-12-2019 5:21pm

After picking up the last 20 mins or so ,10 min avg 35 km/h NW gusting over 70 km/h here near Tralee.

https://twitter.com/NWSOPC/status/1203710586791424000?s=20

Cushtie · 08-12-2019 5:25pm

Breezy in West Limerick now. Not too bad so far. Had a few claps of thunder earlier today and a few squally showers.

Oneiric 3 · 08-12-2019 5:27pm

squarecircles wrote: »

Yeah unfortunately met Éireann got it wrong for Western areas and have failed to revise their forecast accordingly, the severest winds will be in the southwest and later in the North, they just don't have the resources seemingly and fail to communicate this in the forecast warnings. Just a normal windy winters day here on the coast in Mayo.

Strongest of the winds were never forecast for the NW until later on this evening.

squarecircles · 08-12-2019 5:29pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Strongest of the winds were never forecast for the NW until later on this evening.

I don't live in the northwest, I was referring to the West, where I live and the where the previous poster lives who's post I was replying to.

Little snowy old me · 08-12-2019 5:33pm

One or two heavy squalls but nothing we don't see several times each winter. Almost calm between the showers. See what the evening brings.... Between North Sligo and South Donegal....

revelman · 08-12-2019 5:34pm

Normal day so far here on the coast near Kinsale. We are in a pretty exposed place near the sea so we can get battered by wind and rain many days of the year. Nothing unusual about today at all. I guess it could turn much worse later (hope not because I’m flying to England tonight from Cork airport).

By the way, it must be a difficult call for ME to classify these storms and their system means that a county as big as Cork has to be the same colour even though that might not make much sense in practical terms.

ZX7R · 08-12-2019 5:34pm

squarecircles wrote: »

Yeah unfortunately met Éireann got it wrong for Western areas and have failed to revise their forecast accordingly, the severest winds will be in the southwest and later in the North, they just don't have the resources seemingly and fail to communicate this in the forecast warnings. Just a normal windy winters day here on the coast in Mayo.

Long time till 06:00 Monday morning when the weather warning expires.
Still could be warranted.

Donegal Storm · 08-12-2019 5:38pm

Fairly normal winters day here in Letterkenny as well bar a few rumbles of thunder earlier. Blustery with beefy showers but was far stormier around 9-10pm last night

igCorcaigh · 08-12-2019 5:38pm

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1203712070837035010?s=19

aisling86 · 08-12-2019 5:39pm

igCorcaigh wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1203712070837035010?s=19

Is this indicating it's going offshore past cork?

Shane O' Malley · 08-12-2019 5:41pm

ZX7R wrote: »

Long time till 06:00 Monday morning when the weather warning expires.
Still could be warranted.

Mace head got up to the Orange zone (Just about) in the last hour so from that point of view it has already proved to be warranted and with the worst forecast for between now and midnight.

igCorcaigh · 08-12-2019 5:41pm

aisling86 wrote: »

Is this indicating it's going offshore past cork?

The strongest winds will be offshore, but still windy inland.

Oneiric 3 · 08-12-2019 5:44pm

Usually we would have some lingering twilight at this time, even on overcast evenngs, but totally dark now, and it only twenty to five.

08-12-2019 5:45pm

Power gone, Bantry East. :-(

dball · 08-12-2019 5:47pm

gone crazy here West of Dingle - full on gusts and very blowy
Just filled a wheelie bin full of water so it wont blow away - mad I tall ya

pad199207 · 08-12-2019 5:49pm

Fairly starting up again in Kildare now

Cork Lass · 08-12-2019 5:51pm

revelman wrote: »

Normal day so far here on the coast near Kinsale. We are in a pretty exposed place near the sea so we can get battered by wind and rain many days of the year. Nothing unusual about today at all. I guess it could turn much worse later (hope not because I’m flying to England tonight from Cork airport).

By the way, it must be a difficult call for ME to classify these storms and their system means that a county as big as Cork has to be the same colour even though that might not make much sense in practical terms.

Good luck on that flight, I’d say it’ll be bumpy. A lot of flights to and from Cork airport are cancelled this evening.

Sacrolyte · 08-12-2019 5:52pm

Sh1t just got real. North Kerry.

Cushtie · 08-12-2019 5:53pm

dball wrote: »

gone crazy here West of Dingle - full on gusts and very blowy
Just filled a wheelie bin full of water so it wont blow away - mad I tall ya

You anywhere near Cuan Pier?

Storm 10 · 08-12-2019 6:10pm

Counted 64 trawlers sheltering or tied up in Castletownbere on Marine Traffic French, Irish ,Spanish and a cargo ship

Snow Garden · 08-12-2019 6:11pm

Quiet enough in west Galway. Wet and cold though.

Little snowy old me · 08-12-2019 6:12pm

Is the first big false flag imminent? Nothing remotely approaching red warning levels being recorded anywhere on land and many places, even in the west, haven't been much above a basic yellow.

M.T. Cranium · 08-12-2019 6:17pm

Next hour is expected to bring peak gusts in Kerry, but further north peak will be 9 to 11 pm later this evening. The storm in that case is still developing west of the Hebrides, moving south. Large parts of the west are currently between the two energy peaks and will experience a lull in wind speeds lasting to about 7-8 p.m.

Would expect a fairly rapid onset of this second strong wind phase in Connacht and west Ulster as gradients will intensify quickly due to the acceleration of the low. It will be making landfall near Derry or Inishowen about 9 p.m. and will be into the central Irish Sea by midnight, so it's tracking.

igCorcaigh · 08-12-2019 6:22pm

https://twitter.com/nickyod87/status/1203721360998043648?s=19

Sardonicat · 08-12-2019 6:25pm

Little snowy old me wrote: »

Is the first big false flag imminent? Nothing remotely approaching red warning levels being recorded anywhere on land and many places, even in the west, haven't been much above a basic yellow.

These are the worst winds I've seen in Tralee in a few years, and that's including some Orange level storms.

Weltsmertz · 08-12-2019 6:28pm

A normal winter's day in Cork with a bit of rain.
I know that some people thrive in this stuff but getting very cynical about all these weather and storm warnings.
It's like they are deliberately trying to make the general population more fearful and apprehensive.
It used to be the case that a bit of rain was seen as a normal everyday occurance.

irishrover99 · 08-12-2019 6:29pm

Storm 10 wrote: »

Counted 64 trawlers sheltering or tied up in Castletownbere on Marine Traffic French, Irish ,Spanish and a cargo ship

That’s a good piss up in the local so.

Storm 10 · 08-12-2019 6:32pm

irishrover99 wrote: »

That’s a good piss up in the local so.

Majority of them are not tied up just riding out the storm in sheltered area

Snow Garden · 08-12-2019 6:32pm

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Next hour is expected to bring peak gusts in Kerry, but further north peak will be 9 to 11 pm later this evening. The storm in that case is still developing west of the Hebrides, moving south. Large parts of the west are currently between the two energy peaks and will experience a lull in wind speeds lasting to about 7-8 p.m.

Would expect a fairly rapid onset of this second strong wind phase in Connacht and west Ulster as gradients will intensify quickly due to the acceleration of the low. It will be making landfall near Derry or Inishowen about 9 p.m. and will be into the central Irish Sea by midnight, so it's tracking.

Thanks MT, that's informative and makes sense - we are certainly in a lull in Galway now. It's not even as bad as last night now.

jamesbere · 08-12-2019 6:34pm

I've been in constant contact with my mother on bere island. She says it's very bad the last hour.

Storm Atiyah Sunday - Monday, 8th - 9th Dec 2019

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