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

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    #122
    sumtings
    Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭sumtings


    flazio wrote: »
    Looking at the met app, it looks like it's been downgraded to a yellow for the whole country.
    What pad199207 wrote


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    #123
    corsav6
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6


    flazio wrote: »
    So why take the Atlantic coast counties off orange?
    This is the latest warning issued at 8 this morning.

    The yellow warning expires at 13:00 tomorrow, I assume we'll get another warning from 13:00 onwards tomorrow.


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    #124
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Being amended. More counties likely to go orange with the possibility of a red warning for some counties.

    Yeah their website is poorly designed. Surely csn just update without taking down warnings.


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    #125
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Cork added to the orange.


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    #126
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Then it makes no sense to downgrade if it's actually going to be worse. If this was the only time somebody checks the weather forecast, they could be lured into a false sense of security.
    Some event that could go ahead in a yellow but get called off in an orange is theoretically going ahead.


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    #127
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Cork added to the orange.

    Yeah seems the only change. Far too early for red warnings better wait until later this afternoon.


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    #128
    corsav6
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6


    Entire west coast gone orange now.


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    #129
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    munsterlegend wrote: »
    Yeah seems the only change. Far too early for red warnings better wait until later this afternoon.

    Yeah I was thinking the same although they do suggest gusts of 130kmh or higher in exposed areas so they not far off a red.


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    #130
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Yeah I was thinking the same although they do suggest gusts of 130kmh or higher in exposed areas so they not far off a red.

    Unless showing further inland they usually don’t go red it seems.


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    #131
    Little snowy old me
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    Mother lives in an exposed area in Co. Donegal. We are evacuating her to my sister's house. The house is sturdy but it's the sea that worries us. I witnessed swells reaching the back door during storms in the past.


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    #132
    kilkenny31
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭kilkenny31


    corsav6 wrote: »
    Entire west coast gone orange now.

    Why had Trump been swimming in the sea at Doonbeg again?


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    #133
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,822 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    This storm is coinciding with low tides reducing the risk of flooding.


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    #134
    Little snowy old me
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    Discodog wrote: »
    This storm is coinciding with low tides reducing the risk of flooding.

    That's a relief. Bizarre to see seaweed and other marine debris in the garden and caught on the hawthorn bushes following a swell. Last significant time was 2014. I remember back in the mid 1970s there was a really bad storm and the sea reached the back window sills. All lino and carpets were ruined.


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    #135
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,873 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Discodog wrote: »
    This storm is coinciding with low tides reducing the risk of flooding.

    Galway tide Sunday 3pm not good


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    #136
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Galway tide Sunday 3pm not good

    5 meter swell forecast for Lahinch tomorrow, combine this with severe onshore winds and it could be a big test for the new coastal defenses. Unprotected coastlines will take a big pounding from this and Salthill is guaranteed to flood


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    #137
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,873 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Discodog wrote: »
    This storm is coinciding with low tides reducing the risk of flooding.

    Where is the location for low tides that you posted


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    #138
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Galway tide Sunday 3pm not good

    Yes but its a fairly low high tide. Just 4.3m. I think Salthill will get some flooding but nothing we haven't seen before. They'll close the road too. The worst of the storm will come as the tide is receding.


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    #139
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭endainoz


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Where is the location for low tides that you posted

    I guess they were on about the low tides around 9pm or so in Lahinch? It's the mid afternoon hight tide that will be the issue though.


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    #140
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    endainoz wrote: »
    I guess they were on about the low tides around 9pm or so in Lahinch? It's the mid afternoon hight tide that will be the issue though.

    Lahinch HT is 2:47pm. Just 3.8m which is low. A meter makes a big difference in storm surges.


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    #141
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    So cork is in the orange wind warning now. In an orange warning in general not this storm in particular is the likelihood of power cuts high ?


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    #142
    munsterlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    So cork is in the orange wind warning now. In an orange warning in general not this storm in particular is the likelihood of power cuts high ?

    Yes very possible particular in coastal areas.


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    #143
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,822 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Where is the location for low tides that you posted

    Relatively low. Galway

    Sat. 4.1
    Sun. 4.3
    Mon. 4.5

    A lot depends on wind direction.

    Can someone remind me. Are Arpege local times the same as here?


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    #144
    Discodog
    Registered Users Posts: 15,822 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Never saw a storm thread so quite bit of an anti climax so far

    People aren't concerned about the West :)


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    #145
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,873 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    https://m.independent.ie/weather/storm-atiyah-met-eireann-to-upgrade-weather-warning-for-nine-counties-number-of-national-parks-closed-38762221.html

    @!!


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    #146
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,873 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    https://m.independent.ie/weather/storm-atiyah-met-eireann-to-upgrade-weather-warning-for-nine-counties-number-of-national-parks-closed-38762221.html

    @!!

    Confused with this on breaking news we are already in Orange in the nine counties are they upgrading the current yellows


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    #147
    171170
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭171170


    Looking on the bright side, the Shannon Radar hasn't crashed - yet!


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    #148
    piplip87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭piplip87


    I'd say they have to be fairly careful with these warnings. As I'd imagine alot Christmas light turn ons are tonight or tomorrow night. I'd imagine plenty these bring plenty of money to small towns and villages. I know it's one of the busier nights up my way. So they would want to get the warning right on this one.


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    #149
    km79
    Registered Users Posts: 48,132 ✭✭✭✭km79


    First proper storm since moving home to mayo
    Quite an elevated site exposed to w/sw........


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    #150
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users Posts: 18,106 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Confused with this on breaking news we are already in Orange in the nine counties are they upgrading the current yellows

    No, they're simply saying that the yellow currently in place (which it's not, but that's beside the point) will change to Orange in 9 countries tomorrow.

    Very very poorly written piece.


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    #151
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭endainoz


    JCX BXC wrote: »
    No, they're simply saying that the yellow currently in place (which it's not, but that's beside the point) will change to Orange in 9 countries tomorrow.

    Very very poorly written piece.

    It's the Irish Independent, what else would you expect? The other rags will jump on the bandwagon later on I reckon.


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