Wind / Rainfall Warning Mon 17th pm / Tues 18th am Dec 2018

WoolyJumper · 18-12-2018 12:52am

Very windy since early this evening in Cork. Feels far worse that what we had on Saturday

flexcon · 18-12-2018 12:53am

Just spent nearly 4 hours up at cork airport. Amazing pilots and brave passengers.

Back in the city and it’s caused havoc for bins and rubbish. Place is a tip!

199% worse than deirdre.

mickmackey1 · 18-12-2018 12:53am

Significantly wilder here now than that non-event on Saturday - mid Limerick

kerrycork13 · 18-12-2018 12:55am

It’s a wicked night out. The rivers are def gonna burst there banks tonight or tom. Serious flooding in cork and Kerry I would say

questionmark? · 18-12-2018 12:57am

Lots of experts here on this forum. Would you be able to explain why this is only yellow and not amber?

SlowBlowin · 18-12-2018 12:58am

Its like a car wash out there....

I can confirm its windy.

600 ft ASL MacGillycuddy's Reeks - North of Sneem - Kerry

Storm 10 · 18-12-2018 12:59am

Definitely much stronger wind in Galway than we had with Deirdre

antodeco · 18-12-2018 1:12am

Couple of proper solid wallops in Dublin. Creaking roof. I have vents that go from the rear of the roof, splits across the attic and then filters out through the eaves to give full 360 air circulation and they appear to be having a hooley with those gusts. Always sounds likes the house is going to lift up!

pad199207 · 18-12-2018 1:14am

A few gusts now close to 50MPH

sdanseo · 18-12-2018 1:17am

questionmark? wrote: »

Lots of experts here on this forum. Would you be able to explain why this is only yellow and not amber?

Because we don't have an effective impact-based warning system. We have a numerical one which isn't fit for purpose in anything other than a lab.

SlowBlowin · 18-12-2018 1:21am

HUGE Gust just now, could hear damage outside.

600 ft ASL MacGillycuddy's Reeks - North of Sneem - Kerry

madmaggie · 18-12-2018 1:24am

I had a look on the Carlow Weather site. They showed a gust of 85 earlier. Of course that's not Met Eireann so not official.

gozunda · 18-12-2018 1:28am

The wind here is relentless since this afternoon. Still howling and no let up until early morning by the looks of it. What ever went bang earlier is probably in the next county at this stage ...

pad199207 · 18-12-2018 1:32am

Gust 55mph now. Getting a little louder now. On a par with Deirdre

donal.hunt · 18-12-2018 1:32am

Definitely much windier here in Whitechurch, Co. Cork (120 MAMSL). Real storm!!

https://waterlevel.ie/ not showing much increase on the few stations I checked but it will take time for water to get to them. This one (https://waterlevel.ie/0000019058/0001/week/) in Blackpool, Cork tends to highlight heavy downpours since it's a manmade channel and rises quickly (you can see the amount of water passing over the weekend!!).

pad199207 · 18-12-2018 1:37am

Has really turned up a notch now here the last 15 mins or so

4068ac1elhodqr · 18-12-2018 1:53am

Wind is going to get worse anywhere along the Irish Sea, occasional gusts of storm force.
Can understand only yellow (excluding marine), but perhaps a very short-lived (2-3hrs) Orange for these areas & times,
for anyone living <10km of coast might be an idea.

0100-0300 Kerry
0300 Cork
0400 Waterford
0500 All SE coasts
0600 mid-East coast
0700 All East coast

pad199207 · 18-12-2018 1:55am

68kts (79mph) at Fastnet

kerrycork13 · 18-12-2018 1:57am

Reports of trees and telephone poles down in parts of cork. Wouldn’t surprise if there was close to 2 inches of rain with this system here in Kerry. Def over an inch after falling already. Lots of flooding for morning commuters I would imagine..

sdanseo · 18-12-2018 1:57am

Starting to hear gusts now in Dublin, just as I'm heading for the leaba. Not expecting anything earth shattering enough to stop sleep!

CB19Kevo · 18-12-2018 1:58am

Its been extreme all evening in South east Kerry.
Some very very strong gusts at the moment,
Way worse than Saturday.

4068ac1elhodqr · 18-12-2018 1:59am

sdanseo wrote: »

Starting to hear gusts now in Dublin, just as I'm heading for the leaba. Not expecting anything earth shattering enough to stop sleep!

Peak rain&wind is 0600-0800 for Dublin, so a while to go yet.

sdanseo · 18-12-2018 1:59am

Orange Marine Warning - no need for thread to change as does not affect land

Storm Force = F10, 89-102km/h mean winds so not unreasonable to expect isolated gusts exceeding 130km/h over M2 buoy
https://www.met.ie/forecasts/marine-inland-lakes/buoys

Status Orange - Gale Warning
South to Southeast gales or strong gales tonight on all Irish Sea coasts and on the Irish Sea, possibly touching storm force locally in the East and South and in the Irish Sea. Winds abating from the West overnight and during Tuesday.

Issued: Tuesday 18 December 2018 00:00

thecomedian · 18-12-2018 2:06am

Sounds a lot wilder than it did at the weekend in South Kildare.
It seems to be picking up and I think it will stay strong until 5/6.

Mech1 · 18-12-2018 2:12am

Sorry guys / girls, I havent been following this thread as i usually would.

Are the winds and rain in Dublin set to increase?

Thanks.

4068ac1elhodqr · 18-12-2018 2:15am

Mech1 wrote: »

Sorry guys / girls, I havent been following this thread as i usually would.

Are the winds and rain in Dublin set to increase?

Thanks.

Beware high-side vechiles along Eastern costal routes 0600-0800+/-1.

sdanseo · 18-12-2018 2:21am

Irony not lost on a night like tonight

www.tiitraffic.ie wrote:

Roadworks on M50 (West) between J09 - RED COW and J10 - BALLYMOUNT from 22:00 on 2018-12-17 to 06:00 on 2018-12-18 Lanes affected: Hard shoulder, Auxiliary lane, Lane 1
Weather Station Installation

Roadworks on M50 (South) between J15 - CARRICKMINES and J14 - SANDYFORD from 22:00 on 2018-12-17 to 06:00 on 2018-12-18 Lanes affected: Hard shoulder, Auxiliary lane, Lane 1
Weather Station Installation

pad199207 · 18-12-2018 2:22am

sdanseo wrote: »

Irony not lost on a night like tonight

All for a good cause so!

Car99 · 18-12-2018 2:28am

Sound worse than last Saturday here for the last three or 4 hours.

West of the Galtee mountains.

sdanseo · 18-12-2018 2:28am

Irish Ferries operating 08.55 Ulysees from Dublin with 90 min delay

Inbound Stena operating at 03.00 ex Holyhead

2 major consequences (3 for me since I work in logistics, more work to do in the morning)

lots of seasick passengers
lots of trucks heading to and from the ports between 0600-0800

SlowBlowin · 18-12-2018 2:42am

This must be a very slow moving system, the worst winds have been sat on Kerry for about 6 hours now, its relentless. I would really like to share this with the rest of the country to so hoping it starts moving east soon.

Maybe it just seems slow moving because of its size.

The winds are still at their strongest, and its raining a lot heavier now, but we have power again.

600 ft ASL MacGillycuddy's Reeks - North of Sneem - Kerry

CirrusBusiness · 18-12-2018 2:43am

Some very big gusts hitting Carlow now. Looks like its going to peak around 5/6am. A wild night. (Gusts loud enough to wake us up.)

Take care on roads in the early am. Could be quite a bit of debris/trees down after such sustained high winds throughout the night. I think Callum and Ali weren't even as strong and they left their marks locally. Will be interesting to see what max gust is at Villain's station tomorrow. (A little higher at this elevation i'd imagine.) Quite a howl and whistle outside.

RobertKK · 18-12-2018 2:48am

I can hear stuff banging outside, just hope there is no damage.

pad199207 · 18-12-2018 2:50am

Seems to be a lull now in N Kildare. Highest gust so far is 56mph. No substantial rainfall yet

highdef · 18-12-2018 3:02am

Nothing untoward all evening in North Kildare. Quite windy but nothing compared to Deirdre. Having said that, the current trajectory of the wind means that I am being sheltered by a hill to my immediate south.

4068ac1elhodqr · 18-12-2018 3:15am

For Kildare^ it hasn't really started (0530+) and it won't be nearly as bad as actual coastal areas, unless elevated. But still worse than more central inland areas.

0600:

SlowBlowin · 18-12-2018 3:18am

Thank goodness, all quiet at the moment in Kerry, I think its just slipped by us.

Off to bed now.

SB

600 ft ASL MacGillycuddy's Reeks - North of Sneem - Kerry

Tazio · 18-12-2018 3:50am

0200 CORK AIRPORT S 28 Gust 47 LIGHT RAIN

At time of posting experiencing some volient gusts now. Family all awake and up!!

92 m asl outside Riverstick Co Cork

Davaeo09 · 18-12-2018 3:53am

Wind woke me here in Kilkenny. V v windy. As bad as the storm or worse id say.

Villain · 18-12-2018 4:03am

98kmh at mine now

Villain · 18-12-2018 4:08am

Make that 100kmh!

irelandspurs · 18-12-2018 4:17am

Portarlington, laois been getting good strong gust all night

La.de.da · 18-12-2018 4:19am

Jaysus awful night here in Tipperary.

2013Lara · 18-12-2018 4:26am

Seriously windy here in Wicklow. After waking me. Sounds much stronger than deirdre.

GaGa21 · 18-12-2018 4:32am

Very bad here in Offaly. Wind woke me to the sound of my recycling bin blowing empty cans up along the drive!
Dreading the mess out there tomorrow. Nearly went out there now but it sounds terrible so gonna wait till it passes and clean up in the morning.

harr · 18-12-2018 4:34am

Very strong wind all night here on the kildare/Laois border gusts are wild enough...well enough to wake the kids. I can here a lot of stuff banging about the garden.
Definitely a lot stronger than the storm the other night, power starting to flicker now.

Oscar Bravo · 18-12-2018 4:42am

Woke up by rain and strong winds. 3am met reports Roaches point gusting 55 knots,Sherkin 54 knots,Cork airport gusting 52 knots, Casement 50 knots,Mace head 49 knots. A stormy night....