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

madmaggie · 18-12-2018 12:22am

It sounds a bit wild out there now. I live in a hollow, so it must be worse up on higher ground. In south Carlow.

Tazio · 18-12-2018 12:27am

92m asl near Riverstick Co Cork.

Just woken by winds! Quite rough.

No way of measuring wind speed

Met.ie last update for cork airport was 2200h.

Edit
CORK AIRPORT S 24 Gust 40

Rock Lesnar · 18-12-2018 12:29am

Not a bad night out there tonight, Fairly breezy and no rain here in my area of meath.

questionmark? · 18-12-2018 12:32am

Blowing heavy here in East Cork. The gusts feel much worse than the last official storm yet it's only yellow.

Cork Boy 53 · 18-12-2018 12:39am

Some serious gusts here the last few hours. I almost got blown over while going outside for firewood earlier.

uck51js9zml2yt · 18-12-2018 12:40am

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Yep near Tralee.

It's bucketing down. Just drove home from Killarney..it's wasn't very nice.

sryanbruen · 18-12-2018 12:42am

11.6mm in one hour at Valentia Observatory from 19:00 to 20:00 according to Villain.

https://twitter.com/CarlowWeather/status/1074807543912898561

Xenji · 18-12-2018 12:42am

31.4mm of rain in Castlebar since midnight, it will be interesting to see the final total in the morning.

No increase on the max gust of 87 km/hr, pressure down to 989.05 hPa.

EdgeCase · 18-12-2018 12:45am

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

I'm surprised Met Eireann aren't saying much about rainfall....40mm is high by any standard but with fields waterlogged it equals significant flooding for me.
I'd say the dam in Cork will be at breaking point by tomorrow night

You can see the hydrometric information here for the two Lee dams:

https://www.esb.ie/our-businesses/generation-energy-trading-new/hydrometric-information/river-lee

It looks like they're keeping the flow high to keep the levels down.

The pattern would be maximum safe outflow when the tide is low and manage it for high tide.

Meteorite58 · 18-12-2018 12:51am

Carson Shallow Warning wrote: »

It's bucketing down. Just drove home from Killarney..it's wasn't very nice.

22mm here near Tralee since around 17.00, no let up.

Getting windy now in S Kerry, Cork

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!

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

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