Gales/Strong Winds January 8th - 10th

Xenji, are you noticing them gusts?

Getting some growling gusts now up to 45 kt. They disappear for a couple of minutes only to come back again.

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Not sure about anyone else in the west, but its very nasty in Castlebar right now, sustained high winds howling against the house.

Nothing too serious in Galway so far, stronger gusts very isolated, but hearing a lot of 'lasso' type whirly sounds outside.

Xenji wrote: »

Indeed, they are getting continuously stronger and very sustained with no lulls, strongest of the year so far and look like getting stronger, makes you love living where we do

If you like these storms then your gonna have to come out and visit my location, extreme gusts at times. Even the sheltered side of the house is getting a battering.

The latest satellite picture shows the divide between the mild air, the cold front itself, and the wintery showers behind it

Seems to have calmed down in Castlebar but maybe because I am at the back of the house and I grew up in achill where wind noise is just a fact of life you learn to sleep though. Perhaps that's why I sleep through anything.

Rain has arrived from the cold front in louisburgh co. Mayo,very squally winds but nothing I ain't used to.

Well I suppose the squall line just arrived, went from breezy and dry to very windy and rain pelting hard against the windows.

'Squall' just passed here, was pretty crap to be frank, but a few squally gusts above 40 kts. Temp taking a sudden dive now in its wake.

Plenty of showers coming after the squall.
Could be interesting if the temps continue to drop.

The squall line was hardly noticed down in Limerick. It looks more severe towards the North East.

Wind howling here in West Limerick.

Doesn't sound as bad as midnight was but still fairly nasty.

Am about to head out in to it now.

A little over 500 premises reported without power around Newtowncunningham, Co. Donegal.

Power estimated to be restored approx 5.45 this morning.

0430 West Limerick

Winds have definitely slackened.

Wet with heavy drizzle confused in direction, swirling.

9°C

Will update on my journey if anything interesting crops up.

Conditions appear to have eased considerably since midnight.

Reasonable amount of small debris from trees and hedgerows. The odd bush sticking out hete and there. The biggest thing of note is the amount of water lying on the roads this morning. With the so far consistent light rain that situation is likely to worsen before it improves.

Temp has dropped to 2.8C from a high of 10.9C at 01.16, we have just reached negative dew points here, I have heard some hail on the roof mabey I'll have some fluffy stuff soon!

Hail showers here too in Achill and it actually seems more blustery than earlier.

At this point Wednesday night still looking quite windy and my suggestion is that we allow this thread to run through the weekend, assess the storm potential around Sunday afternoon or evening (for mid-week) and start a thread on that topic at that time. Just a heads up that it would probably be a bit confusing to readers to have two threads going but I don't think the mid-week storm should be a continuation, so will ask anyone interested to hold off on starting a new thread (this one would be locked as we enter the new thread discussion). If there is high model consensus later today (12z runs) perhaps we could move this up to an earlier transition.

Having said that, I don't expect winds today to change much from the current intensity but one or two gusts could approach 60 knots in exposed locations. It's probably a general level one, isolated level two situation. Tomorrow should be less windy.

snowinwinter wrote: »

oh my gosh. Nothing like that here.

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