Storm Gareth: Tues 12 /Weds 13 March 2019 (Orange Warning for NW)

davidsr20 · 11-03-2019 11:38pm

antodeco wrote: »

Very strong gusts here in Dublin 10. Thanks to this thread I did a bit of preemptive weighing down of a few bits that like to take flight. Bins are outz but thankfully black bin so nice and heavy!

Contains traces of nuts?

mirrorwall14 · 11-03-2019 11:39pm

Electricity gone here since about 9pm. It’s onky now as people go to bed I’m getting enough signal to catch up! It’s tried to come back four rimes now with no success. I want to murder the house alarm beeping box

STB. · 11-03-2019 11:44pm

Fairly mild evening here in Wexico.... 17 degrees.

Having a BBQ.

Realistically a kettle bbq would be 2 miles up the road at this stage.

irelandspurs · 11-03-2019 11:47pm

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Electricity gone here since about 9pm. It’s onky now as people go to bed I’m getting enough signal to catch up! It’s tried to come back four rimes now with no success. I want to murder the house alarm beeping box

type your code in,will stop the fault beep

Harry Palmr · 11-03-2019 11:51pm

Is this the storm or just the scrambled egg and bread roll starter? Cos it's feeling rather stormy out there!

antodeco · 11-03-2019 11:52pm

That squall line really is a thing of beauty!

SleetAndSnow · 11-03-2019 11:53pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Is this the storm or just the scrambled egg and bread roll starter? Cos it's feeling rather stormy out there!

Outskirts of the storm. The wind warnings don't kick in till tomorrow 12pm! Yellow criteria has just about been broken down here but it was borderline. gusts are causing the house to creak quite a bit here

pauldry · 11-03-2019 11:53pm

Rainy and windy in Sligo

Nothing too bad yet

But weve just gone over 100mm of rain for the month of march so far

Think 260mm is the wettest March natinally on record but Im no statistician

Meteorite58 · 11-03-2019 11:55pm

Gone eerily quiet here in Tralee , Temp dropped 2.5C to 8.9C

Nice structure to what appears to be a squall line crossing the country.

limericklad87 · 11-03-2019 11:58pm

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Electricity gone here since about 9pm. It’s onky now as people go to bed I’m getting enough signal to catch up! It’s tried to come back four rimes now with no success. I want to murder the house alarm beeping box

Just enter your normal disarming code

typhoony · 12-03-2019 12:04am

antodeco wrote: »

That squall line really is a thing of beauty!

in reality it's a very weak thin squall line, just passed through here and apart from 10 minutes of heavy rain it was missable.

uck51js9zml2yt · 12-03-2019 12:05am

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Gone eerily quiet here in Tralee , Temp dropped 2.5C to 8.9C

Nice structure to what appears to be a squall line crossing the country.

It's blowing a gale outside my house if you want to pop over the road

JanuarySnowstor · 12-03-2019 12:07am

Squall lines typically gain strength as they cross the country. Expecting it to pack a punch as it moves further East.

km79 · 12-03-2019 12:11am

typhoony wrote: »

in reality it's a very weak thin squall line, just passed through here and apart from 10 minutes of heavy rain it was missable.

Agreed
Even the rain wasn’t as happy as it looked on the radar thankfully

r93kaey5p2izun · 12-03-2019 12:26am

I'm a bit taken aback by the sustained winds here in Lucan tonight. A window was broken by flying debris and a small tree is down. The noise is ferocious.

weatherfiend · 12-03-2019 12:28am

Blimey the wind is unbelievable in Sandyford Dublin 18. Both dogs (big and little) begged to go out and literally ran from the door when I opened it. It’s mad!!

Neddyusa · 12-03-2019 12:29am

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

Squall lines typically gain strength as they cross the country. Expecting it to pack a punch as it moves further East.

Well if it gets any worse than what we've had this past 15 mins in South Roscommon, then some places further east will be at risk of spot flooding from this.
No rain guage here but that was some seriously, seriously heavy rain!

DOCARCH · 12-03-2019 12:31am

Pretty rough in Dublin 16 too. Wind is really howling.

SleetAndSnow · 12-03-2019 12:40am

Dublin airport reporting gusts of 32kts, casement at 48kts Cork airport at 45kts and Roche's Point at 48kts. Stormy conditions out there tonight. Neighbours fence has blown down and can hear a lot of things blowing around outside

Donegal Storm · 12-03-2019 12:42am

Pouring rain all afternoon and evening in Letterkenny and wind steadily increasing with some strong gusts, will be stuck in the office all day tomorrow so doubt I'll see much but if tonight is anything to go by then tomorrow should be fairly rough

sryanbruen · 12-03-2019 12:55am

Maximum gusts (kph) at Irish stations up to 2300 UTC on 11th Mar 2019

Belmullet 108
Malin Head 97
Finner Camp 94
Roches Point 94
Sherkin Island 90
Cork Airport 90
Mace Head 90
Casement Aerodrome 90
Valentia Observatory 87

Meteorite58 · 12-03-2019 1:19am

Looks like the heaviest part of that squall line feature is heading towards Cashel / Clonmel area and possibly on towards around Kilkenny after.

pad199207 · 12-03-2019 1:25am

That is one huge storm system

sReq | uTeK · 12-03-2019 1:33am

Wind very bad here in south dub

pad199207 · 12-03-2019 1:35am

Winds seems to be picking up ahead of this squall line. It’s still a bit away.

Meteorite58 · 12-03-2019 1:39am

ICON's latest run 21z showing stronger winds then earlier , very winy overland also but ARPEGE 18z not as strong as it's earlier runs ?

Still meed to see what the morning runs produce.

gozunda · 12-03-2019 1:48am

antodeco wrote: »

That squall line really is a thing of beauty!

Passed through with some almighty gusts. Interesting temperature rose to a balmy 11c @ (before squally bit ) and then when wind direction changed away from ssw temperatures dropping fairly fast.

pad199207 · 12-03-2019 1:52am

Right on the doorstep now.

Little snowy old me · 12-03-2019 1:59am

Winds have increased here dramatically in Palmerstown, west Dublin in the last 5 minutes after a brief easing. Radar showing the squall is approaching and over me in the next 20 minutes or so. No point in going to bed. May as well see what it brings.

bassy · 12-03-2019 2:14am

Heavey rain and wind here in north kilkenny

Little snowy old me · 12-03-2019 2:16am

Waste of time. Nothing dramatic. Goodnight

Larbre34 · 12-03-2019 2:24am

Squall currently going through here like a b@stard. D15.

emo72 · 12-03-2019 2:24am

Lucan squall incoming. Epic

And it's gone.

mangobob · 12-03-2019 2:31am

Just hitting Dublin 16 now. Nothing remarkable so far......

Ultimate Seduction · 12-03-2019 2:35am

Wtf is a squall? On this forum a few years now never heard that word

12-03-2019 2:48am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Wtf is a squall? On this forum a few years now never heard that word

A storm. Often involving a lot of rain.

Very windy in Dublin 18.

italodisco · 12-03-2019 2:49am

My god nthat was fierce down in North strand D3

pad199207 · 12-03-2019 2:50am

Decent enough squall went through in Kildare with hail and setting off alarms.

crusier · 12-03-2019 2:50am

A squall - I think it's a white woman kidnapped by Indians and used for cooking and things!

Gaoth Laidir · 12-03-2019 3:00am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Wtf is a squall? On this forum a few years now never heard that word

This isn't a squall line, it's just the cold front. A squall line is a specific type of line of thunderstorms formed through convective processes, but this isn't one. It woke me up a while ago with rain bashing against the window but it's gone quiet now.

Larbre34 · 12-03-2019 3:02am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A storm. Often involving a lot of rain.

Very windy in Dublin 18.

Its not that.

pad199207 · 12-03-2019 3:05am

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

This isn't a squall line, it's just the cold front. A squall line is a specific type of line of thunderstorms formed through convective processes, but this isn't one. It woke me up a while ago with rain bashing against the window but it's gone quiet now.

Just a squall so ? I didn’t realize a squall line had to contain convective characteristics.

12-03-2019 3:11am

Larbre34 wrote: »

Its not that.

Then please educate me.

Uthur · 12-03-2019 4:06am

tis windy and also somewhat rainy in dublin x)

DOCARCH · 12-03-2019 7:04am

For those considering/asking 'was that it?', the orange warning for high winds (for the NW) only comes into effect at midday today.

Graces7 · 12-03-2019 7:23am

KingJeremy wrote: »

Nothing from Graces7 in a long time . I miss her descriptive weather updates from the Mayo offshore outpost. I hope she’s ok and has the hatches battened down in preparation for Gareths arrival

i am here... having a very bad time healthwise so down to bare essentials...not been offisland etc since before christmas and keeping myself and cats fed etc is the main thing..

and of course I logged on when the storm was announced. where else but boards ie weather to get real info..

I mean really !!!

Has been a long had battle this month weather wise. These are far beyond our usual winter gales. seems almost always at night...one blew out the door and a window of the old house alongside ... a bit of the roof hit my window hard.

Last night the orange marine hit us hard. Loud and obnoxious after a day of marble sized hailstones.. Y'day the door got away from me; slammed hard against the house and took every last bit of strength i had to get it closed again. Raw energy.... when it gets light will put turf and other soft heavy stuff behind it. not a power to be taken lightly.

else all prepared here. Looks to be going to be a bad one. will be around today all being well and I am praising westnet, our local internet server as never a flicker and the dish is on the exposed north gable end.

stay safe, please.

Graces7 · 12-03-2019 7:25am

DOCARCH wrote: »

For those considering/asking 'was that it?', the orange warning for high winds (for the NW) only comes into effect at midday today.

coastal and offshore have had orange gales last night. still roaring out here. hoping for a brief lull before Gareth breaks in. a little quieter just now but keeps breaking into sudden hail storms.. west mayo offshore outpost

M.T. Cranium · 12-03-2019 7:35am

This will be a long duration event for exposed areas of the northwest but the peak appears to be around 7 to 10 p.m. from gradients on most guidance. However, these things usually build up in waves so it won't be that straight-forward.

Graces7 · 12-03-2019 7:51am

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

This will be a long duration event for exposed areas of the northwest but the peak appears to be around 7 to 10 p.m. from gradients on most guidance. However, these things usually build up in waves so it won't be that straight-forward.

Getting whiles of total silence, then sudden growls and snarls. and yes in for a long haul today. deeply thankful for good forecasting as i got extra turf etc in ready. Very rare to have fires lit in mid march.

irelandspurs · 12-03-2019 8:07am

silent in Portarlington, except the wife has just got up so won't be for much longer.

Storm Gareth: Tues 12 /Weds 13 March 2019 (Orange Warning for NW)

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