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Storm Francis - 24th/25th August 2020

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  • #252
    Kutebride
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭Kutebride


    Kutebride wrote: »
    Lunch al fresco in Meath before the rain rolls in. Warm and breezy.

    And after a dry window it's now pouring rain. Warm 18C


  • #253
    Oneiric 3
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    Last 24 hour totals based on radar returns:

    2b2W9Gt.gif

    Looks a total mess given the crap coverage from Shannon radar.

    New Moon



  • #254
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,958 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    It was windy enough last night, but it seems we have escaped the heaviest of the rain. Is that place in Kerry that got 86mm high up? Also that must exceed the total that occurred down there in late August of 1986. I was fairly young back then but i have memories of it being a very wet Summer overall.


  • #255
    irelandspurs
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    Gusts very strong here, portarlington co laois


  • #256
    fits
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    Windspeed of 65 km/hr and gusts of 93 km/hr in the last hour at Oak Park. Power outages all over the area. Theres a tree down on the Dublin-Waterford railway line outside Carlow also.


  • #257
    Supercell
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    Worst winds of the summer here in southside Dublin with three degree temperature drop and veering of winds to from SE to SW. Garden plants taking a right battering :(
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • #258
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Supercell wrote: »
    Worst winds of the summer here in southside Dublin with three degree temperature drop and veering of winds to from SE to SW. Garden plants taking a right battering :(

    I have given up with the plants, I put all the pots back out after Ellen and now everything is battered, afraid to look out the back window at the sole surviving sunflower.


  • #259
    United road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭United road


    Supercell wrote: »
    Worst winds of the summer here in southside Dublin with three degree temperature drop and veering of winds to from SE to SW. Garden plants taking a right battering :(

    Yes its truly miserable
    Its not getting any sunny pleasant days later on to compensate that makes it more hard to take.

    Covid meant no 2 week sun holiday, its starting to get to me now, thought i was okay with it but the brutal summer has not helped in any way.

    Utterly miserable today (again)


  • #260
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,987 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Its a winters day.........in August.

    I have had the heating on twice today.


  • #261
    Mr_A
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    Oneiric 3 wrote: »
    Last 24 hour totals based on radar returns:

    2b2W9Gt.gif

    Looks a total mess given the crap coverage from Shannon radar.


    People may say this wasn't a big event in terms of wind but several large urban centres have been moved appreciably Eastwards. Worrying times.


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  • #262
    CirrusBusiness
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    fits wrote: »
    Windspeed of 65 km/hr and gusts of 93 km/hr in the last hour at Oak Park. Power outages all over the area. Theres a tree down on the Dublin-Waterford railway line outside Carlow also.

    It's wild around Carlow. Branches and debris all over the places. Passed a jcb with a grabber on the front.


  • #263
    fits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,642 ✭✭✭✭fits


    CirrusBusiness wrote: »
    It's wild around Carlow. Branches and debris all over the places. Passed a jcb with a grabber on the front.

    Wind seems to be easing now.


  • #264
    Mav11
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    48.3 kts gust recorded at Dun Laoghaire harbour just now.


  • #265
    spoonerhead
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    Wind picking up big time in Dublin within this band of rain


  • #266
    DOCARCH
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    spoonerhead wrote: »
    Wind picking up big time in Dublin within this band of rain

    Yes....very gusty in Dublin 16. Horrible afternoon!


  • #267
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,323 ✭✭✭highdef


    Mr_A wrote: »
    People may say this wasn't a big event in terms of wind but several large urban centres have been moved appreciably Eastwards. Worrying times.

    Which ones have moved? The cities look like they're in the right place.


  • #268
    torres9kop
    Registered Users Posts: 384 ✭✭torres9kop


    Trees starting to bend severely in Blackrock


  • #269
    CirrusBusiness
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭CirrusBusiness


    fits wrote: »
    Wind seems to be easing now.

    Clearance visible to the south/south west. They were some very strong gusts in the last hour. Anything weakened by Ellen will be down.


  • #270
    DOCARCH
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    Mav11 wrote: »
    48.3 kts gust recorded at Dun Laoghaire harbour just now.

    Recent gust of 51.3 kts in DL.


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  • #271
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,207 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    4pm
    Oak park gusting 48 knots
    Johnstown castle gusting 46 knots
    Casement gusting 42 knots


  • #272
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Wild, wet, windy out here. I was writing that 24 hours ago. They have some stamina, these storms.

    Still bad here. No post came today of course.. Feels snug being cut off as we are now.

    I carefully stuck my head round to the north facing side here; ocean a white fury and grey. No way was I about to try to go further.. lol...

    Stay safe out there.

    NB the orange warning has been muted to yellow on met.ie


  • #273
    Rega
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭Rega


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Wild, wet, windy out here. I was writing that 24 hours ago. They have some stamina, these storms.

    Still bad here. No post came today of course.. Feels snug being cut off as we are now.

    I carefully stuck my head round to the north facing side here; ocean a white fury and grey. No way was I about to try to go further.. lol...

    Stay safe out there.

    NB the orange warning has been muted to yellow on met.ie

    Great to see you posting again, Graces7. I was thinking of you during the last storm. Hope you're keeping well.


  • #274
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I'm glad I'm not on one of those those Irish Sea ferries, esp the ones heading back to Dublin..... bet that's a bumpy ride :eek:


  • #275
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Mav11


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Recent gust of 51.3 kts in DL.

    Still increasing.


  • #276
    Gaoth Laidir
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    Francis was centred just off the Dublin/Meath coast at 12Z today.

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  • #277
    Supercell
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    One mm to go to make it the wettest day of the year here (>31mm), seems likely.
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • #278
    Graces7
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    met,ie changed to Yellow Warning a while ago,,

    Quietening here. Peacening. Less wind; less rain. Fare well, Francis..


  • #279
    SophieLockhart
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    nacho libre wrote: »
    Is that place in Kerry that got 86mm high up? Also that must exceed the total that occurred down there in late August of 1986.
    Cloone Lake is notorious. It features a couple of times on the extreme records and had the heaviest daily rainfall ever -

    https://www.met.ie/climate/weather-extreme-records


  • #280
    Rock Lesnar
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    Just Atrocious out there


  • #281
    esposito
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    I wonder how many more named storms will we have this year. To think it’s not even autumn yet (but it feels like an Irish winter at the moment)


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  • #282
    Pangea
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    Joanne Donnelly just mentioned the warning for NI still in place , first time I have heard the forecast acknowledge NI warnings which is good to see , Although they didn't show it visually. Officially it's only met.ie that incorporates NI warnings


  • #283
    JackieChang
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    Wind's picking up now.


  • #284
    SouthWesterly
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    Bit of a damp squib where I am in North kerry.
    Winds up to 40 kmh and lots and lots of rain.


  • #285
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Met Eireann; Storm Saidhbhin :confused:

    How in God's name are people expected to pronounce that? Never mind here, but in Britain too, where it will cause much amusement, for all the wrong reasons...

    Expect many TV bloopers :-)


  • #286
    OldRio
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    I see you've posted the same thing in 'After Hours'. That's were it belongs IMHO. (Hamster chops post)
    The grown ups post here.


  • #287
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Are storm names (and the pronunciation of) not important?


  • #288
    US2
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    OldRio wrote: »
    I see you've posted the same thing in 'After Hours'. That's were it belongs IMHO. (Hamster chops post)
    The grown ups post here.

    Harsh. Discussing the name of a storm is alot more relevant than cats.


  • #289
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Thank you, I expected the flippant answers in After Hours and the more consider replies here....

    It is a mouthful of a name, and I just think they might have gone for a more phonetic/ easier to pronounce name, anyway.

    Moving on.....
    two storms already (Ellen & Francis) in August!


  • #290
    Jpmarn
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    It will have to be a busy storm season for it to get that unpronounceable S storm. We would have to suffer 17 natively named storms before we we would get Saibhinn by the 31st August next year.


  • #291
    smellyoldboot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Met Eireann; Storm Saidhbhin :confused:

    How in God's name are people expected to pronounce that? Never mind here, but in Britain too, where it will cause much amusement, for all the wrong reasons...

    Expect many TV bloopers :-)

    Siiveen. The Brits have no bother with the likes of Priti, Mohammed etc. They will just have to learn not to be so ignorant.


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  • #292
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    smellyoldboot wrote: »
    Siiveen. The Brits have no bother with the likes of Priti, Mohammed etc. They will just have to learn not to be so ignorant.

    I wasn't necessarily refering to "The Brits", as I think many people here in Ireland will also struggle with that storm, if we ever get to the Ssssss :)


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