Strong winds/coastal flooding sunday night,west and north west most at risk

Oscar Bravo · 22-02-2015 11:04am #1

A yellow and orange warning has been issued from met eireann warning of very strong winds and possible coastal flooding
National Weather Warnings

STATUS ORANGE

Wind Warning for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick

Becoming very windy early on Sunday night as a period of very windy weather develops, with some strong and damaging gusts likely. These strong winds will coincide with high seas, along Atlantic coasts, which may lead to some coastal flooding.

Southwesterly winds will reach mean speeds of 65 to 80 km/h while gusts of 110 to 130 km/h are possible, with exposed coasts and higher ground most at risk. Winds will veer westerly on Monday afternoon. The winds will ease off later on Tuesday morning.
Issued:
Sunday 22 February 2015 09:00
Valid:
Sunday 22 February 2015 21:00 to Tuesday 24 February 2015 11:00

STATUS YELLOW

Wind Warning for Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Roscommon, Tipperary and Waterford

Becoming very windy early on Sunday night as a period of very windy weather develops, with some strong gusts likely.

Southwesterly winds will reach mean speeds of 50 to 65 km/h while gusts of 90 to 110 km/h are possible. Winds will veer westerly on Monday afternoon. The winds will ease off later on Tuesday morning.
Issued:
Sunday 22 February 2015 09:00
Valid:
Sunday 22 February 2015 22:00 to Tuesday 24 February 2015 11:00

Oscar Bravo · 22-02-2015 12:21pm

1100 update from met eireann

Heavy rain will clear the east coast early this afternoon, but showers and drizzle in the west will then spread eastwards during the afternoon and will only clear away to the east this evening. A mild day with highs of 8 to 12 degrees in fresh to strong southerly winds which will veer southwest to west later. However it will become much cooler early this evening.
Tonight

It will become extremely windy tonight as strong to gale force southwesterly winds develop. There will be some severe, possibly damaging gusts in particular along western and northwestern coasts. It will also become cold with widespread showers of rain, sleet, hail and snow especially in parts of the north and west with the risk of thunder. Temperatures will fall to between 0 and 3 degrees so some frost is possible in sheltered areas.

Tomorrow

It will remain extremely windy tomorrow with strong to gale force southwesterly winds, and it will be stormy at times in parts of the west and north, with further severe gusts likely. A colder day with highs of only 4 to 8 degrees and there will be more squally showers of rain, sleet, hail and snow as well as some thunder. The strong winds will start to ease off during the afternoon.

Also ice warning in place STATUS YELLOW

Snow-ice Warning for Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo
Wintry showers will develop early tonight, with a mixture of hail, sleet and snow with accumulations of up to 3 cm likely, larger values are possible on higher ground. With strong winds forecast, driving conditions could become poor. The showers will continue into Monday morning.

Storm 10 · 22-02-2015 12:44pm

Met Eireann have an amber alert should you change your color to amber ????

Oscar Bravo · 22-02-2015 12:46pm

That's a job for one of the mods!

Storm 10 · 22-02-2015 12:50pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

That's a job for one of the mods!

There slow today so ðŸ˜…

Oscar Bravo · 22-02-2015 12:52pm

not that slow.....;)

Aerohead · 22-02-2015 3:11pm

All the regulars must be still in bed, after a few weeks of quite weather we have a storm coming and very little from the posters.

Xenji · 22-02-2015 4:06pm

Very stormy in Castlebar at the moment.

Halpenny · 22-02-2015 4:10pm

Yeah I was wondering why so little activity. After yesterday's RTE weather forecast mentioning strong winds I had a look at the weather forum here to see if there was a warning up but nothing so I assumed we'd be ok. Not so - Orange warnings all of a sudden this morning.

Aerohead wrote: »

All the regulars must be still in bed, after a few weeks of quite weather we have a storm coming and very little from the posters.

Either that or they've all left the country for "Stormier Climes" to get a bit of action after the calm few weeks we've had.

delthedriver · 22-02-2015 4:13pm

Still in bed !!!:) A duvet day !!!

However there is one hell of a gale blowing in Tralee Bay, with high tide this pm there will be local flooding.

Thankfully heading back to Spain this week !!

Storm 10 · 22-02-2015 4:14pm

Really ramping up in Galway in the past hour

Oscar Bravo · 22-02-2015 4:20pm

Latest view from space showing the low out to the west and a rash of showers for the north west on the way, local hail and thunder tonight

MillField · 22-02-2015 4:26pm

Heading to Limerick this evening. Fully expecting a storm..

Oscar Bravo · 22-02-2015 4:26pm

A gust of 52 knots at Mace Head at 3pm. high tides up along the west coast at around 8pm. certainly quite nasty in coastal areas tonight.

redsteveireland · 22-02-2015 5:01pm

It's getting wild here alright.

Meteorite58 · 22-02-2015 5:31pm

Certainly looks like being a lot stormier here in Kerry this time around compared to the last storm, especially the second half of Monday. Very deep low likely to be around 955mb and possibly lower centered off Scotland tomorrow evening. Possible red warning for the W and SW ?

Fortunately not too much rain fell yet today ( 9.6mm here ), high tide in Fenit at 19.25 (4.7m ), tomorrow morning 07.54 ( 4.7m) and monday evening at 20.13 ( 4.5m).

Currently 10 min avg 24 kph WNW, gust 66 kph
Temp 7.8C down from 11.3C

Bar 990.8mb Falling Slowly

howlinwolf · 22-02-2015 6:20pm

just starting to come into frame now, lots of shower activity overnight by the look of it. I've never seen it so quiet in here when there is an orange warning issued, maybe all the false dawns this winter has finally taken its toll.

M.T. Cranium · 22-02-2015 8:12pm

We have basically the same alert in our Boards forecast and I think it will verify as a solid level 2 but I don't currently see level 3 potential with this one, peak gusts may be just a bit over 130 km/hr. The coastal flooding aspect may be the more significant impact. It is now about 72h since new moon but it was perigeean and so tidal ranges will be running fairly close to the average monthly maximum tides so would add perhaps 1.0 to 1.5 metres onto those for actual high tides on both occasions Monday. If someone could post the times that would be good. The low tide will be no more than an average of high and low tide under this constant strong westerly tidal pressure. East coast tide maxima will only be about 0.5 metres above normal in this pattern, south coast perhaps 0.7-0.9 metres.

Storm 10 · 22-02-2015 8:38pm

Tide times as requested

http://www.irishtimes.com/weather/tides

Hooter23 · 22-02-2015 10:21pm

Becoming very windy down by the beach in Galway and a flash of lightning out towards clare...

Aimsir · 22-02-2015 10:36pm

wet & windy cork city

Strangegravy · 22-02-2015 10:54pm

Very windy all evening here in Limerick. Wish I had the weather station set up proper for wind.

Think a lot of the weather boardsies have the post winter blues though, very quiet in here alright.

loubian · 22-02-2015 11:22pm

Didn't think anything of the rain this morning then went to the howth summit n sat in the car being rocked by the wind. Went bsck to the pier and walked for 10 minutes then it poured. All those black clouds yet no thunder..

corsav6 · 23-02-2015 1:15am

Some strong gusts in the last 30 mins here just outside Newport. It was fairly windy all day but certainly picked up now.

delthedriver · 23-02-2015 1:41am

Strangegravy wrote: »

Very windy all evening here in Limerick. Wish I had the weather station set up proper for wind.

Think a lot of the weather boardsies have the post winter blues though, very quiet in here alright.

Perhaps they have moved away to sunnier places for the duration of the winter??? I know I am getting out of here again until Spring arrives!!

Meteorite58 · 23-02-2015 1:43am

Picked up here too on the North Kerry Coast , 10 min avg 32 kph, gust 69 kph

Temp 4.6C
Beginning to get more showers of hail, I see lightning near by around Tarbert / Shannon.

delthedriver · 23-02-2015 2:02am

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Picked up here too on the North Kerry Coast , 10 min avg 32 kph, gust 69 kph

Temp 4.6C
Beginning to get more showers of hail, I see lightning near by around Tarbert / Shannon.

Strong winds, heavy hail showers here on Tralee Bay.

JCX BXC · 23-02-2015 2:25am

Scary gusts here in west clare.

Xenji · 23-02-2015 3:15am

Thunder and heavy hail in Castlebar at the moment.

fleet_admiral · 23-02-2015 3:17am

You would hear a pin drop in Terenure right now

sunbabe08 · 23-02-2015 5:14am

um, where is the wind? not a sound in cork city

jacksie66 · 23-02-2015 5:16am

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M.T. Cranium · 23-02-2015 8:06am

The strongest winds are about to hit the northwest. Gusts to 56 knots at the M4 buoy in Donegal Bay. Would expect peak gusts around 10:00 to 13:00 in Connacht and west Ulster, and a tendency for the maximum gusts to spread south so that the peak in west Munster may come this afternoon into early evening. That will not mean a large decrease further north but perhaps a slight decrease as this tendency plays out. In eastern counties would expect the maximum gusts around 2 p.m.

Wind speeds have already been discussed, but as a general estimate, 130 km/hr peak gusts in exposed northwest, 120 km/hr exposed southwest, 110 km/hr southeast coast and some parts of east with good exposure to west. Some inland areas that are not overly exposed might see peak gusts of 80-90 km/hr.

vickers209 · 23-02-2015 9:16am

Ive posted this in the lightning thread but i feel is relivent to this thread too.

Never seen a level 2 over parts of west ireland before :eek:
level 1 for rest

showforecast.cgi?lightningmap=yes&fcstfile=2015022406_201502230305_2_stormforecast.xml

showforecast.cgi?lightningmap=yes&fcstfile=2015022406_201502230305_2_stormforecast.xml

A level 1 was issued for the British Isles for chances of severe convective wind gusts and tornadoes.

A level 2 was issued for western Ireland and western Scotland mainly for severe convective wind gusts.
A deep low pressure system (<948 hPa in GFS model) moves to the north of Scotland. Its tight pressure gradients over the British Isles combined with the convective activity developing in the cool airmass pose a risk of severe wind gusts.

...Ireland and Scotland...

The threat is particularly concentrated along the west coast as most of the energy for thunderstorms in the unstable airmass is supplied by the lapse rate between ocean and cold mid levels. WInds over 30 m/s at low to mid levels can be transported to ground as severe wind gusts in convective downdrafts. Over land, the friction causes strong low-level wind shear >17 m/s which can support tornadoes, if strong updrafts could be maintained. Convection will initally (09-12Z) be organized linearly along the occlusion curled up around the low and will likely pose a more concentrated threat. A second round with more clustered storms should occur in the evening at the passage of a shortwave trough.

mickger844posts · 23-02-2015 11:46am

Relatively calm here in Waterford City with winds currently gusting to just 20km/h.

www.waterfordcityweather.com

Oscar Bravo · 23-02-2015 1:49pm

Positively stormy in Castlebar now with some very heavy squally showers, hail thunder in the mix aswel.

Xenji · 23-02-2015 3:02pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Positively stormy in Castlebar now with some very heavy squally showers, hail thunder in the mix aswel.

It has got far more severe in the last half hour.

El_Dangeroso · 23-02-2015 3:11pm

Very blowy now in Galway city.

Oneiric 3 · 23-02-2015 3:12pm

Recorded my highest mean & gust speed of the Winter so far at 1.40pm with 28.7 kt & 63.5 knots respectively.

RoisinD · 23-02-2015 4:26pm

Strongest winds since lunchtime. 65-70 mph gusts. Wasn't expecting it to quite so ferocious now.
NW Clare

ch750536 · 23-02-2015 5:16pm

Bit crazy here. Several flashes, windy, hail etc.

Storm 10 · 23-02-2015 6:14pm

ch750536 wrote: »

Bit crazy here. Several flashes, windy, hail etc.

Will u say where u are we are not mind readers

MillField · 23-02-2015 6:20pm

Very strong wind and rain in Limerick city today. Coming and going every 20 odd minutes.

Meteorite58 · 23-02-2015 6:21pm

Getting windier as the day goes on, recent gust 84 kph here near Tralee

Big squally hail and rain showers ,11.4mm
Nice bursts of sunshine too but you wouldn't want to venture too far away from shelter owning to frequent showers hammering down.

Temp 6.3C down from 7.9C

Bar987.6mb Rising Slowly

sunbeam · 23-02-2015 6:48pm

Wind is really picking up again here in Achill. Lights are flickering.

sunbeam · 23-02-2015 7:06pm

Bloody hell, it's squally now *eek*

Xenji · 23-02-2015 7:07pm

Crazy gusts in Castlebar now, just taken down a tree in the back garden.

JCX BXC · 23-02-2015 7:09pm

Very windy here in west Clare, nothing has fallen but the roof is making a not of noise.

Storm 10 · 23-02-2015 7:15pm

Frightening gusts of wind in Galway now I thought the roof was gone

corsav6 · 23-02-2015 7:26pm

This feels more in the level 3, especially the gusts, some are extremely strong. Lights flickering every fee mins too so could be in for an interesting night.
Just outside Newport, fairly elevated but not too exposed.

Julabo · 23-02-2015 7:32pm

Galway City just west of Salthill.

Gusts are the strongest in a while I can remember. A different level to any of the winter storms.

Strong winds/coastal flooding sunday night,west and north west most at risk

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