Strong winds Sunday evening/night, Oct 5/6th

sunset · 05-10-2014 10:28pm

Pretty ferocious in south county Cork. Its the severe gustiness of the wind that is striking. Very quiet for a minute or so and then - wham!

sunbabe08 · 05-10-2014 10:29pm

the house is literally rattling right now and the strongest winds aren't here yet

pad199207 · 05-10-2014 10:30pm

Gust of 50 KPH here in Kildare

Jpmarn · 05-10-2014 10:30pm

Jpmarn wrote: »

Just opened the flight radar app. There are 4 planes approaching cork airport at the moment. The Aer Lingus from Amsterdam is on it's second attempt to land.

All these planes landed safely.

brianville · 05-10-2014 10:31pm

Totally agree..gusts have definitely caught my attention along with my swaying 60 ft trees.

Newtown90 · 05-10-2014 10:39pm

Very windy here in Roachestown in Cork.

Past through Douglas around 8 and the surface water was building, must be bad now.

Elmer Blooker · 05-10-2014 10:39pm

I'm not making this up (why would I?) but nothing more than a gentle breeze here.

05-10-2014 10:42pm

South Wexford
Very strong winds. Bin blown over...thank God rubbish is bagged in it. Moved both bins into shed.

Just walked dog. Difficult to stand in wind. Raining but not lashing.

Some gusts are actually frightening!!

fleet_admiral · 05-10-2014 10:45pm

Wind has completely gone in Terenure, only light rain too

mickger844posts · 05-10-2014 10:52pm

On to the next level now here with a gust of 76km/h just recorded.

www.waterfordcityweather.com

SeaBreezes · 05-10-2014 10:53pm

Windy on the south coast with strong gusts, rattling the roof tiles, but so far (fingers crossed) we've seen stronger.
Near kinsale on the south coast, the rain has eased and the wind sounds quite 'high' that the wind gusts could be stronger just over our heads.
If that makes any sense.
Hopefully it wont grow any stronger.

SpaceTime · 05-10-2014 10:54pm

Absolutely howling wind in Cork City at the moment. Recycling bins blowing all over the place unfortunately !

sunbabe08 · 05-10-2014 10:55pm

i'm dreading going down stairs and looking out the back.

sunset · 05-10-2014 10:55pm

Met Eireann wind obs for 10pm at Cork airport are interesting. 24 kts gusting to 56 kts. Rarely do you actually see the gust speed more than twice the wind speed. That's probably more potentially damaging than slightly higher wind speeds with lower gustiness. Not good for landing planes. It must have been quite a ride for those on board.

maquiladora · 05-10-2014 10:56pm

Latest forecast.

Most areas wet and very windy tonight, with south to southeast winds gusting 90 to 100 km/h. and up to 120 km/h. in exposed coastal areas. The worst affected areas will continue to be along exposed southern coasts during the early part of tonight and later along eastern coasts with severe gusts likely. The rain will clear the west shortly and the clearance will extend to remaining areas later with the winds moderating and veering westerly. However showers will follow from the Atlantic, especially heavy in the northwest by morning.

Meteorite58 · 05-10-2014 10:56pm

A clearance here near Tralee now after 22.2mm of rain, . Wind has literally died down to an avg of 8 kph from an avg of 40 kph ( highest gust 60 kph ).Wind beginning to veer to the SW. I presume in a warm sector now with temp having risen to it's highest today of 14.4C.

Bar 988.6mb Falling Rapidly

Spoke too soon, raining again.

delw · 05-10-2014 10:57pm

Rain all but stopped for now,breezy with some gusts but nothing of note at the moment

acassells80 · 05-10-2014 10:58pm

Very windy here in Blackrock ! And it's lashing rain

Rikand · 05-10-2014 11:00pm

Wind howling in athlone.

redsteveireland · 05-10-2014 11:02pm

Very underwhelmed here in Galway, not much to report

Lucy B · 05-10-2014 11:04pm

What time will it start to ease up in cork? Soon I hope....

km79 · 05-10-2014 11:04pm

redsteveireland wrote: »

Very underwhelmed here in Galway, not much to report

yeah was wondering was it just my site here !
locked everything away but won't complain anyway cos I need to repair fence at back !

Rock Lesnar · 05-10-2014 11:05pm

Rain heavy again in meath, wind seems to have died a little.

pad199207 · 05-10-2014 11:10pm

Some strong gusts here now in Kildare

maquiladora · 05-10-2014 11:11pm

redsteveireland wrote: »

Very underwhelmed here in Galway, not much to report

Southerly gale so its really only the south and later the east coasts that get the brunt.

05-10-2014 11:14pm

Rain and wind had eased off here for about 20 mins, now the wind is whistling again

acassells80 · 05-10-2014 11:14pm

Getting worse on East Coast windows are shaking and had to take furniture in off the balcony too

pad199207 · 05-10-2014 11:15pm

Trees taking a hammering here now in Kildare.
They really do liven things up big time when theyre still in full leaf.

northgirl · 05-10-2014 11:16pm

Every so often it feels like it might be easing off but then it's back, things hopping off the windows the last few minutes :eek:

pauldry · 05-10-2014 11:19pm

In Sligo its pretty windy and 12mm of rain in past 4 hours - finaly fixed rain gaige today. Spiders living in it after september drought.

Winds of 40 knots here

56 in cork highest so far

pueblo · 05-10-2014 11:20pm

strong gusty winds/heavy rainfall kilkenny city

Elmer Blooker · 05-10-2014 11:20pm

acassells80 wrote: »

Getting worse on East Coast windows are shaking and had to take furniture in off the balcony too

still nothing out of the ordinary here, not a single rumble down the chimilly tonight. Southerlies are uncommon in my parts anyway.
http://www.met.ie/images/windrose/dublin.png

ninebeanrows · 05-10-2014 11:21pm

Roches Point up to 63kt

ninebeanrows · 05-10-2014 11:22pm

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

still nothing out of the ordinary here, not a single rumble down the chimilly tonight. Southerlies are uncommon in my parts anyway.
http://www.met.ie/images/windrose/dublin.png

Yes when winds swing round SSE or SE, winds will noticeably increase.

maquiladora · 05-10-2014 11:22pm

124 km/h gust off shore on Kinsale Energy platform.

Power outages spreading out now.

https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/

HeidiHeidi · 05-10-2014 11:24pm

maquiladora wrote: »

124 km/h gust off shore on Kinsale Energy platform.

:eek:

Gusting nearly 60kts (approx 110kph) in Dublin Bay at the moment - worst I've seen it in a long time. Certainly glad I'm not out there in a boat!

pad199207 · 05-10-2014 11:25pm

Gusting near 70kph here in Kildare now

sunbabe08 · 05-10-2014 11:26pm

:eek::eek: yup the gazebo is pretty much gone. it's currently knocking around the back at the moment. i'm on my own tonight, there is no way i'm going out to sort it out

emo72 · 05-10-2014 11:29pm

severe lack of breeze in leixlip. are yis sure lads?

sunbabe08 · 05-10-2014 11:30pm

emo72 wrote: »

severe lack of breeze in leixlip. are yis sure lads?

would you like me to take a picture of my very battered gazebo?

emo72 · 05-10-2014 11:34pm

sunbabe08 wrote: »

would you like me to take a picture of my very battered gazebo?

maybe its sheltered where i am

this wind event seems to be localised doesnt it? bad winds somewhere and not far away hardly any winds. is this possible?

edit..... wait are you in cork? sure thats another country altogether:D

briany · 05-10-2014 11:34pm

sunbabe08 wrote: »

would you like me to take a picture of my very battered gazebo?

I'd rather see a pic of a very battered sausage, but go on then.

Rougies · 05-10-2014 11:37pm

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

still nothing out of the ordinary here, not a single rumble down the chimilly tonight. Southerlies are uncommon in my parts anyway.
http://www.met.ie/images/windrose/dublin.png

It has been getting increasingly windy and gusty here (D.16) in the past hour. Definitely a "wind event" already for these parts with rattling windows/doors and wheelie bins doing their thing.

I'm probably in the worst possible location for a southerly flow (completely sheltered to the south by the Dub/Wicklow Mtns.), but it's getting pretty wild!

The power just went out for a split second there.

Rikand · 05-10-2014 11:38pm

emo72 wrote: »

maybe its sheltered where i am this wind event seems to be localised doesnt it? bad winds somewhere and not far away hardly any winds. is this possible?

edit..... wait are you in cork? sure thats another country altogether:D

In athlone and we're getting rammaged. So if by localised you mean local to everywhere except you.... then yes, very localized

pad199207 · 05-10-2014 11:40pm

I've seen a few posts in this thread reporting how the wind gusts come in with a huge force and wham! Getting it here the past half hour in Kildare. Very strong indeed.

tylercollins · 05-10-2014 11:40pm

Quick 30 second video of the driving rain and strong winds tonight outside of Derry. Obviously not as bad as other parts of the country...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iyYXkeNj0U

Birdnuts · 05-10-2014 11:48pm

Some pretty extreme gusts now in Blessington with driving rain. Not unlike the big one early this year!!

woodyg · 05-10-2014 11:49pm

big gusts here in north west wicklow now well over 75kph touching 100kph i estimate

the eye is south west of Iceland from what i can tell
http://wetterzentrale.de/pics/D2u.jpg

acassells80 · 05-10-2014 11:50pm

Lights flickering here

pad199207 · 05-10-2014 11:51pm

Really really strong gusts here in Naas now. This is well on par with the strongest storms of last winter!

Strong winds Sunday evening/night, Oct 5/6th

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