Storm Callum - Thursday/Friday 11/12 October 2018 READ MOD NOTE IN FIRST POST

12-10-2018 9:48am

Graces7 wrote: »

it is getting more and more ferocious out here. Terrifying gusts. Your readings confirm this. Thank you. Just the air shaking is all I can describ e it as. No stability anywhere any more.

west mayo offshore island

Should be at its maximum round about now off the Mayo coastline if the HIRLAM predictions are accurate. Expect a decline from midday.

gozunda · 12-10-2018 9:50am

Rough night here with some very strong gusts. High winds this morning. Wind still quite loud and trees taking a thrashing.
Cork Limerick Border

Discodog · 12-10-2018 9:56am

Just driven from Furbo to Oranmore. No traffic & no problems. All the local schools open

Elmer Blooker · 12-10-2018 9:56am

irishrover99 wrote: »

Where in Dublin. Their was a few gust of wind and it’s nearly completely died down now.

It was bad but it was very short lived. It suddenly died down because I presume the wind turned southerly and southerly gales are unheard of in the Dublin area. 5mm overnight and a mild 14.7c now.

Graces7 · 12-10-2018 9:57am

Deleted User wrote: »

Should be at its maximum round about now off the Mayo coastline if the HIRLAM predictions are accurate. Expect a decline from midday.

Blissful thought... Had to take the dog out... we ran!

pegasus1 · 12-10-2018 9:58am

woke up at 4am with the wind howling here south of Kilkenny city, went d/s to the fridge and looked out the back before hitting the fridge for a coke, wind was from a different direction than the norm, As I got to the fridge, powercut..bugger still got the coke...didnt wake till 9am...wind was and still is blowing a good one...

martyfurey · 12-10-2018 9:59am

CJhaughey wrote: »

Some interesting data from the Marine buoys, The AMETS buoy off Mayo average 59kn max gust 97kn at present, and the M3 Buoy showing max wave heights of 9m @ 0800

Are you sure max gust was 97 knots that is 179kph which seems excessive. I have tried looking up the data. Where can you get the AMETS buoy data. Thanks.

Peatys · 12-10-2018 10:06am

DOCARCH wrote: »

Not sure where you are getting that?

Storm peaked in Dublin around 2am this morning.

Synode wrote: »

Where you seeing that. Everywhere I look is saying about 12/1 am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Where you getting that info peaty?

Worst is passed I think -defer to the real experts to answer that

I was going by this post.. he seemed to know what he was talking about..

Glad to see now it was outdated info.. wasn't looking forward to worse than last night coming.

Shane O' Malley · 12-10-2018 10:12am

martyfurey wrote: »

Are you sure max gust was 97 knots that is 179kph which seems excessive. I have tried looking up the data. Where can you get the AMETS buoy data. Thanks.

I think it is right. Got data here

Looking at it again the two highest gusts are at nearly the opposite directions from the other readings. Is that a sign that they may be incorrect?

HeidiHeidi · 12-10-2018 10:15am

Was absolutely howling during the night here in NW Donegal, not sure what time it woke me up (and the worst is yet to come apparently :eek:)

Not so bad now, but I went outside for a minute, sheltered by the house, and nearly got blown over. Feck that!

All looks all wrong up here, the water and trees/hedges are all blowing the wrong direction as it's not the usual westerly!

JCX BXC · 12-10-2018 10:17am

Got quite breezy last night in Galway, no real damage and disruption was massively curtailed by the timing of the Storm. It seems many may have taken heed of the warning, as traffic in Galway city this morning was one of the lightest Friday mornings I've ever seen.

Xenji · 12-10-2018 10:18am

Pressure is at 978.89 hPa and still slowly dropping in Castlebar, does not look like we will see the peak for another hour or so, still regular gusts of close to 100 km/hr and some higher.

Sycamore Tree · 12-10-2018 10:26am

JCX BXC wrote: »

Got quite breezy last night in Galway, no real damage and disruption was massively curtailed by the timing of the Storm. It seems many may have taken heed of the warning, as traffic in Galway city this morning was one of the lightest Friday mornings I've ever seen.

Yeah the traffic was great this morning -I think most people took the day off and many kids did not go to school. The fact that is was Friday was probably also a factor. Long weekend for many

Orange is the new Red

SleetAndSnow · 12-10-2018 10:43am

Lashing in cork city st the moment. Not too much damage even though the gusts were pretty severe during the peak hour.

jirafa · 12-10-2018 10:49am

https://www.thesun.ie/news/3244663/mudslide-cork-storm-callum-shocking/

Gaoth Laidir · 12-10-2018 10:49am

WT2 buoy off the Mayo coast reported 102 knots gusts.

Reati · 12-10-2018 10:50am

Wasn't much of an long lived event where I am in Wicklow: 100amsl not far from the coast but had some good winds.

Top gust 85kph
Top sustained wind 71kph

Sustained wind Average was only ~24kph over the night into this morning so it didn't hit our areas as hard as others.

Correlates to the M2 and M5 bouys data too (though both show higher sustained average of 51 kph)

Whiplashy · 12-10-2018 10:50am

Wind is actually picking up here again. No where near as bad as last night, but definitely worse than it was a couple hours ago. Lashing rain too. Tipp/Kilkenny border.

DOCARCH · 12-10-2018 10:51am

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

WT2 buoy off the Mayo coast reported 102 knots gusts.

:eek: That's 189 km/h

sevenshades · 12-10-2018 10:56am

Extremely heavy rain here just outside Waterford city, sky looks like dusk.

CrowdedHouse · 12-10-2018 10:56am

I still can't get my head around 20mm of rain in an hour. If I don't have a 2nd semi retired weather station that gave the same reading I'd have assumed it was a malfunction.

(and what's more I didn't hear a thing!)

Donegal Storm · 12-10-2018 11:00am

Fairly rough here on the NW Donegal coast, haven't got any measurements but I'd guess sustained force 8, bordering on 9 with some nice big gusts.

Might go for a drive to the cliffs if I get the chance in an hour

Graces7 · 12-10-2018 11:03am

DOCARCH wrote: »

:eek: That's 189 km/h

I well believe it!

mickger844posts · 12-10-2018 11:04am

Max gust of 87km/h at my Waterford City station and 98km/h in Tramore.
Heavy rain now

www.waterfordweather.com

Thatnastyboy · 12-10-2018 11:07am

Getting very wild in mid-kildare here the last few minutes, about the same as it was around 3-4am

Graces7 · 12-10-2018 11:07am

DOCARCH wrote: »

:eek: That's 189 km/h

Previously in my North sea years, the worst recorded was gusts of 124mph so yes this storm is my personal worst....

Thank you!

Gonzo · 12-10-2018 11:10am

a windy night here in South Meath, but gentle compared to Storm Ali which was far more severe in this area. No sign of any large branches down in the area, a few bins over turned.

Widdensushi · 12-10-2018 11:18am

Graces7 wrote: »

Previously in my North sea years, the worst recorded was gusts of 124mph so yes this storm is my personal worst....

Thank you!

The storm passed up west of us,there were no winds near that strength recorded on land

vicwatson · 12-10-2018 11:18am

DOCARCH wrote: »

:eek: That's 189 km/h

Not a mention of this by Met dude on Sean O'Rourke show just now.

awec · 12-10-2018 11:19am

I didn't actually notice a thing in my specific area of Dublin 18, was just like any normal winters night. I think the wind direction spared us.

CJhaughey · 12-10-2018 11:20am

Shane O' Malley wrote: »

I think it is right. Got data here

Looking at it again the two highest gusts are at nearly the opposite directions from the other readings. Is that a sign that they may be incorrect?

No the general direction is 190° there are a few at 10° but that's probably the anemometer swinging around after a gust.

DOCARCH · 12-10-2018 11:21am

vicwatson wrote: »

Not a mention of this by Met dude on Sean O'Rourke show just now.

Well it is in the open sea/ocean. Nobody will have experienced it....other than the buoy!

CJhaughey · 12-10-2018 11:25am

DOCARCH wrote: »

Well it is in the open sea/ocean. Nobody will have experienced it....other than the buoy!

That buoy must be tough, 10mi west of Eagle.
That lighthouse was in the RTE Lighthouses programme recently.

Cork Boy 53 · 12-10-2018 11:28am

Very wild night here. Electricity,phone and broadband all knocked out, only restored in the last 45 minutes or so. A lot of debris on the ground but no major damage done. Heavy bursts of rain from time to time.

vicwatson · 12-10-2018 11:29am

DOCARCH wrote: »

Well it is in the open sea/ocean. Nobody will have experienced it....other than the buoy!

And?

They are the MET service after all.

martyfurey · 12-10-2018 11:33am

Shane O' Malley wrote: »

I think it is right. Got data here

Looking at it again the two highest gusts are at nearly the opposite directions from the other readings. Is that a sign that they may be incorrect?

To be honest I'm not sure. They seem like crazy wind speeds.

DOCARCH · 12-10-2018 11:37am

vicwatson wrote: »

And?

They are the MET service after all.

The buoys are nothing to do with the Met Service.

In any event, with buoys, sometimes wind reports can be skewed by the position of the buoy on the crest of a wave/swell, or in a trough between the wave/swell, and the wind travelling over/being modified by the waves. As the buoy is not fixed, the wind instrument is not fixed, and, as the buoy is on a couple of metres high, the wind instrument would not be at 'regulation' height.

So while the buoy wind reports are obviously of (great) interest, there are a number of reasons why the Met Service do not (widely) report them.

Gaoth Laidir · 12-10-2018 11:56am

Here are the data for WT2 buoy, 16 km offshore. Highest mean speed was 72 knots, highest gust 102 knots twice within an hour.

DOCARCH · 12-10-2018 12:05pm

Gust of 67 kts/124 km/h at Belmullet in 1100 reports.

MJohnston · 12-10-2018 12:08pm

Peatys wrote: »

I was going by this post.. he seemed to know what he was talking about..

Glad to see now it was outdated info.. wasn't looking forward to worse than last night coming.

In fairness, it wasn't that the timings were outdated, it was just that the models were ever so slightly off in regards to the peak intensity, for Dublin.

I would argue it didn't peak at 2am though, at least not the entire city - I didn't go to bed until 4am, and it was definitely at its worst here in Dublin 7 at that time.

Gonzo · 12-10-2018 12:11pm

winds have eased a lot here now but the rain is very heavy and it's very dark.

Donegal Storm · 12-10-2018 12:17pm

Meh, seems to have peaked an hour ago here in Donegal, still windy but all-in-all a bog standard gale that'll be repeated several times over the coming months. Getting increasingly tired of the hype and hysteria around these events

average_runner · 12-10-2018 12:20pm

MJohnston wrote: »

In fairness, it wasn't that the timings were outdated, it was just that the models were ever so slightly off in regards to the peak intensity, for Dublin.

I would argue it didn't peak at 2am though, at least not the entire city - I didn't go to bed until 4am, and it was definitely at its worst here in Dublin 7 at that time.

I agree, Dublin was calm at 2am, at 4am it picked up but wasn't anything we haven't seen before. This kind of weather 10 years ago wouldn't of raised an eyebrow.

We are over sensitive now and the new warning system is a bit OTT

DOCARCH · 12-10-2018 12:24pm

average_runner wrote: »

We are over sensitive now and the new warning system is a bit OTT

I think the nationwide red warning for Ophelia f**ked everybody up!

Much calmer now in Dublin (16) with moderate rain. Almost 4mm in the last hour.

average_runner · 12-10-2018 12:27pm

DOCARCH wrote: »

I think the nationwide red warning for Ophelia f**ked everybody up!

Much calmer now in Dublin (16) with moderate rain. Almost 4mm in the last hour.

I think the media f**ked it all up and then the people who wants everyone to make their decision for them, eg should i go out for walk!

Look out the damn window and decide yourself:D

Met can't decide for you.

vicwatson · 12-10-2018 12:29pm

DOCARCH wrote: »

The buoys are nothing to do with the Met Service.

In any event, with buoys, sometimes wind reports can be skewed by the position of the buoy on the crest of a wave/swell, or in a trough between the wave/swell, and the wind travelling over/being modified by the waves. As the buoy is not fixed, the wind instrument is not fixed, and, as the buoy is on a couple of metres high, the wind instrument would not be at 'regulation' height.

So while the buoy wind reports are obviously of (great) interest, there are a number of reasons why the Met Service do not (widely) report them.

So why do they give the buoy data on met.ie? I understand the science behind the buoys ad wind reports btw.

Mount Vesuvius · 12-10-2018 12:35pm

I like to use this site .

http://www.marine.ie/Home/site-area/data-services/real-time-observations/irish-weather-buoy-network

I find it handy for quick and easy to read observations of current conditions.

Sycamore Tree · 12-10-2018 12:38pm

How can you tell what the max gust was at a particular Met station (e.g. Roches Point) during a 24 hour period?

sryanbruen · 12-10-2018 12:42pm

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

How can you tell what the max gust was at a particular Met station (e.g. Roches Point) during a 24 hour period?

Met Éireann tweets them out.

Met Éireann's daily data.

Met Éireann's historical data.

Ogimet synop reports.

That's how I find them out anyway.

Oneiric 3 · 12-10-2018 12:52pm

12 hour sat track of 'Calum' (Icelandic Met Office)

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