Storm Fionn: PM Tues 16th/AM Weds 17th, Jan 2018

piuswal · 17-01-2018 12:11am

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I have to be honest I was little surprised myself to see this named notwithstanding potential impacts.

Anyway I think Liam Dutton expressed his opinion in the wrong way.

Agreed. I think someone has mixed up Warning Criteria and naming storms; though I cannot find reference to Fionn on the ME site. Anyone know where it is?

sryanbruen · 17-01-2018 12:12am

piuswal wrote: »

Agreed. I think someone has mixed up Warning Criteria and naming storms; though I cannot find reference to Fionn on the ME site. Anyone know where it is?

The amber warning here:

http://www.met.ie/nationalwarnings/default.asp

piuswal · 17-01-2018 12:17am

sryanbruen wrote: »

The amber warning here:

http://www.met.ie/nationalwarnings/default.asp

Thanks, missed that.

see

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/

16 January 2018 22:19

Today

Tonight there will be widespread and heavy showers of rain, hail, sleet and snow, with a risk of thunder. Accumulations of snow are likely, especially over the northern half of the country and mainly over higher ground elsewhere. But showers will ease and become confined to western and northern counties by morning. Westerly winds will be very strong and gusty but along Atlantic coastal counties winds will reach gale force with severe and damaging gusts of up to 120 km/h and a risk of coastal flooding as seas continue to be very high. Lowest temperatures will fall to between -1 and +3 degrees.

Have not seen that kind of time mix up before!