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Storm Lorenzo Chat Thread.

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    #422
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Thargor wrote: »
    I have an appointment in Dun Laoighre in the morning, is it going to be bad or just wet and windy or will it be calm until lunch in peoples opinions?

    Better not chance it


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    #423
    Loughc
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    Thargor wrote: »
    I have an appointment in Dun Laoighre in the morning, is it going to be bad or just wet and windy or will it be calm until lunch in peoples opinions?

    You’ll be fine. All day. Don’t cancel anything.


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    #424
    josip
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    Thargor wrote: »
    I have an appointment in Dun Laoighre in the morning, is it going to be bad or just wet and windy or will it be calm until lunch in peoples opinions?

    It's going to be bad I'm afraid.
    That's just the way Dun Laoghaire is these days.
    Weather will be grand.


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    #425
    UsBus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭UsBus


    VeVeX wrote: »
    It appears they've been told to turn the armageddon knob to 11 to further propagate and push the man made climate change agenda/theory.

    Worst thing to come out of this storm will be George lees career. He had the economics gig down to a tee, then the politics went belly up. He's been in purgatory with RTE since presenting farming and climate and any other crap stories they can throw at him. They must be really trying to shove him out the door.


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    #426
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    George in full hyper and cock up flow on the 1 o'clock radio news today was one of worst reports I have ever heard on Radio or TV.He lost it completely.


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    #427
    Lollipop95
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Lollipop95


    Anyone know what time it will hit Galway city tomorrow? Wonder will buses be effected?


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    #428
    Loughc
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    Lollipop95 wrote: »
    Anyone know what time it will hit Galway city tomorrow? Wonder will buses be effected?

    You'll be fine.


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    #429
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Sottol wrote: »
    We got the typical “caring” email at work today.
    If you feel it is unsafe to travel to work please arrange to work from home etc!! Making sure we all took the laptops home so there’s no excuse not to be working. There’s always one who lives too far away to come in when there’s a bit of wind!

    In fairness if you can work from home and its gusty why would you even bother taking the slightest chance. You could get caught coming home in the evening with various outages/disruptions.

    I took my laptop home just in case. And the rugby is on for an added bonus. :-)


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    #430
    Pa ElGrande
    Registered Users Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    Adding this here for now


    https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1179473296288632833

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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    #431
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    In fairness if you can work from home and its gusty why would you even bother taking the slightest chance. You could get caught coming home in the evening with various outages/disruptions.


    I took my laptop home just in case. And the rugby is on for an added bonus.     :-)


    It's just a pity you're working and not taking the day off. ;)


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    #432
    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,071 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    Last time for Ophelia, I was warning colleagues in advance of its danger, and I was ignored.
    I warned about the snows .. and I was poo poo'd , cos it was balmy outside.

    Today (Wednesday) I tell them that it won't be such a major event as Ophelia was (in cork) , and they point to George Lee on the TV.

    FFS. I'm only going to buy some bread tomorrow, only because I've just run out

    This will be a storm in a tea cup for where I and my work colleagues live.


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    #433
    Jpmarn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Jpmarn


    It now looks like a non event between Thursday into Friday morning especially in the south. But saying that just be careful out there. Various models have downgraded the storm and has it landfalling in North Donegal or Derry. Satellite photos are showing it gone disorganised.


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    #434
    Little snowy old me
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭Little snowy old me


    The hype around this event has been ridiculous. RTE and the media in general are a disgrace. It looks like further downgrades are imminent. I wouldn't be surprised to see only a few western counties put to yellow and no warnings for the bulk of the country.


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    refusetolose
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    #436
    Graces7
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    Roycropper63 wrote: »
    Slightly off topic but Graces7 be safe!!

    Aw thanks!

    Waking to wind song here as Lorenzo gets ready to tramp in. Distinctly chilly too. All organised here. ( Fighting off an amorous wee cat here who will stymie typing)

    Will see what it is like at first light. Black as pitch out there now...

    All is well .


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    #437
    Graces7
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    phormium wrote: »
    Well whatever about frightening elderly people the ones in my area will have no 'home help' tomorrow afternoon as they have been told to go home early! So tough luck if you're elderly and were relying on one.

    Many meals on wheels services make sure they have meals in the freezer. There will be no harm for one day and I am sure the vulnerable needing special care will not be neglected. Cleaning can wait. A good home help will make sure they have all they need.


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    #438
    Reckless Abandonment
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    The papers are doing a George Lee on it

    Mirror "winds of terror:
    Indo " perfect storm"
    Star "orange orders" kind of like that one.
    The Sun "we're next" with a picture from the azores

    Jaysus


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    #439
    Loughc
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    Reckless Abandonment wrote: »
    The papers are doing a George Lee on it

    Mirror "winds of terror:
    Indo " perfect storm"
    Star "orange orders" kind of like that one.
    The Sun "we're next" with a picture from the azores

    Jaysus

    Would you expect anything less. The tabloids are hardly going to print it might be a bit windy tomorrow.


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    #440
    Unearthly
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    Boards on the ball as usual.

    People in work this morning (Dublin) making out Armageddon with Bruce Willis is imminent


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    #441
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    First words/sentence on Morning Ireland....'preparing for the years most violent storm'. George Lee on now....sensational!!!

    Fup sake!


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    #442
    US2
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    First words/sentence on Morning Ireland....'preparing for the years most violent storm'. George Lee on now....sensational!!!

    Fup sake!

    About as voilent as a Sunday morning fart.


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    #443
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    corsav6 wrote: »
    100km and hurricane don't belong in the same sentence, pure clickbait rubbish.

    We're fairly exposed on the west coast so fairly uses to the winds. Worst experience was about 5 years ago where there were 150km gusts. Watching the back door bending in was not a pleasant experience.


    Which is why many rural Irish houses only have a front door! Facing south. Just read the latest forecast and they now say, " 100 k and higher in coastal regions" They just altered that again.. need keeping an eye on! Not that we can do anything that we are not already doing.

    Curtains will stay closed; less damage/danger if a window gets smashed. No fire lit in case the chimney is damaged... big candle lit in here for many reasons.. like mislaying lighters..

    My cats are very unsettled. In and out and in again.

    Out here we all just hunker down. In my first winter I thought it was uncaring but then … I was chatting at the gate with my neighbour and a visitor, She asked had I always lived here and my neighbour told her, " We realised this one was not soft; a bit tough!" High praise. You have to be able to cope without running for help. In a real emergency, fine but days like today? My "job" is to stay safe. Not to be a liability.

    west mayo offshore island


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    #444
    malinheader
    Registered Users Posts: 4,970 ✭✭✭malinheader


    Nothing that we haven't had before. Jesus its beyond embarrassing the way the papers and rte are scaring people. How did we ever survive before.


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    #445
    Graces7
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    malinheader wrote: »
    Nothing that we haven't had before. Jesus its beyond embarrassing the way the papers and rte are scaring people. How did we ever survive before.

    glad I do not read papers or listen to rte... here and met.ie is enough .
    ;)
    Maybe THAT is how we survived and survive...


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    #446
    M.T. Cranium
    Registered Users Posts: 14,351 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    I think it will more or less justify the billing on the west coast, but it may underwhelm in some other parts. The forecasts need to be a little higher than most likely outcome just because an earlier turn towards land would cause the most likely forecasts to bust low, which would probably be worse than busting high.

    The fact is this is already showing its hand as a powerful storm out around the M6 buoy which is about 200 miles due west of Galway Bay. It is supposed to track well offshore all day then turn towards land. Some of the outer strong wind bands will brush the coast by afternoon whether it turns or not. But if it did turn even 3-6 hours earlier than the models are saying, a much stronger wind field would move into western counties.

    We are pretty confident in the models at 12-24 hours range nowadays but we can't allow overconfidence to eliminate that one in four (or lower) possibility of the stronger outcome happening. While I am not in the forecast office at Met E, this is probably what they have concluded also, better to be safe than sorry and warn of the higher end of possible outcomes. You can always ask the presenters and spokespersons to clarify the range of possible outcomes to give people a better sense of what might happen.

    To put some numbers to what I am saying, it seems likely that right now, winds within 100 miles of the low have reached 90-130 km/hr. But closer to the coast the numbers will be 70-110. If that stronger wind field off the coast swerved towards the coast a bit earlier than most of the models say it will, then a conservative forecast would bust on the high side.


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    #447
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    Evelyn was just on Virgin Media, she said the storm not as bad as it as bad or as strong as it was showing yesterday. Rainfall warning also downgraded.


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    #448
    Mr.Crinklewood
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    Pangea wrote: »
    Evelyn was just on Virgin Media, she said the storm not as bad as it as bad or as strong as it was showing yesterday. Rainfall warning also downgraded.

    Need to get Evelyn and George Lee in a face off


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    #449
    c.p.w.g.w
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    Eerily calm in Limerick city now


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    #450
    Pangea
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    I admire Evelyn's ability to respond to awkward questions, the presenter asked her what is her advise, She replied what do you mean? She then said my advise is to listen to the Gardaí and Local Authorities.

    Sean O Rourke on Rte Radio asked her yesterday is is it time to get the sandbags out, she said oh gosh, listen to your local authorities.


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    #451
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    Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning

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