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Storm Dennis ** Please read Mod Note in OP**

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    #632
    Graces7
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    The wind has eased at last; background sound now. The tide is roaring at the back here now. Been out with a torch seeking littlest cat who had been awol over 24 hours and is scared in gales. Bitterly cold but mission achieved. Lost too many critters in storms in the North Sea .

    Dennis is in retreat. But a loud deluge hitting the roof so he is not finished with us yet...


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    #633
    Graces7
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    malinheader wrote: »
    Sounds like the worst wind we have had for a while on the nw coast. Very sustained aswell.
    Seems alot stronger than Ciara.

    In a different class altogether; a real professional , Dennis. Aggressively masculine. Fanatical.

    and nearing 7 am and a vicious hailstorm.

    This is like the three day storms we were subjected to in my decade in the North Sea. The last 2 here have been thus and I do not remember these in my previous nearly 20 years in Ireland, on the west coast or in the mountains near the coast.


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    #634
    Graces7
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    GolfNut33 wrote: »
    Would seriously pay to spend the night there during a storm.

    The videos show that. They close all doors and windows tight and sit it out. The noise is incredible.
    They explained why there are always three on duty. If two and one died, the other could be accused of murder, happened once that one died innocently and the survivor had to tie the body to the outside railings, After that there were three .


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    #635
    Gaoth Laidir
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    Gaoth Laidir wrote: »
    A loss of airspeed (the speed of the air flowing over the wings) means a loss of lift, so a sudden drop in altitude. With just 50 ft left to the tarmac you don't want that drop to be too much. Lift is proportional to airspeed squared, so a small decrease has a bigger effect. A drop of 20 knots with an approach airspeed of around 140 knots is a loss of 14% of airspeed, so a 30% loss of lift. However, at that height the plane is what's called ground-effect, which will slightly offset the drop.

    I miscalculated the loss in lift. It's actually only 12%, not 30%. Still enough to be a problem at 50 ft.


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    #636
    dmc17
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    No; now there is one for tomorrow; thank you!

    The one I watched is almost 2 hours, simply " Irish Lighthouses" by Carol Minchew. Cannot post links..

    That specific episode (2) shows how Fastnet was built back around 1900. It's amazing to see how they did it.


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    #637
    Cantona's Collars
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    England and Wales got hit hard with flooding over the weekend. Towns and villages inundated.


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    Cork Boy 53
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    watlantic wrote: »
    Look what Dennis brought to Ballycotton:
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/one-in-a-million-ghost-ship-from-african-coast-washes-up-on-rocks-in-cork-982069.html

    Well at least there shouldn`t be any repeat of the pollution damage caused when the Kowloon Bridge ran aground in 1986. It may end up breaking up and sinking though.


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    Steve F
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    Cantona's Collars wrote: »
    England and Wales got hit hard with flooding over the weekend. Towns and villages inundated.

    We dodged a bullet if you look back at the way the rain clouds moved south of us and hit Wales and England
    A little bit further north and that would have been us :eek:


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    Steve F wrote: »
    We dodged a bullet if you look back at the way the rain clouds moved south of us and hit Wales and England
    A little bit further north and that would have been us :eek:


    Welsh topography has a lot to do with it, narrow valleys where the water has nowhere to go.


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    #641
    Graces7
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Welsh topography has a lot to do with it, narrow valleys where the water has nowhere to go.

    Do any of you remember the Aberfan disaster back in 1966? A colliery spoil tip, undermined by heavy rain, and built on a spring, slid atop a school and a village killing 116 children and 28 adults.

    Whenever Wales gets heavy rain, this comes to mind . The film coverage we had ( I was teaching on the edge of Wales at that time) was harrowing, and memories deeply distressing for so many there. .

    We are indeed so lucky.


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    #642
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Here is the final graph of Dennis' pressures versus the 24-hour forecasts.

    503192.png


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    Oneiric 3
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    UK Met coloured analysis map when the low was at 923 hPa just for archives sake. Didn't capture the previous map when it was at 922 hPa unfortunately.

    AOU2Eu8.png

    New Moon



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    #644
    ninebeanrows
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    Harmonie analysis had it at 917hPa, maybe a mb too many? I guess we will never know


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