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Strong Winds Forecast for Saturday night

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    #32
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭mattser


    snaps wrote: »
    just lost X factor for about 10 seconds in a gust! Hopefully i'll still have a satellite dish by the morning!


    Amen to that, my friend.


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    #33
    bryaner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    All I know is all this wind and rain is saving me a fortune on oil compared to last year..:)


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    #34
    bryaner
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    dbyrne wrote: »
    so you have flown ryanair before too!!!

    very strong gusts here in templeogue

    Yes indeed mate, he aborted the first landing and said nothing fecked it across the Irish sea and went for a second go, it wasn't my favourite landing..:eek:


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    #35
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    It's interesting to note the relative calm at Sligo Airport tonight, despite the strong winds elsewhere in the northwest. This is due to the shielding effect of 1,100 ft Knocknarea Hill just to the south of the airport, but which can be a real danger to aircraft landing there in southerly winds due to the windshear (I can personally vouch for that!).

    Latest winds:

    Donegal Airport SW 33 G 43 kts
    Finner S 23 G 37 kts
    Sligo Airport S 11 kts
    Connaught Airport S 23 G 41 kts
    Belmullet S 31 G 48 kts


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    #36
    DanWall
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    Slight wind in West Cork, no rain


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    #37
    Pangea
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    Wow Crazy night here in Donegal. Not for the faint hearted, Very heavy driving rain aswell.


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    #38
    ezryder
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭ezryder


    It's wild here tonight (Mayo)...love listening to it!


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    #39
    sparrowcar
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    In work at 0430 and can't sleep cause of the wind....awesome :D


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    #40
    280special
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭280special


    Still as windy in Louth as two tins of Heinz beans on an empty stomach.


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    #41
    saa
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    dbyrne wrote: »

    very strong gusts here in templeogue

    ha :pac: good one I'm in the hills of tallaght.. and I am worried the wind is going to set of my alarm I can feel it pushing open the patio doors. eee.


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    #42
    ch750536
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    Probably the windiest night in a good many months, no rain though so it doesnt feel so bad.


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    #43
    tylercollins
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    It's pretty damn awesome up here in Derry. Rain is pretty diagonal with the wind, it's bouncing that hard off the roofs, it causing a "spray" of water.

    Haven't seen anything like this in a long time, going to try and get a video of it.


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    #44
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Top gust of 67knots at Mace head!
    The noise in the chimney is something else!


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    #45
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Su Campu wrote: »
    It's interesting to note the relative calm at Sligo Airport tonight, despite the strong winds elsewhere in the northwest. This is due to the shielding effect of 1,100 ft Knocknarea Hill just to the south of the airport, but which can be a real danger to aircraft landing there in southerly winds due to the windshear (I can personally vouch for that!).

    Latest winds:

    Donegal Airport SW 33 G 43 kts
    Finner S 23 G 37 kts
    Sligo Airport S 11 kts
    Connaught Airport S 23 G 41 kts
    Belmullet S 31 G 48 kts

    And now the wind at Sligo has swung around to westerly, where it's no longer blocked by the hill, and the strength has increased to 29 Gust 39 kts.


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    #46
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    ASCAT (satellite-measured) winds at 20:30 Saturday night, showing gales in the northwest.

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    #47
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,878 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Su Campu wrote: »
    It's interesting to note the relative calm at Sligo Airport tonight, despite the strong winds elsewhere in the northwest. This is due to the shielding effect of 1,100 ft Knocknarea Hill just to the south of the airport, but which can be a real danger to aircraft landing there in southerly winds due to the windshear (I can personally vouch for that!).

    Latest winds:

    Donegal Airport SW 33 G 43 kts
    Finner S 23 G 37 kts
    Sligo Airport S 11 kts
    Connaught Airport S 23 G 41 kts
    Belmullet S 31 G 48 kts

    enormously interesting SU

    I was just saying today where are these winds

    Well they are here now but when i looked at met earlier it was showing 30 to 40 knots everywhere and yet in Sligo town I saw no trees swaying much

    Very interesting


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    #48
    Strangegravy
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    That squall line on the rain radar just passing over now, serious winds with it... Fun!! :)


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    #49
    4Sheets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭4Sheets


    In South Sligo ..still raining lightly ..and the wind has definitely picked up in the last hour since the front passed over..a stormy night to be sure .hope the leccy does'nt get cut.


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    #50
    ashblag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 376 ✭✭ashblag


    not constant wind here in waterford, but CRAZY fcuking gusts out there lights just flickered, thank god put that extra bolt on the front door!:eek:


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    #51
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭mattser


    Just heading for bed in Dubland here, lads. Only a small puff here, and I think that was ME !!! Nite Nite.


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    #52
    4Sheets
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    Stars are out..winds still gusty..hate wind without lashing rain ....Sin é for me.


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    #53
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭emo72


    4Sheets wrote: »
    Stars are out..winds still gusty..hate wind without lashing rain ....Sin é for me.

    standby. Severe rain here in lucan. Should be with you in 5 minutes. Oh, and if your asleep, expect to be woken up!


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    #54
    Monkaa
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Monkaa


    emo72 wrote: »
    4Sheets wrote: »
    Stars are out..winds still gusty..hate wind without lashing rain ....Sin é for me.

    standby. Severe rain here in lucan. Should be with you in 5 minutes. Oh, and if your asleep, expect to be woken up!


    Just been woken up, what the hell is going on outside, havent heard this bad wind & rain in a long long time! Would usually enjoy but worried sick about my horse outside in Wicklow :( will be checking on her 1st thing tomorrow but for now I'm just astonished by the power of what's going on outside! When will this pass?


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    #55
    delw
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    serious driving wind & rain now :)


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    #56
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭emo72


    it was gusty all evening but dry. That rain was unexpected, it really came down ferociously for about 5 minutes, now its calmer. A poor wheely bin went down. That's never happened before.


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    #57
    Reiketsu
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    tylercollins wrote: »
    It's pretty damn awesome up here in Derry. Rain is pretty diagonal with the wind, it's bouncing that hard off the roofs, it causing a "spray" of water.

    Haven't seen anything like this in a long time, going to try and get a video of it.

    I was in the town at some bars and got caught in a real heavy downpour around 11:30 or so. Shipquay Street was a river and I saw some fella wringing his converse trainers out haha.

    It has been calm enough here since that as far as I'm aware but I can hear the wind starting to pick up again I think.


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    #58
    Monkaa
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Monkaa


    Seems to easing a bit now, rain has stopped but still windy but not as bad, think I'll try go back asleep


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    #59
    James__10
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    I feel sorry for any poor souls who may be homeless tonight.


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    #60
    irish1967
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    Just walked home. 25mins walk. Dry and fairly calm. Those two squawl lines were ferocious. Looking at the radar looks like everyone north of limerick got a touch.
    Thanks to the radar I timed my work finish to 2.15am and got home dry. I'd be surprised if we don't hear of a few flash floods in the morning.


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    #61
    vampire of kilmainham
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    wouldnt like to be flying into Dublin Airport tonight...

    LandingLIVELEAK_468x371.jpg

    :rolleyes:
    good piece of flying there by the piolet's


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