Storm Saturday Night: Winds rapidly increasing with extreme gusts to 70kts+

Storm 10 · 23-12-2012 3:14am

Thanks to maquiladora for being spot on with his input for this storm

and MT who forecast this a week ago

rhonin · 23-12-2012 3:15am

I'm back home on Belmullet and it is extremely windy at the minute. Heavy rain too.

bb12 · 23-12-2012 3:16am

north co dublin and we have trees down already

23-12-2012 3:16am

gusts of 60 - 70km/h here in Dundalk

Harps · 23-12-2012 3:16am

Weathering wrote: »

Will Donegal see the worst of it? or less compared to other areas?

Looks like the worst of it will miss Donegal for a change, Galway through to Down/Louth seems to be the most intense although if you're near the coast it might get wild for a while between 3am and 6am.

Seems to be passing here now, nothing particularly extreme but at least its been a bit of excitement for the first time in quite a while

Yrag2E · 23-12-2012 3:19am

Wow, in North Dublin and that wind is so intense.

maquiladora · 23-12-2012 3:19am

There's going to be a lot of outdoor christmas lights/decorations all over the place in the morning.

Weathering · 23-12-2012 3:20am

maquiladora wrote: »

There's going to be a lot of outdoor christmas lights/decorations all over the place in the morning.

Ho ho ho ho-ly fck

Storm 10 · 23-12-2012 3:21am

Hard to sleep in Galway at the moment but I think the worst could be over the wind noise is not as bad

Smidge · 23-12-2012 3:22am

Two tiles off the fecking porch:mad:
Mental here at the minute.

Mycroft H · 23-12-2012 3:22am

Very strong gusts for the last 30minutes or so intensifying in the last 5. Mullingar Automatic is reporting as to being not available now, I wonder if that was something to do with it.

Mr Simpson · 23-12-2012 3:23am

Wind is absolutely mental here in Clontarf!

maquiladora · 23-12-2012 3:24am

Storm 10 wrote: »

Hard to sleep in Galway at the moment but I think the worst could be over the wind noise is not as bad

Yep, its peaked on the west coast now.

Still, gust of 125 km/h at Mace Head at 2am.

delw · 23-12-2012 3:29am

very windy here now,just had lights flicker,better get the candles at the ready

dirtyghettokid · 23-12-2012 3:30am

wow. that is unreal wind. guess i'm not gonna get any sleep tonight... gusts keep waking me. very strong gusts!

barney 20v · 23-12-2012 3:31am

Weathering wrote: »

Ho ho ho ho-ly fck

Made me chuckle....

Mycroft H · 23-12-2012 3:31am

Power gone. Feck. It's been a while since the wind did that

WoollyRedHat · 23-12-2012 3:36am

Affecting the tv, a serious storm

Bummer1234 · 23-12-2012 3:44am

Some flights trying to land at dublin airport seem to be missing the runway due to the wind...

http://www.flightradar24.com/ check out flight FR8012

Looks like its diverting now.

Mycroft H · 23-12-2012 3:49am

Bummer1234 wrote: »

Some flights trying to land at dublin airport seem to be missing the runway due to the wind...

http://www.flightradar24.com/ check out flight FR8012

Looks like its diverting now.

Was that an inbound Ryanair one? Was watching it until the power went

Bummer1234 · 23-12-2012 3:51am

BX 19 wrote: »

Was that an inbound Ryanair one? Was watching it until the power went

It was yea,Looks like its direct for shannon and still flying at 15000 feet.

maquiladora · 23-12-2012 3:52am

BX 19 wrote: »

Was that an inbound Ryanair one? Was watching it until the power went

Looks like its diverted to Shannon.

Wonder if that FedEx plane heading to Dublin will have any problems.

mayfly757 · 23-12-2012 3:52am

Crosswind too strong

Bummer1234 · 23-12-2012 3:53am

ninebeanrows · 23-12-2012 3:54am

at worst now

ninebeanrows · 23-12-2012 3:57am

Pretty violent out there now, i reckon Dublin Air will be >60kts @ 3am report

Sponge Bob · 23-12-2012 3:58am

Been HOWLIN in Galway for the last 2-4 hours. Typical really.

Deep Easterly · 23-12-2012 4:00am

Seen what looked like a couple of distant flashes of lightning when out the back about 30 mins ago. Either that or some sort of power source blew but lecky still on and winds have died down. No sferics pick up on ATD. Wonder is it possible that any lightning actually occurred at jet-stream level only?

PS, lightning (or whatever it was) seemed sourced to my north, over Mayo area.

mayfly757 · 23-12-2012 4:01am

maquiladora wrote: »

Looks like its diverted to Shannon.

Wonder if that FedEx plane heading to Dublin will have any problems.

Well it ain't going to be pretty ! Snn seems a bit better at the moment but Dublin is really gusting

Bummer1234 · 23-12-2012 4:04am

mayfly757 wrote: »

Well it ain't going to be pretty ! Snn seems a bit better at the moment but Dublin is really gusting

Ryanair appeared to have landed in shannon anyway but we have fedex flight coming in soon. and it appears to be getting windier.

Saganist · 23-12-2012 4:06am

Just took bins out the back. Crazy wind.

smois6 · 23-12-2012 4:06am

Just out the back of my house in Lucan dublin and i thought i could hear a train on the tracks about a mile away but it was a roaring wind that i have never heard before. Quite windy in my garden but it sounds pretty violent a few miles away

Harps · 23-12-2012 4:08am

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Seen what looked like a couple of distant flashes of lightning when out the back about 30 mins ago. Either that or some sort of power source blew but lecky still on and winds have died down. No sferics pick up on ATD. Wonder is it possible that any lightning actually occurred at jet-stream level only?

PS, lightning (or whatever it was) seemed sourced to my north, over Mayo area.

Saw a flash here half an hour ago as well but assumed it was just lights flickering, reports a while ago by another poster as well of thunder in Galway although I haven't heard anything but wind all night

Weathering · 23-12-2012 4:11am

Still completely calm and still in Donegal. Torrential rain
Unnerving ha

maquiladora · 23-12-2012 4:14am

Looks like that FedEx plane has been diverted to Shannon too.

Lucky this is happening when there isn't much coming into Dublin.

whiskeyman · 23-12-2012 4:14am

Sounds as if the Mayans were just a day out!

mayfly757 · 23-12-2012 4:15am

Dublin giving 40 kt gusting 53 kt , that's pretty bad

mountainy man · 23-12-2012 4:17am

Gusts much stronger here in the last half hour, was beginning to think ye were making much ado about nothing:o, I'd say there wil be a few trees down by morning.

Super hoop · 23-12-2012 4:20am

V.strong winds here in Stamullen for the last half hour

Bigcheeze · 23-12-2012 4:21am

maquiladora wrote: »

Looks like that FedEx plane has been diverted to Shannon too.

Lucky this is happening when there isn't much coming into Dublin.

United airlines on descent about 30 mins out from Dublin now although it feels like it has peaked here in Portmarnock.

maquiladora · 23-12-2012 4:21am

Yep, sustained gale force at Dublin Airport at 3am.

117 km/h gust at Knock.

Weathering · 23-12-2012 4:24am

Gotten very windy in Donegal all of a sudden. Torrential rain too

adox · 23-12-2012 4:24am

Jaysus wide awake here now for the last hour. Our roof is taking a battering and making some very loud bangs.

I'm fairly sure we have some tiles off/damage.

Just constant lulls and then very very strong gusts. The noise is mental. Based in Rush in North Dublin.

Have to fecking drive to Galway first thing so could have done with a good nights sleep. :pac: Will also have to see if I can spot any roof damage in the morning before I leave. Have a feeling ill be coming back to a leak or two. :mad:

Bummer1234 · 23-12-2012 4:25am

Bigcheeze wrote: »

United airlines on descent about 30 mins out from Dublin now although it feels like it has peaked here in Portmarnock.

Looks like the fedex flight is in a hold as its circuling now.

They must expect it to die down.

Bigcheeze · 23-12-2012 4:28am

Bummer1234 wrote: »

Looks like the fedex flight is in a hold as its circuling now.

Yeah pity live ATC feed is down.

Bigcheeze · 23-12-2012 4:30am

United coming straight in for the approach must have higher tolerances than the old FedEx plane.

mayfly757 · 23-12-2012 4:31am

Yeah company making their mind up to send them to Snn or bfs

mayfly757 · 23-12-2012 4:37am

Bigcheeze wrote: »

United coming straight in for the approach must have higher tolerances than the old FedEx plane.

United has the smaller but same age aircraft than FedEx

Oscar Bravo · 23-12-2012 4:41am

Worst winds in Castlebar for a long long time tonight....severe gusts since 12am.

mayfly757 · 23-12-2012 4:45am

United got in Not bad after a 8 hour flt

Storm Saturday Night: Winds rapidly increasing with extreme gusts to 70kts+

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