(Ernesto) Warning for High Intensity Rain Sat 18 PM / Sun 19 AM

Will the worst of the rain pass over the Northern half of the country?

Oops69 wrote: »

This weather / warning / advisory lark protocol in MET eireann needs serious revision , it s beyond a joke now .

Really? Twas an advisory ffs.

I'd counter that with the faux outrage and inability to comprehend that it was a yellow advisory is beyond a joke.

So sky news are saying that this storm could contain smoke and ash from the wildfires in north America. Strange.

https://news.sky.com/story/storm-ernesto-set-to-bring-wildfire-smoke-to-britain-11475479

Advisory is back:

Met &#201 wrote: »

Status Yellow - Weather Advisory for Ireland
Rain moving eastwards across Ireland this evening and tonight will give heavy / intense bursts of rainfall in places for short periods with a risk of spot flooding.

Issued: Saturday 18 August 2018 10:00

Updated: Saturday 18 August 2018 10:00

Valid from Saturday 18 August 2018 18:01 to Sunday 19 August 2018 04:00

A normal bit of wind and rain for the NW, nothing out the ordinary.

Any chance the mods could set up a dedicated thread for the people who want to discuss how wrong or right Met Eireann are? And keep threads like this for weather discussion

Going by those charts the South will see very little if any rain.
Why don't Met Eireann mention that

fryup wrote: »

well at least its bringing some lovely warm air with it

Indeed it's balmy here in south laois, kk city even hotter.....

RobertKK wrote: »

Reached 26C here in Kilkenny. Pity it looks like we will miss the main rainfall from Ernesto, we need it.

Terribly disappointing but not surprising, the pattern of recent weeks with all the rain moving northeast over Connacht and Ulster and little in the east and south continues.
24.2c here and sunshine now hazy through the cirrus.

You should remember that,being summer, there will be more pleasure craft at sea than during the winter months, so a warning for higher winds than normal is justified.

My garden could do with rain, we have a new lawn down.

screamer wrote: »

I think Ophelia became extra tropical about 24 hours before it hit. Doesn't mean anything to me but I remember that Donnelly girl on the weather at pains to explain that it would not be a hurricane any longer but an extra tropical storm packing hurricane force gusts......

That was due to media misunderstanding of transition - the same thing happened with Hurricane Sandy. Headlines started talking about how it was being "downgraded" from a hurricane to a post-tropical storm, even though this is only relevant to meteorologists and has little bearing on the effects on the ground re wind speeds and rainfall. A lot of people were saying "pah, it's not a hurricane anymore so I guess this was all hype" and Met Eireann had to go to great lengths to get the message out that aside from a technical change in designation, the transition was so recent that wind speeds etc wouldn't change much by the time it hit Ireland, so it would still be a 'hurricane' event in all but name.

I often wonder how bad it might have been if such warnings hadn't been issued and the country hadn't shut down the way it did. Where I was in Dun Laoghaire, the amount of damage was genuinely unbelievable - I've never seen so many trees felled in a single day, and some of them fell strongly and heavily enough to smash through brick garden walls, leaving gaps in the walls and bricks scattered around the place. Within a one minute walk from my gaff I think I counted six very large trees having been felled, and one or two overhanging shop signs in the main street as well - if the town had been as busy as it usually is, there's absolutely no doubt that there would have been numerous serious injuries at the very least.

Maybe it wasn't as epic an event as forecast for the West coast, where stormy conditions are more frequent, but I can tell you that for an East Coast town it really was a once in a lifetime event. I can't remember any storm doing as much surface damage since we moved here in 1995.