Gales/Stormy Conditions in Connacht & Ulster Dec 10-11th

Nice and blustery here this evening in West Limerick. Some showers too. Its not too cold either as I was just outside in short sleeves.

Probably just a little too far South to get a real taste of the winds but at least its more interesting than its been for a good while

Looking forward to lurking on this thread and reading about conditions experienced by fellow Boardsies

I note that the Met Eireann weather warnings are saying that from midnight onwards the winds will pick up.

They are ramping up pretty quickly now here now. Its nice to listen to the winds with a mug of coffee in one hand, bar of chocolate sitting beside me and my trusty smart phone keeping me up to date.

Happy days

Valid: Wed 10 Dec 2014 06:00 to Thu 11 Dec 2014 06:00 UTC
Issued: Tue 09 Dec 2014 21:11

A level 1 was issued for N Ireland and W Scotland mainly for severe wind gusts.

SYNOPSIS and DISCUSSION

Satellite loops reveal a deep cyclonic vortex centered just south of Iceland as of Tuesday 20 UTC. Center of the low will shift towards the Norwegian Sea with steep pressure gradient to the south inducing very strong low-level flow. 850 hPa winds will reach 25 - 40 m/s and the strongest windgusts will impact especially western Scotland, locally exceeding 33 m/s. Steep lapse rates of the polar airmass will likely contribute to the marginal destabilisation with CAPE values 100 - 200 J/kg possible. Lack of concentrated mid to upper tropospheric forcing now precludes a scenario with strongly forced QLCS. However convection and associated downdrafts may enhance the wind gusts during the passage of showers or weakly electrified thunderstorms. Thus, a Lvl 1 is introduced.


Another region with DMC will be the southern Mediterranean, especially just off the Tunisia coastline, towards southern Greece. Marginally unstable airmass will be located south of the warm front. Lack of steep lapse rates and strong vertical wind shear will preclude any significant severe weather risk.

You can actually 'see' the Jetstream on the satellite this evening

That white streak over northern Ireland and into southern Scotland (you can see it re-appear to the west of Ireland near the edge of the screen) is where the jet core is, so you would think in any deep convection piling into the west coast there will be some pretty ferocious wind gusts..

Malin Head reporting a 64kt gust in the last hour, with Finner and Mace getting 50+kts. Got 22kts in a very sheltered spot in South Dublin in the last few minutes.

kingshankly wrote: »

Can you get Hail in winter thought it was only in summer

hmmm, say wha?

kingshankly wrote: »

Can you get Hail in winter thought it was only in summer

watching Richard Hamond on bbc last night were you

Hardly a breeze here Co.Galway as of yet., was winder this time last night.

Malin head 69kts at 11pm followed by mace head at 63kts. not bad!