Storm Callum Chat/Non Technical Discussion (Including Travel)

bloodless_coup · 11-10-2018 11:59pm

spottybananas wrote: »

Any idea what it might be like around Loughrea/Galway City tomorrow at roughly 1-3pm? Hoping the winds will have died down...

Looks like 12 - 1:30 will be the worst of it.

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2018 12:00am

I thought it was Orange warning nationwide? no?

spottybananas · 12-10-2018 12:00am

doylefe wrote: »

Looks like 12 - 1:30 will be the worst of it.

I'll be crossing my fingers for 1.30 so!

YFlyer · 12-10-2018 12:05am

YFlyer wrote: »

What time is the yellow warning level of storm hitting Limerick city?

Just starting to rain now in Limerick city. Wind picking up slightly.

YFlyer · 12-10-2018 12:06am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

I thought it was Orange warning nationwide? no?

Doesn't seem so.

Roger_007 · 12-10-2018 12:08am

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

I thought it was Orange warning nationwide? no?

No, it's just for the coastal counties. I'm in the orange zone as from now. I just went outside and I definitely heard a faint rustle of leaves in the trees.:eek:
I know I should be scared but I'm brave and resilient. I'm determined to get through this.:rolleyes:

YFlyer · 12-10-2018 12:08am

spookwoman wrote: »

Status Yellow - Wind warning for Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Roscommon, Limerick and Tipperary
Valid from Friday 12 October 2018 00:01 to Friday 12 October 2018 09:00

Time wise the Met Éireann were accurate for Limerick city.

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2018 12:13am

we have one of those flappy vent things outside on the wall ... i can hear it doing a bit of flapping .. I guess the wind must be picking up a little bit

physioman · 12-10-2018 12:14am

Electricity out in Kerry in tralee and abbeyfeale

Cork981 · 12-10-2018 12:15am

Ryanair flight FR1349 to Shannon was in a holding pattern at Shannon and decided to divert to Cork, got far as Grenagh and made a sudden turn up to Dublin.

Choppy flight I’d say.

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2018 12:15am

physioman wrote: »

Electricity out in Kerry in tralee and abbeyfeale

wow!:eek:

Roger_007 · 12-10-2018 12:18am

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

I can’t tell the difference between the two forums.got a bollocking for offering the real weather heads a trampoline for sale.was throwing in a half bag of borrowed beach sand to weigh her down and all to sweeten the deal.
Two titles are the same.

If you can gauge the speed and direction of the wind correctly you could get your trampoline delivered for nothing...................I'm not sure about the bag of sand though.;)

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2018 12:21am

Cork981 wrote: »

Ryanair flight FR1349 to Shannon was in a holding pattern at Shannon and decided to divert to Cork, got far as Grenagh and made a sudden turn up to Dublin.

Choppy flight I’d say.

Q_ueeny · 12-10-2018 12:26am

engiweirdo wrote: »

Has anyone a formula for how many wheelie bins will fit under a trampoline?

Sound.

Logged in just to thank this post

Edit : to add to the discussion, very wild wind here in Limerick City in the last 20/30 minutes. It's lovely to be tucked up listening to it!

Andy From Sligo · 12-10-2018 12:27am

DominoDub wrote: »

This may help with wind direction confirmation.

https://www.windy.com/?54.725,7.295,4

thats a good site that - very informative and good details. Never seen that one before

Amprodude · 12-10-2018 1:09am

I think this storm is hyped up by the media to the last. nothing major only a mild gust. Darwin was a storm.

bassy · 12-10-2018 1:11am

its brewing up in north kk with wind and rain started about 30 mins ago.

Rhineshark · 12-10-2018 1:16am

I wouldn't want to be out in it, but it's not too awful here, despite being south-facing onto the sea. On the other hand, I think it's still mostly south of us still? South coast of co Galway

aisling86 · 12-10-2018 1:16am

Air siren just gone off in macroom those poor firemen going out at nearly this storms peak.....

12-10-2018 1:18am

Just over 11,000 customers without power

no.8 · 12-10-2018 1:21am

Amprodude wrote:

I think this storm is hyped up by the media to the last. nothing major only a mild gust. Darwin was a storm.

Ah we were waiting for you

Rhineshark · 12-10-2018 1:22am

https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/

Totally non-technical way to tell the progress of the storm.

Limerick, Kerry and Cork.

12-10-2018 1:42am

12,500 now without power

Davaeo09 · 12-10-2018 1:51am

Rhineshark wrote: »

https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/

Totally non-technical way to tell the progress of the storm. Limerick, Kerry and Cork.

Tipp, Galway, Kilkenny, Waterford next

:eek::(

spookwoman · 12-10-2018 2:05am

Davaeo09 wrote: »

Tipp, Galway, Kilkenny, Waterford next :eek::(

Fault in Rosehill Kilkenny now

Davaeo09 · 12-10-2018 2:09am

Im slightly above Kilkenny out the Kilmanagh road and its gone very mad out there the last 15 mins.

spookwoman · 12-10-2018 2:14am

Kilcloher Near Dungarvan waterford power out

Kimmage dublin now

Wexford

eskimocat · 12-10-2018 2:55am

Wind definitely picked up about a 40 mins to an hour ago here. Plenty rain with it. It will be interesting to see the highest wind readings for around here. Markree castle, outside Sligo is my nearest met Eireann recording station. Stay safe folks.

circadian · 12-10-2018 3:05am

Wind is horsing along in Dublin 9. Couldn't imagine it being safe out there at all now. Seems to be worse than Ophelia was, most likely due to direction.

Ultimate Seduction · 12-10-2018 3:12am

Bigger winds have passed through the cheeks of my arse!

RocketRaccoon · 12-10-2018 3:17am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Bigger winds have passed through the cheeks of my arse!

Why do people do this? Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't mean thousands of others aren't affected.

spookwoman · 12-10-2018 3:34am

Ardnaree Ballina and derrybeg donegal power out

add enniscorthy to the list

Try_harder · 12-10-2018 3:37am

Storm woke me up!
Anyone else think of Callum Best when they hear Storm Callum?

Try_harder · 12-10-2018 3:38am

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Bigger winds have passed through the cheeks of my arse!

Id get that checked!

fred funk }{ · 12-10-2018 3:40am

Try_harder wrote: »

Storm woke me up!
Anyone else think of Callum Best when they hear Storm Callum?

No.

Reiketsu · 12-10-2018 4:08am

Raining sideways here in Co Derry. Blustery too. Well, I'm off to Belfast International to see if my flight actually materialises...

Pangea · 12-10-2018 4:22am

Wind getting noticable just now SW Donegal

Gremlinertia · 12-10-2018 4:24am

The powercheck map is :eek:

sunflower3 · 12-10-2018 4:26am

Location: Kilkenny
Type of service interruption: Fault
Number of customers affected: 31490

That's a lot of people affected...

dacogawa · 12-10-2018 4:49am

Callum registering on the traffic speed tracker!

https://twitter.com/DavidCostelloDC/status/1050579406232702977

corks finest · 12-10-2018 4:59am

Try_harder wrote: »

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Bigger winds have passed through the cheeks of my arse!

Id get that checked!

Cheeked even

o1s1n · 12-10-2018 5:19am

A big gust actually just broke the lock on one of my windows and it flung open. (I'm up quite high in a Dublin apartment)

Luckily no huge gusts came in the time it took me to wake up suddenly, notice what was going on and on running downstairs to pull it closed. It was at a 90 degree angle to the wind so would have blown off.

Had to break out the tool kit to remove the lock and refit it while gusts kept trying to catch the window open again. Mad stuff.

bassy · 12-10-2018 5:31am

spookwoman wrote: »

Ardnaree Ballina and derrybeg donegal power out

add enniscorthy to the list

Is that you small feet

Roger_007 · 12-10-2018 6:08am

Just got out of bed. Ran down stairs all excited to see if Calum had been, or had left anything......alas, nothing:(. I had even left a glass of milk and a carrot on the porch..........untouched:(.

KingBobby · 12-10-2018 6:17am

I think i'll make a giant sand castle today with my spare 250 kg of sand

Colonel Claptrap · 12-10-2018 6:29am

No DART between Bray and Greystones or between Howth and Howth Jct.

Pelvis · 12-10-2018 6:30am

Power cut here in D6. Though I've had quite a few outages in the last few weeks so may not be storm related.

Artane2002 · 12-10-2018 7:42am

Someone left a Tesco trolley at the edge of a road. Watch it get blown into a car...

screamer · 12-10-2018 7:44am

Well that was a non event here in north kilkenny/ south laois. I looked out to see an empty coal bag I'd forgotten to pick up last night in the garden..... This morning it's still there. I understand forecasters for their best and weather is unpredictable at best, and some areas are/ were hit badly, but when there are warnings and nothing much materialises it just undermines the whole warning system.

Graces7 · 12-10-2018 7:56am

screamer wrote: »

Well that was a non event here in north kilkenny/ south laois. I looked out to see an empty coal bag I'd forgotten to pick up last night in the garden..... This morning it's still there. I understand forecasters for their best and weather is unpredictable at best, and some areas are/ were hit badly, but when there are warnings and nothing much materialises it just undermines the whole warning system.

No it doesn't as most folk are aware of variations

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