Storm Darragh - Red Warning Issued

[mountain shadow]

80mph gusts possible along the North Coast of Antrim and Derry on Saturday morning. 

Should be some monster waves.

[andy989]

Not storm Darragh but some torrential rain has caused a lot of flooding here today

[Metwatch]

Met Office's forecasts (UKV data) been consistently going for gusts of around 60mph on the back edge of the storm through Saturday here so perhaps becoming more likely now, Quite rare to see forecasts going much above 50-55mph, but often it is overestimated. Interesting to see how bad it would get. Also to note, those strong winds will come from the north west rather than the usual southwesterly direction.

Edited December 5, 2024 by Metwatch

[HarvSlugger]

Met office for me

[Mcconnor8]

 Metwatch  HarvSlugger

Latest Arpege Max Gusts throughout the storm

[Daydream Boy]

 Mcconnor8 That reads for Monday December 9th? 

[HarvSlugger]

70 mph gusts well inland there!!

[Daydream Boy]

Met Office consistently has my location very close to 80mph gusts for a fair few hours on Saturday and either side of this 65 - 70mph!

As the ground is very saturated I expect alot of trees will fall too! 

[HarvSlugger]

 Daydream Boy he's just gone to max gusts from now till the 9th december,we aren't getting any windier than this storm to the 9th, so all of wind here is from the storm Saturday 

[Mcconnor8]

 Daydream Boy It shows the max speed from any time until then, so the duration of the storm.

[Paul]

Latest from @Nick F on Darragh

Storm Darragh to bring gales and heavy rain on Saturday

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A deepening low moving in off the Atlantic and arriving Friday night has been named Storm Darragh by the Met Office. Amber warnings are in force for gusts of 70-80mph around western coasts. Yellow warnings for...

 

[If Wishes made Weather]

Just noted in the regional thread, that the North Westerly flow is unusual for the Anglia / Home Counties region - so possibly more impacts than might be expected from the usual South Westerlies?

[StingJet]

 HarvSlugger That's interesting H 
Your mean wind speed for Sat is way higher than mine,  and I am about a mile off the north / north west coast of the I.o.A

Edited December 5, 2024 by StingJet

[HarvSlugger]

 StingJet 600 feet above sea level  but yes it's wrong, you'll be windier than me

Edited December 5, 2024 by HarvSlugger

[Mcconnor8]

Some 89 MPH gusts inland in Wales and the South West look to be the highest on the UKV 15z.

[HarvSlugger]

 Mcconnor8 U see that purple in the middle of Pembrokeshire that's me

[matty40s]

Oh, dear, Saturday afternoon all of a sudden could be dangerous in London.. 

[Mcconnor8]

 

[KTtom]

 Ian Ballinger same here, got a 1950s house right on the west coast, regularly loose tiles, also into the mix, its very rare to get 80mph winds from a northerly quarter, usually its a south westerly that brings the stormy winds.

[HarvSlugger]

 KTtom do you remember storm arwen?this could be worse than that

[LeeRoyxD]

It's quite windy even now jeeze 

[Ross90]

 Mcconnor8 Well there's absolutely no need for the central belt to be under a wind warning then. No inland locations are showing anything other than a breezy and quite wet day.

[Polar Maritime]

Some folks will need to buckle down..

[SiGh]

So, is this eve's hoolie Darragh's little bro, that's arrived 'here' in last 2 hours? Feels like the strongest winds, so far, imby, for this Autumn/Winter.

[HarvSlugger]

It's alot more than breezy even in the most central parts of the UK...