Ireland - Regional Discussion

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Hmm fingers crossed that storm seems to be moving towards Iceland on Friday - Selfish point of view I know, but think of the Children people, think of the poor children...

Alright Wathcer I know all about Whiskey hangovers they are THE worse, go and get some more doen your neck that will help honest!!

Whiskey? what's that? Surely the good stuff doesn't have an e in it?

That would be the the Irish whiskey and no its not good stuff, the morning after that is.

Hey Stormforce don't forget to include me in that will

[stormforce 10]

Hmm fingers crossed that storm seems to be moving towards Iceland on Friday - Selfish point of view I know, but think of the Children people, think of the poor children...

Alright Wathcer I know all about Whiskey hangovers they are THE worse, go and get some more doen your neck that will help honest!!

That would be the the Irish whiskey and no its not good stuff, the morning after that is.

Hey Stormforce don't forget to include me in that will

you can have my weather station pomeroy.

mountain shadow- an e with whiskey, boy even the fittest of people would have a bad day after that.

[mountain shadow]

Well that storm is still there and getting worse as we approach T+0. If it's still their tomorrow I expect early warnings as early as tomorrow evening.

[Harps]

Looking like a very stormy week ahead from Monday evening right through to Friday.

Thursday/Friday's storm is still looking ridiculous, surely it can't play out as its been showing for the past few days? Just look at this thing from the GFS earlier!

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Cheers Stormforce I am getting all choked up!!

Ok folks Friday is still on course for severe winds, looks like Donegal down to Louth to bear the brunt with Co.Down and Co.Louth to be hit the hardest?

Borrowed this from the Model Thread - maybe I am reading it wrong regarding the above statement??

Edited December 11, 2011 by Pomeroysnow

[mountain shadow]

Serious stuff this potential storm. Latest run even worse with around a 930mb low tracking just north of the Island. Storm of a lifetime.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Indeed MS its one I hope doesn't verify

[stormforce 10]

well guys and girls it was nice knowing yee all and I hope to meet up again in another lifetime. 4 more days to enjoy life on planet earth. :excl:

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

well guys and girls it was nice knowing yee all and I hope to meet up again in another lifetime. 4 more days to enjoy life on planet earth. :excl:

[The watcher]

scary scary storms being forecasted still by the models. still a chance we could luckily fall in the centre of the low and get away with the fiercest winds, but atm we look in for the strongest on Fridays and severe gales from Mon/Tue.

[geoffw]

iim a noob so what wind strength are we expecting in bangor?

[BIG LAD]

took a dander up sliabh beagh today and all snow from earlier in the week had gone but as i got above about 300mts the snow started and got heavier for about an hour. left a nice covering especially higher up at about 350mts. temp hovered around 0c. have some pics here.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

nice one Big Lad, nice touch putting the date on the car

[ronan]

What a nice surprise. The wee girl came running in to me and said Daddy Daddy its snowing! Had a look out and true to her word it is snowing. Its very wet snow but good to see.

[Harps]

Same here, wet sleety snow but didn't expect anything today!

I stupidly copied the live image link for the chart above so its showing nothing now but it was crazy looking last night!

Still no real downgrade though, oddly the first storm on Tuesday seems to be harder to predict than the 2nd, still big changes on every run for Tuesday while Thursday has been the same for the past 3 days now with a potentially historic storm across most of Ireland. Still expecting a downgrade at some stage

[kold weather]

GFS looks really quite devasting for RoI this eveing, widespread gusts getting upto the 75-90kts range in coastal locations and probably 70-80kts inland. GFS suggests sustained winds of about 40kts inland and maybe 50-55kts in the coastal locations and that in itself is pretty impressive for a storm like this.

[The watcher]

Countryfile not going into much detail on Fridays storm but did say "big storm" and advised people to watch for updates. For tommorow night its not as powerful as last weeks but some areas look like seeing 70mph gusts with the low seeming to centre just to the North of NI.

[ronan]

Nice band of showers showing on the latest radar which could be wintry as current temps are at 1 degrees with ice on the cars!!

[mountain shadow]

If they make it over here it;s bound to be snow as there is already a hard frost in place.

[ronan]

Yeah I wasn't expecting anything tonight but will see what happens soon enough. Meto says a band of showers moving through with snow on hills.

[Harps]

Wouldn't get too excited, very light sleety rain is all I've gotten at the moment, looks quite intense on the radar but it doesn't seem to be doing much

[ronan]

Seems to be fizzling out as it moves west. Even if it is light it will make the roads very sloppy if it stays frosty!

[mountain shadow]

Good news and Good news.

The "storm" looks like going south and less intense which means the colder air comes in quicker on Friday. Chance of widespread snow, the usual a bit of height helps caveats.

[ronan]

Its lashing down here in Derry at the minute. Higher ground should have a bit of snow out of this!!

[mountain shadow]

Well, that was the storm that wasn't.

Still hopeful of some snow next weekend, until then it's wet and windy.