hurricane ophelia

DANGER AHEAD At Cat 3 #Ophelia is now strongest hurricane on record this far East in the Atlantic.Wind speeds now 185kph;heading for Ireland

This looks serious alright, worst storm in 50 years, hitting the house at around 9 tomorrow morning.
Hopefully people take heed of the media warnings and no fatalities happen.

Can we have a spread of how many high sided vans/lorries overturned despite the warnings?

M74

carlilse/scottish border

NAP

Hype maybe found to be overdone,there has been a pattern in recent years to see weather forecasters covering backsides since the 1987 hurricane ?

tropical storm

Has made landfall in Macroom.

Renamed Hurricane O'Phelia

https://mobile.twitter.com/Mc1988/status/919561381757808640/video/1

Hopefully it will bring some rain.

Yes Tree top what is Known as the Fishcoversystem

Worst storm I remember was the Scottish Storm of 1968.
20 people died with 700 left homeless.
A wind gust of 138mph recorded.

I was in London in 87 was pretty bad  was Working as a Courier at the Time ,Left to go to work and quickly came back home so many roads impassable

I lived in a village aged 15 and we had no electric for 6 days.

CODE RED WARNING FOR IRELAND,ALL SCHOOLS CLOSED,ITS EXPECTED TO HIT RIGHT ACROSS IRELAND.RISK OF LIVES ADDED MET EIREANN.
WEST OF IRELAND MORNING,EAST OF IRELAND AFTERNOON,THEN OVER TO ENGLAND.SOUNDS BAD.

Must be very frightening for those on the West coast especially.

What puzzles me is how something travelling at 80 mph can take 24 hours to cross Eire and the Irish sea

I would had thought the rotation has speeds of 80mph.

Aye, well I'll lay my garden chairs on their backs on Monday night then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COwkCW38J54

Is this a wind up ?

anyone own a wee og called toto

That was a tornado not a hurry cane

Looks like it could be bad. Best wishes to any forumites caught up in it.

Some gusts and reports of trees down,road is near enough deserted, supposed to be the second part of the storm with this "stingjet" that will do most damage, hairy outside.

now called ' ex -ophelia ' on bbc  breakfast. must be gutted windspeed dropped, getting as bad as sky news.

I'm surprised they haven't set up a counter for the number of chimneys blown over. I expect there will be stacks.

The MSM are not happy to report news any more. They want to to make it, and are happy to create extra fear and chaos if it helps sell their nonsense.

I'd have agreed with you 20 minutes ago Saddo,winds picking up now though and supposed to double between 12-2 from where i am, i would give the benefit of doubt to the hype merchants for a while yet.

Isle of Man Ferry crossings affected/cancelled.

V bad now,slates off about 3 houses across the road,the traffic lights is like something you see in Miami hurricane footage,trees down all over the county.

Where are you based pa

I'm in Cork city for the week G Hall

I am staying in galway not too bad yet mostly gusts and an easterly wind

It is heading your way, it was tame enough until an hour ago

It is heading your way, it was tame enough until an hour ago

Very odd coloured sky here in Yorks this morning, yellowy/grey, when the sun is visible it is almost sunset red.

Well that seems to be it,calmed down here.

Facebook awash with total gowls marking themselves as "safe from storm opheila", what a shower.

Im in the south east and its bad enough here. Trees down etc and electricity gone.

Reports of idiots swimming in the sea of the west coast.

Fcuk them but they are putting innocent lifeguards at risk too.

The civil defence should seriously give thought to not responding to acts of absolute lunacy until 100% safe to do so.

Yes an idiot swimming in Galway bay (which is a large body of water) despite warnings to stay indoors because of 160 km winds ..99.4 mph.

would you brown your trousers this landing dublin



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXRAQEP6cY&feature=youtu.be

this was not a hurricane
i went to the reception desk of a miami hotel before andrew
as i confirmed my booking a bell hop picked up my bag and took it to the kerbside drop off
i was not allowed to ckeck in and the bell hop could not believe i had tried to check in
if this had been a hurricane there would have been many more deaths
galway is in a bad way but trees down and no lecky does not add up to a hurricane
tiles dont stay on the roof in a hurricane
ours did
they rattle in a bad storm here .... they didnt rattle this time
this was a bad storm .... sorry .... fake news

when news organisations switch from mph to kph you can see the disappointment

Good riddance

Storm Ophelia produced some very strong wind gusts (in KM/h as that's what we use in Ireland)
Fastnet Lightnouse  191 km/h
Roches Point 156
Kinsale Platform  141
Waterford Airport  137
Sherkin Island  135 (before loss of power)
Cork Airport  126 (before loss of power)
Shannon Airport 122
Casement Airport 117
Johnstown Castle  115
Oak Park  111
Malin Head 104
Gurteen  102
Grange 106
Dublin Airport 104

This was a major event alright.

You were lucky irishone , maybe the direction or something helped you.
The only reason it wasnt much worse was the excellent met eireann and news agencys getting the danger potential out there.

Buildings were secured and people stayed at home saving many lives.

I had to be out in it but believe me I was scared anywhere near a tree as they were under severe pressure.

The amount of trees down compared to lives lost is testament to the warnings put out in time .

Well said that Irishone is some idgit

how come we have not had the same warnings for this storm eleanor ?
we are getting this much harder than ophelia right now, but the warnings for that were much earlier.
in this area we have electricity out now , windows cracking and tiles off roofs ... whete were the warnings two dauys ago like they werebwitgh ophelia ?

soz for the typing but this happens regular