Very dodgy in Scotland!

 

 

14 hours ago, TOGA-saurus said:

Hunkered down here in Galway, IE. The forecast in 5 hours time is 175km/h in the city, and up to 219km/h heading west out. NEVER in my life have we had any sort of storm with those kinds of numbers! The highest on record was 181km/h back in 1945 🫠

New wind speed record for Ireland - 183kmh (114mph) - recorded on a headland on the coast of County Galway at 5am. Almost a million homes and businesses without power across the island.

Bill

Edited January 24, 20251 yr by scianoir

Ireland has been hit with a number of hurricanes over the years.  Here are just a few:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Big_Wind - wind gusts of over 100 knots(185km/h).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Ulysses

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0821/1465967-1822-ireland-hurricane-storm/ - hurricane which isn't well-recorded in the official weather history of Ireland

Who knows what extreme weather events hit Ireland and the UK before the 1800s when there was no weather instrumentation and accurate weather data.

We are so biased to recent events and tend to forget that these things have happened before.

Dave

 

1 hour ago, martin-w said:

Very dodgy in Scotland!

It certainly is! The Central Belt (That's predominantly Glasgow in the west to Edinburgh in the east and up into the southern areas of Fife is taking a right beating. One Ryanair flight from Stansted inexplicably* tried to land in Edinburgh late this morning, despite nothing flying below 30,000 ft around that part of the country. Took one loop around Peebles, another before lining up with Runway 24 and finally did a go around before heading back to Stansted (with Flightradar originally showing it as diverting to Cologne!). From my vantage point, a couple of miles away, it looked like a smooth enough approach (too far to detect wing wobble) but I'm sure it would have been a pretty rough experience for everyone on board.

*Probably trying to avoid delay payouts rather than achieving customer satisfaction.

 

 

Personally, I was supposed to be travelling to pick up the keys to my new property. No transport means it'll be Monday now. Hope it's still there when I arrive!😐

Edited January 24, 20251 yr by 109Sqn
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12 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

Personally, I was supposed to be travelling to pick up the keys to my new property. No transport means it'll be Monday now. Hope it's still there when I arrive!😐

 

What a pain. very frustrating. Enjoy your new property when you finally get in. 👍

51 minutes ago, martin-w said:

 

What a pain. very frustrating. Enjoy your new property when you finally get in. 👍

Cheers. Moving home is stressful enough without the addition of extreme weather!

In Springfield they're.... O wait wrong nation.... In Birmingham they are floating the planes of the people who live there.

 

 

7 hours ago, 109Sqn said:

Cheers. Moving home is stressful enough without the addition of extreme weather!

For me, you always know the weather will be bad when you book a moving truck, I've lost that lottery every time 

All the best with your move

16 hours ago, Matthew Kane said:

For me, you always know the weather will be bad when you book a moving truck, I've lost that lottery every time 

All the best with your move

Thanks. One of my niece's partners was in removals, so he's offered to drive a van for me, so all I have to concern myself with is hiring it and filling it!

 

And watching the weather forecast.🤞 Not the best time of year to move house, but beggars can't be choosers.

On 1/24/2025 at 10:44 AM, martin-w said:

A bit windy in the early hours. As Ray said, pretty much missed us. 

My station is around 35 miles from the Irish Sea so inland winds are much reduced. Here’s my wind graph for the period covering the storm’s impact.

Max gust just 45mph. Thank goodness.

Nasty winds this morning. Gusts to 65. 

20 minutes ago, martin-w said:

Nasty winds this morning. Gusts to 65. 

Looks like a pressure squeeze over you. Although pressure is dropping rapidly here highest gust is just 30mph. More rain with this storm lasting into tomorrow.

Gusts of 40mph here at Popham so no flying for me today - even the hanger is flapping around🙄

About to head home to the relative safety of MS2024!

 

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Looks like a pressure squeeze over you.

 

It's forecast the same for Monday, too. Doesn't seem it'll drop below 50 till Wednesday according the the met office app. 

The sun seems to be making an appearance, though. 

Edited January 26, 20251 yr by martin-w

23 minutes ago, TrafficPilot said:

Gusts of 40mph here at Popham so no flying for me today - even the hanger is flapping around🙄

About to head home to the relative safety of MS2024!

Sidmouth, East Devon; we seem to be passing through the eye of a tremendous low pressure system right now.

Wind and rain all night followed by LOTS of wind and rain all morning, lightning and thunder about twenty minutes ago followed by hail and now looking at clouds moving northward as we pass into the eye again.

This thing is heading north eastward. Something to look forward to shortly…🙃