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Already a legend.

Jean Byrne, RTE/Met Eireann’s human cloudflare, literally clad in red leather this evening.

Over to you, Martin King.

Ewok’s getting one of his warm fronts.

Thanks Spaghetti Hoop
(RTE)

The strongest gust of 168km/h was recorded at Malin Head, Co Donegal, early yesterday morning while wind speeds of more than 100km/h were recorded at Belmullet, Co Mayo, and Dublin airport, Met Éireann said.

Forecaster Siobhán Ryan said the “hurricane force” wind speed recorded at Malin Head was “exceptional” and ranked among the highest winds in Ireland that she could remember.

Ms Ryan said the gusts may have been caused by a “sting jet” – a rarely occurring surge of high-momentum, high-energy air which appears like a curling scorpion’s tail on weather maps.

The strong winds were expected to ease last night with the depression which brought them moving on towards Scotland and Scandinavia.

However, Ms Ryan said wind speeds were expected to pick up again this afternoon – but not to the same extent as yesterday – for about 18 hours and could reach speeds of 90-120km/h in some areas.

She said the east coast and Dublin were likely to “bear the brunt” of the west and northwest winds today. These would be sustained but would not be as strong as those experienced yesterday.

East coast could be hit by worst of gales today (Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)

AN Irish “visitor” caused a stir on Monday when it was discovered washed up on Woolacombe beach.

The large buoy, part of Ireland’s marine weather buoy network, had broken free from its anchor and drifted to North Devon, some 270 miles as the crow flies.

It is normally chained to the sea bed off the Emerald Isle’s southern coast and collects a range of data for weather and marine observation, including wave height, sea temperature, wind speed and direction.

Swansea Coastguard Station told the North Devon Gazette its owners, the Marine Institute in Ireland, were making arrangements for its collection.

The Institute’s website lists buoy M3, normally positioned off the south west corner of Ireland, as “experiencing technical problems” at the present time

 

Giant Irish visitor washed up at Woolacombe (North Devon Gazette)


From Met Eireann:

Weather Warning – Stormy Conditions
Stormy conditions overnight and during Tuesday. Gale force southerly winds veering westerly by morning with some severe damaging gusts of 100 to 140 km/h, strongest in exposed northern and northwestern parts. Heavy driving rain giving way to showery conditions by morning. Some showers wintry in northern areas

It’s going to be chilly with a lot of poorly-executed weather map designs.

Climatologist Peter O’Donnell writes:

Winter 2011-12 looks like being quite an active winter and not lacking in wintry weather types, although not entirely dominated by them either.

Readers in more isolated and upland locations might be well advised to have extra supplies on hand at a fairly early stage of the winter in case the early opportunities for cold dig in, but we think your main challenges will come in January this year.

Same old.

Same cold.

Irish Weather Online: Winter 2011-12 Forecast (IWO)

Hey everyone! Enjoying the thaw? According to the meteorologists, there’s a polar hurricane headed for us.

A polar hurricane.

They’re saying it could be here by Thursday, bringing freezing conditions which could last up to a month:

I can’t stress strongly enough that this will be a major winter weather onslaught and not just a drop in temperatures with a few local flurries.

This is like turning the eastern Atlantic into the Great Lakes…

Well, that’s just great.

SEVERE WEATHER ALERT Ireland and the UK (Irish Weather Online)

UPDATE Thursday 16/12 to Sunday 20/12: It’s worse than first thought (Irish Weather Online)

IRELAND can kiss goodbye to the Indian summer, with icy sleet and plummeting temperatures in store from the middle of next week.
Long-term forecaster Positive Weather Solutions has predicted a ‘white-out’ winter almost as harsh as the last — with widespread snow, temperatures as low as -16C and transport chaos.

Cold Snap To Herald Another Icy Winter (Edel O’Connell, Irish Independent)