Impact of Storm Ophelia in Republic of Ireland

[Hornet]

Ophelia due to strike of the south west of Britain and Ireland on Monday with a low of 965 millibars expected. Weather warnings in place here in Ireland, advising people to take all necessary precautions, Ah well, I suppose that means I will have to park the wheelie bins down the alley at the side of the house.

 

[Groningen]

It also makes that monday in the Netherlands it will be 25 Celsius in some parts of the country,

 

[Bald Rick]

Ophelia due to strike of the south west of Britain and Ireland on Monday with a low of 965 millibars expected. Weather warnings in place here in Ireland, advising people to take all necessary precautions, Ah well, I suppose that means I will have to park the wheelie bins down the alley at the side of the house.

Ophelia is of course the US name for this Atlantic storm; as they have had a few this season.

For us, it is only the second storm of the season. And thus, at some point, presumably Ophelia goes through 'the change' and becomes Brian.

 

[berneyarms]

No as it is an Atlantic hurricane it remains named as Ophelia.

 

[Hornet]

I suppose to cover all angles we could call it Ophelia Balls! Anyway bins are secured.

 

[Ash Bridge]

Have things started to get a bit lively over there yet Hornet? Temperature here is rather balmy for Northwest England at this time of year especially so when the sun breaks through, even warmer is predicted for tomorrow.

 

[berneyarms]

It is going to hit the south and west of Ireland primarily - less so Dublin and the east.

Perfectly normal day here apart from being unseasonally mild.

 

[Hornet]

Have things started to get a bit lively over there yet Hornet? Temperature here is rather balmy for Northwest England at this time of year especially so when the sun breaks through, even warmer is predicted for tomorrow.

Winds fairly calm and not due to pick up until tomorrow morning. Status Orange in Dublin ATM, although Wexford has gone to status Red. My missus is getting a bit nervy, but I am a veteran of the October '87 South East England storm, so not all that concerned. (Took me an hour to motorcycle from Slough to Princes Risborough for work, only to find that the bike shed had disappeared somewhere into the Chiltern Hills!). Storm peak in Dublin around 2pm to 4pm tomorrow with sustained winds around 50mph, with gusts of 80/90mph. Was lovely here yesterday, (especially as we got a bonus point against Montpellier).

 

[Ash Bridge]

Stay safe tomorrow!

 

[Darandio]

It is going to hit the south and west of Ireland primarily - less so Dublin and the east.

Presumable this was based on information from yesterday? The storm is now expected to track further east and Met Eireann now have a status red for the whole country.

 

[berneyarms]

Presumable this was based on information from yesterday? The storm is now expected to track further east and Met Eireann now have a status red for the whole country.

Well it was the information as of 16:30 today when I posted it.

The extension of the Red Warning to the whole country was only issued at 20:00.

 

[Hornet]

Status Red declared by Met Eireann at 20:00. All schools in the ROI to stay closed tomorrow. (The Grand Kids will be delighted, unlike their parents). Storm is believed to hit south west coast at 6am tomorrow with Cat 2 hurricane force winds, and then track across Ireland. Loving reading Boards.ie ATM. Views as diverse as "shure, it 'ill be grand" to "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!". I'm in the former camp. Being reported at this moment on the RTE News as the most dangerous storm to hit Ireland in modern times. Unlike Michael Fish, the RTE weather girl is calling this as a hurricane. Advising people not to go out.

 

[Hornet]

Iarnrod Eireann Update:-

Weather Watch: Hurricane Ophelia
15 October 2017

Monday 16th October: Speed restrictions in place Charleville to Tralee/Cork; Kilkenny to Waterford; Gorey to Rosslare - delays to Intercity services



UPDATE 19.15hrs, Sunday 15th October

The following rail service arrangements are in place tomorrow morning Monday 16th October due to the weather warnings in place for Hurricane Ophelia.

All services are expected to operate except on the following routes:

• Limerick Junction to Waterford
• Limerick to Ballybrophy via Nenagh

A speed restriction of 80kph (50mph) will be in place on the following routes:

• Tralee to Mallow
• Cork to Charleville
• Cork to Cobh/Midleton
• Waterford to Kilkenny
• Rosslare Europort to Gorey

As a result delays of 15 to 30 minutes are expected to services operating on the following routes:

• Cork to Dublin
• Tralee to Cork/Dublin
• Waterford to Dublin
• Rosslare Europort to Dublin

This page will be updated with any changes to service arrangements which arise, as will our twitter page.

Line maintenance teams will be monitoring the network throughout the weather warnings associated to address any impacts from Hurricane Ophelia, such as clearing trees from lines, operating level crossings, imposing speed restrictions or other measures essential to ensure the safety of customers and employees.

http://www.irishrail.ie/news/ophelia

Bus Eireann Update:-

Bus Éireann Travel Alert
Disruptions to services due to Red Weather Warning



Bus Éireann Statement: Bus Éireann cancel all services nationwide from 0500 to 1400 on Monday, October 16
Situation will be reviewed and some services may resume in the afternoon

http://www.buseireann.ie/

Latest Travel Update:-

Latest Update @ 10:24

Will try and update as often as possible with latest info, advise to check with your operator and keep an eye on their social media accounts for up to the second info.

Bus Eireann / Expressway
- ALL Services CANCELLED until at least 14:00.

Dublin Bus / Airlink
- ALL Services CANCELLED until at least 19:00.

Luas
- Services being curtailed from 10am - no service after 12pm.

Irish Rail / Enterprise
- Limerick Junction to Waterford not operating until further notice.
- Limerick to Ballybrophy not operating until further notice.
- Cork Commuter services not operating until further notice.

After the indicated service, the below routes will not operate until further notice
- 09:20 Cork Heuston and 09:00 Heuston Cork
- 07:30 Galway Heuston and 07:35 Heuston Galway
- 08:55 Limerick Heuston
- 07:25 Heuston Waterford and 07:50 Waterford Heuston
- 09:25 Mallow Tralee
- 09:08 Athlone Wesport
- 10:30 Galway Limerick
- 11:20 Heuston Portlaoise & 11:20 Portlaoise Heuston

Dublin Coach
- Dublin to Ennis / Killarney / Tralee / Limerick suspended until further notice.
- Cork - Waterford - Kilkenny - Dublin suspended until further notice.
- All other routes suspended from 11am

JJ Kavanagh
- All University/College Routes are cancelled.
- The Limerick to Dublin route will not serve UL, Mary I & LIT
- The Waterford to Dublin route will not call at Tramore.

Matthews Coaches
ALL Services CANCELLED until further notice.

Wexford Bus
ALL Services CANCELLED until further notice.

GoBe
10:30 Cork - Dublin CANCELLED
10:30 Dublin - Cork CANCELLED

Swords Express
All Services suspended from 11:15am

Aircoach
All Services scheduled to operate.

CityLink / EirEagle
All Services scheduled to operate.

GoBus
All Services scheduled to operate.

Ashbourne Connect
All Services scheduled to operate.

Panic buying in Tesco's Dundrum last night.

https://twitter.com/davidogorman/status/919684184595197952

Note that the majority of those in the vid are Generation Snowflake.

 

[Bletchleyite]

That doesn't really look like panic buying (trolley piled high with stuff like tinned food and bottled water). It looks like a load of people doing their weekly shop yesterday because they probably wouldn't be able to do it today and maybe wouldn't tomorrow.

 

[Hornet]

That doesn't really look like panic buying (trolley piled high with stuff like tinned food and bottled water). It looks like a load of people doing their weekly shop yesterday because they probably wouldn't be able to do it today and maybe wouldn't tomorrow.

Well seeing as it's not too windy here in Dublin ATM, and many of the Tesco's and Spar's are open, I will beg to differ with you.

https://twitter.com/TescoIrl/status/919850284871974912

 

[Darandio]

Well seeing as it's not too windy here in Dublin ATM, and many of the Tesco's and Spar's are open, I will beg to differ with you.

https://twitter.com/TescoIrl/status/919850284871974912

Hardly surprising, it's nowhere near you yet. But call them snowflakes and be as laid back as you want, the fact is that there is a danger to life today with this storm.

 

[berneyarms]

That doesn't really look like panic buying (trolley piled high with stuff like tinned food and bottled water). It looks like a load of people doing their weekly shop yesterday because they probably wouldn't be able to do it today and maybe wouldn't tomorrow.

That's one of my local supermarket stores, and being honest it is never that busy aside from Christmas. I was in another local supermarket at 08:30 this morning and it was fine and quiet enough. But I think you're probably right - people are just doing their normal shop in large numbers.

Indeed the guy who tweeted that video has confirmed that most people were purchasing essentials.

People need to have a bit of common sense and stay indoors today. The storm will pass today, and things will hopefully get back up and running tomorrow.

It's certainly not a panic situation where one needs to do bulk buying.

 

[berneyarms]

Irish Rail update:

Weather Watch: Hurricane Ophelia
16 October 2017

Monday 16th October: All services into and out of Connolly will be suspended from 14:00hrs. All services into and out of Heuston are now suspended. No services will operate until further notice

UPDATE 12:30hrs, Monday 16th October

Services Update


DART & Commuter services will terminate before 14:00hrs
The last services to operate will be as follows:

DART

• 12:00hrs Greystones Malahide will operate
• 12:25 Bray Howth will operate
• 12:32 Malahide Greystones will operate
• 13:30 Malahide to Connolly will operate
• 13:45 Howth to Connolly will operate
• 14:00hrs Greystones to Bray only will operate
• All later services are suspended until further notice

Commuter

• 12:42 Pearse Maynooth (and M3 connecting service) will operate
• 13:42 Maynooth Connolly (and M3 connecting service) will operate
• 13:30 Pearse Drogheda will operate
• All later services are suspended until further notice

Intercity services from Connolly

• 12:35 Belfast Connolly will operate
• 13:20 Connolly Belfast will operate
• 12:55 Rosslare Connolly will operate
• 13:36 Connolly Rosslare will operate
• 13:00 Sligo Connolly will operate
• 13:05 Connolly Sligo will operate
• All later services are suspended until further notice

Heuston Intercity and Commuter services are suspended until further notice.

Cork Commuter services are suspended until further notice.

Regional routes (Limerick to Galway, Limerick Junction to Waterford, Nenagh branch) are suspended until further notice.

Please note that journey planner information on the website is not accurate at present due to service suspensions.

Line maintenance teams will be monitoring the network throughout the weather warnings associated to address any impacts from Hurricane Ophelia, and we will update service resumption information as soon as it is available.

 

[duesselmartin]

is the suspention a precaution or actual infrastructure damage?

 

[Hornet]

Just removed part of my neighbours shed roof from our back garden here in South Dublin. Trees down and power outages all over Dublin. Quite breezy now, but still some way short of what I experienced in October '87. Transport at a standstill, shops and offices closed, but at least the pubs are still open.

 

[F Great Eastern]

Two trains with passengers currently stuck in Enfield with a tree blocking the line.

 

[berneyarms]

is the suspention a precaution or actual infrastructure damage?

Precaution.

Services will resume tomorrow.

 

[berneyarms]

http://www.irishrail.ie/news/ophelia

Weather Watch: Hurricane Ophelia - no further train departures today
16 October 2017

Monday 16th October: all routes now suspended. No further departures will operate for remainder of the day

UPDATE 17:00hrs, Monday 16th October

Tuesday 17th October - initial service information

Please note that there will be some service alterations and capacity reductions tomorrow, Tuesday 17th October, as follows, as trains are out of position for normal service operations:

Cancellations

• 05.50 Cork to Dublin Heuston cancelled, 06.15 Cork to Dublin Heuston will serve additional stops for customers for 05.50 service.
• Limerick to Balybrophy via Nenagh services cancelled. Bus substitution in place.
• 09.45 Westport to Dublin Heuston cancelled.

Reduced capacity

• Reduced capacity on 05.30, 06.40 & 07.40 Limerick to Dublin services
• Reduced capacity on 05.30, 06.30 and 07.30 Galway to Dublin services

All other services are expected to operate, subject to line inspections.

 

[F Great Eastern]

Trams look like they're going to be out at least until the afternoon as the control center has been damaged.

 

[Groningen]

According to the Met of Ireland this storm should have been called Octavia.

https://www.met.ie/news/display.asp?ID=446

A few things that happened in the Netherlands in connecton to this storm.
1. The temperature here was at 25,5 Celsius on Monday and so it was the warmest 16th October ever.
2. Amounts of Sahara sand reached the Netherlands
3. For 2 days the Sun was not bright white, but orange.
4. Smoke from the fires in Spain and Portugal also reached the Netherlands

 

[Darandio]

According to the Met of Ireland this storm should have been called Octavia.

They don't say it should have been called that.

 

[berneyarms]

According to the Met of Ireland this storm should have been called Octavia.

https://www.met.ie/news/display.asp?ID=446

A few things that happened in the Netherlands in connecton to this storm.
1. The temperature here was at 25,5 Celsius on Monday and so it was the warmest 16th October ever.
2. Amounts of Sahara sand reached the Netherlands
3. For 2 days the Sun was not bright white, but orange.
4. Smoke from the fires in Spain and Portugal also reached the Netherlands

Those are the North Atlantic storm names. We have only had one of those so far so the next will be Brian.

This was an Atlantic hurricane that formed off the coast of West Africa and as such the Atlantic Hurricane list of names is used:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

This was the 15th storm in that series this season - hence named Ophelia.