Storm Barra

[Crimson Dynamo]

Storm Barra named
Author: Press Office UKMO

13:23 (UTC) on Sun 5 Dec 2021

A deep area of low-pressure moving in from the Atlantic on Tuesday [7
December, 2021] has been named as Storm Barra by Met Éireann for the
level of impacts expected for the Republic of Ireland.

As the system moves in from west, the strongest winds and impacts are
expected to affect the Republic of Ireland. As the system begins to weaken, it
will bring strong winds and rain, with the rain turning to snow across
northern England and Scotland. In response the Met Office has issued a
series of yellow National Severe Weather Warnings for wind and snow. These
warnings will affect most of the UK.

Frank Saunders is a Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office. He said: “Strong
winds arriving across the west through Tuesday morning, will spread inland
and reach eastern areas through the afternoon and early evening. Gusts of
45-50 mph are expected widely, with 60-70 mph in exposed coastal
locations. The strongest winds will ease across inland areas into the
overnight period.”

Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Brent Walker said: “A band of rain will turn to
snow across northern England and Scotland through Tuesday. Two to five cm
of snow is expected to accumulate quite widely across the warning area, but
locally this could reach ten cm, particularly in parts of the Southern Uplands
and Highlands.”

He added: “Strong south-easterly winds will also lead to snow drifting in
places, particularly over the highest routes, adding to poor visibilities.”


Storm Barra - the second named storm of the season - is a name selected as
part of the Name Our Storms collaboration with Irish forecasters Met Éireann
and Dutch forecasters KNMI.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2021-12-05

[Crimson Dynamo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Met Éireann name <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StormBarra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StormBarra</a> to impact Ireland on Tuesday and Wednesday <a href="https://t.co/KLL68Nn8FQ">https://t.co/KLL68Nn8FQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/ujzYVkdzoV">pic.twitter.com/ujzYVkdzoV</a></p>&mdash; Met Éireann (@MetEireann) <a href="https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1467459560285818880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Crimson Dynamo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">UPDATE - Cork City Flood Assesment Team is meeting as fears grow of flooding in city centre on Tuesdaty Morning <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StormBarra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StormBarra</a> <a href="https://t.co/dBH63n7H2e">https://t.co/dBH63n7H2e</a></p>&mdash; Cork Beo (@corkbeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/corkbeo/status/1467461441687113732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[arista]

BARRA - Bugger off to USA



Tuesday it arrives

[smudgie]

More snow for us then.
Hope the builders don’t cabin up.

[Crimson Dynamo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Orange Level Warnings Issued for SW and Clare, Galway Counties <a href="https://twitter.com/MetEireann?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MetEireann</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StormBarra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StormBarra</a> <a href="https://t.co/PpF5k7hUPj">pic.twitter.com/PpF5k7hUPj</a></p>&mdash; Kildare Weather (@KildareMet) <a href="https://twitter.com/KildareMet/status/1467539982839693312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Crimson Dynamo]

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Red warning now

[arista]

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[Cherie]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF4CjXOXMAIN1qj.jpg

Red warning now

Batten down the hatches Neem

[Niamh.]

Gav is almost hoping we lose electricity so he can use his new generator :laugh:

[arista]

Gav is almost hoping we lose electricity so he can use his new generator :laugh:


Clever Man.

[Cherie]

Gav is almost hoping we lose electricity so he can use his new generator :laugh:

:laugh:

[Niamh.]

Clever Man.

He is indeed :love:

[Crimson Dynamo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Red marine warning has been extended to Erris Head and Roches Point. <a href="https://t.co/XubpYF8ORx">pic.twitter.com/XubpYF8ORx</a></p>&mdash; Snowbie ❄️ (@SnowbieWx) <a href="https://twitter.com/SnowbieWx/status/1467831218200887308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Niamh.]

Roches Point is around my area :skull:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Roches Point is around my area :skull:

Neem arrives home from work tomorrow

https://manchesterinklink.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tenor.gif

Yes now the red covers Cork and Kerry land and not just marine

:worry:

[arista]

Neem arrives home from work tomorrow

https://manchesterinklink.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tenor.gif


Fantastic post.

[Niamh.]

:laugh:

Looks like it's not just a coastal red anymore

https://i.imgur.com/x7bbx1P.png

[Toy Soldier]

It's just Anwen back to attack from the other side! Be careful Niamh - our trampoline (which has not been used for years and I meant to dismantle in the summer) took off over a 5ft fence, through the neighbour's garden, over another fence into the street and narrowly missed three cars before I managed to wrestle it back to the garden with the help of a neighbour's nephew. And I have bad blood with those neighbours so it was also very awkward. The true danger of storms.

[Cherie]

Neem arrives home from work tomorrow

https://manchesterinklink.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/tenor.gif

Yes now the red covers Cork and Kerry land and not just marine

:worry:

:joker:

[Cherie]

Red is worrying though, say home Neem

[Niamh.]

It's just Anwen back to attack from the other side! Be careful Niamh - our trampoline (which has not been used for years and I meant to dismantle in the summer) took off over a 5ft fence, through the neighbour's garden, over another fence into the street and narrowly missed three cars before I managed to wrestle it back to the garden with the help of a neighbour's nephew. And I have bad blood with those neighbours so it was also very awkward. The true danger of storms.

Oh dear :laugh:

Red is worrying though, say home Neem

Yeah, we're just trying to figure out if we should stay closed here in work tomorrow, haven't heard anything from Luke's school yet but i presume they will close for tomorrow

[bots]

yep, stay home Neem. It's the danger from everything else flying about

[Niamh.]

yep, stay home Neem. It's the danger from everything else flying about

Yeah, last time we had a Red Warning there were fallen trees all over the road, don't really fancy driving in that tbh

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Niamh.]

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[bots]

shouldn't it be how many pants to buy? :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

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:joker:

[Toy Soldier]

Yeah, last time we had a Red Warning there were fallen trees all over the road, don't really fancy driving in that tbh

Yeah, we ordered a Chinese from the next town over on the night of the winds here, and they did deliver... the next day we drove the same road and there were numerous trees down at points. Suddenly realised that I made some poor chap risk his life to bring me a Chow Mein :umm2:.

[Niamh.]

shouldn't it be how many pants to buy? :laugh:

:suspect:

Yeah, we ordered a Chinese from the next town over on the night of the winds here, and they did deliver... the next day we drove the same road and there were numerous trees down at points. Suddenly realised that I made some poor chap risk his life to bring me a Chow Mein :umm2:.

:nono:

[Niamh.]

Just got a message from the school to say they won't be opening tomorrow, Luke will be happy :laugh:

[Cherie]

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:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

59 knots = 107 mph

https://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/uploads/monthly_2021_12/Screenshot_20211207-092512.jpg.0138a639966313dd99c35488e928bdd7.jpg

[Crimson Dynamo]

100mph gust at Fastnet Lighthouse off the bottom west tip of Ireland

[Toy Soldier]

Forget the wind, what about all those little meteors???

[Crimson Dynamo]

Gusts across Southern Ireland over the next few hours will be over 70mph, likely over
80mph in some places. Strongest winds coming into Wales and SW England this afternoon
and evening.

The storm has undergone explosive cyclogenesis in the last 24 hrs (over 50mbs D:)

[bots]

The storm has undergone explosive cyclogenesis in the last 24 hrs (over 50mbs D:)

Have you been attending the H&M school of bollox talk?:think:

[Cherie]

Have you been attending the H&M school of bollox talk?:think:


'A big component of this mission is building awareness and continuing to pioneer the
conversation'
'With self-awareness comes the need for change

[Crimson Dynamo]

Have you been attending the H&M school of bollox talk?:think:

i will translate for Tibb


WEATHER BOMB


D:D:D:

[Strictly Jake]

Yep very windy here now. These storm predictions are very accurate nowadays

[Crimson Dynamo]

squall line going through Wales and SW England

https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/daten/radar/ukuk/2021/12/07/1135.gif

[Toy Soldier]

The storm has undergone explosive cyclogenesis in the last 24 hrs (over 50mbs D:)

Storm Barra bringing the fibre-optic rollout faster than the Tories :flutter:.

[Crimson Dynamo]

we havent heard from Neem today

:worry:

[bots]

we havent heard from Neem today

:worry:

she is out buying her 65 loaves :laugh:

[Cherie]

we havent heard from Neem today

:worry:

we did she was on the Strictly thread moaning :fan:

[Toy Soldier]

we havent heard from Neem today

:worry:

Last seen on her way to TiBB several hours ago

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/b0/36/97b036f0b8aa8cf11717cd535915a571.gif

[Crimson Dynamo]

84 mph gust just to her west just now and she is posting about Strictly??


:oh:

[Cherie]

Last seen on her way to TiBB several hours ago

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/b0/36/97b036f0b8aa8cf11717cd535915a571.gif

:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Higher parts of the M8 now seeing snowfall as <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StormBarra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StormBarra</a> sweeps north. (Pic via <a href="https://twitter.com/trafficscotland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@trafficscotland</a>). <a href="https://t.co/uLdJA5aUJu">pic.twitter.com/uLdJA5aUJu</a></p>&mdash; BBC Scotland Weather (@BBCScotWeather) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCScotWeather/status/1468200744864075780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Toy Soldier]

84 mph gust just to her west just now and she is posting about Strictly??


:oh:

In all seriousness though there were quite a few powercuts/telecoms outages around here with the storm a few weeks back, so if Niamh does vanish it may well be that (rather than having been blown out into the Atlantic :worry: )

[bots]

its 30mph winds here now and coming down hard and we aren't even close to the storm path

[Toy Soldier]

Bit of random snow/rain here

[Livia]

It's lashing down with rain here... and it's really dark. It looks like the end of the world...

[Toy Soldier]

It's lashing down with rain here... and it's really dark. It looks like the end of the world...

You've just described Scottish winters :think:

[Niamh.]

I'm alive don't worry, still have power, I stayed out of work but it doesn't seem too bad outside now, worst of it was very early this morning

[Niamh.]

Wind seems to be picking up a bit now actually, the sea looks pretty cool

[Toy Soldier]

Wind seems to be picking up a bit now actually, the sea looks pretty cool

https://i.imgur.com/kZaIjOX.gif

[Niamh.]

https://i.imgur.com/kZaIjOX.gif[emoji28]

[AnnieK]

We had a period of really heavy rain / sleet and the sky went black but there is now blue sky and the sun is shining. Think it passed over Manchester pretty quick

[Crimson Dynamo]

drove all the way to deepest darkest Fife and had to turn back 5 miles from destination due to a huge tree that was blocking road :oh: - there was a way i could have gone the back roads but it was a hike and it was getting dark and it was v windy so I came back

[Vanessa]

It's very windy and rainy here in London as well

[bots]

the storm has passed here now

[arista]

1468284221886189572

[Crimson Dynamo]

The road into the valley earlier - great if you follow the plough

https://www.facebook.com/100012566760685/videos/pcb.3032156243717854/1533699936967714

[arista]

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