Storm Barra
 

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...ate=2021-12-05

BARRA - Bugger off to USA



Tuesday it arrives

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

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

Red warning now

Batten down the hatches Neem

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

Clever Man.

:laugh:

He is indeed :love:

Roches Point is around my area :skull:

Neem arrives home from work tomorrow



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

:worry:

Fantastic post.

:laugh:

Looks like it's not just a coastal red anymore

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.

:joker:

Red is worrying though, say home Neem

Oh dear :laugh:

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

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

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

:joker:

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:.

:suspect:

:nono:

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

:joker:

59 knots = 107 mph

https://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/for...88e928bdd7.jpg

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

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

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:)

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

i will translate for Tibb


WEATHER BOMB


D:D:D:

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