Storm Darragh – 6/7 December 2024

6 Dec 2024 12 UTCUTC Coordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently used prime meridian) and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. It is effectively a successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Surface analysis MSLPMSLP Mean sea level pressure is the pressure at sea level, or, when measured at a given elevation on land, the station pressure reduced to sea level assuming an isothermal layer at the station temperature. falling 10.4 hPahPa A Hectopascal is the SI unit of pressure and identical to the Millibar in the last 3 hrs at Belmullet (1), with dewpoints of 11°C coming into Valentia (2).

6 Dec 2024 13 UTC 3 hr Pressure Tendencies The central pressure of Storm Darragh may not be explosive cyclogenetic, but 3 hr pressure falls of 12 hPa across W Ireland at present are not to be sniffed at. 🤨 The Belmullet barograph is showing a roller coaster ride 😉

6 Dec 2024 15 UTC Surface analysis Dewpoints of 13°C into SW Ireland. Cold front getting close to Valentia Big pressure fall across Ireland of 10 hPa or more over 3 hrs. Weather buoy K2 goes offline – can you beleive it! No double structures here!!

6 Dec 2024 18 UTC 3 hr pressure changes

6 Dec 2024 21 UTC Surface analysis Big pressure rises at Valentia (1) First signs of very strong northerly to the W of Ireland Sleet at Aboyne (2)

7 Dec 2024 08 UTC Highest overnight gusts It looks like Capel Curig, aka as the Snowdonia wind tunnel, has recorded the highest gust of 81 kts or 93 mph overnight.

7 Dec 2024 09 UTC Total Precipitation [33 hrs] Estimates from weather radar A wet night in many places away from the far SE, with areas of 40-50 mm over high ground of Argyll & Bute, N Ireland, Lake district & Snowdonia,with white pixels indicating >80 mm in wettest places.

7 Dec 2024 09 UTC A selection of anemographs Notice the high gust-mean ratio at Capel Curig. The rapid increase of speed at Crosby at 06 UTC. Inland gale at Yeovilton.

7 Dec 2024 03-14 UTC Total Precipitation [11 hrs] Estimates from weather radar. The heaviest of the rain in Wales seems to have been further W than the AMBER warning area so far, with >80 mm over Snowdonia.

7 Dec 2024 16 UTC Aberporth Still blowing a force 10 NW’ly with gusts of 85 mph. Gale force 8 for 24 straight hours. 😱 That’s where the BBCBBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, based at Broadcasting House in London. It is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 19,000 are in public-sector broadcasting. & ITV should have sent their film crews today 😉

7 Dec 2024 19 UTC Max Gusts [mph] You can hear the wind moaning in the bell tower at Notre-Dame… The bells, the bells…

7 Dec 2024 19 UTC 24 hr MSLP difference The pressure is close to 47 hPa higher at Belmullet than it was last night.

Was there a gust of 96 mph or not at Berry head? The original tweet from the UKMOUKMO The Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has just vanished.

Snow on CairngormCairn Gorm Cairn Gorm (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Gorm) is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. It is part of the Cairngorms range and wider Grampian Mountains. With a summit elevation of 1,245 m (4,085 ft) above sea level, Cairn Gorm is classed as a Munro and is the seventh-highest mountain in the British Isles..

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