Flooding on Friday/Saturday

rc28

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0905/weather.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7599501.stm

Supercell

Satellite loop looks ominous, that heavy rain over northern England/Southern Scotland has Ireland written all over it.

If anyone is out driving tonight take it easy.

http://sat24.com/frame.php?html=view&country=gb

The low centre appears to have stalled where it is though, interesting stuff.

thomasj

I have just left the gym in north dublin and it have never seen the sky so dark. It has heavy torrential written all over it

Timistry

Its pouring here in Kerry. Wind has picked up now, some gusts are quite strong. Judging by the latest satellites it will rain till morning! Flooding is likely on local roads.

A little off topic :rolleyes: but....Due to Ike's closeness to the Gulf stream off Florida, next weekend or beyond could be spectacular! What do ye think?

rc28

Raining again here, apparently they're pumping water from the M3 construction site near us and onto the surrounding land- it's a mess.

ch750536

Calming down a bit now, probably half the rain today that we had in the floods late July, so guessing at 45mm or so.

bold_defender

some very heavy stuff here in Finglas now in the last 30 minutes, it ain't over yet.

cian1500ww

Had plenty of rain in Leitrim here although it didn't start till after midday. Anyone know whether we can expect more ?

Supercell

Looks like its raining heavy in north Dublin, anyone there got reports?

The tax man

Heavy rain again now. Was only spitting about 20 mins ago.

thomasj

Very heavy rain in blanch as well. Seems to be a bit of strong wind out there as well.

Supercell

The rain has returned, but its a poor shadow of its former self.

DOCARCH

Dry here at the moment - last rain recorded here at 4.30am which is coincidently exactly 24hrs since rain from this 'event' started.

24 hour total (4.30am to 4.30am) = 56.7mm

Mobhi1

Still raining this morning.

Just been looking at met.ie and it appears as though Casement has now exceeded its normal annual total (annual mean - 711.2; this year to yesterday - 712.7).

Snowbie

53.3mm fell yesterday 00-24z with another 11.4mm since midnight.

Total for the year is 751.5mm
Total for this time last year was 491.2mm.

DOCARCH

To put my stats in 'Snowbie' terms:

51.0mm fell yesterday 00-24z with another 9.3mm since midnight.

Yesterdays total was my largest daily total since I started recording (July '07).

72.0mm for September so far - well over the mean for September (for Casement) alraedy.

Supercell

I had 58.2 mm yesterday and a further 11.9 so far today.
Just checked the manual rain guage Mothman lent me and am delighted to see that its measuring close to what my station is (station is under recording), will be interesting to see how it averages out over the next few weeks.

thomasj

Supercell wrote: »

I had 58.2 mm yesterday and a further 11.9 so far today.
Just checked the manual rain guage Mothman lent me and am delighted to see that its measuring close to what my station is (station is under recording), will be interesting to see how it averages out over the next few weeks.

It will be interesting to see what happens. by the way met eireann saying 25-50 mm could fall wednesday.

ozt9vdujny3srf

The Avonmore river was as high as I have ever seen it yesterday. Paddled accross Lough Dan after doing the Inchavore and then on to the Annamoe. Had to negotiate way through a forest at the top of the river. Paddled on to Laragh, Jacksons falls was huge!

Supercell

Avonmore has been brown last few days, a sure sign of mad waters. Highest I've seen it in two years here yesterday.