Heavy Rain - Flood risk

Lumi

Some exceptionally heavy bursts of rain in Galway city at the moment where a total of 22.5mm has fallen since midnight. Strong SW'ly winds all day, the highest gust occured at 3.34PM - 37.2km/h

WolfeIRE

heavy rain here for the past 45 mins and nothing showing on met radar again.

darkman2

Pretty miserable, damp and breezy here. Not much more to be said really!

WolfeIRE

1MM short of an inch of rain since midnight.

still bucketing down. radar now showing clare experiencing heavy rain. moving its way into limerick and north tipp

Ghost Train

Didn't feel like too much rain here today, got stormy an hour ago though

Harps

Finally stopped here again, as I said in the other thread it was a crazy night here last night. Easily the heaviest rain we've had all year with a lot of hail mixed in, strong winds and thunder and lightning.

Stopped for a while in the morning but its been raining all day again until an hour ago

Harps

Harps wrote: »

Finally stopped here again, as I said in the other thread it was a crazy night here last night. Easily the heaviest rain we've had all year with a lot of hail mixed in, strong winds and thunder and lightning.

Stopped for a while in the morning but its been raining all day again until an hour ago

Sounds brilliant. Ye lucky Donegalian

Harps

I think we have a different idea of what classes as brilliant :pac:

Wasn't too bad with it being at night but I had a terrible nights sleep with the thunder and hail

Harps

Harps wrote: »

I think we have a different idea of what classes as brilliant :pac:

Wasn't too bad with it being at night but I had a terrible nights sleep with the thunder and hail

Ah, sorry, Im sure it was no picnic. I engaged my typing before my brain.

Graces7

Market stalls and covers were flying in all directions in the gusts today.. rain held off until late afternoon then swept in strong and steady.Calm now

M.T. Cranium

Graces7, are you back in Donegal now? I seem to recall that you mentioned moving south earlier in the year. Just a general reminder to some other posters above, it helps if you post a location when it's not in your avatar.

Discodog

This radar is a wonderful thing. It's showing nothing & I am soaked !.
ME's forecast today for Galway is drizzle turning to heavy rain. The radar shows the complete opposite

km79

what parts of connaught can expect to see this very heavy rain tonight (25-30mm). is it north west or all?

WolfeIRE

all KM, but the heaviest will be in northern half of the province

Graces7

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Graces7, are you back in Donegal now? I seem to recall that you mentioned moving south earlier in the year. Just a general reminder to some other posters above, it helps if you post a location when it's not in your avatar.

But that IS my location...

In other terms? Travel as far south as you can... Happily settled down in West Cork now. And oh MY! What folk can grow in their gardens here.. Such flowers and fruit... In God's pocket indeed.. Looking forward to an easier winter this year and to growing all our food etc next year. Still out in the boonies of course, but there are boonies and there are boonies

rhonin

Looks like some heavy rain moving into the west.

naughto

that rin has started already rhonin looks like it will be a rotten night of wind rain fog

gbee

Graces7 wrote: »

Still out in the boonies of course, but there are boonies and there are boonies

You'll have to meet up with Alice Taylor in Innishannon, maybe co-other a book.

Joe Public

Graces7 wrote: »

But that IS my location...

In other terms? Travel as far south as you can... Happily settled down in West Cork now. And oh MY! What folk can grow in their gardens here.. Such flowers and fruit... In God's pocket indeed.. Looking forward to an easier winter this year and to growing all our food etc next year. Still out in the boonies of course, but there are boonies and there are boonies

Could be close to MTC land ---- http://www.godspocket.com/

nacho libre

there has been fairly heavy rain for the last two hours here.

Oscar Bravo

Heavy rain in Castlebar at the moment.

Lumi

Getting increasingly wild and windy in Galway as the evening progresses. Heavy rain and temp has risen slightly to 14.1C in a strong and gusty SW'ly wind. Strongest gust so far this evening was 30.1km/h recorded at 20.42PM; RH 99%; 1006mb

up for anything

Found this animation on another site. Click on Forward to animate.

For the Brits, French and Spanish here. Be advised an apparent winter storm is going to bearing in on you in three days.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/cmctc2.cgi?time=2010110312&field=Sea+Level+Pressure&hour=Animation

It looks like we are included in that.

snaps

Met Ireland forcast for today:
Outbreaks of rain and drizzle will continue in many areas for much of today, with some prolonged and possibly heavy rain at times in southern counties. However, a clearance to showers will develop in the northern half of the country by evening. The fresh southwest winds will gradually become moderate by evening. It will be very mild with top temperatures between 13 and 16 degrees.

No mention of the heavy rain we've had in the West since daylight, Rain radar is all yellow and bits of pink in the mid/north west! Nothing in the south.

WolfeIRE

76mm rain fell in shannon in October.

263mm fell in Shannon in Nov 2009.
60mm fell up to 11am today during November.

That means this month has seen 22% of last November's total fall already. That is incredible considering we are only 3.5 days in and last November was a record breaking month.

Soil Moisture Deficits showing ground is reaching or at saturation point everywhere. This does not bode well for areas prone to flooding should we get an intense period of rainfall.

Discodog

Because I work outside a lot I monitor the weather pretty closely. This will be the first week in my memory that it has significantly rained on every day.

cursai

Flood plains starting to fill up in Rural Galway east areas in the last couple of days. Council workers nearly finished building the three metre flood barriers. Heres to hoping they won't be needed!

nacho libre

groundhog day - heavy rain again since 6:30 am this morning. there are floods starting to appear about the place now.

leahyl

Jaysus it's the west that is getting the brunt of this heavy rain - and met eireann said heavy rain for the south! Nothing much here at the moment.....

snaps

Yes very heavy rain during the night here and it hasn't stopped since 6.30-7 this morning, still tipping it down. I would say the Insurance companies are on tender hooks again!