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Possible flooding in Munster and Connaught Thursday

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    #32
    eskimocat
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    Was just thinking on the way to work this morning that it is a good job that the council have created runoffs for any floods along the road, this was after the last deluge, when roads became impassible in a very short period of time. Time will tell if it works! Come on rain guage...do your thing... :D


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    #33
    km79
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    http://www.met.ie/forecasts/3hour.asp
    Don't know why I bother even looking at that


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    #34
    SeaFields
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    Some serious gusts in south kerry at the mo and its bucketing down. Its still practically dark too. Have recorded 10.1 mm in the last hour.

    An unusually soft day ;):D


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    #35
    Vudgie
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    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Amazing how few posts there are abouth the heavy rain in the South and West, if this was forecast for the East coast it would be ten pages long by now :D:D:D

    God, these types of posts are so tiresome at this stage.

    I really hope the south and west don't get a hammering given the damage that was done a couple of weeks ago in the east.


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    #36
    weisses
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    Vudgie wrote: »
    I really hope the south and west don't get a hammering given the damage that was done a couple of weeks ago in the east.

    There was plenty damage in the weekend in the south/west prior to the floods in the east

    Only media coverage about that was snowed under by the floods in Dublin :D

    There were Landslides and numerous homes got damaged


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    #37
    Sponge Bob
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    Valentia up to 18mm accumulation from 7-10am. May be _just_ clearing out of there aas I post. I don't think any other IMT station will beat Valentia today except Shannon or Mace perhaps.


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    #38
    redsteveireland
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    Small bit of 16mm/hr+ in the circled area on the radar. www.met.ie

    181587.png

    Went for a quick drive to check out local roads.
    Here is a video of one road(lane) I use to by-pass the town on occasion. This is after this mornings rain. Maybe I will re-visit if there is alot more to come.

    It's a bit shaky!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpF0CP6w61c


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    #39
    Iancar29
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    Even more >16mm /hr rates now!

    Web_radar.gif

    Sorry couldnt upload saved image, uploader not working for me :(

    WISH WE HAD THE HIGH RES RADAR AVAILABLE TO US! :(:(: (

    There, I put up the old image for ya!

    Su Campu


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    #40
    Su Campu
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Even more >16mm /hr rates now!

    WEB_radar2_201111171130.png
    Sorry couldnt upload saved image, uploader not working for me :(

    It'll be interesting to see Mullingar's and Ballyhaise's rainfall totals to 1200!


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    #41
    Oh_Noes
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    Very full-on weather in Athlone at the moment. I think one of those red patches must be passing over because the wind is whalloping around the place and the rain is bucketing it down mercilessly.


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    #42
    Iancar29
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Even more >16mm /hr rates now!
    There, I put up the old image for ya!

    Wrong one! ha , the >16mms showed up on the smaller scale one. :rolleyes:
    Su Campu


    BUT !... I found this!!... OK STILL not working! :(

    EDIT: WENT THE LONG WAY AROUND!
    390474_322611704421884_175249952491394_1552004_623020168_n.jpg

    The 9.15 image from the Original Radar page ( 32mm range)... IS that a 32mm echo just over east clare region OR are my eyes decieving me and its just the same one that you posted? :rolleyes:
    Su Campu wrote: »
    It'll be interesting to see Mullingar's and Ballyhaise's rainfall totals to 1200!


    My guess.... 45mm! :)


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    #43
    Su Campu
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    Iancar29 wrote: »



    My guess.... 45mm! :)

    WTF...

    Mullingar 3 mm
    Ballyhaise 5 mm! (since 6am)


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    #44
    Tactical
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    I'm not up too long due to working until early into the morning, but its been raining steadily here in West Limerick.

    Rain is occassionally comming in heavier bursts with a blustry wind.

    Nothing too unusual with that to be honest as I'm in a reasonably exposed loaction. The interesting part is that I'm seeing a lot more traffic than usual on our road, even articulated lorries and two private coaches so far. This certainly would raise an eyebrow as normally you wouldn't get that type of traffic on this road.

    Must investigate a little further, perhaps there's a tree down or a large puddle on the main road.


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    #45
    Su Campu
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    6-hour totals (mm) to midday:

    Valentia 31
    Cork Airport 15
    Mace Head 14
    Claremorris 12
    Connaught Airport 9
    Sherkin Island 8
    Roches Point 7
    Finner 6
    Ballyhaise, Gurteen, Shannon Airport 5


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    #46
    Tactical
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    Do Shannon report?


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    #47
    Iancar29
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    6-hour totals (mm) to midday:

    Valentia 31
    Cork Airport 15
    Mace Head 14
    Claremorris 12
    Connaught Airport 9
    Sherkin Island 8
    Roches Point 7
    Finner 6
    Ballyhaise, Gurteen, Shannon Airport 5

    1200 hrs.... 0000 hrs.... woopsy... 45mm for 0000 i mean! :)


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    #48
    Su Campu
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    24-hour summary up to 1200 today.

    37 mm at Valentia since yesterday, 31 of which fell this morning.

    http://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&state=Irel&osum=no&fmt=html&ord=REV&ano=2011&mes=11&day=17&hora=12&ndays=1&Send=send


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    #49
    Iancar29
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    Was i right about this being a 32mm echo?

    390474_322611704421884_175249952491394_1552004_623020168_n.jpg


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    #50
    Tactical
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    Tactical wrote: »
    Do Shannon report?

    Aw crap,

    Sorry gang. Didn't spot Shannon at the botom of the report.

    Perhaps I should go back to bed :o


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    #51
    km79
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    Just back to normal wet day here in east Galway after a lovely week or 2


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    #52
    Tactical
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    Just had a phone call from someone in Kerry who reports roads have a lot of surface water resulting in poor driving conditions.


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    #53
    dulpit
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    Bloody horrible in Cork, or at least it seems that way sitting in my office listening to the rain fall on noisy roof, has not stopped since I woke around 8am... At least I'm currently in north side of city, so up a hill :D


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    #54
    Wertz
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    Piddling down in Dundalk...and from the look of the echoes, the E and N might get more of any flooding than the S and W.
    Certainly a lot of red stuff developing as the band move across the country...


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    #55
    SeaFields
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    Tactical wrote: »
    Just had a phone call from someone in Kerry who reports roads have a lot of surface water resulting in poor driving conditions.

    Local radio is also reporting a lot of flooding on roads. If they want to report proper flooding they should see my driveway. The joys of living at the bottom of a hill. Why did i wash the car yesterday!?! :eek:


    The wind is still howling here. The rain has eased for the time being tho. I recorded just 3mm in last hour. Nice and warm tho...12.9c :)


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    #56
    pauldry
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    6-hour totals (mm) to midday:

    Valentia 31
    Cork Airport 15
    Mace Head 14
    Claremorris 12
    Connaught Airport 9
    Sherkin Island 8
    Roches Point 7
    Finner 6
    Ballyhaise, Gurteen, Shannon Airport 5

    Sligo has so far got 8mm (my rain gauge - still increasing)while outlying areas are at 15mm approx as pises a lot more in country

    Leitrim is at 10mm according to a mate who has a rain gauge there


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    #57
    Tactical
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    SeaFields wrote: »
    Local radio is also reporting a lot of flooding on roads. If they want to report proper flooding they should see my driveway. The joys of living at the bottom of a hill. Why did i wash the car yesterday!?! :eek:


    The wind is still howling here. The rain has eased for the time being tho. I recorded just 3mm in last hour. Nice and warm tho...12.9c :)

    Any chance of a pic? :)

    Hope the water stays outside for you.


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    #58
    highdef
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Was i right about this being a 32mm echo?

    390474_322611704421884_175249952491394_1552004_623020168_n.jpg

    Hi Ian

    At a guess, I would say that particular echo is Shannon itself, where the radar is based. The echo itself seems too perfect and circular and appears to be sited right at Shannon which leads me to believe that it's an anomaly???


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    #59
    Harps
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    >30mm in the midlands according to raintoday

    unledbw.png


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    #60
    Iancar29
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    highdef wrote: »
    Hi Ian

    At a guess, I would say that particular echo is Shannon itself, where the radar is based. The echo itself seems too perfect and circular and appears to be sited right at Shannon which leads me to believe that it's an anomaly???

    Didn't think of that.... could be that so!... ah well :rolleyes:


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    #61
    Wertz
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    Slightly off topic but that blueish purple ME use for the higest intensity rain rate is a little too much like the magenta/pink one the other side of red... very difficult to discern on doppler images. They should have stuck with light green or white IMO.

    On topic, there's a lot more to come off this system right? The front is stretching right back donw to the W bay of biscay and lookis like it's still building...


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