Heavy rain and strong winds Monday night -Wednesday night

rhonin

Issued at 28 November 2011 - 14:32 Weather Alert Heavy rain tonight and Tuesday morning in the southwest, west and northwest with rainfall totals 40 to 50mm and higher amounts possible in mountainous areas.

Strong to gale force southerly winds will gust 80 to 100 km/h in exposed coastal areas tonight.

Valid from 21:00 Monday 28th November 2011 until 12:00 Tuesday 29th November 2011

Looks like a wet and windy one.
Very heavy rain here and wind is picking up.

sunbabe08

noticed in the last 10 minutes, the wind has picked up.

irish1967

Flood warnings issued by met.ie and uk met office for n and nw. Many roads already flooded round Donegal town. My garden is a lake and I have a new waterfall out the back. Monitoring levels closely. No end in site according to radar.

Edit. Source.
http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/11/28/breaking-news-flood-alert-as-donegal-pounded-by-heavy-rain/

Deep Easterly

Looking damp in the NW alright:



Hourly fall of 7.3mm at Finner Camp on the 9pm reports:

http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp


Edit: Wednesday evening's front may need watching as well.

Wild Bill

Temp is 14c here, bit windy, no rain.

Yet

Though according to this http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ it should be starting right NOW.

Busi Girl

Getting a lot winder in Limerick city aswell, typically raining here as always :rolleyes:

Wild Bill

Yes! Yes! Yes!

The ground is damp(ish) :eek:!

It's gonna bit a Big One - I can tell

There is nothing I like more than spits and spots of rain and 14c and a bit of a breeze on a night at the very end of November.

You can keep your snow, this utter nothingness is what I live for! :pac::pac::pac:

(I need a drink)

Harps

We had close to torrential rain here for about 20 minutes around 8pm, back to a more moderate rate again now but it doesn't look like there's any and in sight yet on the radar so there'll definitely be spot flooding about

castlepoint

wind picking up fast in cork.howling down the chimney.

superstoner90

sure il build the ark and someone else get two of every animal

Oscar Bravo

Persistant and sometimes heavy rain in Castlebar since around 6pm.(Was pretty damp before that too!)

Wild Bill

O dear....it seems to have passed over leaving no trace. There is a bit of a large gap till the next wave according to http://www.raintoday.co.uk/.



Gettin' windier though; average speed 10kph, gusting to 30 kph.

Deep Easterly

Latest NAE (18z) has the frontal zone wavering over the west & northwest until early morning:

Progression eastwards seems to be somewhat slower than on earlier runs, most likely due to small waves that are pulsing up along the front itself.

Hardly a puff of wind here in Galway so trough must be closing in.

10pm Reports:
Valentia: 5.6mm
Mace Head: 3.9mm
Finner Camp: 3.8mm (bringing 2hr total to 11.1mm)

4Sheets

I wondered when a thread might appear..looks like heavy rain in Mayo and Galway ..These fronts will no doubt fizzle before they get to the East?

naughto

its being raining very heavy all day here not so much wind

sunbabe08

castlepoint wrote: »

wind picking up fast in cork.howling down the chimney.

nice to listen to

Wild Bill

4Sheets wrote: »

I wondered when a thread might appear..looks like heavy rain in Mayo and Galway ..These fronts will no doubt fizzle before they get to the East?

The last one fizzled to nothingness but I think the main event over here will be several hours from now.

And I'm not just sayin' that 'cos Easterly said it :rolleyes:

Deep Easterly

4Sheets wrote: »

I wondered when a thread might appear..looks like heavy rain in Mayo and Galway ..These fronts will no doubt fizzle before they get to the East?

Even heavier over Sligo & Donegal but unfortunately these counties are not well represented by the Shannon & Dublin radars.

Fronts should slowly move eastwards overnight and into tomorrow with always chance of some heavier bursts.

EDIT: Latest radar from the UK Met Office: (10.30pm)


Front now seems to be stalling over west Galway, up through Mayo and Sligo and into Donegal. Possible small wave developing west or SW of Clare.

davidsr20

Fairly bad here around Craughwell co Galway tonight :mad:

Su Campu

Deep Easterly wrote: »

EDIT: Latest radar from the UK Met Office: (10.30pm)


Front now seems to be stalling over west Galway, up through Mayo and Sligo and into Donegal. Possible small wave developing west or SW of Clare.

I see there's a band of red extending up through Coleraine! That just has to be producing snow on the hills up behind the house!

NIMAN

"Ireland in wet and windy shocker".:D

Ahorseofaman

Su Campu wrote: »

I see there's a band of red extending up through Coleraine! That just has to be producing snow on the hills up behind the house!

But think of the fun it would be to have to mod him Su

Aiel

Raining here in Galway city since around 3pm.Its been really bucketing down though in the last few hours.

mike65

Not much rain down here by comparison but the wind is certainly getting up and threatening to kick some doors in.

eskimocat

Wind seems to have died down a bit here in sleepy hollow :eek: << yawn, still raining though. Was howling a while ago, didn't bother getting up to look out though, too snug Batten down the hatches all, may the wind be always at your back... etc etc oh and snow, lots and lots of snow...

Harps

Where did you get that radar DE? Is it publicly available?

Nothing too dramatic here now, really heavy as that red band moved over but its been light to moderate ever since

Deep Easterly

Latest reports: (11pm)

Mace Head: 10.3mm
Claremorris: 9.1mm
Knock Apt: 2.5mm
Meanwhile, Belmullet reporting 'trace' !!

Harps, Hi res UK met radar here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/beta/weather/observations/

Includes latest sferic data too. (not that we need it or anything :mad:)

sunbabe08

the wind is currently rattling my window.

Harps

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Harps, Hi res UK met radar here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/beta/weather/observations/

Includes latest sferic data too. (not that we need it or anything :mad:)

Great stuff, never knew about that. Far better than the ME radar for Donegal and the colours are much easier to read than raintoday

Oscar Bravo

A big difference between Knock and Claremorris even though there only a few miles apart.Should be some interesting totals by tomorrow morning.

alfa beta

Ahorseofaman wrote: »

But think of the fun it would be to have to mod him Su

I found him the other night on an aviation thread - oh the memories!!

Su Campu

6-hour totals to midnight (from synops).

Claremorris 35 mm
Mace Head 26 mm
Connaught Airport 23 mm
Valentia 17 mm
Finner 15 mm

homersimpson

FLOOD ALERT AS DONEGAL POUNDED BY HEAVY RAIN

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/11/28/breaking-news-flood-alert-as-donegal-pounded-by-heavy-rain/

Deep Easterly

Su Campu wrote: »

6-hour totals to midnight (from synops).

Claremorris 35 mm
Mace Head 26 mm
Connaught Airport 23 mm
Valentia 17 mm
Finner 15 mm

12.1mm of that Claremorris total fell between 11pm and midnight according to latest reports:

http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

8.1mm at Knock Apt and 3.6mm at Valentia.

Belmullet still reporting trace amounts.

Joe Public

homersimpson wrote: »

FLOOD ALERT AS DONEGAL POUNDED BY HEAVY RAIN

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/11/28/breaking-news-flood-alert-as-donegal-pounded-by-heavy-rain/

I see Finn Harps are in danger of sinking as well.

homersimpson

Joe Public wrote: »

I see Finn Harps are in danger of sinking as well.

http://donegalnow.com/sp/article_manager/detail/donegal_county_council_backs_harps

unkymo

Rain,Rain and more f***ing rain!

Its been like this since 2pm today.

Pangea

Relatively small amounts showing up on finner there, I know from experience when it might be a nice day in Finner camp or that area, it can be a whole lot different on my side of Donegal Bay. Floods galore here this evening.

redsteveireland

It's been raining since around 3 pm today, just drove out from Galway city in biblical rain and it's still going.
Alot of local roads are flooded and I'm sure it will do wonders for the potholes.
Front garden under water, should get nice pictures tomorrow.

Wild Bill

Good morning fellow storm-chasers.

And still we wait......

*Current average wind speed 6kph, high gusts in the low 30s all night. Not a lot.
*Temp is now a frigid 12.4c
*It started raining at 5am and we have now accumulated 1.6mm
*Pressure 992 hPa and still plummeting.

I'm seen worse storms in the hot-press. But look at that big blob on the radar! (heading this way )

Tazio

I don't know... I've been up most the night with a little baby... And its been pretty stormy all night... I'm 7 miles SSW from cork airport....

sunbabe08

really dont want to go to college in that:eek:

Wild Bill

Tazio wrote: »

I don't know... I've been up most the night with a little baby... And its been pretty stormy all night... I'm 7 miles SSW from cork airport....

But I'm about 160 miles NE of Cork Airport!

sunbabe08

limerick is getting drenched right now.

Su Campu

Waterford Airport is reporting S 36 gust 52 knots at 8 a.m.

Harps

Still pouring rain here, 17 hours so far. The back garden didn't stand much of a chance and is a bit of a swamp, heard there's lots of disruption around the town as well. Going to be fun walking to college :rolleyes:

MiNdGaM3

My station is now saying 8.6C, a drop of 4C in just over 2 hours. I also recorded a pressure drop of 22hPa in the 21 hours up to 7am this morning. The rain is just beginning to ease also.

sunbabe08 wrote: »

really dont want to go to college in that:eek:

Just back from the Mardyke, got soaked walking both way! It isn't too bad now though!

mickger844posts

Wonderful squall line on this front dividing the mild from the cold.

ch750536

For once i can scientifically say that we have had at least just under 3 inches since 1pm yesterday. I know this because I cremated some bacon and left the smoking tray outside which is almost 3 inches deep and it was overflowing this morning.
That and the river is about to burst too.

ednwireland

35mm in the last 24 hours

Mental Mickey

Absolutely p*****g down here in Ballyfermot.