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*** Heavy Rain and High Winds for many as Storm approaches(Mon 24th - Tues 25th Sept)

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    #272
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    pics o' dem guages there you two :p


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    #273
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    dub56 wrote: »
    Just to back up DOCARCH s readings.I'm living not far from his location.

    Need to bring back Wild Bill - he had a VP2 as well in Sandyford and he always got similar rainfall amounts to me.


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    #274
    Su Campu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    I just new you would query my totals.....you always do! I could see you chomping at the bit yesterday.

    No not at all, not sure what gave you that idea. I just posted my and DL's totals yesterday for MT's benefit. A few years ago I had my collector sited on my metal boilerhouse roof and it would pick up splashes off the roof in heavy rain. I was just checking that yours wasn't similar


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    #275
    gbee
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Yes.....rain guage is approx. 2m off the ground and away from walls, trees, etc., and rain guage is clean (cleaned it the other day in advance of this event)

    I'd suggest you back up up your WS with a manual rain gauge. After one severe event in my town, I was showing no rain, if it was not for my empty rain collectors and manual gauge, I'd have thought my unit broken.

    Occasionally, it's the reverse and I'm the only one showing rain ~ I always check my manual collectors.


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    #276
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Latest figures for Northern Ireland from a couple of hours ago:

    Belfast 78mm
    Killylane in Co. Down 90.2mm
    Castlederg 19.6mm

    Here in NE Kilkenny 0.4mm yesterday and since midnight 6.2mm.


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    #277
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Met Office Storms ‏@metofficestorms
    Ravensworth in North Yorkshire has recorded 109.4mm (4.3") in the last 34 hours and it is still raining.


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    #278
    torrential1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭torrential1


    The boys have started work on the bridge. The stream is not flooded yet up to two inches of rainfall has fallen across the North East. It must be due to the length of the rain spell which has spread the amounts out over a long period. Also no wind yet. Dead calm in South Armagh. Calm before the storm or is the wind event all hype?
    I am looking forward to see what the afternoon and evening brings


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    #279
    MiNdGaM3
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    Yes.....rain guage is approx. 2m off the ground and away from walls, trees, etc., and rain guage is clean (cleaned it the other day in advance of this event) and settings are all correct (including on Weatherlink - i.e. it is not double counting).

    Fact is that in this sort of set up, with rain from the north to north east, I always get much higher totals than any of the Met E Dublin stations. Bear in mind that DL is approx. 12km to my east and (obvioulsy) almost at sea level. Casement is approx. 12km to my west - different topography there. Dublin AP is probably 20km to my north (no high ground there to give orographic rain).

    I just new you would query my totals.....you always do! I could see you chomping at the bit yesterday. :p

    Drove from Dublin 4 to here yesterday at lunchtime - light rain there and moderate to heavy rain - I know that is not scientific and is only a snapshot in time (and obvioulsy localised) but I have that experience on a regular basis of arriving here to heavier rain in this type of set up.

    BTW, 'Storm' total now stands at 77.0mm.

    The only thing I might suggest, which is an issue I had with my old station, was that when there was heavy rain combined with strong winds, the wind would shake the rain gauge a little causing it to "tip" more and falsely record extra rain.
    Just something to be aware of I guess!


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    #280
    DOCARCH
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    MiNdGaM3 wrote: »
    The only thing I might suggest, which is an issue I had with my old station, was that when there was heavy rain combined with strong winds, the wind would shake the rain gauge a little causing it to "tip" more and falsely record extra rain.
    Just something to be aware of I guess!

    Yes, that certainly used to happen with my old guage. New rain guage is (very) well secured. In addition, there has really been very little wind here over the last 36 hours.

    Rain gone very light and patchy here for now.


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    #281
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Anyone know what the dodder is like currently?... gonna take a cycle down to see what the Tolka is like at the Glasnevin hill shortly...


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    #282
    odyboody
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    Was just looking at rain today radar. While there is no defined structure there looks like an eye developing. (well a clear bit with no rain in the middle). Is this lightly to devolop into something?


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    #283
    Redsunset
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Redsunset


    Some Flood Reports from this morning.

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    #284
    DOCARCH
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    odyboody wrote: »
    Was just looking at rain today radar. While there is no defined structure there looks like an eye developing. (well a clear bit with no rain in the middle). Is this lightly to devolop into something?

    Over Liverpool Bay? Looks like the new low centre developing as metioned in MT's forecast earlier - wind looks to be circulating around that clear slot.

    Just very light rain here on and off this morning.


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    #285
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Redsunset wrote: »
    Some Flood Reports from this morning.


    YOu go tell those AA Roadwatch peoples.....


    PICS OR......... !!

    :pac::rolleyes:


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    #286
    Snowmaker
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭Snowmaker


    Not sure... but went out for a 'flood-drive' this morning (similar to a snow-drive) and the road at Portmarnock Driving Range is nicely flooded! (Nicely flooded = just the flood, no property damage)... impassible to cars, just 4x4s making it through


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    #287
    Redsunset
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    #288
    Snowmaker
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭Snowmaker


    That's the one! Druminagh Road.


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    #289
    BLIZZARD7
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    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Anyone know what the dodder is like currently?... gonna take a cycle down to see what the Tolka is like at the Glasnevin hill shortly...

    Saw it at miltown bridge at 8.20 am and it was at its limit.

    In Ranelagh now- Just patchy drizzle.


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    #290
    Redsunset
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭Redsunset


    Sea foam in Aberdeen Scotland. Foam party anyone?

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    #291
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Redsunset wrote: »
    Sea foam in Aberdeen Scotland. Foam party anyone?

    Wow! Cool!!! :)


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    #292
    DOCARCH
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    Mickey mouse rain here most of this morning. Spitting on and off. The rain should either p**s down or simply p**s off! :p Can't stand this stuff!

    17.0mm since midnight. Storm total now 79.6mm.


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    #293
    diceyd
    Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭diceyd


    my high-tech water gauge out back(big old flower pot)has just over an inch of water in it,keep in mind its half full of soil so im sure that soaked up some water aswell,just something for me to keep eye on:)


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    #294
    Sponge Bob
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    Malin now gusting to 55KT in the midday BST hourly up from c.40KT in most overnight hourlies. It was gusting to 45Kt around 8am.


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    #295
    ninebeanrows
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    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Malin now gusting to 55KT in the midday BST hourly up from c.40KT in most overnight hourlies. It was gusting to 45Kt around 8am.

    Sustained 44kt aswell.

    Only a few knots off Storm Force 10


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    #296
    Green Diesel
    Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭Green Diesel


    Some pics from NI,

    Donaghadee, Co Down:
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    "It was also a colder day than normal on Monday.

    Several Met Office stations recorded their coldest September day on record.

    They include Glenanne (Armagh), Altnahinch (Antrim), and Lough Fea (Tyrone)."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19714290


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    #297
    average_runner
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    All nice quiet in Eastpoint. Just a normal day with a bit of rain


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    #298
    Harps
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    Wind can't be far off storm force here at the moment, I'm right on the coast on relatively high ground totally exposed to the north so think were getting the full force of it here. Probably the strongest wind I've experienced since the storm last January, sea is going mental as well!

    Gonna take drive up to the cliffs in an hour to see what its like :D


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    #299
    mike65
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    Steady light rain all day, just meh.


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    #300
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    The radar is showing how the Wicklow mountains are doing a great impression of the Isle of Man shadow that we see in the winter.


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    #301
    Mr Benevolent
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    All quiet here in Santry, no rain to speak of.


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