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

Elmer Blooker

overall total now 69mm.
If the first three weeks of September wasn't so dry and August around average, I think flooding would have been a lot more serious.
belting down still, getting sick of this at this stage - you'd think it was July!!

DOCARCH

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

overall total now 69mm.
..... you'd think it was July!!

My 'event' total now stands at 100.2mm (since 2am Monday).

eigrod

What a night in Greystones. Rain & wind hopping off the (north facing) front window all night.

dirtyghettokid

the wind was very strong this morning.......stilly windy, but not as strong now. i see the sun peeking out now too hooray!

Iancar29

Rain pouring down here atm ,local primary school heading to the church,.... getting SOAKED haha... if they waited just a few minutes they probably wouldve made it dry!

DOCARCH

Another very brief downpour now with a rain rate of 85.4mm/hr.

Dropped 1.2mm in just over 60 seconds!!!

SEPT 23 1989

Anyone know the total rainfall at Casement since Monday?

Wolfe_IRE

From Broadsheet. The scene in Dublin today. Irish - the eternal optimists



re: SEPT 23 1989

To answer your question:
37mm on Monday - 0000-2400hrs
14.8mm on Tuesday - 0000-2400hrs

Giving a 48hr total up to midnight of 51.8mm or 2.04 inches.

You can probably add another 4-6mm at least from midnight to 11am today.

weathermaiden

Biblical rain on and off all morning in Bray, it's mad to look at Met Eireann's rainfall radar and see continuous squally stuff coming from the east over BRAY. If only it were sn*w......

maquiladora

Maybe time to remove the level 2 warning? There is no longer any Met Eireann warning in effect and no mention of a risk of flooding in their forecast.

Elmer Blooker

Wolfe_IRE wrote: »

re: SEPT 23 1989


Giving a 48hr total up to midnight of 51.8mm or 2.04 inches.

You can probably add another 4-6mm at least from midnight to 11am today.

There was a LOT more than 4-6mm in the Dublin area last night.
The 48 hour total at Dublin Airport up to midnight was 54mm (17mm on mon and 37mm on tue)
My final total for this event (and I'm about 3 miles from Airport) is 73mm so at least 20mm fell over night in the vicinity of the Airport.
The torrential rain actually woke me up several times during the night.

Wolfe_IRE

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

There was a LOT more than 4-6mm in the Dublin area last night.
The 48 hour total at Dublin Airport up to midnight was 54mm (17mm on mon and 37mm on tue)
My final total for this event (and I'm about 3 miles from Airport) is 73mm so at least 20mm fell over night in the vicinity of the Airport.
The torrential rain actually woke me up several times during the night.

He asked about Casement and not Dublin Airport, Elmer.

CASEMENT
37mm on Monday - 0000-2400hrs
14.8mm on Tuesday - 0000-2400hrs

These are the official Met figures

Your figure of 37mm for Dublin Airport on Tuesday is far different to the official Met figure of 13mm.

You are most likely correct about overnight rainfall though, IF the same showers you mentioned hit inland at Casement.

Iancar29

Yup that squally rain has ended here in North Dublin with the sun out now , still a nice breeze out though so was good for a walk in the park , photos up shortly.


Looking at the radar , really does remind me of the start of the winter 10-11!

Elmer Blooker

Wolfe_IRE wrote: »

He asked about Casement and not Dublin Airport, Elmer.

CASEMENT
37mm on Monday - 0000-2400hrs
14.8mm on Tuesday - 0000-2400hrs

These are the official Met figures

Your figure of 37mm for Dublin Airport on Tuesday is far different to the official Met figure of 13mm.

You are most likely correct about overnight rainfall though, IF the same showers you mentioned hit inland at Casement.

got my days mixed up. 37mm fell on Monday.
One way or another up to 3 inches (70mm+) fell in the Dublin area mon-wed.

Wolfe_IRE

The centre of the low as seen by EUMETSAT at 7am, positioned over Cardigan Bay as MT mentioned in his forecast. Lines of showers can be seen along our east coast

See attached image

Su Campu

11 mm fell at both Casement and Dublin Airport in the 12 hrs to 1 pm today.

Total "event" falls for Monday-Wednesday

Casement 63 mm
Dublin Airport 61 mm

Elmer Blooker

Su Campu wrote: »

11 mm fell at both Casement and Dublin Airport in the 12 hrs to 1 pm today.

Total "event" falls for Monday-Wednesday

Casement 63 mm
Dublin Airport 61 mm

Am I missing something? Dublin Airport readings?
Met.ie - 24th - 38mm, 25th - 13mm
ogimet - 24th - 17mm, 25th - 29mm

Slightly different.

maquiladora

Su Campu wrote: »

11 mm fell at both Casement and Dublin Airport in the 12 hrs to 1 pm today.

Total "event" falls for Monday-Wednesday

Casement 63 mm
Dublin Airport 61 mm

11mm in 12 hours isn't really close to exceptional return periods at all.

DOCARCH

I noticed that neither Casement or Dublin AP were recording significant amounts from the showers that hit this morning (I was keeping an eye on the hourly reports).

Total of 16.2mm here today, brining my event/'storm' total of 103.0mm.

@Dub56 - if you are out there? - would love to know how you faired in Firhouse?

Iancar29

Some photos of our local park here with some nice "streams" in places






" SQUIRREL!! "

Wolfe_IRE

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Am I missing something? Dublin Airport readings?
Met.ie - 24th - 38mm, 25th - 13mm
ogimet - 24th - 17mm, 25th - 29mm

Slightly different.

RE: OGIMET, Elmer. Make sure you have selected the 24 hr period 0000 to 2359 and not any other 24 hr variation that would provide a different mm total i.e. 0600 Tuesday to 0559 Wednesday. The circled part of the below image has 00 selected which will show you the data for all Irish stations for the preceding 24 hr period up to 0000hrs.

The data given on Ogimet is provided by the Met offices in the relevant countries so both will concur for a full 24 hr day i.e. 0000 to 2359hrs

Iancar29

Lightning strike just east of Wexford harbour! ANyone to confirm?

dub56

Ok the Event is over and my readings are as follows,

Rain storm start 24/09. end 26/09

Total rain 92.2. mm

Rain since midnight. 16.0 mm

Rain rate max 58.4 at 08.37 am this morning

Location Firhouse Dublin 24 just north of Dublin mountains