Storm Desmond - Heavy Rainfall 4/5 December 2015

littlema · 06-12-2015 9:24am

Sooooo much rain fell yesterday that fire services pumping out water from 1pm Sat afternoon. 6am this morning, talking of evacuating the whole NH in Sligo.

Oneiric 3 · 06-12-2015 10:05am

Two day totals as per Met.ie

06-12-2015 10:06am

Big respect to the emergency services and volunteers. Dropped my daughter into work at 6pm last night and part of the town closed as they had evacuated and were pumping water from a nursing home and surrounding home. They were still there after 11 last night when I collected her.

I've just dropped her to work again this morning and they are still pumping out water! That's over 26 hours that I can account for and they were probably there and who knows where else before that yesterday.

Oneiric 3 · 06-12-2015 10:43am

redsteveireland · 06-12-2015 11:03am

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

The funny thing is the place is packed with cars and there is the odd person strolling by in the background...What storm?

sword1 · 06-12-2015 11:08am

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Big respect to the emergency services and volunteers. Dropped my daughter into work at 6pm last night and part of the town closed as they had evacuated and were pumping water from a nursing home and surrounding home. They were still there after 11 last night when I collected her.

I've just dropped her to work again this morning and they are still pumping out water! That's over 26 hours that I can account for and they were probably there and who knows where else before that yesterday.

Agree totally with you, not sure where the 26 hours you can account for are though, maybe you mean 16

06-12-2015 11:15am

sword1 wrote: »

Agree totally with you, not sure where the 26 hours you can account for are though, maybe you mean 16

D'oh lol

redsteveireland · 06-12-2015 11:58am

Craughwell last night. Link for video under picture.

https://m.facebook.com/galwayindependent/photos/a.297695087185.158173.288313132185/10153099852332186/?type=3

km79 · 06-12-2015 12:01pm

redsteveireland wrote: »

Craughwell last night. Link for video under picture.

https://m.facebook.com/galwayindependent/photos/a.297695087185.158173.288313132185/10153099852332186/?type=3

are things easing out that side
stayed in galway last night but going home to kiltullagh this evening

sryanbruen · 06-12-2015 12:06pm

Lumi wrote: »

The total daily rainfall for Galway city yesterday was 65.6mm - a new station record!
Event total 93.8mm

I recorded only 14.3mm as a total

very exciting :pac:

redsteveireland · 06-12-2015 12:12pm

km79 wrote: »

are things easing out that side
stayed in galway last night but going home to kiltullagh this evening

Not sure, I haven't ventured out yet. You can take the motorway most of the way anyway before heading offroad?

ch750536 · 06-12-2015 12:27pm

Since my home made station blew over I can't submit any readings. What I can say is that it was non scierntifically the wettest 24hrs in the 11 years I have lived at this location. The Feale was burst by 8am yesterday. Last night was really windy, I was taking a wood delivery and was blown over twice.
Definately an event for me.

I did take a drive to Limerick city where it was calm & dry from 3-6pm yesterday,

blackbird99 · 06-12-2015 12:34pm

37mm of rain from Friday evening to this morning. Aherlow Co Tipperary

pauldry · 06-12-2015 12:43pm

My rain gauge has actually 84mm

It had 56.7mm yesterday and 27.3mm Friday

During the event it was reading nearly 100mm

Odd

06-12-2015 12:48pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Looks like there's a rave going on behind her left shoulder.:cool:

km79 · 06-12-2015 12:57pm

redsteveireland wrote: »

Not sure, I haven't ventured out yet. You can take the motorway most of the way anyway before heading offroad?

2 of the 3 routes to the motorway were impassableat noon today!
hopefully things are improving

FWVT · 06-12-2015 1:06pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Two day totals as per Met.ie

And taking the 2-day totals for the North too the average over the whole island was 43.15 mm. This gives a total of 3.73 trillion litres of rainfall, not accounting for the enhanced totals on mountains. That's around 0.1% the volume of the Irish Sea

redsteveireland · 06-12-2015 1:22pm

A couple of pics this morning.
Strange that there are new spots flooded badly but some of the areas flooded in 2009 are not flooded. There have been some new roads etc. built since then so it probably has had an effect.

Hooter23 · 06-12-2015 1:37pm

Tipp Man's unique twist on Teresa Mannions News report :pac:

Meteorite58 · 06-12-2015 1:45pm

Total for event here near Tralee 60.6mm.

Irish Steve · 06-12-2015 1:54pm

FWVT wrote: »

And taking the 2-day totals for the North too the average over the whole island was 43.15 mm. This gives a total of 3.73 trillion litres of rainfall, not accounting for the enhanced totals on mountains. That's around 0.1% the volume of the Irish Sea

And I wonder how long it will be before Irish Water are telling people to be economic with their use of water!

Have to admit I am just very relieved that the East Coast didn't get the rain that has fallen all around us, we're very vulnerable to flood risk due to some bad infrastructure issues, and getting it sorted is taking an eternity, we're over 12 months on from the last flood event and the consultant's report hasn't been finished yet, and when that happens, they then have to decide if they can afford to do what's been suggested.

Anyone that thinks even ankle deep flooding is not an issues hasn't had to deal with the long term consequences of flood risk, or the stress that it causes. We've been flooded several times now (2000,2002 and 2014, with 120K damage in 2002), so I go into paranoid mode when weather like we've seen is forecast, and only relax when it's passed through.

I'm not sure that the worst is over, from the suggestions being made at the moment, the next few days are only going to add to the problems, and maybe make it even worse than it already is in some places.

Time to go and try to get my weather station working again, at least that way I get some details of how much rain has actually fallen here.

Akrasia · 06-12-2015 2:02pm

my back garden weather station recorded at least 1 little tikes turtle sandbox worth of rain this weekend so far

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