Heavy Rain & Continuing Flood Risk - Saturday Dec 12th, 2015

my3cents

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

This rain belt is going nowhere fast.
Will still be raining in the south and east well into the aftnoon

I'm following the rain fall radar to see when the best time is to get out and walk the dogs. Don't mind the wind or the rain but not both.

pad199207

rain has gotten heavy here in Naas and the temp has dropped suddenly from 12c down to 7c. Wind has strengthened from the N

Squatter

yellowlabrador wrote: »

The council is back pumping out my street here in dunmanway. It seems worse than last week.

Bad luck.

Unfortunately your local weather station (Tullagh?) isn't recording the cumulative rainfall total, but I can tell you that here on the Mizen we've had over 31 mm since midnight and it's absolutely teeming down. :eek:

Meteorite58

18.2 mm in manual gauge since midnight in Ardfert Co Kerry, light rain atm.

maquiladora

my3cents wrote: »

From the ME rainfall radar we are in a 0.5mm an hour belt (Coastal Waterford) and the river is 2ft below its point of flooding, we can take that all day everyday with no flooding. Nearly flooded last week but the rainfall must have been up around 2-4mm an hour and kept it up nearly all day.

It's places like west cork and kerry that are more at risk of flooding from this at the moment. Some models are showing an additional 80mm or more over highest ground there within the next 36 hours. With saturated ground that would create a fair amount of runoff into the streams and rivers I'd imagine.

Bandon gauge has already risen past the minor flooding level.

Gaoth Laidir

The past week has highlighted leaks in my house and garage that I never knew existed (Kildare). Latest leak above my windows, dripping nicely onto the inside sill.

Rock Lesnar

This rain is worse then last week for me, it was bad leaving the house earlier, i absolutely dread going home now

Baggy Trousers

Is there an official rain gauge in Galway city that I can look up?
Looking outside at existing floods, it doesn't look like we got much rain last night.

km79

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Is there an official rain gauge in Galway city that I can look up?
Looking outside at existing floods, it doesn't look like we got much rain last night.

I thought the same but surprisingly it's between 25\30 mm

Gonzo

rain here is much worse than last weekend as well.

pauldry

11.7mm in Sligo from this

Scary thing is everything that was flooded last week in 94mm fall flooded again immediately

dexter647

Nearly a 6 deg drop in temps here over the last hour and the rain is getting colder..

Gaoth Laidir

Thankfully Dublin has taken up the slack with rainfall today with over 31 mm. 36 mm at Valentia but significantly less ober the Midlands and west.

Villain

The difference 16km can make!! 21.4mm in Carlow town http://carlowtownweather.com and 11.6mm in Tullow http://carlowweather.com

pad199207

25mm here in Naas now. Good bit of flooding now

my3cents

OK so rain has stopped here (Nr Dungarvan) and the rainfall radar gives the impression we might get a dry spell so its out for an hour with the dogs, but will be taking a full set of waterproofs.

cyclops999

Water levels on the River Shannon in Athlone have risen by 70mm in the last 24 hours and will continue to rise until Wednesday.

Villain

cyclops999 wrote: »

Water levels on the River Shannon in Athlone have risen by 70mm in the last 24 hours and will continue to rise until Wednesday.

Damn! That's more than they had expected?

thomasj

Just seen this from Irish rail.

https://twitter.com/IrishRail/status/675661721227403264

Trains still running through this area at a walking speed but I'd say they're at risk.

Tactical

Flooding approx 300mtrs from Blakes Cross in North Co. Dublin reported.

Assessment is that the road will shortly be impasssble.

Gonzo

some side roads are flooded around Dunshaughlin.

Zzippy

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Is there an official rain gauge in Galway city that I can look up?
Looking outside at existing floods, it doesn't look like we got much rain last night.

The university has one with data viewable at http://weather.nuigalway.ie/ , unfortunately you can only view live data, last 12 hour data or monthly data.

Tactical

http://www.theaa.ie/aa/aa-roadwatch.aspx

Useful for further flooded road information.

You can filter (no pun intended!!) the map results by clicking on thr flooding icon at the top of the map.

On map icons can be clicked for more detailed information.

Naturally it will only be as up to date as the information received by the AA, so all instances of flooded roads may not be listed. Regardless, its a good resource.

Another good resource is the National Roads Authority https://www.nratraffic.ie/

Baggy Trousers

Zzippy wrote: »

The university has one with data viewable at http://weather.nuigalway.ie/ , unfortunately you can only view live data, last 12 hour data or monthly data.

Perfect thanks!

Rock Lesnar

Wow, got home to find the driveway, lawns, footpaths, submerged in lovely brown water from the field, glad i brought wellies, that was definitely worse then last week, numerous fields are under water and roads flooded in my area

Supercell

24.8mm of cold rain here and still falling. Currently 6.3C, a day to light the woodstove i think.

JanuarySnowstor

Met Eireann downgrading their rainfall warning to yellow in the south.
Could this be a mistake with it never due to clear the south!
Cork city could well flood at teatime this evening with high tide arriving

JCX BXC

Bitterly cold here in West Clare, 3.7c, I was definitely expecting higher today.

maquiladora

Heavy pulse of rain in Waterford now. Heaviest all morning.

maquiladora

Bandon Flood Warning Status changed to Orange/Serious Flooding.