Rainfall Warnings Jan 1st-3rd 2016: Latest Alert Post #91

Villain

STATUS YELLOW

Rainfall Warning for Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford
Rain is expected today Friday and overnight, but should turn more showery during Saturday morning.
25 to 35 mm are expected, with possibly higher totals on mountains.

Issued:Friday 01 January 2016 08:35
Valid:Friday 01 January 2016 09:00 to Saturday 02 January 2016 09:00

xband

It's certainly raining in cork. Fairly heavy in the city right now.

Graces7

Heavy and largely horizontal here in South Kerry 400 asl and deafening wind. Had to go out for turf and wood and not pleasant.. mountains are hard to see

maquiladora

Up +100mm shown here for over high ground during the next 36 hours.

Villain

maquiladora wrote: »

Up +100mm shown here for over high ground during the next 36 hours.

I reckon that would push the Barrow over in Carlow

Villain

Actually Maq looks a little worse even on 6z

howlinwolf

The barrow has already flooded in parts in the town although not to any severe extent and in other parts of the county, luckily nowhere near as bad as in Kilkenny and wexford. Only raining very lightly here this morning, hopefully it stays that way:rolleyes:

Villain

howlinwolf wrote: »

The barrow has already flooded in parts in the town although not to any severe extent and in other parts of the county, luckily nowhere near as bad as in Kilkenny and wexford. Only raining very lightly here this morning, hopefully it stays that way:rolleyes:

Yes the Barrow has dropped a fair bit but I'm afraid your hope of rain staying light is unlikely to happen and if we see over 100mm on high ground I'm not sure the defences will hold

mickger844posts

Wind gusting to 70km/h now from the South East

www.waterfordcityweather.com

Villain

Going through the charts I really don't think a Yellow warning is enough, certainly isn't if you take existing water levels into account!

Any opinions on upgrading warning level here? I usually like to go with Met Eireann but I'm not so sure on this one

Storm 10

Never saw the radar like it is now on ME large gap in the middle of the front with no rain, what causes that is it wind or what !!

km79

Storm 10 wrote: »

Never saw the radar like it is now on ME large gap in the middle of the front with no rain, what causes that is it wind or what !!

it's nice being in the clear zone!

maquiladora

EURO4 showing about 50-90mm over the south and east over the next 48 hours.

thebaz

Is there any end to this horrendous rain and storm ? - think its rained (heavily) everyday , bar 2, for the past month - any clown objecting to Climate change proposal must not living in the world today - weather has been truly horrible here in Ireland , and other places who suffer even more.

andygaw

Troll alert!

JanuarySnowstor

maquiladora wrote: »

EURO4 showing about 50-90mm over the south and east over the next 48 hours.

With ground flooded and saturated that could be chaotic
Is an orange alert not more realistic?

Graces7

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

With ground flooded and saturated that could be chaotic
Is an orange alert not more realistic?

Would make no difference what alert they added now frankly. Certainly far worse now than was expected . A white out up here with rain sweeping visibly across the wide skies and it has not eased all the day long. They said 35 mm earlier; checking kerry coco twitter. A public holiday so maybe things not getting put on? Certainly there will be more floods.

Speak Now

Met have clear criteria for their warnings so yellow is correct. It's up to local authorities to use their brains and realise what a yellow rain warning means for the already flooded areas.

Graces7

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Met have clear criteria for their warnings so yellow is correct. It's up to local authorities to use their brains and realise what a yellow rain warning means for the already flooded areas.

New Years Day may not be the best day for brainpower.. Little on local news etc Kerry County Council ‏@countykerry 13h13 hours ago
2016 starting as 2015 finished with a weather warning.
@MetEireann issued YELLOW advisory for rainfall up to 35mm in Kerry on Jan 1st.
Kerry County Council
‏@countykerry
... On top of saturated ground after #StormFrank this may lead to localised spot flooding in stressed areas. Please plan accordingly (2/2) Usually there will be lilists of road closures etc

Bicycle

The ESB have upped the output from Parteen Weir to 470 Cumecs, meaning those not adequately protected from the lower reaches of the Shannon are at risk of flooding again.

Its raining here in Limerick at the moment but not significantly so. Thankfully.

sjb25

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

. It's up to local authorities to use their brains .

Ha ............

Graces7

I just looked out of the back ( north facing) top window here. South Kerry mountains 400 asl. The field at the back quite a few yards below the house, is more waterlogged than it has ever been. Further along, the rough patch of bog grazing is turning into a lake. Again I have never seen it this bad.. and still the rain is sheeting across. ( I am safe, worry not; old man who built this house, God rest him, chose the one raised part.) A little concerned re ,my landlords cattle. He is grazing three with calf at foot up here on this lower stretch but am sure he checks them daily. Will look out later to make sure they are not stuck.

redsteveireland

The west(north of the Shannon) has dodged a bullet with the bulk of the precipitation out at sea and travelling north.

Graces7

As opposed to us in Kerry! But glad that is so. Packing in here for today; feeding critters early and extra food. Just is so noisy! According to met ie, due to ease later. Tomorrow will tell its own tale. Welcome 2016!

Villain

9.6mm in Cobh so far

Coles

The ESB are now in the uncomfortable position of having very little capacity to hold back additional flood waters at Poulaphuca and little opportunity to run down the levels without causing flooding.

With 50mm of rain across the upper catchment over 24 hours that will raise the level of the Poulaphuca Reservoir by 600mm.

120mm of rain over 72 hours would raise the level by almost 1300mm, and I think they probably just about have capacity for that, but it would certainly be very risky to allow it happen. Whether or not they'll allow the level get that high remains to be seen, but if they decide against it then I think there will be flooding downstream.

maquiladora

Looks very wet in the south this evening on the GFS P

Itssoeasy

It's a horrible nasty day in cork city. And no I'm not talking about my hangover. I'm seeing roads flooding that I've never seen flooding. It's a disaster. I wonder how the esb are going to handle the dam as there must be some serious volumes behind it.

Riverireland

Seems like sume serious gusts in North Kildare this afternoon. Judging this throught the windows mind you, not leaving the house today in that.

123 LC

I'm in county Cork and it's been pouring all day,it seems much worse than previous days? Should it maybe be an orange alert?

RobertKK

6.2mm so far in north Kilkenny.

Itssoeasy

Had to go my grandmothers for dinner which meant I'd to leave the house and lads in cork the rain is just continuous. The cork flood alert Facebook page is doing Trojan work again.

Itssoeasy

https://m.facebook.com/corkfloodalerts/

sjb25

Itssoeasy wrote: »

https://m.facebook.com/corkfloodalerts/

And so it begins again

Absolutely pelting rain here close to enniscorthy in Wexford not to windy but an awful lot of rain heading to a river that is very full already

Riverireland

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Had to go my grandmothers for dinner which meant I'd to leave the house and lads in cork the rain is just continuous. The cork flood alert Facebook page is doing Trojan work again.

Agreed, they're absolutely excellent. As an ex cork dweller I follow their stuff, shame they can't cover the whole country.

maquiladora

Road between Fermoy and Ballyduff

positron

Strong wind here in Drogheda, in a reasonably sheltered area in the middle of the housing estate. Must be pretty bad down south by the sea.

Itssoeasy

maquiladora wrote: »

Road between Fermoy and Ballyduff

Christ. My brother has to drive from dingle to cork city at some point today. That'll be fun id say

maquiladora

Absolutely p!ssing down here in the Waterford now.

Itssoeasy

It's lashing in cork and it's getting worse.

YFlyer

Bicycle wrote: »

The ESB have upped the output from Parteen Weir to 470 Cumecs, meaning those not adequately protected from the lower reaches of the Shannon are at risk of flooding again.

Its raining here in Limerick at the moment but not significantly so. Thankfully.

The wind seems to pick up. Raining but at least not too heavy.

sryanbruen

Grange is so far at 10.1mm.

poconnor16

Cork City centre flood free but high tide is at 10pm. Rain is lashing down, conditions are getting worse. In Douglas at the moment, came from
Blarney.

Itssoeasy

Cork county council have posted a boil water notice on Facebook.

MidMan25

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Cork county council have posted a boil water notice on Facebook.

For Whitegate, Cloyne and Ballycotton only....

bren2002

With all this rain it's hard to believe that this is actually the driest day of the year.

BoatMad

sjb25 wrote: »

And so it begins again

Absolutely pelting rain here close to enniscorthy in Wexford not to windy but an awful lot of rain heading to a river that is very full already

positron wrote: »

Strong wind here in Drogheda, in a reasonably sheltered area in the middle of the housing estate. Must be pretty bad down south by the sea.

I'm south of Gorey on the coast. Windy but not huge amounts of rain at least not yet

SeaFields

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Christ. My brother has to drive from dingle to cork city at some point today. That'll be fun id say

I drove Cork to south Kerry an hour ago and it was fine. Surface water in places but nothing too deep.

xband

The Lee seems to be ok in Cork City Centre at the moment although high tide is still a few hours away.

flutered

here at the butt of the galtees, the wind is very strong and is really driving the rain, its been like thay all day, perhaps it getting worse

brianwalshcork

MidMan25 wrote: »

For Whitegate, Cloyne and Ballycotton only....

It mentions Ballinacurra also, so I guess this means everywhere south of Ballinacurra and east to Ballycotton.

Is there any site that tells you which areas exactly are on which water scheme?