Drought/Low Rainfall Watch - Summer 2018

M.T. Cranium

and probably the ban as well ... nice radar imagery over Ulster overnight, 5.0 mm at Ballyhaise past hour alone, 10-20 mm appears to have fallen in most of the north.

Graces7

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

and probably the ban as well ... nice radar imagery over Ulster overnight, 5.0 mm at Ballyhaise past hour alone, 10-20 mm appears to have fallen in most of the north.

Lovely to see the met.ie map this morning. That the rest of Ireland is getting much-needed rain,,

Rain here in West Mayo; offshore island

Rock Lesnar

Drought over here anyway, lashed rain most of the night, dark miserable and wet at the minute, hate it

Rebelbrowser

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Drought over here anyway, lashed rain most of the night, dark miserable and wet at the minute, hate it

not a drop down here and the met.ie rainfall forecast shows 0.0m of rain forecast down here over the next 6 days. v worrying........

Rebelbrowser

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

not a drop down here and the met.ie rainfall forecast shows 0.0m of rain forecast down here over the next 6 days. v worrying........

Rain completely missed us in Cork City as you say and looks like we will get nothing from that front. Real crisis here at the moment.

KingdomRushed

Overall the breakdown is underway as it has been in very slow motion since the days of unbroken sunshine ended 2 weeks or so ago. This is the second front to cross the country in 5 days, and a little more substantive than the last. More rain due on Tuesday, and by month end the promise of significant rainfall to really break the back of drought even in the south east. I expect a very wet end to summer.

hinault

On 07.00 hrs train from Dublin to Cork, very overcast throughout the midlands so far and it appears to be raining heavily in sections of Kildare, Laois.

uck51js9zml2yt

There is something falling from the sky in D7 and it's not sunshine. It's also making the ground not dry

sryanbruen

Lovely persistent moderate rainfall all night in Dublin 13.

Mobhi1

Rain a lot heavier here this morning than I expected. There's been 4.8mm recorded so far today. The temperature's currently 13.3C.

Rebelbrowser

KingdomRushed wrote: »

Overall the breakdown is underway as it has been in very slow motion since the days of unbroken sunshine ended 2 weeks or so ago. This is the second front to cross the country in 5 days, and a little more substantive than the last. More rain due on Tuesday, and by month end the promise of significant rainfall to really break the back of drought even in the south east. I expect a very wet end to summer.

met.ie shows 0mm rain here every day until next Thursday. At 6 days away you cant exactly bank on that rain either. no rain or sign of rain in the south for the foreseeable basically and thats not good when we have had one afternoon of light rain in the last 40 days or so

iamwhoiam

Raining in SW Dublin . Genuinely can't remember when it last rained ? Was it in beginning of June ?
Have a big event tomorrow week ( sat 28th ) Any signs yet of how it will be then ?

MrDerp

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Raining in SW Dublin . Genuinely can't remember when it last rained ? Was it in beginning of June ?
Have a big event tomorrow week ( sat 28th ) Any signs yet of how it will be then ?

Make preparations for standard Irish weather:
Sunny spells and scattered showers, some turning heavy at times, with a light to stiff breeze and turning quite warm/cool at times.

Rule of thumb, cater for an indoor event with a mix of warm and cold foods, and consider sitting & eating outside to be a bonus. Buy the booze last, and adjust the red wine : prosecco ratio according the weather forecast at the last minute. :pac:

iamwhoiam

MrDerp wrote: »

Make preparations for standard Irish weather:
Sunny spells and scattered showers, some turning heavy at times, with a light to stiff breeze and turning quite warm/cool at times.

Rule of thumb, cater for an indoor event with a mix of warm and cold foods, and consider sitting & eating outside to be a bonus. Buy the booze last, and adjust the red wine : prosecco ratio according the weather forecast at the last minute. :pac:

Thank you . Lets hope for a few sunny bits for photos ! The wine will flow either way !!

SleetAndSnow

No rain in cork city or the majority of cork for that matter yet, getting pretty bad now. My garden is gone all out yellow with the only piece of green being weeds.

LEIN

The drought has ended here in Greystones.

Mooooo

Not a drop in cork, even with good amounts of rain it will take a minimum of 2 weeks before grass growth will get back on track

MarkY91

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Raining in SW Dublin . Genuinely can't remember when it last rained ? Was it in beginning of June ?
Have a big event tomorrow week ( sat 28th ) Any signs yet of how it will be then ?

It rained a couple of times in the past week. Have you been under a rock?

MJohnston

LEIN wrote: »

The drought has ended here in Greystones.

The absolute drought ended at the weekend pretty much everywhere.

The long term moisture deficit is in no danger of being ended by this light rain we're getting in the east today.

Call me Al

LEIN wrote: »

The drought has ended here in Greystones.

Here in South Meath too.. and right on queue, interspersed with the showers, we are being wooed by the once-familiar aroma of slurry spreading.

Normal service may resume :-)

LEIN

Getting a decent amount too, great for the general environment here.

Oneiric 3

Good to see those hard hit regions in the east getting some rain, even if they are small amounts overall. Interestingly, Oak Park recorded more rain (2.2mm) between 8-9am this morning than on any day since May 21st, I.E, two months!

iamwhoiam

MarkY91 wrote: »

It rained a couple of times in the past week. Have you been under a rock?

It dribbled here twice , not even enough to wet the plants . Wouldn't have classed it as rain at all

sryanbruen

iamwhoiam wrote: »

It dribbled here twice , not even enough to wet the plants . Wouldn't have classed it as rain at all

Last Sunday was one of the wettest days since the beginning of May in Dublin - not really saying much in the grand scheme of things.

Casement Aerodrome - 0.7mm
Dublin Airport - 3.9mm
Phoenix Park - 2.8mm

Cantona's Collars

It tried to rain here in Enniscorthy,a few drops and even the dark sky to the North of us is brightening up.
Barely enough to keep the dust down.

iamwhoiam

sryanbruen wrote: »

Last Sunday was one of the wettest days since the beginning of May in Dublin - not really saying much in the grand scheme of things.

Casement Aerodrome - 0.7mm
Dublin Airport - 3.9mm
Phoenix Park - 2.8mm

Well not in D 24 anyway

MJohnston

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Well not in D 24 anyway

"one of the wettest days" is a relative term, so even if you only got a few drips, that's still more than there has been in a long time. Casement's 0.7mm is probably accurate enough for D24, considering the proximity.

JCX BXC

All that was to be had in Dungarvan this morning was a short shower. Place is very very yellow and dead, and I very much doubt that this mornings shower would have dropped anything that did more than wet the top of the grass.

Danno

Durrow AWS 1.5mm
Ballybrittas AWS 7.0mm

Big difference from one end of Laois to another. Radar looks like it’s over.

Partial drought continues in Durrow.

ZX7R

Nice drop of rain this morning, sadly did little to relieve the drought conditions in my area of Kildare.
Looking like the east and south won't have much more rain till the end of next week after today.