Autumn 2018 - General discussion

Artane2002

Atrocious here in Dublin. Windy and very wet with spot flooding in the City Centre.

Gonzo

really horrendous day at Dunshaughlin too. Lights on since 1pm, heating on full blast. Lots of surface water, gutters overflowing, rain coming down in sheets, windy. Water logging after some very wet days over the past week.

This is shaping up to be a very unsettled and Atlantic dominated November after such a peasant October.

DOCARCH

Bucketing down now in Dublin 16. Nasty out there!

Supercell

Steady moderate rain here, glad I worked from home today, driving must be a nightmare. Fires lit, warm and cosy, tinnies in the fridge, its Friday, aww yeah!

pad199207

Crazy out there now with torrential driving rain. Garden flooded.

sryanbruen

sryanbruen wrote: »

In summary,

September - A fairly mild and mixed month. Likely to be on the relatively wetter than average side but no big deviation.
October - Settled and fairly mild again. Lot of quiet weather.
November - Very wet, mild and stormy. Plenty of gales and rain.

Remember long range forecasting is not to be relied upon and is just for fun.

November is bang on the money so far from my Autumn 2018 forecast, surprised with how successful the forecast has been.

Really wet in Dublin 13 too.

spookwoman

Sun trying to break through the clouds in Waterford lovely golden glow about now. Big Rainbow to the north north east

Area of heavy rain moving into the Dublin region now. Just in time for the Friday evening commute......

dacogawa

sryanbruen wrote: »

November is bang on the money so far from my Autumn 2018 forecast, surprised with how successful the forecast has been.

Really wet in Dublin 13 too.

Glad I went for the 150% rain totals!

Artane2002

Supercell wrote: »

Steady moderate rain here, glad I worked from home today, driving must be a nightmare. Fires lit, warm and cosy, tinnies in the fridge, its Friday, aww yeah!

The traffic is so bad. I've been on the bus for 40 mins and I'm nowhere near home yet... the journey usually takes 30 mins.

Graces7

Just been out for a short walk, and breezy and fresh but between deluges and pleasant... west mayo, offshore island

spookwoman

Ref dublin Traffic
There's a breakdown in the northbound bore of the Port Tunnel and traffic is still heavy on this route.

The N7 is slow outbound from the Red Cow Interchange to J3 Citywest.
Nearby, Gardaí will be directing traffic until approx. 9pm at the entrance to Citywest Hotel due to a large event, and traffic is heavy approaching the hotel from the N7 on Garter Lane.

highdef

North Kildare. Rain became amazingly heavy a few minutes ago. proper torrential! I looked like very thick fog during the event.

Rock Lesnar

Get me a boat, torrential downpour here, im glad it looks like the clearance is not far away

Villain

Oh! No dedicated thread for today' warnings?

Anyway top gust of 95kmh at my station and 25mm.

https://twitter.com/CarlowWeather/status/1060940009237291010

Maidhci

odyboody wrote: »

If your looking at the met radar on the PC it is in the menu on the right.
Weather Maps, Rainfall Forecast (7 day)

For some reason this is not accurate at all and at times totally at variance with the forecast - I have been monitoring it over several weeks, at first for specific reasons and then just to see if it could be relied upon for future use. For example, the 7 day forecast could indicate heavy rain for a particular day and immediately underneath that, the hourly charts for the same day could predict zero or minimal rainfall. Last evening, for instance, a yellow rainfall warning was in effect, the daily chart for today showed heavy rain, yet the hourly chart showed less than 4mm for the day, for my area. In fact, we had in excess of 20mm up to 14.00hrs, the heaviest rainfall between midday and 14.00 hrs.

At first, I thought this was a glitch when ME revised their website, but this explanation is no longer tenable.

Calibos

Non stop lashing rain in Bray since 1pm.

This is what it must feel like to live in the West!

sryanbruen

https://twitter.com/caulmick/status/1060943999089942529

DOCARCH

Rain has stopped in Dublin 16. 19.2mm since around 2pm.

HighLine

Think the rain rate per hour reading on wicklowweather.com has gone haywire :eek:

1645.8mm/hr at 17:09

mickger844posts

A Station record gust of 109.5km/h at my station in Waterford City beating the previous high of 108.8 recorded during Ophelia. I was traveling to Clare at the time but relatives told me winds had eased somewhat and out of nowhere a Huge Gust came at 15.55.
Conditions on my drive were pretty awful up to about Clonmel after which rain stopped and skies brightened. Worst flooding was at the roundabout near Tesco on the outskirts of Limerick City
www.waterfordweather.com

Meteorite58

14.2mm here near Tralee, most from the main band of rain going through around midday. Temp rose to 13.6C after the front went through. Bar dropped to 978.9 hPa and on the climb again now at 978.9 hPa



Sunny spells in the afternoon with showers from big convective clouds.

Pic Tralee 16.20



NASA

pad199207

21mm in Kildare after a wild and soggy evening.

NMB

If only this was snow

Gonzo

rain stopped. Garden is now fully back to soft and soaking as if the summer drought never happened.

Clonmel1000

NMB wrote: »

If only this was snow

If only it was 30 degrees and sunny.

odyboody

Maidhci wrote: »

For some reason this is not accurate at all and at times totally at variance with the forecast - I have been monitoring it over several weeks, at first for specific reasons and then just to see if it could be relied upon for future use. For example, the 7 day forecast could indicate heavy rain for a particular day and immediately underneath that, the hourly charts for the same day could predict zero or minimal rainfall. Last evening, for instance, a yellow rainfall warning was in effect, the daily chart for today showed heavy rain, yet the hourly chart showed less than 4mm for the day, for my area. In fact, we had in excess of 20mm up to 14.00hrs, the heaviest rainfall between midday and 14.00 hrs.

At first, I thought this was a glitch when ME revised their website, but this explanation is no longer tenable.

You just asked where it was and that was the answer, but it seems you already knew that If you want to stir it with Met there is a thread for that

km79

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

If only it was 30 degrees and sunny.

Nah there would be too many complaining about not being able to sleep
At least the drought is over anyway......."jeez the land is fieeerrccceee wet"

Meteorite58

Nice Autumn light this morning in Kerry , 8.8C with overnight showers, cloud filling in a bit again but still tracts of blue sunny sky.

MJohnston

km79 wrote: »

Nah there would be too many complaining about not being able to sleep
At least the drought is over anyway......."jeez the land is fieeerrccceee wet"

Very much doubt the drought (or what you actually mean - water shortages) is over - November is a wet month on average, so we're still playing catchup.