Autumn 2019 - General Discussion

D.Q

Was today not meant to be brighter. Few showers according to met eireann. Exact same as its been all week in wicklow/Dublin

Kamili

DOCARCH wrote: »

June 2012 would be hard to beat with 242.4mm that month.

Don't tempt the weather!

Depressing here in south dublin too. Raining quite heavily in places.

I'm really struggling with winter this year.. I'm quite an outdoorsy person and its been non stop rain.

highdef

Kamili wrote: »

Don't tempt the weather!

Depressing here in south dublin too. Raining quite heavily in places.

I'm really struggling with winter this year.. I'm quite an outdoorsy person and its been non stop rain.

You're in for a treat because winter does not begin until Sunday so if you're struggling before winter even begins, you may need help

Having said that, there are signs that things may well improve as we move into meteorological winter.

Mortelaro

Suns perform out in Arklow now
2.2mm since midnight
Ashford co Wicklow is up to 281.6mm for November
Sea level 1 mile from the coast,not up the mountains somewhere either!

#ashfordwatch

Gonzo

DOCARCH wrote: »

Raining again in Dublin 16. 2.2mm so far today.

183.4mm for the month so far. Now the wettest month here since June 2012.

June 2012 would be hard to beat with 242.4mm that month.

I think this is worse than June 2012 because we've had 3 months of well above average rainfall leading up to this month already! The flooding here has certainly been more frequent and harder to shift due to the excessive saturation of the soil since mid September. Looks like we're finally going to get a bit of a break from all the rain over the next week and hopefully the land will dry out somewhat.

Kamili

highdef wrote: »

You're in for a treat because winter does not begin until Sunday so if you're struggling before winter even begins, you may need help

Having said that, there are signs that things may well improve as we move into meteorological winter.

I do need help!

I honestly don't mind the cold, its the constant wet that gets me.

HighLine

Mortelaro wrote: »

Suns perform out in Arklow now
2.2mm since midnight
Ashford co Wicklow is up to 281.6mm for November
Sea level 1 mile from the coast,not up the mountains somewhere either!

#ashfordwatch

Some amount of rain alright. I was trying to look through the site to find out what their highest monthly totals have been but couldn't find it. I would say this month is up there.

sryanbruen

Ashford (Cronykeery) saw 318.3mm in December 2015.

pauldry

My rain gauge in Sligo has 102mm.

Id say 110mm is the most we will end on with dry weekend coming

Slashermcguirk

I cant recall ever seeing this much rain in a month in Dublin. It has been crazy and so unusual. I think we often take for granted how much drier Dublin usually is, how anybody could bear weather like this more than one month a year !!

November tends to be a very grim month anyway but this has been appalling

SleetAndSnow

Dry but cloudy in cork city all day. River was getting high again around 5pm while I was coming home but it didn't flood. Chilly out there though!

pauldry

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

I cant recall ever seeing this much rain in a month in Dublin. It has been crazy and so unusual. I think we often take for granted how much drier Dublin usually is, how anybody could bear weather like this more than one month a year !!

November tends to be a very grim month anyway but this has been appalling

So you see now what an average August is like in the West

squarecircles

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

I cant recall ever seeing this much rain in a month in Dublin. It has been crazy and so unusual. I think we often take for granted how much drier Dublin usually is, how anybody could bear weather like this more than one month a year !!

November tends to be a very grim month anyway but this has been appalling

its all relative to where you are,e,g somebody from Barcelona would find it appalling living in the Dublin climate. My spanish friend felt depressed living there a few years ago,not sure if it was totally because of the weather though,she said it was also very dirty,boring and expensive.

Oneiric 3

squarecircles wrote: »

its all relative to where you are,e,g somebody from Barcelona would find it appalling living in the Dublin climate. My spanish friend felt depressed living there a few years ago,not sure if it was totally because of the weather though,she said it was also very dirty,boring and expensive.

I worked with a Spanish guy a couple of years ago and on one particular warm and sticky day, he was clearly struggling with the oppressive feel to the air, and he actually said, and I quote, that 'Irish heat is an ugly heat'. Perfectly put and he isn't wrong. In fact, I would go one further and say that typical mP cold in this country is just as ugly in the winter. During the 'beast from the east' spell in Feb/March 2018, it didn't feel half as miserable outside at -5.0c in a gale gusting continental sourced easterly as the typical +6 or 7c dank, penetrating chill of the more usual Atlantic W or NW'ly. It's funny how that works.

Gonzo

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

During the 'beast from the east' spell in Feb/March 2018, it didn't feel half as miserable outside at -5.0c in a gale gusting continental sourced easterly as the typical +6 or 7c dank, penetrating chill of the more usual Atlantic W or NW'ly. It's funny how that works.

I well believe it. The past month has been awful, mostly cold and very wet, temperatures of 6 to 8C by day and sheets of rain feels much colder than any easterly in general. Cold and damp north-westerlies generally feel bone chilling cold, yet in reality are often too mild for wintry precipitation.

squarecircles

squarecircles wrote: »

its all relative to where you are,e,g somebody from Barcelona would find it appalling living in the Dublin climate. My spanish friend felt depressed living there a few years ago,not sure if it was totally because of the weather though,she said it was also very dirty,boring and expensive.

Ha, Spanish people are only ever happy when they are home! They are obsessed with talking about their home places - the weather, the cooking etc etc!

Getting our garden landscaped at the moment and what was supposed to take three weeks is now pushing on to five. Thankfully, the weather here in Cork was good the last two days and the place can dry out a bit.

Donegal Storm

Was actually a nice enough month up here until this week, nowhere near as wet as the east and we've had plenty of calm sunny weather. This week though has been awful with rain and drizzle every day

Goldfinch8

Thankfully the blanket of gloom has finally been displaced here in Central Mayo and stars speckle the sky once more. A refreshing crispness to the air. I will celebrate the small victories. 2c.

igCorcaigh

I felt really warm yesterday evening. Maybe I'm sick.

Oneiric 3

Like a Summer's morning in Galway. Total contrast to the recent gloom.

highdef

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Like a Summer's morning in Galway. Total contrast to the recent gloom.

So jealous. Would love to be comfortably warm in shorts and t-shirt outside on a late November morning. In the East Midlands, it's much more autumnal with temperatures just above freezing but with a clear sky and light winds..... Definitely not like a summers morning here!

ZX7R

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I felt really warm yesterday evening. Maybe I'm sick.

Yesterday up to around 11pm I was sweating in work temperature was a balmy 10c half an hour later it was 2c , by 6am - 1

km79

Unreal sky driving through Tuam this morning

DOCARCH

Raining in Dublin city centre.

new2tri19

Worst month i've ever cycled to work , and been cycling in and out of Dublin for years. The most annoying thing is not the rain its the fact that Met eireann app shows no rain most days and yet you go out the door and 10 mins later its lashing , they are really not fit for purpose I've stopped checking the app because its pointless.

alentejo

new2tri19 wrote: »

Worst month i've ever cycled to work , and been cycling in and out of Dublin for years. The most annoying thing is not the rain its the fact that Met eireann app shows no rain most days and yet you go out the door and 10 mins later its lashing , they are really not fit for purpose I've stopped checking the app because its pointless.

Totally agree with this. I appreciate that some of the rain in Dublin was the wrong side of marginal this November but the ME app was always wrong and innuracte.

Gonzo

First decent dry day in so long, first time to see the sun shine in what seems like weeks. A decent frost here last night, should be a few more days of nice, dry, frosty and settled conditions before the Atlantic is unleashed yet again in about a weeks time.

Artane2002

This is the first bit of sunshine in Dublin 5 in a while, last time I remember seeing sunshine was Tuesday last week! Unfortunately it wasn't completely dry with some rain around noon. I haven't seen the ground this saturated in a very long time.

Gonzo

Artane2002 wrote: »

I haven't seen the ground this saturated in a very long time.

Same situation here, the ground is still saturated, but hopefully things will dry up somewhat over the next 6 days. We need this brief moment of settled conditions because it does look like we are in for a very unsettled period from 2nd week of December right up to New Years Day. Hopefully the medium term models are wrong about this.

Mortelaro

Gonzo wrote: »

Same situation here, the ground is still saturated, but hopefully things will dry up somewhat over the next 6 days. We need this brief moment of settled conditions because it does look like we are in for a very unsettled period from 2nd week of December right up to New Years Day. Hopefully the medium term models are wrong about this.

Anything beyond day 6 tbh is as reliable as a boiling snowflake
Of course they will be wrong
New years day is 33 days away for heavens sake