Rainfall/Drought Watch 2020

esposito

Gonzo wrote: »

just saw this now and the website is back up to date. Indeed July was an absolute dire month here in Meath with rainfall 200% above average and the overall mean temperature a degree below average.

As for August we are currently sitting at 12.4mm and the mean temperature is already well up on July's values, currently at 15.1C. I'm not expecting much rain over the next 7 to 10 days other than showers and temperatures high teens to low twenties throughout much of the first half of August. A definite improvement already over that awful July and poor June.

At least we will be getting a break from the Atlantic Westerlies for a week or two which means any rain we will get will be in the form of showers/thunderstorms mainly.

Neddyusa

Gonzo wrote: »

just saw this now and the website is back up to date. Indeed July was an absolute dire month here in Meath with rainfall 200% above average and the overall mean temperature a degree below average.

As for August we are currently sitting at 12.4mm and the mean temperature is already well up on July's values, currently at 15.1C. I'm not expecting much rain over the next 7 to 10 days other than showers and temperatures high teens to low twenties throughout much of the first half of August. A definite improvement already over that awful July and poor June.

July alone had more rain here in Roscommon than the entire spring season at 133mm. 45mm so far for August

Danno

Gonzo wrote: »

...A definite improvement already over that awful July and poor June.

June was not poor in these parts, at least until the 18th!

The June BH weekend was hot. I'd take it over manys another June we've had.

Rebelbrowser

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Average rainfall over the entire country last month came in at 124.6mm, which is 169% of the July national average.

Wettest stations:
Valentia: 214.0mm (216%)
Newport: 187.9mm (186%)
Athenry: 174.3mm (201%)

Driest stations:
Roches Pt: 73.2mm (116%)
Moorpark: 73.4mm (118%)
Oak Park: 76.5mm (130%)

---C/O Met Eireann.

Roches Point can't have been the driest station in Ireland too many times before.

Neddyusa

Here in Roscommon we've had more rain in the last week (92mm) than in the fourteen week period from mid March to mid June.

Oneiric 3

August has seen just over 100mm so far here, a bit wetter than average but nowhere near on the scale of August last year, which saw similar totals in just the first 10 days of the month alone.

Gonzo

almost 92mm of rain at Dunsany and that total doesn't include yesterday's rainfall. August last year had 123.9mm so we will get fairly close to that again this August. However when the totals of June, July and August are added up, it is going to be a much wetter summer in total than last year or any of the recent summers.

The total so far since 1st of June is 299.6mm. I'll expect Summer 2020 to finish somewhere between 300 and 350mm of rain which is well above normal for any summer.

Xenji

Newport is up to 478.1mm for the summer so far and that is without any significant rainfall from both Ellen and Francis.

August has not been too bad this year with a lot of sunshine at times and a great stretch at the start of the month, but there still has been 125.7mm of rain compared to 228.9mm last year so it has still been wet.

Neddyusa

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

August has seen just over 100mm so far here, a bit wetter than average but nowhere near on the scale of August last year, which saw similar totals in just the first 10 days of the month alone.

Wow - not too far away from you and we have almost double your August rainfall!
And that's with 10 (pretty much) dry days from 10th to 16th.

Edit 400mm exactly for the summer to date.
And it hasnt been a bad summer all - apart from July and the last week it has been brighter and warmer than most.

Oneiric 3

Neddyusa wrote: »

Wow - not too far away from you and we have almost double your August rainfall!
And that's with 10 (pretty much) dry days from 10th to 16th.

Edit 400mm exactly for the summer to date.
And it hasnt been a bad summer all - apart from July and the last week it has been brighter and warmer than most.

You must have seen a lot more convective activity than I did so, because, apart from that thundery spell at the end of June, we have seen zero convective rainfall this summer in this part of Galway, which usually helps top up totals by a significant degree. Pretty much all of the rainfall we have seen this summer has been of that light, weak frontal type, which is just the worst of the worst.

Neddyusa

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

You must have seen a lot more convective activity than I did so, because, apart from that thundery spell at the end of June, we have seen zero convective rainfall this summer in this part of Galway, which usually helps top up totals by a significant degree. Pretty much all of the rainfall we have seen this summer has been of that light, weak frontal type, which is just the worst of the worst.

We did get a lot of convective showers this month and June and then a huge 24hr total from Ellen

Oneiric 3

Neddyusa wrote: »

We did get a lot of convective showers this month and June and then a huge 24hr total from Ellen

Just a few mils shy of 30mm from Ellen here, which really is just bog standard stuff.

pauldry

Sligo had a good June when most rain missed us. July was very bad with cold and dullness and only 3 warm days. August has been fairly much what you would expect but that is much better than lots of years as it was over 20c on half the days.....about 15 days

Gonzo

Dunsany now sitting at 92mm of rain up to yesterday. By the time today's rain is added to this total it will be certainly north of 100mm. Most of the stations in the country are over 100mm already with many western stations around 130mm and the wettest of all is Valentia with 210mm of rain so far this month. We get a break from the deluges from tomorrow but looks like we are back to a fairly wet scene from Monday.

Oneiric 3

Dense and heavy sky all day again here yet still only manage the obligatory few spits now and again. Sky throughout the last 2 months nearly always had the look like it was about to 'let leash', yet it never did. Really awful summer and literally the worst (which is saying something) in terms of such constant, ongoing bleak blandness that I have ever lived through.

Autumn, you better compensate!

Danzy

Hard to comprehend the rainfall and thunder storms here at 4 pm in County Cork.

Neddyusa

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Dense and heavy sky all day again here yet still only manage the obligatory few spits now and again. Sky throughout the last 2 months nearly always had the look like it was about to 'let leash', yet it never did. Really awful summer and literally the worst (which is saying something) in terms of such constant, ongoing bleak blandness that I have ever lived through.

Autumn, you better compensate!

Ah now - surely it wasn't worse than 2012?!
This year was significantly warmer than 12 anyway

RobertKK

It took long time for the ground to get very wet where I am in Kilkenny, but only after storm Ellen did I hear water underground flowing into my well, and now its overflowing despite being a 135m deep well.
Needed the rain where I am but even we had enough now.

Gonzo

Neddyusa wrote: »

Ah now - surely it wasn't worse than 2012?!
This year was significantly warmer than 12 anyway

it's worse than 2012 in a significant part of Leinster.

In my area we had the wettest July since 2009. (Dunsany)
The first half of July temperatures struggled to get above 13 by day and night. We only had one decent dry and sunny day in July, the rest of the days were all write offs.

June was the best month of this summer but it declined fairly quickly from June the 3rd, we had two cool spells in June and plenty of showers. 4 nice days in June with warm sunny spells.

We never got the good weather that everywhere else got in the first half of August. While it was dryer we never really got the warm temperatures and it was cloudy or misty on all but 2 days. August is turning into a month every bit as wet as July and again another very cloudy month with barely any sunshine.

Just looking at some of the stations across the country and some places have had over 400mm of rain since June and a few of them are very close to 500mm.

An absolute shocking disgrace of a summer.

Gaoth Laidir

Gonzo wrote: »

it's worse than 2012 in a significant part of Leinster.

In my area we had the wettest July since 2009. (Dunsany)
The first half of July temperatures struggled to get above 13 by day and night.

Now that's a bit of an exaggeration. Dunsany easily got well above 13 every day, except for the 14th, wherr it only got to 13.8. Still pretty crap by any standards but let's not slit our wrists here. The average was 15.6 but only 4 days got below that.

1st: 15.5
2nd:17.1
3rd: 17.4
4th: 18.4
5th: 15.6
6th: 16.6
7th: 15.0
8th: 14.4
9th: 18.4
10th: 16.8
11th: 18.2
12th: 18.1
13th: 17.7
14th: 13.8
15th: 19.1

Oneiric 3

Neddyusa wrote: »

Ah now - surely it wasn't worse than 2012?!
This year was significantly warmer than 12 anyway

Summer 2020 sucked. End of. At least we had some decent, interesting rainfalls and showers in 2012 as opposed to the lengthy spells of pointless dribbles of this arse of a summer.