Storm Betty Fri 18 to early Sat 19 Aug 2023

sryanbruen

Almost 40mm in the past 5 hours alone at Cork Airport. Daily total on 48.1mm so far provided the hourly totals are accurate and there's no corrections like with Dublin Airport 2 weeks ago with Antoni.

.Donegal.

Official stations highest rainfall total up to 6pm today

Clonakilty 46.2mm

Dunmanway 45.6mm

Inishcarra 42.1mm

Edit - Cork airport isn’t listed on WOW so I didn’t see that

mcburns07

100% believe it, so much surface water in places you’d never see it.

Ozvaldo

Worst summer ever Cork City absolute pity of a summer

SeaBreezes

Clap of thunder Kinsale at the mo.

Itssoeasy

It’s kind of brightened up here in cork city or maybe it’s not and it was so dark for a few hours. Rain is still bucketing down.

cheezums

driving rain and booming thunder now in east cork

SweetCaliber

Amazed the races in tramore are still on, camera fella up in a boom in this wind and rain, just waiting for a clap of thunder and lightning and they might let him come down !

Itssoeasy

Would I be completely nuts to put the red glass bin out as it’s meant to he collected tomorrow morning ?

adocholiday

Just went from Rathdrum to Arklow and back, starting to flood in places and the heaviest rain (according to Met Eireann hourly forecast) doesn't even start for another hour yet. Winds starting to pick up here too but still relatively light.

ninebeanrows

Looks fantastic on the visible satellite. Almost as if there is an active major thunderstorm in the cloud head at present.

Very, very heavy rain Timahoe, Laois. A really dirty evening!

Duvet Day

Just home from work near Cork city, unreal floods and surface flooding, thankfully most drivers taking it easy. It's still bucketing down, flooding is definitely going to be a problem, waiting now for the wind to start,at least it's Friday night ,an excuse to open a bottle and take to the couch. ☺️

.Donegal.

Recent lightning in south Cork

fits

Cancelled Netflix back in May. Just gave up and started it up again as kids going mental. It’s absolutely wild out here in Carlow. You’d nearly light a fire only its 23C in the house.

appledrop

Lashing here in North County Dublin but not windy at all.

fits

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120997362#Comment_120997362

It’s on the way!

mickger844posts

Max gust of 69km/h at my station in Waterford City. Should be relatively accurate as we are exposed to South or South East winds.

SuperBowserWorld

North Wicklow. Lashing and dark. Hate this kind of weather. We really haven't had stormy weather for a long time.

appledrop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120997372#Comment_120997372

Eh we had this weather for the whole of July in Dublin.

Rebelbrowser

Only drizzling now with no wind in Skib. 20 solid hours of heavy stuff before that. Calm before the real storm?

Meteorite58

That's some amount of rain being predicted into Saturday by the ECM, much of that having fallen in the South by 06.00

Again seems to be switching the strongest winds more offshore and along the coastal edges although Waterford, Wexford could get a good clip.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120997379#Comment_120997379

Yes, but nothing like now. And it's only starting

appledrop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120997397#Comment_120997397

Every weekend in Dublin was like this in July, in fact it was worse because the rain often lasted from Fri all the way through to Sun.

At least tomorrow looks nice here.

Oh Betty!!

Speak Now

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120997369#Comment_120997369

Yeah bang on, normally you record way lower than Waterford Airport. Max so far 70km/h so very good alignment for this wind direction.

gaa goes

Just looking at the latest ECM and it shows very severe winds in the south and southeast between midnight and 3 am.

aidanodr

Weavers PT at the mouth of Cork Harbour opposite Roches PT

https://twitter.com/CorkSafetyAlert/status/1692605331774292281

Meteorite58

GFS certainly caught up with the pack, ironically this would be one of the windiest overland at this stage!

Most models in general not showing Orange level winds overland at this stage apart a couple showing the SE getting clipped but as can be seen by the evolution of the charts and the changes at this late stage that this could behave as it decides itself in the end.

mcburns07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120997449#Comment_120997449

Ah but sure up there in the centre of the universe Dublin tis grand!