Happy Autumn from Greystones. First sunrise of the season.
Hit 18.9C earlier in Loughlinstown, not an October record but pretty good for this late, honestly feels like a summers day.
Yellow warning for the south and southeast from 11pm till 9am tomorrow morning
Decent start to the day, now back to rain. Exceptionally mild for the end of October. Cork
Ditto in Longford. Moderate, sometimes heavy rain.... The sort of rain that soaks you to the skin within a couple of minutes.
At last the sun is back, feel like it's been raining forever.
I missed the big thunder and lightning storn the other day as in another county and not even a flicker of lighting.
It went on for 2 hours here in NCD and my husband was saying biggest one he has seen since the 80's. Damn!
I'll just have to head back to Italy so to see one again so.
A beautiful autumn day, perfection.
Rain. 11C.
Leitrim
A damp wet dark morning here in Castlebar.
Meanwhile, back on this day in October 2018, a record high Mean Sea Level Pressure of 1043.8 hPa was recorded at Sherkin Island, Co. Cork.
Another absolutely dire day in Cork. No end in sight either.
It be wild. very wild. Wet too... No post so no ferries today. We were very lucky yesterday.
Not cold though. Blustery and an energetic gusting...
West Mayo offshore
Beautiful day after the rain and darkness of yesterday. Catching up with work in the vegetable garden.
Never even thought about lighting the stove... Wonderful day ...always more revelled in after a gale
Very warm this morning and up to about 1pm with plenty of sunshine. Felt like summer for the first time since the 1st of September. Gone all cloudy now and feeling cooler as a result.
Yesterday was quite a memorable day. 2 Thunderstorms in 1 day, granted we only got the tail end of both storms before they died out but still it was more thunder and lightning than I've witnessed here since the great storm of 1985. It was also the first time I have seen fork lightning since July 1985. The rain yesterday was also quite something, 3 ponds formed in my garden, something I used to see regularly in the 1980s.
Today there is still some waterlogging at the bottom of the driveway and the birds have been having a great time splashing around in it.
Warm for October 18 degrees...sure its better that what we get in May most of the time...sure this is ireland where the weather makes no sense we get the warm air in autumn/winter and cold air arrives as we head into spring/summer
Rain song and wind melody... Old familiar music.
It was so quiet for so long that it takes some getting used to now. Now the volume is on HIGH again....
Amazing lightning earlier in Galway. Heavy rain since.
It's a shame that the Wicklow weather site went down today. Last reading of 53mm at 10.25am. Would have been an impressive total tonight.
Up to 67.0mm for the day now after thunderstorm passed through.
55.2mm so far today in Greystones. Dry at the moment.
Rain here in Meath is biblical. We had some thunder about 20 minutes ago but haven't heard any rumbling in a while now.
Orange thunderstorm warning in Dublin now, thats more like it but came very late.
I think they panicked about Cork a little bit given how bad it was the other day. But even looking at their forecast I didn't think there was a huge chance of anything happening.
We'll see what later today brings but I'd be very surprised if theres enough left to cause issues at this stage. Dublin is a worrying one though as its kinda hovering there now.
Cork rainfall warning now only yellow. Dubs are getting pasted though
52.0mm so far today in Greystones. Lightning/thunder and heavy rain atm.
Colleague in Wicklow (town i think) says flooding in her area and bottom floor of the house flooded :(
Radar looking very ominous for the SE coastal area right now.
There's one more coming then it's done. So probably 25mm in total. Hardly Orange territory. Maybe Met Eireann were concerned about all that lightning. Or maybe they were afraid what happened Sunday would happen again but nowhere near as bad as that.
There will be further bands of heavy rain over Cork this afternoon.
There's been 12mm in Sligo so far and 8mm in Cork. Why is Cork under Orange warning? Should be maybe Orange warning there for rest of October instead.
It's been a bit more here in Ballincollig. My own weather station has recorded 4.9mm today so far. I'm not optimistic for any further significant activities as there seems to be a storm detour in place around the Cork metro area at the moment.
We're only halfway through the Orange warning I grant you that, but so far in Cobh I've had a grand total of 3.5mm worth. It underresponds in strong wind as its up a pole, but certainly no Orange just yet! Things seem to be breaking up and missing us at the moment.
Rain lighter now in Greystones, but from radar, more heavy stuff yet to come. 44.6mm since midnight.
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