Happy Autumn from Greystones. First sunrise of the season.
Mullingar.
Can anyone recommend the best now cast rain radar? I find the Met Eireann one awful tbh....thanks
I love how dry spells always get cancelled out by loads of rain, but warmer temperatures never seem to be balanced by cold spells.
The next 10 days continue to look extremely wet, especially in the western half of the country with rainfall totals between 130mm and 180mm over the next week and a half. The second half of November better start drying up significantly.
Durrow 202.2
Kilkenny 204.4
Where was the 208.8?
One of my favourite places on this earth.
Dunsany finished October with 141.1mm of rainfall for October which makes October the wettest month of the year following on from a very wet September which also finished north of 100mm of rainfall.
If November proves to be very wet which I think it will, then the combination of September to November will most likely exceed the combined totals from January to August. October was also signifcantly warmer than average finishing up over 2C above average. This significant warmer than average anomaly is likely to carry much of the way through November.
I travelled to Limerick over the weekend and the amount of water logging in the fields especially around the midlands along the M7 was very noticeable in places, with entire fields flooded. We really are paying dearly for that relatively dry pattern up to 1st of September.
It did indeed, 208.8mm in the end. Smashed its previous record.
All the figures I've quoted have been confirmed by the Met.
And all change. Dire weather that assaults the senses. Heavy rain smashing on windows and banshee gusts.
Snugged in for the day as light dawns. Also cold.
West Mayo offshore
Calm and just one sudden deluge that sounded like hail. Mild too...
And I have been rapt gazing at the dramatic cloud formations in every direction of land and ocean.
It has been calm and amicable for so long now with just one strong wind.
I am not looking forward to this imminent event . The met ie map....
West Mayo offshore.
Such a gift of a day compared to yesterday. Clear, sunny and calm morning walks in Wicklow. A shower late afternoon. Cool and foggy along the Ow River now. Some great photos from the start of the day to the evening fog. Is this the calm before the 'storm'
It's a house on the way in to Gougane Barra. I think it's at around 150m ASL or thereabouts, so not an upland/mountain station by any means, though the general area is rugged, hilly and mountainous which probably enhances rainfall in that region.
Some big showers about
Yeah it's close to Gougane Barra. Think the actual place name is Garrynapeaka but the Met rainfall station is Gernapeka.
Surprised, the floods from Frank were pretty horrendous in Cork from all the reports I seen and the infamous rainstorm Desmond in the west (Teresa Mannion's moment).
Sherkin Island had only 2.8 hours of sunshine all month too with a persistent southwesterly flow, another national record.
interestingly winter 88/89 that followed was one of the mildest on record - with mean temperatures were above normal by 1.8 °C to 2.5°C. The lowest temperature of winter was the modest -5.2 °C recorded at Mullingar on 24th February. On the other hand, after the October / November deluges of 2009 we had a very chilly winter indeed....
I have literally never heard of Gernapeka and nor has google maps! In West Cork I assume? Some total. Don't particularly remember that month tbh whereas Feb 14 or November 09 I will never forget.
Casement likely had its joint warmest October since 1995 - all to be confirmed. It'll be a close run thing with October 2001. If true, Jan to Oct 2022 is the warmest respective period on record here significantly beating 2005.
All but confirms just how mild the year has been to date. I'd say it would be even more extreme had last Sep to Dec been included too.
Dec 2015 403.7mm Cork Apt
Dec 2015 943.5mm Gernapeka (national record)
What’s the all time record for Cork any month?
Keeping an eye on Moore Park, has had 44.4mm since midnight. Has 186.0mm to 30th, 230.4mm counting the 44.4. To be confirmed but would be a new Oct record.
Its current/old record is October 1988 with 227.2mm.
The endless rain has just cleared. Such a wet month; I'm really tired of it.
27mm recorded up to 6pm at Cork Airport.
Last Oct was the wettest recorded at the station since 2005 with 197mm. On track to end this month somewhere between 235-240mm.
That's on top of 167mm recorded in Sept which was 1.7x the LTA.
45% of rainfall recorded at Cork Airport this year has been in the last 2 months.
Truly awful couple of months since the weather turned.
Lucky here in Ashbourne, going trick or treating with the kids. Got a nice dry slot. Last yr was the opposite going trick or treating with the kids. Got soaked, was dry before we went out and stopped shortly after we came in.
Wow we got very lucky today with weather. Out early this morning in playground, just home and lashed rain all afternoon.
Just back after trick or treating and again it stayed dry.
Very lucky considering the rain warning.
Very windy on Wednesday with widespread gales, southerly veering westerly.
Some severe and damaging gusts may occur.
Potential for localised wave overtopping along Atlantic coasts.
A spell of heavy rain will occur, leading to flooding in places.
Valid: 04:00 Wednesday 02/11/2022 to 21:00 Wednesday 02/11/2022
Go for it KSE! I came to Spain yesterday, Saturday, only for a week unfortunately and while weather here isn't spectacular [warm and calm but not much sun] it's still a million miles from the shite in Ireland and the muck fest October has become. I'm really loving the break from all that. Re retirement thoughts, Ireland for me is where I earn my living. Couldn't for the life of me imagine trying to put down days post work in that awful climate.
We are safe out here. They built well above tidal dangers. 150 years ago..
Joanna not ruling out an orange or red rainfall warnings, we are actually not far from breaching the rivers and lakes nationwide :(
It is changeable and swift moving enough here to work outside between showers and lovely bright sunshine now.
Feel the exact same so sick of rain and wind, midterm this week and all I'm looking for is some dry weather to get out and about but not looking good.
It's pointless having mild weather when it's so miserable, I'd much prefer, dry sunny freezing weather.
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