Unseasonable weather with warnings Fri 4th / Sat 5th Aug 2023

Looking at the weather radar it should have been raining in Galway for the past while not a drop what is wrong with the radar showed front going through with nothing.

Some guidance suggesting conditions in southeast could go from near calm around 0700h to storm force wind gusts from NNE by 0900h as low passes. Strong winds from an unusual direction could bring down a few trees in exposed locations. So in other words, readers in that region especially near east coast or downslope from mountains, be prepared for quite a sudden change in conditions around 0800h (timing could be off by an hour or so). A little further north in Dublin-Meath-Kildare there would not be such a pronounced change as the low tracks south and winds would be fairly strong all through the rainfall event, might show a slight decrease before shifting from ENE to NNE, around 0700h.

Took the trampoline net down and turned it upside down! So hopefully it'll be okay!

Luckily for me I've got access to my roof via a Velux to get out on the roof and access the Zinc clad Bathroom Dormer of the attic conversion with neighbours roof valleys protecting me from falling anywhere. Feckin thing wasn't clad right by cowboys back in a major renovation in 2010. The zinc sheet overlaps weren't done right and weren't soldered either. Leaked almost straight away back then and builder 'fixed' it along with the rest of the snag list. Only when it leaked again in 2018 did I get up there and have a look myself. Turns out he just spread a bucket load of sealer along the zinc sheet overlap. Looked ugly AF but then again whos going to see it but a Garda Helicopter (or drone pilot nowadays). Did solve the leak for 8 years though I suppose. My fix with a tube of tec7 lasted 5 years from 2018 till a week or so ago.

The weekends forecast helped me break through the procrastination and indecision about what to do about it and a trip to Woodies for the materials and 90 minutes on the roof today sorted it hopefully.This time I scraped all the old shite off and applied a special roof sealant tape and then spread a load of Tec7 sealant from a tub over that. Hopefully these 2 layers of protection see me good till I can afford to get someone who specialises in zinc cladded roofs to redo the top deck of the Dorner around the skylight and solder it this time.

Donegal not included in the warning but no escaping the rain. Moderate and persistent this past couple of hours.

Unusual for such a low that the areas highlighted will see some torrential rain and other areas further South little or nothing. As some have already noted the direction of the wind could be a factor regarding potential damage in the South/Southeast. A Northerly gale, albeit temporary is a disruptive event

Uk met office orange wind for parts of SW Britain. Gusts widely 40 to 50mph inland, possibly 60mph. 70mph possible exposed coasts and hills.

Going to bed nice and calm in eagle point, I can’t imagine we will wake to the same calmness but hopefully it won’t be as bad as expected.

It looks like we will avoid the heaviest of the rain from this.

A named storm this early August. Who would have thought it? Due to the unusually warm seas temperatures we may well get several wind storms in the next few months.

Getting very windy here now in Cork. More like a night in October/November than the first week in August.

We had one a couple of years back too if I recall, lot of branches down in Cork after that one.

The northern portion of the front looks worse IMO. I know the Dublin radar is poor enough (without Shannon backing it up) and can't portray any sort of intensity or structure to fronts a lot of the time, but I'm not seeing those huge totals in the likes of Dublin.

Below is the ICON 18z for e.g. and it looks miles off it for now, it really didn't think much would be happening up north by now. Perhaps that really heavy pulse is being hidden by Shannon repairs but I'm not sure. We shall see in the totals tomorrow.

Wind is starting to pick up here in Waterford and direction has changed to the Southerly South Easterly. Looks like it will turn to a more northerly when it picks up in the morning which is better for the trees here.

Status Yellow - Rain warning for Donegal

Limerick the only county without a warning now.

Dead calm in Waterford city at the moment.

Radar showing signs of gusty winds and thunderstorm over southeast Wexford, possible small tornado in development? Will be off the coast by time anyone reads this.

I’m in Dingle. Was fairly wild and gusty for a while around 4 am. It’s windy here alright but not raining.

Very quiet here in East Clare.

Wettest day here since August 2nd 2014 which had 70.4mm and is the station record. Currently on 42.8mm so not going to break that. Still pretty impressive. So roughly a one in five year event.

I am a long way from Dublin of course but I visualize some of those small streams coming out of the hills overflowing in the next few hours, assuming 40-50 mm rain may have fallen by then. Low appears to be moving off Wexford coast now, this is the point where the strong N-NE winds are likely to rush into the vacuum created. Reports from Gorey to Wexford will be appreciated. Would imagine the strong northerly has just set in around Waterford too.

Just back from a drop off to the airport. Horrendous driving conditions - there will definitely be flooding

Rosslare direction and wind has just this moment started picking up again.

Atrocious conditions in Kildare

For once we have a sunny morning with a gentle breeze since 6.30.am. The forecast on Met Éireann is optimistic for the coming hours. The garden beckons!

South Sligo.