Summer 2025 - General Discussion

I saw a lot of blocked drains on my travels lately with "cabbage heads" growing out of them

Status Orange - Rain and thunderstorm warning for Dublin, Louth and Meath

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Persistent and heavy rain with a chance of thunderstorms.

Impacts:
• Widespread surface flooding
• Very difficult travelling conditions
• Lightning damage
• Very poor visibility

Valid: 00:00 Monday 21/07/2025 to 14:00 Monday 21/07/2025

Issued: 20:13 Sunday 20/07/2025

it’s started, heavy rain now. I will have 20mm or more by morning which will be more than I’ve had in the last five weeks. I can put away my watering cans!

Hammering down now ,south west Dublin

Wet night ahead for the east.

I'm after starting a tread over the orange warnings fir heavy rain and thunderstorms

I'm sure you know this already but Casement is guaranteed a wetter than average summer too, only 59.6 mm is needed and much of that will fall by tomorrow.

I did start a dedicated thread for the flood and disruptive potential of overnight heavy rainfalls, mostly to place the danger onto the general Boards menu for the benefit of non-weather-forum types who may not be following developments as closely as you are here. When I made a forecast 18 hours ago, the GFS was showing this potential a little further west than it has developed, I would say centered closer to Ballyhaise than Dunsany, but it was certainly giving an indication of this potential; now it has begun to develop over even higher populated terrain including Dublin, Meath, Kildare and east Ulster, so it could have a much higher impact. Looks steady-state for about six to nine hours so very large totals are possible at 15-20 mm an hour in some parts of the region for at least part of the event.

Sorry, I looked for a thread before I posted, anyway mods can merge them. I think the main benefit of the thread will be for the wider boards membership as you weather forum folks were well aware of what was unfolding.

Relax.

‘wetter than average’ but it hasn’t been a wet summer, I know this doesn’t make sense but there has been long dry periods between the wet spells - for example in my parts 60mm+ fell in the period June 12-14 followed by only 20mm in the following five weeks up to yesterday and 43mm in the last twelve hours. I’m not expecting much in eastern areas for the rest of July after today is out of the way. Interesting that April was dry and sunny for three of the four weeks too.

No more hosepipe ban yippee

Looks Like most of Dublin and Coastal Leinster is out from under the heaviest precipitation now. Stopped raining in Bray an hour or so ago and looks like just drizzle over Dublin now.