Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Yellow warning for Wicklow, Wex and Waterford.

Plus the wee six

Enniscorthy will likely flood this week, as you said it's already on the edge. The Slaney has begun breaking the banks there and upstream, and there is a lot of rain forecast over the next few days, especially Tuesday night.

Article from Enniscorthy on Sat, the levels have already hit 3m today, subsiding back to around 2.8m currently.

https://www.southeastradio.ie/concerns-of-flooding-in-enniscorthy-as-levels-in-the-river-slaney-rise/

Carlow weather post about Slaney upstream of Enniscorthy in Tullow, Carlow:

https://www.facebook.com/CarlowWeather/posts/river-slaney-high-and-still-rising-here-in-tullow-while-the-river-derneen-that-f/1361535449350235/

Here's Arpege accumulated rainfall chart out to Friday, not great especially when considering the slaney catchment area.

As for the storm, yes that be could another significant worry for the southeast. Latest Arpege shows at least Orange level wind gusts for Wexford!

6c, grey and dark, damp....... Just rotten even before the main rain comes to us here in north Longford.

January in Ireland:

Very wet but too cold for a rain coat, too windy for an umbrella and too mild for snow.

The dark mornings & evenings, and lack of sunlight have finally taken the life out of me.

Contemplating a week in Lanzarote.

This exactly. This winter although not severe by any means, has been dark damp and bleak and the past three weeks or so would suck the energy from the soul. I find the lack of sunshine and very damp air to be the biggest challenge of the season.

We had uninterrupted weeks of dry cold sunny weather Dec-Jan!

Storm Chandra

Warnings & Advisories - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service

I was only saying in the office last week, this has to be the most depressing January for a while, they all said no every January is like this, but I think not!! I don't mind the rain, but that sh!tty hazy rain that doesn't look too bad but seems to drown you is a b!tch..coupled with a shocking public transport system that would give even the most trusting trust issues.

But on a side note, I think this month has flown in!! And I'm silently hoping that east coast storm in America might throw a bit of a snow storm across the Atlantic 😉

Very windy and lashing with rain all day on the far SE coast. Feels like it has been the exact same weather pattern for weeks now.

Gusting over 80 km/h in my location and driving rain.

The calm, dry Christmas period feels a long time ago now!

Maybe jesus will reward us with a nice spring to compensate. It's just so bloody grim and dark 😭😭