Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

You could play a little fireplace youtube video on your phone. 😁

Newstalk saying that we are all sick of the rain, it is a national station! the West has been dryish today.. Cathal Nolan on now backing them up 🤔 7-10 days of rain ahead says he

Dryish? Maybe in certain areas. In Leitrim we've had rain all day apart from about 2 hours early evening.

Thank you appledrop. A bit of luck to get a 2 minute spell with the phone before the colours fade. Despite all the rain and grey skies nature can still give a bit of magic.

What a morning. I left home about 6,15 am. It was quite breezy and wet, though not what I'd call windy. On the road it was very wet and twice I had to stop and put large tree branches in off the road as they had at least half the road covered. On the second one a lorry driver helped me move it. I went on to Longford Town and there were loads of large puddles to be negotiated. Left my missus at the train station. On the way home the road was very busy and quite hazardous as traffic was keeping towards the centre of the road to avoid the constant puddles along the edge, including myself in fairness. Anyway home safe and sound and my stock fed. It is dry here at present and calm enough too. Just be careful out there, there are plenty of puddles and debris on some roads.

My oil burner outside wouldn't kick in this morning and I'm wondering if heavy rain can cause that if water gets into it? It's since come back on and seems to be working normally.

V heavy rain but eased off now. Calm as well.

River dodder burst its banks.

Gotta be one of the worst January’s on record for rainfall.

1948 the county must have been under a lake….that's some number

Just had a heavy hail shower in very blustery winds

Watch out for flash showers. Had a few of those this morning in Dublin 15 where it lashed down for 5-10 minutes while you could still see the sun while you got soaked.

Heavy rain and strong winds last night. Cloudy this morning followed by sunshine and showers. We've just had a heavy hail shower.

Leitrim

Cold and very windy with heavy squally showers in Dublin, awful day again despite finally seeing some patches of blue sky for the first time in about 10 days.

Lots of patches of flooding locally, had to change direction a couple of times on my lunch time walk/drenching because of blocked paths

Torrential rain and gales continue in Arklow.