STORM CHANDRA

Saw this posted on net weather. 24 hour rainfall accumulation up to 8.40am today. Not sure how accurate it is.

Not for rain there wasn't…there really should have been. I'm in Dublin 8 and the Camac is as high as I've ever seen it but at least not burst it's banks around my area…yet

People crying that Dublin didn't get a yellow rain warning, one thing to ask yourself, would it made a blind bit of difference if there was one, cause you know what, the rain was still going to fall and there would still be flooding regardless.

47mm of rain here since yesterday and today, high for here. Lots of puddles about

It seems like it’s raining everywhere at the moment.
Im in Paris and it’s fairly heavy raining since the early hours.

Thank you.

Yes I was ready for flooding where I live which didnt happen. On the weather forecast it said localized flooding in Dublin, which is exactly what we got.

Given the amount of rain that fell and the impact caused, I would have hoped for an Orange warning for Dublin, especially in mind for areas prone to flooding. There are lot of premises badly flooded that may have been able to take precautions in advance. Take a look at all the videos emerging of floods and damage caused across the city.

Labelling people as crying for a yellow warning is being more than a bit sensationalist yourself.

Just had a drive around the Rathdrum area in Wicklow and the flooding is bad in places. The Meeting of the Waters is really bad, the whole park there is under water. The Avonbeg and Avonmore rivers both burst their banks in places and it's flooded a few houses. There are some houses along the rivers with very high water levels well over the threshold of their doors. I hear that Aughrim is really badly flooded too but I didn't go that way. Plenty of water still to come off the high ground into those river courses and more rain on the way over the next few days really doesn't bode well. I'm living here 8 years and this is by far the worst I've seen around here. My heart really goes out to people affected by it, it must be absolutely devastating.

The weather warning only came into effect at 3:00am my OH collected my daughter from the airport at 12:30am this morning got back at 1 and he said it was horrendous at that hour a couple of squeaky bum moments…. Question is have MET Eireann been caught off guard? I heard them on RTE radio this morning saying it was exactly as expected! Im in D8 and the bright sky is blinding out there now, yet leaving for work at 7:30 I was thinking maybe I should have a duvet day.

Let’s get rid of weather warnings altogether so 🙄

I am so glad that the damage is minimal in my area so far and I didn't get wet at all out delivering all morning.

But I hear Wicklow is bad, and I will be driving for work around the Tinahely/Coolboy/Shillelagh roads later this afternoon. Any eye witness reports of flooding there?

There seems to have been some 'last minute panic' on their part. Almost nothing about it until yesterday evening, and then a yellow warning for the whole country which is in force until tonight, even though it's sunny and calm where I am now too and the worst of the storm passed here around 6 am.

The fellow who does the Carlow Weather twitter believes the main problem is a lack of public flood warnings, which take into account rain already on the ground as well as what's predicted to fall.