STORM CHANDRA

GFS model seemed to do very well on this.

Looking at my location (far SE coast), most of the models were going for crazy gusts today whereas the GFS was a lot more conservative which ended up being the case relative to what the Icon, ECM etc were going for.

Last night felt mad however. Seemed a lot worse than today in the early hours, although night time vs day light probably does do that in terms of perception too.

Well they do make a difference for schools etc which is why a lot of people take notice for an orange warning.

The UK warning system is vey good with the maps showing possible flood area's based on the rivers and flood plains. People copped Graiguenamanagh and Enniscorthy were starting to flood before it happened because of the rain lately. It's local knowledge and locals that are better at forecasting floods than government bodies.

In Waterford and the usual spots got hit. The Johns river that runs along the side of the Tramore road is also a march and prone to flooding. The council did a lot of work on it to help the worst but we have the flooding up further. Would having proper storm drains sort this out so close to a tidal river? It probably would help but may also cause other problems upstream.

How do you solve weather?

With chem-trails.

The dogs on the street knew something like this would happen!! I said to the OH when the warning came out, that I thought it was strange Dublin was excluded from the rain warning, given more rain on the mountains wont only flow into Wicklow. I'm actually surprised Tallaght wasn't worse, I remember a couple of years ago the Tallaght bypass was closed due to flooding after torrential rain and RTE radio saying this morning we have had 22 days of rain in January and yet MET Eireann didn't think of taking that into account.

Was fairly tame affair in Waterford city and south Kilkenny aside from the usual spot flooding in expected areas.close to rivers and streams.

Yet 30km away into Wexford it was treacherous conditions.

Even over the weekend on Saturday I drove through Clonroche and the roads were badly flooded so Wexford really was set up for disaster already.

Over 50M was allocated back in 2014 for flood defences. No further forward with that as you mentioned.

The flooding on the second video is horrendous, I'm pretty sure one those houses, where the man is standing on a garage roof, was one we bid on before we bought our current house 14 years ago.

Isn’t it the rivers agency or something in the UK?

George Lee for once in his life made a very valid point on six one last night,we have 180 river level recording units installed and we are doing SFA with the information

Why no flood warning system?

180 like?

Typical Ireland

Wonder how many years it’ll take to get it up and running.

Rain warnings based on expected rainfall levels - Met Éireann

Head of Climate Services with Met Éireann Keith Lambkin has said the warnings yesterday were based on expected rainfall levels but the rain that Storm Chandra dumped onto the country was concentrated on the east and south east. 

Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said that because of knock-on consequences to the jet stream from very cold conditions in the United States at the moment, "that caused those fronts and those systems that the west coast would normally get, they were all coming up and exposing the southeast". 

"So, the south east was getting all of that rainfall that the west would normally get, and that really led to complicated problems," he said. 

He said "that system itself then, based on the amount of rain that was expected and the known fact that it was saturated levels, the local authorities and so forth would have been warned of the likes of localised flooding and many acted on the basis of that". 

Mr Lambkin said there are flood warnings being put in place and Met Éireann's rain warnings are separate from that. 

"What other jurisdictions have is a more complicated, better observation system that then feeds higher resolution models that then feeds into a warning system. 

"Ireland are currently in the process of putting that system in place, but only components of that are in there at the moment. 

"That's still in development," he added.

Here ya go now ME going to be called in over no warnings issued for heavy rain

https://www.independent.ie/weather/housing-minister-james-browne-accuses-met-eireann-of-withholding-vital-weather-warnings-and-vows-to-haul-in-forecaster/a939440592.html

Jesus :(