Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Fair play to yas, I'd definitely be doing the same thing. If the council won't then you gotta protect yourself.

I (vaguely) remember that highest flood on record on the graph, ex-hurricane Charlie in 1986, was more of a flooding event than a wind event. I lived just outside Rathfarnham and one of my earliest childhood memories was my father bringing us to look at the aftermath of the Dodder flooding. The pedestrian bridge into Bushy Park (just up from where you took those pics I think) was destroyed, it was made of iron but the flooding turned into a mangled twisted mess, it was replaced like for like so you can just imagine how high the flooding was. The river wall over the road bridge (behind your pics I think) was completely blown out. You can see it at about 25 seconds in in this archive from RTE.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2021/0817/470307-one-of-the-worst-hurricanes-in-living-memory/

80km/h gusts and lashing rain pretty much all day in my SE location.

FFS.

88mm,If we got that around these parts we would consider it a drought.....

Weird radar showing little rain over Sligo but its lashing all evening. Also wind coming this direction rarely brings rain to the front of our house hence its leaking water. Hope at least wind direction changes if its to rain for months on end. The other side of our house has more ability for floods. NW n all that.

Same, I have a large east facing window and in the 4 years its been up I've never noticed any issues with it but since last weekend water has been getting behind some of the flashing and coming in over the frame. I'll have to seal it when the weather improves.

Pfft, you NW'eners just aren't used to proper "wet" rain from the SE. It falls both ways and sidewise. You'd probably melt if you went outside by the sounds of it. 😉

At 191mm now for my location in south tipp. Think we could avoid the worst of the rain for tomorrow so not sure if we will break the 200mm for January.

Also it hasn't just been the quantity of rain that's been falling but just how endlessly persistent it is, very few afternoons and evenings where it hasn't been raining in one form or another, a lot of the time it's been that misty stuff blowing horizontally in a raw easterly wind so every bit as unpleasant as heavy rain

saw a post on NW saying it’s snowing in Sheffield, Malin coldest in the country at 4c …. Just sayin’

For once we really got off lightly in the last week here in Kerry. It has been wet on and off but very normal stuff and plenty of bright spells, sunshine, blue skies in between,lots of opportunities for get outdoors. I feel so lucky when I see the darkness and relentless rain on the East coast! That kind of weather is really depressing and I don't blame anyone for forgetting a few weeks in December when we got proper Winter weather. It seems so long ago already. Roll on Spring (Cromane yesterday late afternoon)

At the other end of Tipp my 62mm mentioned last Sunday has nearly doubled to 117mm

Soaked in a shower on bike just now. Soaked coming home from spanish classes last night. Looks like I'll be getting f**king soaked this evening too going out for dinner. At this stage I'm just a constantly damp swamp monster.

Looking wet in the SE, hopefully doesn't amount to much in the places that flooded a few days ago

Even the UK met office were not quite sure how far north the low pressure system would travel. Looking at our own radar, it seems to be travelling a little bit further North, with that heavy pulse of rain in south Wales at the moment Looking like it will wrap around into wicklow and Dublin by evening.