What's the weather like in your area 2

Feck all rain here in east wicklow,just 2mm total since midnight
None yesterday or Saturday
Just drizzle at the moment
Very cold gusty wind off that sea though

whelan2 wrote: »

Do you need rain. Raining here all morning. A day for paperwork I think.

Raining moderately now
Totals doubled in last half hour
Very cold though only 6c and a gusty wind
Yeah this rain is useful as long as it's not any heavier
Should rain all day now here near the coast in Wicklow which is setting things up nicely for next week's warmth
Though it won't get too warm here as usual with a breeze off the sea but the ground should, so I'll use that hashtag #grasstomilk

The wind left here in the last 2 hours, very cold and windy before milking and a gentle breeze out now. A nice sup of rain fell, not a huge amount but it'll keep us going for a while anyway.

The SE wind of the last few days has finally died down, didn't get much of the rain promised, SW or W wind we'd have got more rain.
Stock goin out this week, 3 weeks earlier than last year. Good growth weather forecast for the next few days.

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

My uncle has a raing guage on his out farm, emptied it on Saturday morning. He didn't return to the farm till Monday midday. It holds 125mm, and it was overflowing.

Standard rain guage holds about 8 inches when measured through the standard glass cylinder measuring tube so I'd say that guage needs a clean
Theres a little tiny hole that sometimes can get a twig in it or some sticky from leaves or grass
Max rainfall down south at a push would have been 110 or 120 mm up to Tuesday morning including Saturday
Whilst 120mm is an awful lot,To have your guage overflowing in 24hrs,youd need to be in Bangladesh

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

Not a standard rain guage. He got it in America about 25 years ago and measures just 5 inches of rain.
And several guys of with rain guagrs reported in excess of 125mm for these few days. How can you state that it couldn't have exceeded "110 or 120"...... when you weren't here.

Radar images showed the heaviest and most persistent of the rain (and models) along the south coast
Cork airport,pretty much in the centre of all of it on a hill recorded 92.8 mm in 4 days
The macroom GAA pitch often floods
There was a match played there tuesday night,its beside a river ,the flood receded quickly
I'm sorry I missed the bit where you said that gauge only held 125mm when I posted
In west cork you could well have got an inch in total more than at the airport(over the 3 days) but you'd also have run off from a lot of high ground around you making things worse
Rain gauges do need their pinhole cleaned regularly as rain especially with wind comes with a lot of debris that can block it
It was an awful lot of rain in 3 days alright is what I'm thinking,just not agreeing the totals were higher than 120mm
We'll see when the official rain recorders at various sites in cork report to met Eireann at the end of the month
Doesn't matter anyway, it doesn't change the impact on farm,which would be awful messy
This week will turn it around hopefully

Raining here since about 9am
Mostly light
10c

Just started here now, very light though. We could use 10-12mm soon:(

A wet morning in east Wicklow is becoming a wet afternoon