Autumn 2019 - General Discussion

Didnt light the woodstove last night as I was out and the home heating kicked in for the first time since last spring and back on again this moring.

Rotten morning in Dublin

14th straight day with measurable rain, I think that may be a record here.

Gonzo wrote: »

another wet and miserable day here at Dunshaughlin, it's been raining close to 24 hours now.

now the September monthly rainfall totals for Dunsany are in..... I was expecting it to beat March 2019 making September the second wettest month of the year. We certainly beat March, we have also beaten August, making September 2019 the wettest month of 2019 so far.

September 2019 - 125mm
August 2019 - 123.9mm
March 2019 - 109.4mm

Over 100mm of rain has fallen here over the past week, making this week propably the wettest week in several years perhaps.

Dunsany's wettest 7-day period in late September was 22nd-28th with 59.2mm making it the wettest only since 6-12 August which had 71.1mm with 31.0mm of this falling on the 9th and 20.1mm on the 10th.

From 21st-30th September (a 10-day period), Dunsany recorded 92.2mm which was the wettest 10-day period since 27 Feb-8 Mar 2018 which recorded 108.0mm although most of this was snow (53.2mm on 2nd March from Storm Emma) so not really comparable. 3-12 Dec 2015 was close with 91.4mm. Not counting the snow in 2018, the 10-day period mentioned in September 2019 was the wettest at Dunsany since 5-14 Nov 2014 which had 97.3mm.

Data from Met Éireann.

Beautiful calm and silence, broken only by the birdsong and farm machinery busy at work on the final stages of harvest before winter sets in and land no longer provides. The landscape is still such a vivid green with just the occasional fleck of autumnal hues of yellow, red and brown.

As I pass the half way point of my 5km ramble around the local loop, there is an air of melancholy as the grey skies grow ever darker. Soon, the patchwork of various shades of grey will unite to become a continuous and monotonous grey blanket as the rain, which was upheaved from the vast Atlantic Ocean completes its journey to reach Terra Firma, at which point I will retire to the snugness and cosiness of my abode and listen to the pitter patter on the windows.

North Kildare

rusticalo wrote: »

Deep inside, both of us can feel the autumn chill
Birds of passage, you and me, we fly instinctively. When the summer's over and the dark clouds hide the sun, neither you nor I'm to blame when all is said and done.

Westmeath interior.

Abba fan?

MidMan25 wrote: »

I don’t understand how there wasn’t a yellow rainfall warning for Cork. Roads are lethal with surface water, it has been pouring out of the heavens for the 4 hours.

It's the same here in North County Dublin. I was driving on old N1 this evening + lanes were flooded. I slowed down but idiot in lane beside me speed up + covered my windscreen in huge amount of water. I couldn't see for 2 or 3 secs. So dangerous + no warnings. They hype up a non event + then not a word when actual dangerous rainfal. Disgraceful!!

appledrop wrote: »

It's the same here in North County Dublin. I was driving on old N1 this evening + lanes were flooded. I slowed down but idiot in lane beside me speed up + covered my windscreen in huge amount of water. I couldn't see for 2 or 3 secs. So dangerous + no warnings. They hype up a non event + then not a word when actual dangerous rainfal. Disgraceful!!

And if there was a yellow warning it would have been for the whole of the county
And people in parts of county not as badly affected would be in whining about a yellow warning making them unsure whether to go to work .............

Gonzo wrote: »

I haven't seen it this bad in years. It's not just from today's rain, but all the downpours over the past 2 weeks, the land is saturated beyond cope. We've had close to a quarter of a year's worth of rain since September 20th, and off the back of a very wet August too. That's no joke.

Glad to have escaped it for a couple of days
Checks forecast
Normal service resumes from tomorrow night on