Moderate flood risk in next 48hrs

darkman2 · 01-10-2011 1:02am #1

Just to say there is a flood risk in the next 48 hours particularly the East and North as a couple of weather fronts straddle the country producing a couple of small wave features which will pep up rainfall at times making it heavier and persistent. Worth keeping an eye on.

Redsunset · 01-10-2011 1:08am

Be late don't ya think,i nearly need a boat to get out of the house so much rain fell today.Roads completely flooded,as in covered like a river.:)
Read Current Weather Conditions thread for an insight to what was happening today

nacho libre · 01-10-2011 1:10am

Yeah there was some very heavy and slow moving rain today- the clearance was taking an age to reach here.

darkman2 · 01-10-2011 1:14am

Sorry about that redsunset!

There is a possible thunderstorm heading for the Dublin area now with torrential echoes on radar over Co Wicklow. Could turn a little nasty there in the next hour.

Redsunset · 01-10-2011 1:18am

No worries,mind you i looked at rainfall prediction last night and showed the band stalling so guessed this could dump fair bit of water.It looks to pivot over the country too

Danno · 01-10-2011 1:27am

Around a half inch of rain in South Laois today. The dryness of the ground for so long up to this results in more run off and less soakage causing the localised flooding. Tomorrows rain will drain off better as the soils will have softened up.

Redsunset · 01-10-2011 1:31am

Im close to Oak Park station and today the 1400 said 7.4mm and 1500 said 4.2mm,thats 11.6 in 2 hours and it was raining pretty much all day here in a narrow band that just would not go east.

hellboy99 · 01-10-2011 1:36am

There was 60mm (2.36") of rain here in the last 12 hours in Dundalk.

Danno · 01-10-2011 1:39am

http://ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&state=Irel&osum=no&fmt=html&ord=REV&ano=2011&mes=10&day=01&hora=00&ndays=1&Send=send

A total of 46mm in Oak Park, that was one wet day there lad!

Redsunset · 01-10-2011 1:53am

Great image of the blocking high airmass not allowing rain to move east.
Lovely conveyor belt over us.

Trogdor · 01-10-2011 2:02am

darkman2 wrote: »

Sorry about that redsunset!

There is a possible thunderstorm heading for the Dublin area now with torrential echoes on radar over Co Wicklow. Could turn a little nasty there in the next hour.

Had some extremely heavy rain here alright, the station hasn't registered any of today's (or yesterday's) rain unfortunately though..think the rain bucket must be blocked up again, only just cleaned it last week!

pistolpetes11 · 01-10-2011 2:34am

Was playing Golf in Athy today , and it rained torrentially for 3 and half hour of the 4 we were playing .

Am supposed to be playing tomorrow in Lutterllstown Castle tomorrow (Castleknock I think) , was looking at the Yr.no forecast and it did not look too bad , fairly light rain by the looks of it .

http://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Leinster/Luttrellstown/hour_by_hour.html

Do you think there might be a surprise in store for me ?

Redsunset · 01-10-2011 2:46am

That looks like periods of fairly heavy rainto me,bring the mac

mickger844posts · 01-10-2011 3:59am

Friday was the second wettest day of the year with 26.0mm recorded at my station. Wettest 26.4mm June 17th

www.waterfordcityweather.com

thetonynator · 01-10-2011 7:17am

51mm here yesterday, about half of which fell in an hour and a half or so from half four yesterday evening.

Min · 01-10-2011 8:15am

40.6mm fell yesterday here.
0.6mm so far today.

jdee99 · 01-10-2011 9:58am

thought we had enough here yesterday at 17.4mm

mike65 · 01-10-2011 10:12am

Think of this as a long shower to clean down the country after all the hot dusty air of the last week

Birdnuts · 01-10-2011 10:28am

mike65 wrote: »

Think of this as a long shower to clean down the country after all the hot dusty air of the last week

Think i'd rather break some October heat records like the UK will be doing today:rolleyes::(

BEASTERLY · 01-10-2011 10:36am

We actually didnt get much rain yesterday but got a hell of alot last night and this morning.

32mm in the last 24 hours, 25 of which has been since midnight.

Edit: The 24 hour total now stands at 36.2mm and im expecting that to rise!

Danno · 01-10-2011 10:57am

Min wrote: »

40.6mm fell yesterday here.
0.6mm so far today.

Only 15.3mm here in comparison, how many miles away from me are you?

jimmynippy · 01-10-2011 11:03am

U gotta laugh at the chart above,even with High Pressure all around us,we have the good luck to get the only bit of rainfall in Europe stuck over us.:D

John.Icy · 01-10-2011 11:08am

No figures, but drains backed up with the torrential rain at times...covered the driveway in 4 inches of water at the deepest parts.

DominoDub · 01-10-2011 11:12am

A nice chart from IWO.

Min · 01-10-2011 11:16am

Danno wrote: »

Only 15.3mm here in comparison, how many miles away from me are you?

Will Google Earth it and see now how far as the crow flies or maybe more precise as the cloud floats...

From Durrow , I live a little under 12 miles
From Carlow and Oak Park it is about 13 miles

It rained near non stop here from about 11am to 7pm, and yesterday morning Met Eireann at 7:55am said upto 25mm in the south west, so I think a lot of people were surprised.

Elmer Blooker · 01-10-2011 11:48am

40 mm and still coming down with a few more hours to come.
Definitely the wettest day since last Feb. I would have done anything for a deluge like this during the growing season but unfortunately its too late now - a bit like a snowfall at the end of March :mad:

Not · 01-10-2011 12:33pm

I'm after looking at the met rainfall radar, christ there is some difference between what it shows and the deluge south Dublin has experienced over the last couple of hours. I don't think I've seen so much surface flooding since the eighties.