Heavy Rain - Munster & Leinster - Thu 19 October

aidanodr · 19-10-2017 4:13pm

I was out about near Five Mile Bridge / road to Kinsale / west behind Airport about an hour ago. Trying to go to Carrigaline. All the roads to Carrigaline eg Forrest road were so badly flooded all cars had to turn back. I ended up going back through the city to go via the link and carrs hill to get to carrigaline. Lots of surface water. Havent seen it that bad in a long while.

Its still raining now but not as torrential. Hour ago, that was some amount of water ..

As an aside out around Five Mile Bridge / road to Belgooly, Kinsale, fair amount of ESB Crews and lines down

km79 · 19-10-2017 4:17pm

Escaped the worst so far in East Galway
Nice drop but nothing major

pauldry · 19-10-2017 4:24pm

Parts of Cork have now exceeded 50mm of rain and there seems to be a final jet forming on the radar that could add another 10mm

Larbre34 · 19-10-2017 4:56pm

7.8mm at Roche's Point in the last hour alone.

pad199207 · 19-10-2017 5:00pm

pauldry wrote: »

Parts of Cork have now exceeded 50mm of rain and there seems to be a final jet forming on the radar that could add another 10mm

The weather gods must have something in for Cork lately

JCX BXC · 19-10-2017 5:35pm

Rain has stopped here in West Clare, 25.0mm total from event, max rate of 7.0mm/h at 15:19. Lots of surface water but no real flooding.

CrowdedHouse · 19-10-2017 5:36pm

25.4mm near Roscrea and still raining

Colser · 19-10-2017 5:52pm

Lots of roads closed due to flooding here in Cork...some photos on the corksafetyalerts page on facebook.

jimmycrackcorm · 19-10-2017 5:58pm

MJohnston wrote:

Also, there will be heavy rain over the Dublin mountains, and I guess that would be enough to trigger a warning for the whole â€œcountyâ€

I've been watching the rainfall radar today and it's almost as if there is largely an umbrella hole over the city for most of the day. Very odd.

gozunda · 19-10-2017 5:59pm

22 mm accumulation in the last 6 hours.

Heavy rainfall and flooding now widespread on local roads.

Large field pond is full and has overflowed - never seen it at that level before. Drains and shores now backing up as nowhere for water to flow.

Have just moved some livestock to higher ground.

Hope there is not too much more rainfall tbh as there will be widespread serious flooding in this area

East Limerick / Cork Border

RobertKK · 19-10-2017 6:01pm

23mm so far here north east of Kilkenny City.

nomdeboardie · 19-10-2017 6:12pm

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I've been watching the rainfall radar today and it's almost as if there is largely an umbrella hole over the city for most of the day. Very odd.

Wet enough with dense fine rain in the SE of the county, but it does indeed look drier elsewhere. I've often thought I've seen a similar pattern on the radar before - wonder if it's at least partly a rain-shadow effect from the Dublin+Wicklow hills when the wind has a southerly component?

pad199207 · 19-10-2017 6:33pm

Been in the shadow of the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains all day. Only 1mm recorded

pilly · 19-10-2017 6:48pm

Loads of roads closed in South Tipp

Stormington · 19-10-2017 6:48pm

pad199207 wrote: »

The weather gods must have something in for Cork lately

They tried to stop Cork City winning the league with a hurricane.
That didn't work.
Now they're working petty vengeance with rain.
The joke is on them: my socks are all dry.

Meteorite58 · 19-10-2017 6:51pm

22.8mm here near Tralee. Raining most of the day until it brightened up around 16.00,. Much windier now with a few passing showers.

pad199207 · 19-10-2017 6:56pm

Rain has now reached here and it’s bucketing down in Kildare

Danno · 19-10-2017 7:18pm

Danno wrote: »

Just 3.1mm (AWS gauge - which can sometimes over-record a little) in South Laois as of 11am - it's been raining since around 7am.

Unless we see a few downpours gather and move in over us, we'll probably escape with around 10mm -> 15mm

Well, they surely have - unusual rainfall here in south Laois, heavy drizzle and normal rain together giving quite a drenching. This reminds me of the type of rain they get in southern England at times.

AWS now reporting 30.5mm

RobertKK · 19-10-2017 7:48pm

29mm so far here in north east Kilkenny

Mobhi1 · 19-10-2017 7:49pm

Have 4.0mm now, most of that in the last hour when it was heavy at times. It's 12.7C now so not a great change in temperature over the day; the high was 14.3C, the low was 11.9C.

Four Phucs Ache · 19-10-2017 8:04pm

Strong persistent rain in laois now the last hour,heavy flooding on local roads and hazardous driving conditions.Ive just wrecked my new shoes from penny's.

fonecrusher1 · 19-10-2017 8:25pm

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

Ive just wrecked my new shoes from penny's.

The suffering continues....

Drove through Cork city earlier, river very high and patches of flooding in locality. Centerpark Rd flooded. Ok for a jeep for now but wouldn't risk it with regular car.

pad199207 · 19-10-2017 8:28pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

The suffering continues....

Drove through Cork city earlier, river very high and patches of flooding in locality. Centerpark Rd flooded. Ok for a jeep for now but wouldn't risk it with regular car.

Is that the road where the trees came down one by one?

munsterlegend · 19-10-2017 8:40pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Is that the road where the trees came down one by one?

Yeah that's the road. It's near Pairc Ui Caoimh.

fonecrusher1 · 19-10-2017 8:44pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Is that the road where the trees came down one by one?

Yup that's the one. Not sure if they cleared them yet though.

Trebor176 · 19-10-2017 8:51pm

A pretty non-descript event in Dublin. A bit of rain this evening, and not even that heavy.

Burts Bee · 19-10-2017 8:57pm

Friend of mine texted there from Mitchelstown. Said it's crazy out there with debris flying and wind nearly as bad as Monday. She's not one given to drama...doesn't seem to be in forecast tho...

Oscar Bravo · 19-10-2017 8:59pm

Windy enough in the south alright. 8pm reports. Cork Airport gusting 40 knots and Roaches point 43 knots

Burts Bee · 19-10-2017 9:03pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Windy enough in the south alright. 8pm reports. Cork Airport gusting 40 knots and Roaches point 43 knots

Probably lots of loose stuff from Monday too flying around.

mickmackey1 · 19-10-2017 9:15pm

Trebor176 wrote: »

A pretty non-descript event in Dublin. A bit of rain this evening, and not even that heavy.

Dublin gets a notable event once every 100 years. Come down to Munster if ye want some proper weather :pac:

gozunda · 19-10-2017 9:22pm

Burts Bee wrote: »

Friend of mine texted there from Mitchelstown. Said it's crazy out there with debris flying and wind nearly as bad as Monday. She's not one given to drama...doesn't seem to be in forecast tho...

I'm the other side of Mitchelstown towards east Limerick and yes the wind is gusting atm. Rainfall has been very heavy all day. Not looking forward to tmrw / Saturday and storm Brian

An Ri rua · 19-10-2017 9:22pm

Burts Bee wrote:

Friend of mine texted there from Mitchelstown. Said it's crazy out there with debris flying and wind nearly as bad as Monday. She's not one given to drama...doesn't seem to be in forecast tho...

Windy /inclement enough to knock out the electricity in Mountmellick again.
Thankfully belly full and house warm. A lot of rain falling all day here.

EDIT Caused by a local man crashing into a pole. Thankfully in hospital but ok now.

snowflaker · 19-10-2017 9:25pm

Rain bucketing down in Tullamore

Rock Lesnar · 19-10-2017 9:46pm

Wet evening in meath, the field beside house is flooded, now its in on the driveway heading for the house, p*ss off rain

pad199207 · 19-10-2017 9:48pm

Brief burst of heavy rain herein Kildare, total 6mm now, getting much windier

Soccarboy11 · 19-10-2017 9:48pm

Really strong gusts in Cork (WIlton area). Rain seems to have died off, just a slight mist every now and then but I am guessing it will be back again soon with Brian. The gusts seem strong enough to knock out power again, my lights flickered with the last few!

Gavlor · 19-10-2017 10:33pm

Very strong w/sw gusts alongside the waterofrdncoast over the past couple of hours. Wasn't expecting it to be so rough. Trees are being blown in the opposite direction as Ophelia.

Tomorrow night should be interesting!

Mobhi1 · 19-10-2017 10:59pm

The rain total here for the day was only 5.2mm and the wind was very light.

Timistry · 19-10-2017 11:10pm

Some day of rain. It poured all day here in Clonmel. Big flood in the Suir tonight and the road are flooded

Mobhi1 · 20-10-2017 8:11am

Mobhi1 wrote: »

The rain total here for the day was only 5.2mm and the wind was very light.

The wind picked up around midnight for a few hours. Light again now.

leahyl · 20-10-2017 3:35pm

Lads the rain is really bad in Cork - floods everywhere, got out of work early

pilly · 20-10-2017 3:45pm

leahyl wrote: »

Lads the rain is really bad in Cork - floods everywhere, got out of work early

In the city or county?

spookwoman · 20-10-2017 3:48pm

pilly wrote: »

In the city or county?

https://twitter.com/aaroadwatch/status/921387510055559168

leahyl · 20-10-2017 3:59pm

The city, but pretty sure the county is bad too. Drove from UCC through Ballyphehane and onto the link road and along the Lower Road - a LOT of surface flooding. Conditions are atrocious.

spookwoman · 20-10-2017 4:01pm

leahyl wrote: »

The city, but pretty sure the county is bad too. Drove from UCC through Ballyphehane and onto the link road and along the Lower Road - a LOT of surface flooding. Conditions are atrocious.

Loads of reports coming in from cork kerry etc https://twitter.com/aaroadwatch

sryanbruen · 20-10-2017 5:09pm

High daily rainfalls from 19 October 2017

Gurteen - 45.8mm
Cork Airport - 44.1mm
Moore Park - 41.4mm
Roches Point - 41.2mm
Sherkin Island - 41.1mm
Valentia Observatory - 31.4mm
Finner Camp - 26.0mm
Mullingar - 25.2mm
Mt Dillon - 24.8mm
Oak Park - 22.0mm
Markree - 20.2mm
Shannon Airport - 19.4mm
Belmullet - 18.6mm
Mace Head - 18.2mm
Ballyhaise - 17.9mm
Athenry - 15.9mm
Knock Airport - 14.1mm
Newport - 13.6mm
Malin Head - 13.5mm
Claremorris - 12.7mm

http://www.met.ie/latest/yesterday.asp

Danno · 20-10-2017 8:25pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

High daily rainfalls from 19 October 2017

Gurteen - 45.8mm
Cork Airport - 44.1mm
Moore Park - 41.4mm
Roches Point - 41.2mm
Sherkin Island - 41.1mm
Valentia Observatory - 31.4mm
Finner Camp - 26.0mm
Mullingar - 25.2mm
Mt Dillon - 24.8mm
Oak Park - 22.0mm
Markree - 20.2mm
Shannon Airport - 19.4mm
Belmullet - 18.6mm
Mace Head - 18.2mm
Ballyhaise - 17.9mm
Athenry - 15.9mm
Knock Airport - 14.1mm
Newport - 13.6mm
Malin Head - 13.5mm
Claremorris - 12.7mm

http://www.met.ie/latest/yesterday.asp

The above are 00z-24z totals... We got 38.4mm in South Laois, but it isn't comparable to the above because we record it 09z to 09z so anything after midnight last night is not added to the above table whereas the total for here does. On the flip side, 00z to 09z is included in the table above whereas the total for here excludes it. But I think there was more rain after midnight last night than on midnight Wednesday night into Thursday morning (2.5mm approx for here) IIRC we only got 0.3mm approx after midnight last night into this morning.

An Ri rua · 23-11-2017 6:51pm

An Ri rua wrote: »

Windy /inclement enough to knock out the electricity in Mountmellick again.
Thankfully belly full and house warm. A lot of rain falling all day here.

EDIT Caused by a local man crashing into a pole. Thankfully in hospital but ok now.

EDIT: -To correct the record. Lineman electrocuted while helping restore power. Would be very unfair to leave that mistruth of mine there.

Heavy Rain - Munster & Leinster - Thu 19 October

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