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Summer 2019 - General Discussion

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  • #122
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Easily the worst morning I can remember for a good while


  • #123
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users Posts: 13,504 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    sryanbruen wrote: »
    Short term memory? Been rubbish but I wouldn't call it 2012 or 2015 levels.

    I would call this morning a typical morning in early June 2012. Absolute crap!

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  • #124
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,699 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    sryanbruen wrote: »
    I would call this morning a typical morning in early June 2012. Absolute crap!

    June 2012....my wettest month on record! What a month. 242.4mm.


  • #125
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    June 2012....my wettest month on record! What a month. 242.4mm.

    That's not going to happen again is it?

    Please tell me that there is some change predicted!


  • #126
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users Posts: 13,504 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    lawred2 wrote: »
    That's not going to happen again is it?

    Please tell me that there is some change predicted!

    Some similarities with June 2012 but I wouldn’t say it’ll be as bad as that was. Second week of June 2013 is another time that I found comparable to now.

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  • #127
    km79
    Registered Users Posts: 48,132 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Dismal
    And what’s worse is the rain looks like it’s going to pivot much further west than originally forecast and remain over us all day FFS


  • #128
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭screamer


    Miserable as it is, I’m glad to see some rain. The council has already been advising us to conserve water usage, as water tables haven’t recovered significantly since last summer. A wet June and warm July and August- I’ll take that, thanks


  • #129
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,789 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Torrential rain here in Dublin + currently 10 degrees with a high of 12 degrees expected. You can't beat an Irish summer!


  • #130
    francie81
    Registered Users Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭francie81


    Thank god I have one more week of this :)


  • #131
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    DRY out here! we had this y;day. Your turn now!

    It is only rain!


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  • #132
    km79
    Registered Users Posts: 48,132 ✭✭✭✭km79


    km79 wrote: »
    Dismal
    And what’s worse is the rain looks like it’s going to pivot much further west than originally forecast and remain over us all day FFS

    The met eireann rainfall forecast sequence seems to be based on the old forecast
    Showing as dry here all day and now
    It’s pissing


  • #133
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    screamer wrote: »
    Miserable as it is, I’m glad to see some rain. The council has already been advising us to conserve water usage, as water tables haven’t recovered significantly since last summer. A wet June and warm July and August- I’ll take that, thanks

    Agree totally. The difference to my garden is amazing after the rain. Well worth it


  • #134
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Agree totally. The difference to my garden is amazing after the rain. Well worth it

    Exactly, water table in the midwest was diminishing to a critical point until last week. An interval of steady rainfall is welcome to offset the balance, and allow for a prolonged dry spell later on.


  • #135
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,707 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    absolutely horrendous morning here, heating and lights on. Lots of surface water.

    Was watching gavs weather yesterday and he is already talking about the possibility that this June could be similar to June 2012 in terms of northern blocking and hinting that this cool+unsettled spell could last for weeks. The one thing that's locked in right now is the next 7 to 10 days look terrible, after that we just have to hope that the models and weather improve in time for July and August.


  • #136
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Holding dry here in Castlebar .... for the moment


  • #137
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Exactly, water table in the midwest was diminishing to a critical point until last week. An interval of steady rainfall is welcome to offset the balance, and allow for a prolonged dry spell later on.

    And what if it's just the start of a three month prolonged wet spell?

    If we were sure of a warm and dry July and August sure I doubt anyone would care too much about the recent weather..


  • #138
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Gonzo wrote: »
    absolutely horrendous morning here, heating and lights on. Lots of surface water.

    Was watching gavs weather yesterday and he is already talking about the possibility that this June could be similar to June 2012 in terms of northern blocking and hinting that this cool+unsettled spell could last for weeks    . The one thing that's locked in right now is the next 7 to 10 days look terrible, after that we just have to hope that the models and weather improve in time for July and August.

    vomit


  • #139
    km79
    Registered Users Posts: 48,132 ✭✭✭✭km79


    The rainfall warning issued only a few hours ago and the morning forecast already look wrong
    Clearing to showers with clear spells in connacht and Munster by afternoon ???????
    I don’t think so


  • #140
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    lawred2 wrote: »
    And what if it's just the start of a three month prolonged wet spell?

    If we were sure of a warm and dry July and August sure I doubt anyone would care too much about the recent weather..

    A bad case of the "what ifs"...

    if that happens we will cope and as bravely, competently and cheerfully as we always do.

    The weather does as the weather does.. we adapt .


  • #141
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    lawred2 wrote: »
    vomit

    :eek:


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  • #142
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Need I say anymore....


  • #143
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    km79 wrote: »
    The rainfall warning issued only a few hours ago and the morning forecast already look wrong
    Clearing to showers with clear spells in connacht and Munster by afternoon ???????
    I don’t think so

    so far not a drop or drip of rain out here.. west mayo offshore


    reading this?

    https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/status-yellow-rainfall-warning-in-place-for-11-counties-928576.html

    Less than we had the last days. :


  • #144
    km79
    Registered Users Posts: 48,132 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Forecast vs reality


  • #145
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    wind getting restless now. still dry.. west mayo


  • #146
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Graces7 wrote: »
    A bad case of the "what ifs"...

    if that happens we will cope and as bravely, competently and cheerfully as we always do.

    The weather does as the weather does.. we adapt .

    oh I know that - but saying you're ok with today's weather because of the water table in advance of dry weather is by Irish standards very presumptuous..


  • #147
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,876 ✭✭✭pauldry


    After Mays 80mm in Markree v 49mm in Sligo

    June is again ahead at Markree 9mm v 6mm Sligo


  • #148
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    rain finally stopped in Cork City for now, wind has picked up though and its fairly chilly out there


  • #149
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    lawred2 wrote: »
    oh I know that - but saying you're ok with today's weather because of the water table in advance of dry weather is by Irish standards very presumptuous..

    :confused: No idea what you just said...

    All we are saying ( and I am not alone in this) is that we need rain desperately. Hence OK with whatever comes. OK anyways :)


  • #150
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users Posts: 13,504 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    Graces7 wrote: »
    :confused: No idea what you just said...

    All we are saying ( and I am not alone in this) is that we need rain desperately. Hence OK with whatever comes. OK anyways :)

    He said that he interpreted the post as saying we're expecting a prolonged dry spell after this wet weather (so completely ok with the fact it's raining now in case of drought concerns if we were to have the dry spell) which one should not assume in Ireland.

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  • #151
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Graces7 wrote: »
    :confused: No idea what you just said...

    All we are saying ( and I am not alone in this) is that we need rain desperately. Hence OK with whatever comes. OK anyways :)

    Might have been a clunkily constructed sentence but not that hard to understand..

    If hot dry weather was on the horizon then I could understand statements of concern about refilling water reserves or the water table... but as it is there is as much chance of a wet summer as there is warm dry weather.

    So I don't really see the truly desperate national need for rain.


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