Autumn 2020 - General Discussion

DOCARCH · 04-10-2020 2:09pm

12.2mm so far today in Dublin 16. Looks like rain might clear east coast/Dublin in the next hour or two.

Graces7 · 04-10-2020 2:14pm

We have now been upgraded to "strong gale"... love watching the rain radar met.ie screen. Not cold thankfully.

west mayo offshore

Kutebride · 04-10-2020 2:25pm

Rain and rain since we woke this morning.
Boyne will have a nice swell in it after this.
Meath.

Kutebride · 04-10-2020 2:25pm

Rain and rain since we woke this morning.
Boyne will have a nice swell in it after this.
Meath.

Donegal Storm · 04-10-2020 2:35pm

Rotten day in Letterkenny as well, pouring down and lights on all day. No wind of note but lots of leaves and twigs on the road so must have been fairly windy overnight

Donegal Storm · 04-10-2020 2:35pm

Rotten day in Letterkenny as well, pouring down and lights on all day. No wind of note but lots of leaves and twigs on the road so must have been fairly windy overnight

mcburns07 · 04-10-2020 2:38pm

Very breezy all day in East Cork, the rain is held off so far. Not a bad day really!

daniel_t1409 · 04-10-2020 3:10pm

Not too much rain so far but very windy and cold. Heaters were on full blast this morning. wex

Graces7 · 04-10-2020 3:21pm

Photo of the day here!

daniel_t1409 · 04-10-2020 3:23pm

Not too much rain so far but very windy and cold. Heaters were on full blast this morning. wexford.

Oscar Bravo · 04-10-2020 3:29pm

Cork airport gusting 50 knots @ 3pm

Rock Lesnar · 04-10-2020 3:58pm

Can see the clearance now towards the north east here in Meath, only 13mm of rain so far, expected more

Gonzo · 04-10-2020 4:10pm

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Can see the clearance now towards the north east here in Meath, only 13mm of rain so far, expected more

the clearance is pushing through a bit earlier than expected, it's been a wet day but not as wet as last Wednesday and far less rain than the UK has experienced over the past 3 days. Once we get this wet spell over and done with the middle to second half of October is starting to look considerably dryer and temperatures will begin to recover. However it may cool down again in the final week of October.

pad199207 · 04-10-2020 4:18pm

Soggy here now in Kildare with 18mm in the gauge

daniel_t1409 · 04-10-2020 5:03pm

Started raining. Wind has also gone down a good bit.

NIMAN · 04-10-2020 5:21pm

Did Met Eireann miss this one?
I know Donegal had a yellow warning but for me it should easily have been orange.

Did they issue yellow for all the other parts I am reading about in this thread?

On a lighter note! Not long after I posted the message to say how rough and wet it was overnight, I was settling down for my sleep at 7am when I heard an almighty bang. Thought maybe a tree had come down and hit side of house.

Went out to see the trampoline up against the back window of the house!

30 min later we had it dismantled and in the garage but we were soaked through. That trampoline had approx 6 big massive boulders on the legs and withstood several previous storms without moving. Last night managed to shift it though and once free of the boulders it was dangerous.

All good fun. Not.

04-10-2020 5:42pm

Rain shield in place around Cork all day. Very little if any rain last night, and apart from a few spots here and there, it's held dry all day. Quite windy but not bad overall.

pad199207 · 04-10-2020 6:19pm

Rain has eased in Kildare and gone completely calm too.

Oscar Bravo · 04-10-2020 8:19pm

Nothing to note here in Castlebar other than a breezy and wet afternoon.

Graces7 · 04-10-2020 8:32pm

NIMAN wrote: »

Did Met Eireann miss this one?
I know Donegal had a yellow warning but for me it should easily have been orange.

Did they issue yellow for all the other parts I am reading about in this thread?

On a lighter note! Not long after I posted the message to say how rough and wet it was overnight, I was settling down for my sleep at 7am when I heard an almighty bang. Thought maybe a tree had come down and hit side of house.

Went out to see the trampoline up against the back window of the house!

30 min later we had it dismantled and in the garage but we were soaked through. That trampoline had approx 6 big massive boulders on the legs and withstood several previous storms without moving. Last night managed to shift it though and once free of the boulders it was dangerous.

All good fun. Not.

lol.. I was seriously wondering earlier where the obligatory runaway trampoline would turn up this time! But certainly not fun and well done ..

I never have opinions re the colour of the warning. "Sky blue pink" , polka dotted...

Still raging out here. Wearisome noise. But it will stop. Always does.

Graces7 · 04-10-2020 8:40pm

daniel_t1409 wrote: »

Started raining. Wind has also gone down a good bit.

Ah yours is so much prettier than mine! Actually my photo did not capture the full glowing coal-egg glory! The heat that comes off so few of them is truly amazing. And was needed yesterday.

Graces7 · 05-10-2020 6:29am

The wind is now simply atmospheric. Still a presence and feels bitterly cold

west mayo offshore

pauldry · 05-10-2020 9:40am

25mm in Sligo town yesterday

Seems to be the highest

Was very windy too

Belmullet 5mm
Newport 4mm

strange

daniel_t1409 · 05-10-2020 6:31pm

A dull evening in wexford.

Hooter23 · 05-10-2020 7:53pm

The weather is now simply sh@# and will be for the next 6 months or more....

Oneiric 3 · 05-10-2020 10:20pm

Although dank and damp (like 90% of the summer to be honest) very little rain so far this month in Galway, and not much in the forecast either. Could end up being a very dry month here relative to average.

Graces7 · 05-10-2020 10:54pm

"Eleven of the clock and all quiet, " as the old time night watchman would say.

Deeply peaceful.

West mayo offshore

Graces7 · 06-10-2020 7:06am

One of my favourite sounds is the crashing of waves on the rocky shore nearby. Loud this morning, and wind song.

Beautiful to wake to.

west mayo offshore

Artane2002 · 06-10-2020 8:06am

miserable and wet in Dublin 5.

Graces7 · 06-10-2020 8:29am

And the gloom has moved in and stolen the world. Dark and dank.

It has robbed us of mountains and ocean, and the sky is falling in great chilling drops

Fire sounds good, VERY good.

daniel_t1409 · 06-10-2020 6:01pm

A decent day in wexford. Out one window I can see clear blue skies, and out the other I see full cloud, interesting.

06-10-2020 7:04pm

Sunny enough on the East coast today, a lovely walk on the beach this morning and cut the grass for the last time in the afternoon, washed the bird feeders, took leaves off the pond, cut back the last of the dying roses and flowers..........but it certainly feels like Autumn now. The light is going fast and the angle of the sun means my garden gets less sun every day.
I'm not looking forward to Winter this year, I've a feeling it will be a long one.

daniel_t1409 · 06-10-2020 7:14pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Sunny enough on the East coast today, a lovely walk on the beach this morning and cut the grass for the last time in the afternoon, washed the bird feeders, took leaves off the pond, cut back the last of the dying roses and flowers..........but it certainly feels like Autumn now. The light is going fast and the angle of the sun means my garden gets less sun every day.
I'm not looking forward to Winter this year, I've a feeling it will be a long one.

Agreed, I have a feeling that this winter will be long too. The lack of any decent weather during the summer(at least here in the southeast) and of course the virus and rise of cases.

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of trees are competely bare already, presumably due to the cold weather in September and the storms in August. Usually they still have a few leaves on them.

Gonzo · 06-10-2020 9:38pm

daniel_t1409 wrote: »

Agreed, I have a feeling that this winter will be long too. The lack of any decent weather during the summer(at least here in the southeast) and of course the virus and rise of cases.

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of trees are competely bare already, presumably due to the cold weather in September and the storms in August. Usually they still have a few leaves on them.

The tree's here in Meath started turning during August, the earliest I've ever seen it. Grass growth was also very poor from July and it dipped even further during August with the most minimal amount of sunshine throughout the summer. Garden is already covered in leaves and the grass hasn't grown in weeks.

DOCARCH · 07-10-2020 6:16am

daniel_t1409 wrote: »

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of trees are competely bare already, presumably due to the cold weather in September and the storms in August. Usually they still have a few leaves on them.

Many trees suffered due to the very dry Spring. There are two trees behind my house that are completely bare since early August. Leaves started falling off those trees in June!

M.T. Cranium · 07-10-2020 6:50am

A relatively moderate Atlantic low is moving in, the interesting features may be (a) heavy rainfall in a fairly narrow band along and just north of its track, and (b) temperatures moving up instead of down tonight across the south, probably peaking at something like 17 C near midnight.

Strong (southwest to west) winds do not seem that likely but would say keep a close watch in case it deepens a bit more than predicted, then from Cork to Wexford there could be some strong gusts, but at this point, it may be capped at about 70-80 km/hr.

I toyed with the idea of a thread but will leave that to people who are awake around noon or so, and that won't include me.

Graces7 · 07-10-2020 6:53am

Tide-music again in the clear stillness.

As for winter? Old saying, " How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.."

It comes in day-sized portions. And once a day is over? Gone.

Gonzo · 07-10-2020 12:40pm

a beautiful morning here in Meath, hopefully it will help towards drying out the saturated garden.

Meteorite58 · 07-10-2020 12:56pm

https://twitter.com/ECMWF/status/1313780646259589120?s=20

highdef · 07-10-2020 2:33pm

Gonzo wrote: »

The tree's here in Meath started turning during August, the earliest I've ever seen it. Grass growth was also very poor from July and it dipped even further during August with the most minimal amount of sunshine throughout the summer. Garden is already covered in leaves and the grass hasn't grown in weeks.

Oddly enough, just across the border in North kildare, the first signs of yellowing leaves have only become apparent in the past week or two. Right now, about half the trees around me (and there are lots of trees as I live in a rural/farmland area) are still fully green. Very few leaves have fallen thus far.

Last weekend was the first weekend in a month or more that I didn't need to mow the lawn, although it could certainly do with one now.

07-10-2020 3:28pm

Gonzo wrote: »

a beautiful morning here in Meath, hopefully it will help towards drying out the saturated garden.

Down in Cork and my thought when the rain started this afternoon was that'll do the garden good. Weird how different the weather can be in such a small country.

Oscar Bravo · 07-10-2020 3:38pm

Turning into a wet afternoon in Castlebar.

Donegal Storm · 07-10-2020 4:08pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ECMWF/status/1313780646259589120?s=20

Does that mean their entire data output is free in the same way it is for GFS? Great news if that's the case

4Ad · 07-10-2020 8:28pm

Started raining at 3 o clock in East Clare, hasn't stopped since...

Oscar Bravo · 07-10-2020 9:36pm

4Ad wrote: »

Started raining at 3 o clock in East Clare, hasn't stopped since...

Same up the road in Castlebar

Beechwoodspark · 07-10-2020 10:20pm

Jet stream is right over Ireland today

Oneiric 3 · 07-10-2020 10:32pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Does that mean their entire data output is free in the same way it is for GFS? Great news if that's the case

That would be interesting to see, and while the charts on the ECMWF site are nice and clean looking, the site itself is buggy and they still seem oddly limited in terms of location zooms and time increments.

Meteorite58 · 07-10-2020 11:23pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

That would be interesting to see, and while the charts on the ECMWF site are nice and clean looking, the site itself is buggy and they still seem oddly limited in terms of location zooms and time increments.

Very slow earlier, not much better tonight, probably a rush of traffic. No country by country as yet ( no zoom facilities for finer details which is my main interest ), generalized in a large scale but handy for getting an overview at least.

If you click on the map for your area you can get a Meteogram and vertical profile and other information.

Charts are huge when downloaded so will need to be resized.

Lots of date in there ,some maps are poorly sized, some are blurry so a bit of sharpening up to do.

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https://twitter.com/UModigliani/status/1313846351525031937?s=20

Graces7 · 08-10-2020 3:14am

Peacefully quiet with just the occasional PUFF of wind to remind that wind can still happen.

Cool , but not excessively so, and the rain has stopped. There were some desperately heavy deluges earlier.

West Mayo offshore

Graces7 · 08-10-2020 7:55am

Progression to parky. A sneaky wind with ice on its breath, and dark, dark clouds lurking.

A day to stay home and light the fire..

West Mayo offshore

The cold is intense now; had to light the fire earlier than usual. Shivers

Autumn 2020 - General Discussion

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