Current Weather Conditions - July 2008

Supercell

Deep Easterly wrote: »

Rain just arrived here, very light and undramatic. Darker clouds sliding to the west and southwest and missing here. Have to admit I am looking forward to winter more and more, at least the weather is more exciting (last winter excluded of course).

16.3c
69%rh
1008.7 mb falling much too slowly.

I'm with you Paddy, crap summers are nowhere near as exciting as crap winters!!
At least we always get hail, rain, sleet , snow, frost and gales in crappy winters!
This "summer" is just crapola boring, no thunderstorms, no heat, no decent rainfall (here) so far...roll on winter.

Anyhow, its clear that my station has been massively under recording recently, the drizzle outside wouldn't have even registered before I cleaned it but is recording precip now.

arctictree

Really bucketing down outside here now! 11.0c

Mothman

arctictree wrote: »

Really bucketing down outside here now! 11.0c

And a little east though only 3.8mm so far.

Agree that the Davis rain gauges (and I assume other makes) need regular servicing and in particular checking the level. If the gauge is slightly off level, it may under record substantially.

I had an over recording issue for a bit because of mud in the little buckets. There was some dust in some of the heavy rain recently from southern origin and this had solidified in the tipping bucket, and since a tip occurs by weight and not volume, it was tipping too soon.

Supercell

Rain rate up to 5mm/hr here now, thats decent moderate rain.
4.2mm so far.

Snowbie

Check my tipping buckets and gauge myself regulary and actually clear this past while due to all the rain washing dirt and grit out. I find after a prolonged dry spell the dirt will solidify in the buckets with MM sum up being true.

Lashing here now and RR upto 22.6mm/hr.

mike65

Not raining.

Mike.

Supercell

Second wettest day on record so far with 28.6mm rain and its only 10am , 7.5mm to go to equal the wettest - that may come under threat before the day is out. Great stuff!

mike65

Still not raining.

Mike.

Supercell

Few spots of rain in the wind now, looks dark to the south.

Supercell

And now its pouring!

Snowbie

40 miles (give or take)north of you and the sun is splitting the trees here.

17.5C
DP 12C
1001.8mb
Wind gusty easterly

Supercell

Very little sun here, only rare glimpses. Mostly light drizzle with occasional heavier bursts of rain.
That stuff to the south east seems very slow moving. Though Mike is probably getting drowned right now.

Snowbie

Its wrapped around the circulation which aint moving too fast. So if your under that blob, more persistent rain can be expected for awhile.

Supercell

Moderate/heavy rain now 6.2mm/hr, 30mm rain since midnight and I suspect another 10mm given how slow this rain band is moving, there will be bad flooding from this.

Pity I'm not at home at the moment (well actually..no!)
I notice my wd stopped reporting at before 5am with a drenching rain rate of above 50mm/hr yet again.
I can only imagine what sort of rain total there is now going on the radar.
I've sent a comprehensive set of instructions to someone that should be able to get the weather display back up and running again.That will be tonight sometime after 10 or 11 pm I hear
It's possible that the broadband connection was lost during the heavy rain and no one would have re booted it.

mike65

An absence of rain.

Mike.

445279.ie

Thunder and lightening in west Limerick and some very heavy showers!!

Sun and blue skies out the front and black clouds out the back! :eek:

Supercell

I'd say there was some pretty decent totals there BB, theres flooding everywhere here up the road.
Haven't seen the likes of it before.
52.6mm , rain finally stopped though.

mike65

Supercell wrote: »

That stuff to the south east seems very slow moving. Though Mike is probably getting drowned right now.

Caught caught some light stuff, now clouded over generally. Sounds like we've got away with it a bit.

Mike.

The Black Oil

Rain aplenty.

nacho libre

fine all day here.

18.4c in a brisk north easterly breeze.:cool:

ch750536

Lovely evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXoT3BODXqQ

Snowbie

Good stuff ch

mike65

(knocks wood) Its a fine morning which actually seems to be improving (nearly unheard of)

Mike.

mike65

Just one rain shower to speak of, luckily its otherwise bright.

Mike.

Cornilius

Pouring rain here in belfast all day

mike65

Fine enough, showers beckon I reckon.

Mike.

Danno

Grey skies. Drizzle on the horizons though still dry here. Cool at 14.3c.

arctictree

Been raining here on and off all morning. Getting heavier now. Looking at the radar, I seem to be just unlucky...

At least its not that cold - 15.5c

A

Mobhi1

A bit of a downpour now after a dry morning.