Flood risk: Overnight and into Saturday 16th.

anoble66

was just out at Rathmullan, Donegal - 30 knots with gusts up to 40 i would say. Rain lashing down too with little visibility.

Snowbie

darkman2 wrote: »

Getting brighter here. Might be clearing now actually.

Don't speak to soon, the heaviest rain yet is just over me.
51.8m/hr, i say it be with you in 5mins

Edit 82.3mm/hr

darkman2

Downpour here now......

Sierra Oscar

Pretty nice here at the moment, the sun is shining!

darkman2

That sounds bad. Try and get some pics if you can. Should not be much more rain in those areas the front has already cleared.


Should also be clearing Dublin area shortly aswell. Rain has practically stopped here.

shamwari

Rain here torential here in the North county. Looks like a rerun of last week

Supercell

Just back from Wicklow, pretty atrocious driving conditions with roads flooding everywhere. In Rathnew I saw a manhole with water exploding upwards out of it! Incredible. There was a car broken down on the bridge just before Ashford forcing me to have to take the backroads with some serious hairy floods..lots of aquaplaning etc

Rain total total so far today 57.2mm, probably not much more left looking at the radar, still a pretty reasonable total!

Mushy

Supercell wrote: »

Just back from Wicklow, pretty atrocious driving conditions with roads flooding everywhere. In Rathnew I saw a manhole with water exploding upwards out of it! Incredible. There was a car broken down on the bridge just before Ashford forcing me to have to take the backroads with some serious hairy floods..lots of aquaplaning etc

Rain total total so far today 57.2mm, probably not much more left looking at the radar, still a pretty reasonable total!

Live in Ashford myself, many patches in the village are under the water, never seen it this bad. My driveway is flooded, so is patio, and even flooding in the back garden...unreal. Doesn't look like stopping either.

Dirk Gently

is tomorrow expected to be worse? watched a few forecasts and looks like a huge rain front heading in from the Atlantic for tomorrow.

darkman2

clown bag wrote: »

is tomorrow expected to be worse? watched a few forecasts and looks like a huge rain front heading in from the Atlantic for tomorrow.

Does not look like the rain will be as heavy and it should move through more smartly then today. Might be some heavy showers on Monday.

Supercell

Mushy wrote: »

Live in Ashford myself, many patches in the village are under the water, never seen it this bad. My driveway is flooded, so is patio, and even flooding in the back garden...unreal. Doesn't look like stopping either.

Suns out here , rain just cleared, should dry up there in the next hour probably in Ashford.
I've never seen flooding like it either, I saw some poor sods out putting sandbags outside their house as a torrent washed past their front door in Annamoe village. All this water has to go somewhere, flooding going to get worse for a while down slope

You can see the clearance nicely on my webcam, the demarcation line is very sharp.

Snowbie

The usual sting in the tail again.
21.3mm and lashing again.

Dirk Gently

just seen a flash of lightening here in north dublin and huge rumbles of thunder.

thomasj

Just thought i heard and saw thunder and lightening on the northside of dublin anyone confirm?

Rain is torrential

Mothman

AWS is almost spot on today. 48mm since midnight.
2nd highest on record (Nov 99) 53mm to beat though doesn't look like much more to come..

Had 23mm in an hour, another record.

It has stopped.....

My internet connection has been poor this week with long outages, so website updates with long gaps at times.

Snowbie

24.1mm since midnight.
Air is still moist with low cloud around.

Mobhi1

I only had about 17mm since midnight but gauge is well sheltered and I don't know how accurate. Still, an awful lot less than last Saturday around here - no flooding in the garden or on the road today.

nirelandguy

We have flooding up here in Northern Ireland, It has rained heavly non stop from last nite, there couldn't be any rain left

crushproof

alot of flooding in Dun Laoghaire, just back from a stroll around. Seafront is closed off as is the road along side the Peoples park.
Most severe though is the DART line along the metals which is more akin to a canal at the moment, Ive never ever seen it like the way the it is now. And theres a commuter train stuck in the middle of it with loads of people on board! Crazy stuff!
Was raining contantly here since around 7 last night, only eased up in the last 2 hours

crushproof

DART line in Dun Laoghaire at 17.00 today






You cant really see but the water is actually flowing fairly fast. Sorry i couldnt get a photo of the train thats stuck, couldnt get a good shot!

squonk

It looks like we may get another run of heavy rain later in Dublin judging by the way that really heavy clump of rain in the west is moving around the low right now. Certainly unless it breaks up it looks like Louth could get someting later on.

Mothman

A shower, 1.5mm, total 49.8mm since midnight.

Villain

Jesus thats serious Mothman, what kind of rainfall is expected in Leinster in the next 24 hours? Some flooding a the moment around Carlow but not too bad although more rain and we could have some real problems

Mothman

Have a garden stream, and surprising how quick its risen since rain has stopped. 2nd highest level its been in past 10 years and is over the top of a bridge.
Its usually about 150mm deep, currently nearly a metre!

Trogdor

crushproof wrote: »

DART line in Dun Laoghaire at 17.00 today






You cant really see but the water is actually flowing fairly fast. Sorry i couldnt get a photo of the train thats stuck, couldnt get a good shot!

Wow, thats amazing!
54.9mm in Bray since midnight and much much more up here in North Antrim, it hasn't stopped raining all day!

Mothman

My stream has started falling.
Took to the bicycle to have a look at Vartry. Not exceptional but a good sight. Water level in Mount Usher Garden just over 1 metre, was probably 2.5m after Charley. I'm sure it'll rise overnight as the mountain waters make their way down. Saw sandbags being put down to protect building in Ashford

Snowbie

24.9mm for today so far, just under an inch. The lake formed but not as bad as last week up the cul de sac again but the worring thing for the neighbours was a healthy SE wind driving the water up and into the gardens even though the driveways are on a downslope.

Mothman

Looks like that shower has Wicklow written on it.

May just be enough to create station records for 00-24h and 09-09z totals

Former currently 49.8mm, 53.0mm to beat, latter 39.9mm, 46.9mm the target

The Raven.

Duiske wrote: »

Don't know how much rain we have had here in Graignamanagh, Co. Kilkenny over the past few hours, but we have the most serious flooding to hit the town in years.
The river burst its bank at 3 or 4 places, and flooded every shop and home on the main street.
Absolutely unreal !!

Hello Duiske. That's absolutely dreadful. It has been in the news. Do you have any pictures? I remember seeing photos of a serious flood in Graig many years ago when the Duiske overflowed down the Main Street and the Barrow waters flowed up to meet it, but there was a gap in the middle with no flood water. Did that not happen this time? I don't think there were any floods quite as bad as that until now. I feel sorry for anyone living near the quay or at the bottom of the Barrow Lane. I hope things get back to normal soon, and I hope the drainage is better there than it is here in Celbridge. It has been a disaster here last weekend and today. I don't know what it's like down the village now as the rain has stopped.

Even before the next batch of rain to come tomorrow-look whats advancing from the west now... :eek:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

Sierra Oscar

Deleted User wrote: »

Even before the next batch of rain to come tomorrow-look whats advancing from the west now... :eek:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html

Yeah, that is right over me at the moment.:rolleyes:

There is localized flooding here at the moment, many roads are in a bad way.

Kippure

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp?ani=y

Looks like that area of rain will turn slighty NE. Over the next 2 hours we,ll see how it goes.

rc28

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0816/floods.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7565593.stm
Northern Ireland got it pretty bad too, 20 feet of water filled up an underpass!

Kippure

Dublin and wicklow look to be in the firing line from this band of rain approaching fast

Damomanye

hey guys, screen grab of accumilation from radar in the last 12 hours. NI was hit bad!!

mike65

Did anyone see the 9.30 forecast? Even the met men are getting a bit depressed now.

There was no "devil a bit " from Gerry this evening.

Mike.

Supercell

Damomanye wrote: »

hey guys, screen grab of accumilation from radar in the last 12 hours. NI was hit bad!!

Meh that is fantasy stuff, apparently I'm in the 18mm area..well its 59.4mm here and that a lot under recorded.

That rain on the radar hasn't reached here, but must be close. 70mm odd is the record to beat..still a bit to go!

RoisinD

Our total for the day - as the last of the rain has just has cleared us for now - 91.1 . We thought we might have made the 100 but thankfully not.

Supercell

Supercell wrote: »

Meh that is fantasy stuff, apparently I'm in the 18mm area..well its 59.4mm here and that a lot under recorded.

That rain on the radar hasn't reached here, but must be close. 70mm odd is the record to beat..still a bit to go!

Started sporadically here in the last 15 minutes.
The pinks and the reds [uk MET site] are just to the west bearing down.

Supercell

Is it a mirage?, it should be pouring down here if the radar is to be believed, its not, its bone dry.

I suspect this means there is huge clouds coming my way

silverski

Greetings all,

Looks like the heavy showers have returned to Bray.

Wonder if it will be the same as this afternoon.

Regards

Silverski

JanuarySnowstor

I must say the coverage of the NI flooding by rte was non existent.
In fact did they mention those up North at all ?

The Raven.

No, they didn't mention the north, but they were catching fish in Main Street, Graiguenamanagh :eek:!!

crushproof

JanuarySnowstor wrote: »

I must say the coverage of the NI flooding by rte was non existent.
In fact did they mention those up North at all ?

No mention at all? its the second headline on the sky news website at the moment!!

weatherwizard

Hi all!
I've been lurking on here for some time and have decided to register and start posting on here! I'm in Ballinderry, Co.Antrim.

Love thunderstorms so I'm sure I'll be joining in plenty of discussions on these! Any other members from Northern Ireland?

Anyway, here is a photo taken with my mobile yesterday as we were wading through thigh deep flood water in my village!

[IMG]http://www.newdigitaldesigns.com/webspace/flooding small pic.jpg[/IMG]

Mothman

weatherwizard wrote: »

Hi all!
I've been lurking on here for some time and have decided to register and start posting on here! I'm in Ballinderry, Co.Antrim.

Love thunderstorms so I'm sure I'll be joining in plenty of discussions on these! Any other members from Northern Ireland?

Anyway, here is a photo taken with my mobile yesterday as we were wading through thigh deep flood water in my village!

[IMG]http://www.newdigitaldesigns.com/webspace/flooding small pic.jpg[/IMG]

Welcome
Have you got your car home yet?

weatherwizard

Yes I did thanks! Had to get a relative to drive me around to the other side of the floods using other roads. All is well now!

nacho libre

well, the rain this week looks set to be ordinary by comparison with last week's. In fact Tuesday and Wednesday could turn out to be good days. However, it looks like next weekend will be wet again. I'm still confident the weather will take up towards the end of August. We could get an indian summer yet!

Just to add to the flood reports.
Toss Byrnes pub at Inch was flooded yesterday when the Inch river (half way between Gorey and Arklow) burst it's banks.
The water was up the height of the bar inside which whould have been close to 4 feet deep.

Deep Easterly

nacho libre wrote: »

I'm still confident the weather will take up towards the end of August. We could get an indian summer yet!