Flood risk: Overnight and into Saturday 16th.

rc28

It is ridiculously dark here, torrential rain again and loads of flooding around the place

ninebeanrows

Good to see the weather is Ireland is keeping up well!

Abit disappointed i missed these big floods though, is it unreal?

Meanwhile in Praha it is 15c and lashing rain so it feels just like home!

Daemonic

Celbridge is getting an absolute drenching for the second Saturday in a row...chucking it down for about an hour now after lighter rain all morning.

darkman2

Rain rate increasing here - pretty heavy atm.

Mothman

Torrential
9mm in 15 minutes and clap of thunder. Above 30mm for day

Mothman

Rain rate now 70mm/hr

darkman2

Its certainly increasing here. Very heavy rain atm.


Edit: 70mm/hr - thats bad.

Mothman

80mm/hr
10mm last 15minutes
Daily total 37mm, but I think AWS underrecording a little

Snowbie

Mothman wrote: »

80mm/hr
10mm last 15minutes
Daily total 37mm, but I think AWS underrecording a little

My AWS is at 14.7mm while the manual gauge has 18mm.

I think the wind is blowing horizontal across the AWS myself personally so is under recording here myself. Manual gauge at 4" ( inches ) above ground and is a wee bit more sheltered from the stronger winds.

Just checked it as the rain has died down a bit there, see what your own gauge is like and compare the two.

darkman2

Getting brighter here. Might be clearing now actually.

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!