Current Weather Conditions -- November 2009

JP Liz

munster hit pretty bad

mike65

It quietened down for a few hours but the wind is back.

fozzle

It's raining. A lot. I was very jealous of the jeep that passed me as I turned back about a quarter of a mile from my house cos there was a freaking mini-lake across the road. Everyone in the flooded areas should be given jeeps :rolleyes:

Tactical

fozzle wrote: »

It's raining. A lot. I was very jealous of the jeep that passed me as I turned back about a quarter of a mile from my house cos there was a freaking mini-lake across the road. Everyone in the flooded areas should be given jeeps :rolleyes:

Dunno about that

I travelled from West Limerick to West Cork and back again today. The morning journey down was reasonably uneventful with just surface water to contend with.Well unless I had intended to go via Bandon which even before it got bright this morning had flooding and impassable roads (I was speaking with a very reliable source who was out and about in the area).

By mid-afternoon it was an entirely different story, I totally failed to make one particular destination due to serious flooding and believe me when I say even a large 4wd with a very decent clearance wasn't going to safely get through. Well perhaps a Defender with snorkel kit may have had a reasonable chance but as I wasn't issued one that puts and end to that

After two attempts to make that above mentioned destination it was time to return to my starting point. Easy, I'll cut across to Macroom and make West Limerick via Killarney. Yeah right. I ended up going several routes all of which were impassable so I ended up going Glengarriff, Kenmare, Kilgarvan, Killarney.

In all my years driving I cannot remember meeting such condition where an entire section of the country was effectively cut off.

cian1500ww

From what I've heard from home there's flooding in areas that never flooded before. I thought I was going to have a clean drive home tomorrow but the latest update from AA roadwatch is telling me the N4 is flooded as well now and with more rain to come, I don't fancy my chances of a clear road home

Silverado

Waterford had 60mm in 24 hours according to my rain gauge, almost a whole month's worth in one day.

dloob

Galway city and it's still raining.
The main rain has past but frequent heavy showers are keeping us soaked.

grenache

What is the forecast for Munster tonight? I'm hearing mixed reports! Some say there's another 23mm of rain due tonight and others say tonight will be dry! The house where i live in Cork, right against the Lee, got flooded last night and i feel my landlord should be looking at sandbags or something similar.

munsterlegend

grenache wrote: »

What is the forecast for Munster tonight? I'm hearing mixed reports! Some say there's another 23mm of rain due tonight and others say tonight will be dry! The house where i live in Cork, right against the Lee, got flooded last night and i feel my landlord should be looking at sandbags or something similar.

according to met eireann 15-25 mm - see www.meteireann.ie
yes should be sandbags if you're near the lee.

maquiladora

grenache wrote: »

What is the forecast for Munster tonight? I'm hearing mixed reports! Some say there's another 23mm of rain due tonight and others say tonight will be dry! The house where i live in Cork, right against the Lee, got flooded last night and i feel my landlord should be looking at sandbags or something similar.

It will stay dry until the early hours of the morning, but from then all morning you'll see plenty of heavy rain but it shouldn't last as long as it did on Thursday.

Oliverdog

Cockermouth Cumbria reported 13" of rain in 24 hours from the system we have been 'enjoying' earlier this week. Perhaps we've been relatively lucky. Our thoughts are with the policeman who lost his life there yesterday.

Timistry

Very heavy rain with gusts, almost a downpour for a while there

maquiladora

Wet and fairly windy in Waterford.

Silverado

Waterford is gusting 56 knots at present with a spectacular fall in barometric pressure of 10 mb in the last four hours. Just 2mm of rain so far though.

Tactical

Dry, sunshining and quite calm at the moment in West Limerick. Very little in the way of cloud, just some high level scattered cloud.

What a difference to earlier this morning!

Sierra Oscar

Wind is picking up here now after a respite of two hours or so, still sunny.

DOCARCH

16.2mm of rain here since 6am. Cleared now.

Discodog

These showers are moving at quite a rate. After the deluge 7am to 11am the skies cleared totally. I walked the dogs & there was no sign of any cloud over the sea. 40 mins later & we are having a hail squall.

Peter

Bad squall here now wind, rain, hail and a few rumbles of thunder too

Sierra Oscar

Windy here in North Tipp, but nothing exceptional.

Silverado

In Waterford wind now down to a more moderate gale strength of 41 knots from the south. Barometer steady at 995mb. No rain.

TORRENTS! West Dublin

Bucklesman

Deleted User wrote: »

TORRENTS! West Dublin

Too bloody right. I just cycled home that monster rain. Somebody mentioned the rain being "terrifying" in one of the flood threads. I understand now.

At the moment, It's squally with scattery drizzle in Blanch. Cold too. Fairly much defines November.

howlinwolf

dry and pretty calm here in carlow at the moment.....had a heavy shower about an hour ago ....nothing special.....is this the calm before the storm

Redsunset

howlinwolf wrote: »

dry and pretty calm here in carlow at the moment.....had a heavy shower about an hour ago ....nothing special.....is this the calm before the storm

Are you in an underground bunker or what


savage howling winds where i am.

im 10 mile from carlow town

Sierra Oscar

I can here the wind howling through the door here . . . just started raining.

mp22

southerly gale and dry for a change

Timistry

Impressive IC lightning over Kenmare at the moment:D

yansnow

first snow report at JOHNSTOWN CASTLE(A)
http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

highdef

Sounds like a typo! Plenty of intracloud lightning in the Irish Sea, south eat of Dublin too. It's getting quite far away now. I would've posted about it earlier but I was out of the house all day