Leinster flooding - 24th October 2011

Konata

Raining here again in Drumcondra

Hope everyone who was affected yesterday has a better day today.

Min

One can see on the radar that when the rain hits the high ground of north Kilkenny it intensifies.
13.4 mm so far.

roshie

does anyone know if colleges in dublin city centre are open??

Konata

roshie wrote: »

does anyone know if colleges in dublin city centre are open??

Yes. There has been no notification of closures to any colleges around the city.

UCD I am unsure of. I heard some people say lectures were cancelled last night but the campus might be in a better state this morning.

Darwin

Absolutely torrential downpour this morning in Laois. The graphics on last night's 9 O'clock weather forecast showed that clump of rain over Cornwall moving northwards and clipping the east, but it came right in over the country this morning.

nizo888

Met Eireann just on Morning Ireland saying that only 10mm of rain to fall today. Sounds like they are underestimating again?

octo

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

I have increased amounts mentioned in today's forecast (now saying 10-25 mms) although this renewed rainfall looks to be somewhat faster moving, and broken up into more of a showery pattern. The bottom line is that the renewed rainfall amounts will probably be just about enough to keep some of the flooding steady-state rather than allowing it to subside. Some of today's rain may become thundery and we certainly can't rule out localized heavier amounts but I don't think there will be the sort of organized three-county-wide deluges that took place yesterday, this will be more of a pulsing showery event with high variability in amounts place to place. There could be some torrential downpours on the eastern slopes of the Wicklow Mountains. and by mid-morning in the southern parts of Dublin. These rains may only last about an hour or so before moving on to the north, which may limit their flood potential (also they may fall into already flooded drainage).

Thursday also concerns me with potential for another pulse of heavy rain to move up from the south. Hopefully the jet stream will rip this one apart when it arrives, because over a longer time frame the trend is back to a very mobile pattern with strong winds becoming a feature again by this coming weekend.

Yes, good. Heavy rain not over yet - the rain this morning had been forecast to go mainly over the Irish Sea, but drifting further west than HARMONIE and HIRLAM predicted. Dublin hit again.

km79

Met eireann would want to update their 3 hr forecast . As usual it's bears no resemblance to reality. Just like last saturday

Min

nizo888 wrote: »

Met Eireann just on Morning Ireland saying that only 10mm of rain to fall today. Sounds like they are underestimating again?

Is that what they are predicting for Dublin?

18.6mm this morning and rising.

I think they should have had a weather warning for this.

SEPT 23 1989

Heavy rain back again

Newcastle Dublin

nizo888

Min wrote: »

Is that what they are predicting for Dublin?

18.6mm this morning and rising.

I think they should have had a weather warning for this.

Gerry Fleming on MI now saying 10mm likely in Dublin today.

Sponge Bob

And snow, what about the snow???

leahyl

Sponge Bob wrote: »

And snow, what about the snow???

Ah now behave!:D

Ginny

Konata wrote: »

Yes. There has been no notification of closures to any colleges around the city.

UCD I am unsure of. I heard some people say lectures were cancelled last night but the campus might be in a better state this morning.

UCD is open, there's some flooding still on internal roads but the ones I've seen are passable.

Dodd

It's just started lashing here in Dublin 6.
I got flooded yesterday and a xbox and laptop a done for I think.:(

graduate

UCD is open, there's some flooding still on internal roads but the ones I've seen are passable.

Indeed, there is still some parking to be had, albeit that the dirt car parks are a bit muddy.

Elmer Blooker

Sponge Bob wrote: »

And snow, what about the snow???

There's about half a dozen winter threads elsewhere!

Those downpours heading towards Dublin now may be nothing compared to yesterday but that rain will have nowhere to go as the ground is completely saturated.

lucy2010

ooooh Thunder & lightening now !!!. Think ill stay in dont fancy having the new boat struck by lightening !

eigrod

lucy2010 wrote: »

ooooh Thunder & lightening now !!!. Think ill stay in dont fancy having the new boat struck by lightening !

Yep, have that in Greystones too.

DOCARCH

Heard the thunder too! Big rain drops here. 3.4mm so far this morning.

Min

It should stop raining here in the next hour, totals so far at 21mm, rain rate is falling so thats good.

Not

lucy2010 wrote: »

ooooh Thunder & lightening now !!!. Think ill stay in dont fancy having the new boat struck by lightening !

Hearing that in the distance in Terenure now too.

Thankfully the Poddle is now back in its box, hopefully it will stay there for another 40 years. Roads around Wainsfort and KCR reopened during the night.

Supercell

Heavy rain again in Ringsend, gone very dark.

Sala

Lashing in UCD again

eigrod

Blue sky in Greystones now. Hopefully that's it for a couple of days.

Monkaa

Thunder in carrickmines a few mins ago & raining quite heavily! I went on a drive last night, heres a few pics!!











Dropping Well

Dodd

Body found after search for Garda swept away in Liffey

The poor lad.RIP

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/body-found-after-search-for-garda-swept-away-in-liffey-2915371.html

DOCARCH

Was around at the Dropping Well myself last night.

Noopti

Really lashing it down in Dublin 2 and very dark, are we going to see the same chaos as yesterday? If so I might need to think about allowing people to head home a bit earlier....

Konata

Absolutely lashing here at DCU, place is deserted.