Windy & Heavy Rain Watch With Possible Local Flooding (Thurs/Fri June 14/15)

Rikand

nice swirl on the raintoday.co.uk page now over limerick

Su Campu

errlloyd wrote: »

Sorry I should have clarified, I don't fully get the lingo. I can interpret a forecast for where I live pretty ok, but I am struggling with Carlow.

I get the southeast was meant to have heavy driving rain yesterday, but according to mate out there its ok today, I'm slightly worried about tonight and tomorrow.

Met Éireann do have a county forecast section on their website

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/county.asp

Deep Easterly

7.0mm at Knock on 10pm reports http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp. Missed the bulk of those showers here but the couple of short lived ones that did pass over were pretty powerful and dumped a lot of rain within seconds.

sunbabe08

i think we've had like a hour of no rain in the last 36 hours. is this madness ever going to stop?

eastmayo

Deep Easterly wrote: »

7.0mm at Knock on 10pm reports http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp. Missed the bulk of those showers here but the couple of short lived ones that did pass over were pretty powerful and dumped a lot of rain within seconds.

ya i got 9.6 on my davis vantage vue,only 4 miles from knock,realy intence rain between 8 and 9

gbee

For me and my area, we received more rain Thursday & Friday approx 55mm than we did from the level two alarm for the last rain event.

Deep Easterly

Today, 'Bloomsday' is a day when slightly odd people celebrate a fictional day in the life of the fictional protagonist in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' on the 16th June 1904. The book itself I found hard to digest when I had to study it as part of my undergraduate degree a few years back, but there are some great descriptions by Joyce of the weather on that particular day in Dublin.

Except that too is fictional. In Ulysses, the 16th June 1904 was a hot and quite thundery day with 'great towers' observed to the west during the evening giving some spectacular lightning displays. In reality, the 16th June 1904 was probably a very drizzly and humid day with a keen SW wind which is indicative of a typical weak warm sector:


Data from the NOAA-CIRES 20th Century Global Re-Analysis (Version 2)

Going by the re-analysis charts for this day, there was probably a cold front moving onto the NW coast as Leopold Bloom embarked on his walkabout; this most likely affected the Dublin region later that evening giving a spell of more persistent light to moderate rain before clearing.

Max temp at Phoenix Park on this day was 17.3c ; min 10.3c with a daily rainfall total of 5.3mm. (from the ECA&D)

Just to add, James Joyce had an immense fear of thunder, which may be one of the reasons he mentions thunder and lightning quite frequently in 'Ulysses'; he also believed that thunderstorms were increasing in frequency during the course of his lifetime. If that was true, I think it was a trend that didn't sustain itself for very long.

Jpmarn

This weekend's Cork County show has been totally canceled due to recent wet weather.

Min

Rainfall totals for here in north Kilkenny -
Thursday - 13.8mm
Friday and again it was another 13.8mm
So far today 13.4mm

Total so far for this weather system = 41mm.
Total for last week's event was 48.4mm.
Total for the month so far is 117.0mm.

Calibos

I for one am glad that the Resevoirs get filled up during the Summer. How would we ever make it through the Winter droughts without rationing if they weren't....

All joking aside, but is it confirmation bias on my part or are our Summers wetter than our Winters for the last few years? When I say that I mean our Summers are no wetter than usual but our Winters have gotten drier?

CorkMetMan

51.9 mm from this particular event. This first half of June was about as bad as bad can be for the time of year. Horrible in every way!