Heavy rain,Strong Winds In East & Flooding Overnight Thurs 13th /Friday 14th November

yellowlabrador

handbagmad wrote: »

Gone quiet, is that the worst of it over?

I've had to give the dog rescue remedy.

Co. Waterford

I use a thundershirt or as a substitute a motorcyclists kidneybelt. Wrap it up round the dogs middle and they calm down and become very sleepy. Check videos out on youtube.
it's really distressing when my dog is scared.

Bongalongherb

Wind picking up in Swords Co. Dublin now, the rain is light at the moment with the odd burst of a heavy shower.

My ceiling looks worse though

handbagmad

yellowlabrador wrote: »

I use a thundershirt or as a substitute a motorcyclists kidneybelt. Wrap it up round the dogs middle and they calm down and become very sleepy. Check videos out on youtube.
it's really distressing when my dog is scared.

thanks I've made my own thundershirt for him but he's afraid of his own shadow poor sod.
He's calmed down a bit. He's just on edge.
The doggy rescue remedy is kicking in I think

fleet_admiral

The wind has just gotten very violent

Nabber

I think todays was worse than tonight, in terms of rain fall.
Wind is gusting strong enough in Dublin4, but nothing too serious. A horrible night, I don't suspect I'll see much wind damage in the morning.

Its Only Ray Parlour

According to Raintoday.co.uk, we're not done yet.

Kristopherus

Xenji wrote: »

Not a drop of rain in Castlebar in the last 12 hours or so and barely a breeze, so jealous looking through these posts!

Well, its pissin' now:(.

BLIZZARD7

Rain still ongoing in South Dublin with very gusty winds over past hour or so.





Dan

Xenji

Kristopherus wrote: »

Well, its pissin' now:(.

I spoke to soon, glad I got back in from town before it started!

SMJSF

Wind has begun in D9.... at first I thought it was thunder from the noise of it!!

rilz

Bad flooding up North. Can anyone explain why the rain is always heaviest when the rain band ready to move through? Notice this in heavy showers as well.

Villain

49.9mm of rain and top gust of 85.4 km/h 1:35am

Charlie19

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Wind picking up in Swords Co. Dublin now, the rain is light at the moment with the odd burst of a heavy shower.

My ceiling looks worse though

Had to stick a bucket in the attic to catch the drips, I could hear the drips landing on the ceiling and just caught it time before much damage was done. I think a few licks of paint will sort it.

Yours looks a bit worse:(

kingshankly

Xenji wrote: »

Not a drop of rain in Castlebar in the last 12 hours or so and barely a breeze, so jealous looking through these posts!

Jealous of people getting lashed on and their community being flooded !!!

loubian

I just remembered in 2010(I think), in the November we had a lot of rain and the whole country got flooded and then we had that snowy Christmas, could that happen again this year?

DOCARCH

Dry here (in south Dublin) this morning! But...very wet overnight. 17.0mm since midnight...plus...35.0mm yesterday, giving a total of 52.0mm from both rain bands.

Coles

Total since 10pm last night of 68.9mm, bringing the total for the last 21 hours to 136.6mm near Ballyknockan, Co. Wicklow.

No idea what the flooding is like yet.

pad199207

Is that a Davis Station or just a Rain Gauge Coles?

Coles

It's a tipping bucket rain gauge in a good open location. I'll confirm the calibration of it later today.

Supercell

40.8mm in the last 24 hours. A lot of rain considering the amount we already had in the last few days but thankfully no signs of any flooding nearby.

Call me Al

So how did it pan out in the end? Which model was closest to reality.
Going by the met eireann website I think didn't affect as far west into Sligo as they expected, but did skirt into East Galway and Leitrim?

km79

Call me Al wrote: »

So how did it pan out in the end? Which model was closest to reality.
Going by the met eireann website I think didn't affect as far west into Sligo as they expected, but did skirt into East Galway and Leitrim?

Started raining in east Galway around 11pm was light to moderate rain until about 6am I reckon
If it was any heavier I would have woken up fully !
So just caught the outskirts of it

sunbabe08

heavy shower here in cork with hailstones.

Storm 10

Call me Al wrote: »

So how did it pan out in the end? Which model was closest to reality.
Going by the met eireann website I think didn't affect as far west into Sligo as they expected, but did skirt into East Galway and Leitrim?[/quote

It was torrential in Galway City from 1am until around 6 am, I was out and there was a lot of surface flooding,

Darwin

Gerry Murphy said on the 7.55 forecast this morning that the met station in Gurteen (Limerick) recorded the highest rainfall rate of I think 56mm in the past 36 hours followed by 45mm in Oak Park Carlow.

northgirl

Fingers crossed for the thunderstorms MT has said are possible !!

Rock Lesnar

21mm from 10pm last night here in north meath, so didnt get what i was expecting, it was alot heavier at the home place (about 10 mile away) then it was here, River Boyne has overflowed into the fields there.

M.T. Cranium

Coles, your rainfall totals are certainly plausible, as your location is closer to the highest terrain than Casement or Oak Park. A ratio of 2 or 3 times the regional averages is common for such locations in general. Just for reference, can you give a monthly total that you recorded in October, and to date in November (either before or after this large amount) as that might shed more light on the readings.

Wondering also if Rock Lesnar has a storm total to report from Meath.

From what I saw on the radar last night, the heaviest falls were probably located around north Laois, east Offaly and scattered higher portions of Wicklow and Carlow.

As to what guidance proved best, can say that the GFS tended to throw the rainfall more to the east of the low and then had the low itself too far east, so combined that error reduced depicted amounts in central regions by about 75%. Some other guidance was better on track but tended to throw more of the rainfall to the west of the track which meso-scale considerations suggested might not verify. The process in those model depictions was fairly reliable but in reality heavier rain fell ahead of the warm front than to the west of the wave crest. Except for the usual problem of being too coarse, the GGEM guidance was sound too.

I think we had some reasonably good forecasts available here based on a blended forecast of these different sources. The actual rainfall if mapped to a fine grid would probably be quite complex as the precip shield contained a lot of short-duration pulses. Sometimes you get a much more regular looking outcome than this one but would say that in general terms the heaviest rain was in east-central counties.

The event was about as strong as expected, impacts from flooding yet to be fully reported or assessed at this stage, will be interesting to see what comes into the thread next few hours.

vicwatson

Too true MT, N11 at Enniscorthy shut down again @ 6.30 this morning apparentely. Rivers are very swollen, these floods haven't finished unfortunately.

Schools advised to remain closed due to flooding. Haven't heard that one in a long time.

maquiladora

New warning.

STATUS YELLOW

Rainfall Warning for Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford

Thundery downpours later today and for a time tonight with the ongoing risk of flooding.
Rainfall amounts are likely to be between 20 to 30 mm.
Issued:
Friday 14 November 2014 09:00
Valid:
Friday 14 November 2014 16:00 to Saturday 15 November 2014 04:00