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Supercell

Impressive met radar at the moment. Not often you see a rain band so big with such a large area of heavy echos

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

lucernarian

This thread has been quiet lately...

It's been a nice day here in south Louth, but this evening it has been very breezy indeed. The trees are really bending over at times. Coolish evening too. One of those dusks which is nice to look at from inside:)

DonkeyStyle \o/

It's getting quite chilly here at night... first time I've been this cold in months.

Hal1

There was a loud crack of thunder here about 10 minutes ago, right over head. Near clondalkin.

Welcome back to the big threads!

Foggy all day here,pretty dense this evening,down under 200mtrs.

Hal1

Heard it was forecast for the SE alright, its that bad though eh?. Is it confined to your location though, how far inland are you Tristrame?.

Snowbie

Very foggy here around 10 oclock tonight,it has since cleared and clear now.

Lashing down now at a rate of 24.1mm/hr
We're under a large blob of pink according to the met.ie radar and interestingly it has a spot of red just west of here.
Last time it had one of those ,the rain rate went up to 77mm/hr and there was thunder.
Not expecting that now,just slow moving moderate rain.

Rain rate now 42.2mm/hr

Total 9mm in the last hour

9.7mm and rising.
Thats a lot of rain for just a little over an hour and its rising.

Rain rate hasnt gone below 14mm/hr in the last 15 or 20 mis and is currently 20.3mm/hr

Total now 12.7mm and rising

Rain rate regularally above 30mm/hr and above 40mm at times

rising as I type,now the total is 13mm in only 90 mins with most of that in the last 60mins

Mothman

8mm last 20 minutes.

Peak rate 58mm/hr. Easily heaviest of year.

Back online for now after hard drive packed in...

Mothman

9mm...30mm/hr

It only started at 18:35...

Mothman

10mm

Updating weather site every 5 minutes while I'm online.

Snowbie

83.1mm/hr second highest rain rate i recorded.For some reason when i turn on my pc and weather display it doesnt record the rain rate from that day from data logger.I recorded the above from 17.31 today but has not uploaded it for some reason.Monsoon conditions here earlier.
Perfect on the console but not uploading past rain rate data.

Started here mothman around 515 but got very heavy from 530pm


total now 14.2mm

Rain rate down to 7.4mm/hr now

Whats peculiar about this ,is not a record breaking rain rate,its the quantity ie the length the fairly to very heavy rain is going on.

Usually when you get a spurt of 70mm + it will ease off but this is regularally above 20

Continuing to ease here now down to 6.4mm/hr

Total 14.7mm in 90 mins-impressive

Snowbie

Tristrame wrote:

Whats peculiar about this ,is not a record breaking rain rate,its the quantity ie the length the fairly to very heavy rain is going on.

Usually when you get a spurt of 70mm + it will ease off but this is regularally above 20

Continuing to ease here now down to 6.4mm/hr

Total 14.7mm in 90 mins-impressive

Spot on,it lasted here about 10mins with only 4.8mm that fell.
Has stopped for now.looks interesting in Wicklow alright.Nice colors on the radar.

http://www.metoffice.com/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html

Look at the red and white on that

By the way,I'm pretty certain my Davis rain guage is under recording,I'll have to look at it,I havent looked at it in an age.

Mothman

14mm

Snowbie

Spiders like to make a home for themselves under the tipping bucket,had the same trouble myself.Debris likes to gather there too

Mothman

eased a lot now. 15mm rate 6mm/hr

Mothman

17mm

Mothman

20mm

Snowbie

12.7mm here and has stopped again

Trogdor

13.5mm here now

Hal1

Any localised flooding been recorded? seems to have eased off a bit now.

Total came to 16.5mm,it parked itself at a drizzle/dry since then-though I reckon it was much more tbh.

I'll look at the rain guage tomorrow as its definitely acting up, there was torrents there at times and it took too long for it to register in my opinion

Hal1

Hal1 wrote:

Any localised flooding been recorded? seems to have eased off a bit now.

East Coast FM was reporting flash flooding along the N11 through co wicklow and was asking motorists to drive carefully.

Raining since about 9am.

Quite heavy at the moment 9.4mm/hr-though I havent looked at that guage yet.

Windy-gusting above 30mph at ground level from the south east.