Autumn 2022 - General Discussion

I'd be a bit concerned that there could be some flooding in south eastern and eastern parts today. There's a lot of heavy rain already in those areas and there's a lot more moving up from the south. I have also spotted what looks to a developing circulation west of Cornwall heading north or just east of north, towards the south east or just offshore.....perhaps a small cut off low? It might not result in anything out of the ordinary though and as I type, the rainfall intensity looks to be dropping; something to keep an eye on though.

Currently, in Meath and Louth, there are a couple of potent cells that have fired up, both of which could cause spot flooding and I would not be surprised if they begin sparking soon. One is just SW of Ardee and the other just north of Ashbourne. These will have been aided by the sunny breaks in that part of the country.

Looking at the UK Met Office charts, there could be some very heavy slow moving showers tomorrow and Thursday, due to the area of low pressure being centred over or very close to Ireland, a slack air flow, some embedded troughs and plenty of energy. CAPE and LI both look quite high too.

The people complaining about the drought and begging for rain are not the reason we have so much rain since last Friday. The weather had to break down at some stage and no one has control over it

Well obviously it's not caused by humans but longing for rain is a tad ironic in this country as you will certainly get what you wished for and lots more besides. And no it didn't have to break in such spectacular fashion. The summer in Kerry wasn't so fabulous that you'd expect such a radical deterioration.

38mm now and still raining

Of course there are,I am not denying that,wouldn't call the last few days severe bad weather. Anyways I think I will leave it at that,we both have made our points about the recent weather.

43mm since the rain started Friday here in Sligo but I'd say higher in the South and will be close to 100mm in total after today in some parts. Also the East is getting a lot from it.

Today and tomorrow will be wet and very showery Friday and Saturday dry before a spell of heavy rain Sunday then showery again next week but less so.

God almighty the amount of rain this morning is unreal here in NCD.

It stops for a while then another downpour starts.

By the end of this week we will have some amount of rain that has fallen and we have a long way until the end of month!

Edit: Just checked stats there 50mm until 5th Sep at Dublin airport and its still raining😏

Lashing all morning since the early morning in Tralee. As miserable a day as you could possibly imagine. Might be brightening up a bit now but I thought that at around 11AM only for it to come bucketing down again. Torture having weather like this and it is only 7th September.

Some big downpours about today but managed to avoid most of them, bit surreal how you can hear the wall of rain as it approaches.

Plenty of loud thunder also but hard to make out any lightning behind the rain. Nearly 60mm of rain here since Friday night, South Cavan.

It may be autumn over here but for SE England their summer just goes on and on and ......

Days of heavy downpours interspersed with clear spells.

Aww Barrow harbour. 🙂 One of the most stunning places in the world when the sun shines. And Barrow beach is my favourite. Love a jaunt there on a rare hot day when the tide is out and a wide expanse of golden sand stretching all the way over towards Banna and Ballyheigue beyond and it feels as if all the world is yours. Thanks for reminding me of those beautiful Kerry gems on these miserable days