Autumn 2022 - General Discussion

Met Eireann I think got this one wildly wrong no? Rained hard here in South Wicklow from 11 until 4.30 or so, just warm and muggy now. Their forecast is still warning of heavy rain tonight and into tomorrow for the SE but not seeing that on other forecasts.

So there we go, another headline grabbing warning and we end up with a wet morning in Cork, followed by drizzle and fog. A few puddles around with places prone to surface flooding pooling.

We really do need to get a grip of these warnings, as I mentioned last week the UK use them a lot less than we do. Ya see the general public don't really follow yellow, orange and reds like we do, they just here the warning part. It's a flawed system, with the bar needed to be set higher in my opinion for the yellows!!

Don't know but the 2nd attack from the South never materialised. Can't blame Met Eireann as the models kind of changed tack within 12 hours. This is not a bashing exercise for Met Eireann as they do a great job. What I would like to see though is an open discussion as to whether these warnings criteria are set too low, especially the yellow one. In a world dominated by social media perhaps a more imminent warning would work better and be more accurate

This site won't work for me either so never use it. Oh wait used it on that hot day in July to see the temperatures but computer crashed. Its a dud.

Just look at ogimet as that loads properly like every other website. Think they have 31mm for Cork today. A reasonable amount but not really yellow warning. Maybe just an advisory would do these events.

I'm using Chrome, it is slow to pull up the info.

Kerry Climbing shouldn’t be organising a hike for a day such as yesterday regardless of what colour the warning criteria was. So what if it’s sold out, it was torrential rainfall for hours. One wrong foot or slip and you could have a serious situation or loss of life. Rocks could be loose, streams pumping water across paths unexpectedly. Met Eireann cannot win - yellow is too low for some, yet for me yellow wind warnings means take down trampoline netting as they can gust up have gusts up to 110 km/h and often do. The models got this rain wrong, not Met Eireann. The main issue with the warnings is in a county such as Galway - the wind warnings apply to say Ballinasloe as well as Conemarra. That’s where the adjustment is needed.

Really foul morning this morning in Cork. Looking forward to a bit of sun over the next few days or so.

Well Met Eireann got it right for Dublin yesterday anyway.

It started raining from about 10am with torrential rain from about 12pm to 3pm.

We were only running from front door to car and rain was so heavy our jackets were totally soaked and when we came home from shops the tiles were still wet from rain that had gotten in front door!

That has never happened before.

It was drizzly then for rest of evening so it certainly never took up here.

Currently raining here and has been drizzly all morning.

Hopefully it starts clearing up tomorrow.

It was manky in the south east too. We had booked to go camping this weekend but the thoughts of packing away the tent wet and having to take it out again put us off. - it’s a big tent.

I can't get over how damp and humid it is, absolutely no drying out even when there's no rain. Even on Saturday there was very little drying in this area despite the sunshine and heat.

On a side note, another great forecast from Met Eireann for today. They had light rain/drizzle early in the morning with a dry afternoon and it's been raining heavily for the past 2 hours here in South Wicklow. Their rain forecasting has been very poor for this area in the past few weeks and it's massively impacting me because I'm trying to get outdoor work done and it's impossible to organize anything. I cancelled contractors last week and the days ended up better than expected, and today the contractor has left because he can't work in the rain. I'm not normally a critic of Met Eireann but the past week in particular has been incredibly frustrating.

Is Gerry Murphy sick he doesn't look well

September is now the wettest month of this year at Dublin Airport and has gone above the 95mm mark, almost at 100mm now!

Maybe he's sick to death of the weather, month after month of above average temperatures.