Autumn 2022 - General Discussion

horrible commute this morning to dublin heavy rain wind surface water pitch black. I’ve said it before but the people I met moaning about the heat last summer I’d love to punch! I’m joking of course but I personally don’t like this time of year at all. Will get away for a week again next month thankfully.

Torrential rain overnight in Clonmel anyway, a river of water flowing down the Heywood road from the rugby club direction, I'd be surprised if there wasn't some flash flooding.

Status Yellow - Rain warning for Louth, Monaghan and Donegal

• Met Éireann Weather Warning
• Heavy pulses of rain may lead to flooding in places.
• Valid: 12:23 Monday 21/11/2022 to 20:00 Monday 21/11/2022
• Issued: 12:24 Monday 21/11/2022
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Status Yellow - Wind warning for Cork and Kerry

• Met Éireann Weather Warning
• Particularly strong west to northwest winds are expected for a time this evening and tonight with gusts in excess of 100 km/h.
• Valid: 20:00 Monday 21/11/2022 to 04:00 Tuesday 22/11/2022
• Issued: 11:50 Monday 21/11/2022

Status Yellow - Wind warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry, Galway

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Very strong and gusty west to southwest winds during Wednesday afternoon and evening. Gusts of up to 90 to 110km/h, strongest winds in exposed areas. Potential for localised spray and wave overtopping along Atlantic coasts.

Valid: 13:00 Wednesday 23/11/2022 to 19:00 Wednesday 23/11/2022

Well it's official now, autumn 2022 is the wettest autumn on record for Valentia Observatory beating 2000 by 0.4mm to 22nd Nov. Records here go back to 1892.

731.5mm to 22nd Nov.

Autumn 2000 was 731.1mm.

Just brutish conditions here in Galway with heavy rain and hail that is ready to smash the windows in. A grim as it gets.

And now loud thunder.

Yet you'll find people who talk up the weather in Ireland with the, "Ah shur tis grand, could be worse" attitude.

I have always maintained that the climate here in Kerry is one of the toughest to endure and I'm not that young and have lived in plenty other spots both nationally and internationally. The south west and west of Ireland are every bit as rain sodden and miserable as Frank Mc Court described in his 1996 memoir of growing up in Limerick in 30's and 40's, Angela's Ashes, so it's not just down to climate change. Granted when the weather is good it is nice here, but that's quite a rarity. People with neurological and arthritic complaints, like my elderly parents, seem to really suffer in this all pervasive damp, which is why I've always planned not to spend my senior years here.

Folks may disagree but I find having to live, work and commute in this constant rain really stressful. And forget trying to do something like plan a weekend away!

The rain itself does not bother me, but the older I get, the more realise that the air here in the west of Ireland is not good. Went for a walk last night with a mate of mine and despite not raining at the time, you could feel the chilled, dank, saturated air piercing your lungs with every intake of breath and with everywhere dripping but no rain actually falling. If I had the opportunity I'd be out of here like a shot and move to the interior of some big continent where when the skies are blue, they are deep blue and when the skies are black, they are really black. Not like here where every colour in the sky is blanched out due to amount of water in the air.

Sick of the rain myself but its been a pretty dry year overall, would have preferred if the rainfall had been more spread out through the year instead of the wash out autumn. Anyway looks like things should become dryer later next week and cooler as we come more under the influence of air from the continent instead of the Atlantic .

Apart from wanting to be close to family, the only other thing that has stopped me from moving to a place with a warmer climates is the long evenings during late a spring and into summer.

I've said it before and I'll say it again I could never live in west of Ireland.

It's bad enough the amount of rain we get in Dublin but the West/Southwest can get double that.

No thanks.

My commute to work this morning was dangerous with the torrential rain on motorway.

McBurns I know what you mean, we were in Bushy Park last Saturday morning and I couldn't believe how quite playground was. Now it was freezing cold but no wind so once you were wrapped up it was grand.

In contrast, I walked to shop on Sunday morning and it was so cold with wind it was hard to breathe and even with hat on my ears were still freezing!

I always get out when we can but unfortunately we have had way too many rainy days this autumn.