Storm Babet - Oct 17th 2023

We all know Cork should have been in a red warning ⚠️ because of the 130+mm in 24 hours ,but at this stage I think met eirrean are nervous becoming of the back lash and I thought because of the shannon radar they'd no more but obviously not , this to me is screaming 2009 with bad floods but that was more focused on the west more so than the south

As regards the town of Midleton and environs, worse as its more widespread

No one said it was their fault but they are a corrupt little dive up in the pale with no coverage of todays events in Cork and they are supposed to be a national broadcaster .

Awful for Cork . 💕💕 Wicklow has gone Orange - are we expecting intensity as it’s just been a heavy drizzle all day ?

If it happened in Dublin RTE would be covering it live very poor mention on news bulletins always noticed the same about any storm damage in Galway

Yes should have been a red, it probably wouldnt have saved some of the houses that were flooded, some people do the usual "should have been prepared" but you cant stop water that is half way up the house. Most flood defences only got a couple of feet up the door.

But it would have 1. Kept people off the road this morning and 2. Kept kids out of school which would have gone a long way to alleviate people having to make journeys putting themselves and others in danger.

I know a few people who can't get home as they had to pick up kids from school and they're stuck now. That's avoided with a red warning

Cork flooding is top headline on RTE Website. I'm no fan of RTE. I'm a Dub and would never notice if coverage is bias or not but RTE are fairly bias on loads of things so why not geography!

Altho as a Dub I know all too well how much of a chip the rest of the country has towards us. So I'm unsure if this is just a manifestation of said chip.

It's quite tipping it down In South wicklow at the moment,

Thats likely to push up the M11 in the next while making for a rough commute to the south Pale,with driving rain and standing water

It's going to move reasonably quickly so unlikely to be a patch on what has happened in East Cork for that reason

5 or 6 hours of heavy rain vs 24hrs+

The rain levels seems to be receding from Cork now. Cork airport was showing 8.5mm at 9am and 6.9mm at noon. It is now showing 2.6mm at 3pm.

Midleton should also get relief from the low tide at 4pm allowing water to discharge.

The Carrigaline water station at Ballea has simply gone off the charts hitting a new record.

Last 24 hours => Realtime waterlevel

Very colourful predictive rainfall on met.ie for North of Dublin from around around 7pm-midnight. Then persistent heavyish rain afterwards for a few hours.

Has the red warning trigger been broken around Cork or not?

Someone said its 50mm to 80mm. If so, yes and then some.....

It’s beyond a joke how Met Eireann get their collective knickers in a twist over relatively minor autumnal gales -

But completely miss giving adequate warning for some of the worst floods ever !!!

this isn’t the first time either that they’ve messed up.

Recent retirements of long standing hugely experienced weather forecasters.

Something seriously amiss in Glasnevin???

My niece was stuck in school in midleton today my brother had to wade through the flood waters to collect her and carry her away. Some of the teachers said they’d be spending the night in the school. Crazy stuff.