Storm Babet - Oct 17th 2023

I get how you can be off with the forecast (and to be fair, it was by degrees, they had an orange warning out) but its the failure to react to the short term evidence that what they had warned was wrong which is where the issue lies. The weather can make a fool of anyone but when your short term models tell you things are going awry with your forecast and lives are being put at risk, you must take action - and publicise it.

there may be a big international story going on............but right now Newstalk are talking about Coleen Rooney and Rebecca Vardy, before that an entire segment with Alice Taylor and Terry Prone about the face of changing Ireland and popular names for kids! They have plenty of opportunity between segments or even in the middle of one to issue updates on weather and areas in the country that are flooded !

Where the hell is RTE's southern correspondent Plastic Sheeting at a time like this?!?!

Roads were bad as it was last night in Cork, given that and how much rain was forecast today, it wasn’t take a rocket scientist to determine things would be bad today to some extent.

Dunno but Killeagh is pretty bad also

We're nudging 32mm now in Arklow and it's absolutely teaming down

The roads here in West Cork are bad alright, the waterways haven't been cleaned out properly for many years, the old boys that knew where they were have retired & now they send out some young lad in a JCB & he knocks a hole through , but never in the right place, so the roads are acting as the drains. It looks like East Cork got it worse than us mind.

At one o'clock when the orange warning expired it was lashing harder than ever here.

Seems like it's all dropping as it hits the coast. Raining here at Rathdrum but it's nothing exceptional. It's strange how different it can be only a few km away.

We should be very proud today. Our top notch planning and state of the art drainage system has prevented that very rare wet substance that falls from the sky from causing any issue to our residents or damage to our infrastructure. Instead of spending money on countless traffic lights we invested wisely into drain maintenance and it paid off today.

Look forward to the normal hot sun being back again tomorrow and may we never see that wet stuff again.

Oh Look .. Scotland, Babet

Met eireann preformed poorly here. They should have at least went red early this morning. The British met office flagged this on Monday and named the storm. Their graphics from yesterday showed it hitting the South hard. They have a red alert issued for Scotland earlier today to prepare them for tomorrow. Posters on here flagged it and even though I'm from meath where no warning was issued, I prepared yesterday by cleaning drains and bringing in livestock.

I'm on hols in Killarney and currently in UHK in Tralee - it rained all day yesterday in Killarney, but I saw no rain or water this morning on the N22.

2 minute snippet on the flooding on six one. Shocking so little coverage from the national broadcaster on the natural distaster that has occurred in the largest county in Ireland.

To be fair it got a two minute report after 15 minutes on the RTE news without any follow up outside broadcast from a reporter. I know there is an awful lot going on in the world right now, much more serious stuff at that, but that is still pathetic. I am one of the idiots left paying my licence fee but this would certainly have you wondering why. I know loads of people whose kids, right now, are still stuck in school and can't be reached. No mention on the news. They are setting up a rest centre for evacuees in Midleton. That's not usual....