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DUBLIN IS EXPERIENCING the wettest month it’s had for four years and is remarkably the wettest part of the country this November.
Data from Met Éireann has shown that each of the three monitoring stations in Dublin - Casement Aerodrome, Dublin Airport and Phoenix Park – has recorded more rainfall so far this month than in any month over the previous four years.
What’s more, the average rain across the three stations is greater than the rainfall at any of the 22 other stations around the county, despite Dublin usually being the driest.
Up to yesterday, total rainfall at the Dublin stations was 134 mm in Casement Aerodrome, 164.8 mm in Dublin Airport and 147.6 mm in Phoenix Park, an average of 148.8 mm.
That average is greater than any of other stations in the country, with Casement Aerodrome by itself only coming in behind Dunsany in Meath (147.9 mm), Valentia in Kerry (143.5 mm) and Gurteen in Sligo (144.7 mm).
What makes the rain in Dublin especially noteworthy this month is how out of kilter it is with average rainfalls for November over the three years previous.
The average for Dublin is usually 76.4 mm across the three stations so this month’s total is almost double the average with five days of the month still remaining.
That average of 76.4 mm would usually give Dublin the lowest rainfall of any of the meteorological stations across the country in November but this month the county has recorded the highest.
Even more noteworthy is that this month’s 148.8 mm is greater than the average rainfall at any of the other stations for November over the past three years, apart from Valentia in Kerry which usually has 169.3 mm of rain in November.
So far this month, Valentia has recorded 143.5 mm of rain. This station also recorded the wettest month anywhere over the past three years when 293.8 mm fell in January 2016.
In terms of what’s to come, Vincent Hogan of Met Éireann said that this month has been among the wettest all year but added that a period of drier weather is to be expected heading into next week.
“Once today’s episode is out of the way we’re looking at dry weather. There’s another event, a minor event, on Saturday whereby it will bring some rain again to the south but after today’s event and Saturday’s event, there’s indications of maybe a decent dry spell now, the first in a long time, for the weekend and next week,” he said.
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Waiting for all the boggers to come on and complain that the pale gets more of something than they do
@Vin: if u had ducks theyd drown boi
@Vin: sort out your own water and stop pilfering the “boggers” supplies
@Vin:
Your very welcome to it and If you get more of the same no problem,
@Vin: It makes a change from raining bullets. Say hello to all in West Britain from us boggers.
Well at least they’re not declaring it a national crisis, that’s what they normally do when there is a problem in Dublin.
@Mairtin Antaine O Conaill: Any examples? Or is the chip on your shoulder giving you hallucinations.
@Mairtin Antaine O Conaill: And to think they wanted to tax us because we would run out of it apparently…..now its because the infrastructure is not up to it supplying, pity all the money we paid over the years went else where (into pay and pensions) instead of actually doing what it was supposed to do and replace the infrastructure.
@David: the national housing crisis for one!! Plenty of houses outside Dublin.
@David: just think…boil water notices….you are more than welcome…no no don’t mention it…you’ll only embarass me…ah stttooopp will ya
@sinead foley-coleman: well said sinead. Parts of the country have boil water notices for the last year. Dublin get it for a few days and there’s uproar.
The Journal actually had to write “it’s not all about Dublin we know” due to the amount of people who can’t stand seeing the county/city name written anywhere.. God forbid the capital city makes the headlines more than a remote town with more sheep than people.
@David: Ain’t that cute, David thinks sheep are kept in town.
@Will: They are safer that way. David can’t “play” with them.
GnR & slash’s guitar solo now going through my head.
Not necessarily a bad thing.
Just waiting for someone to say this correlates with climate change without offering an ounce of causation..
@Lar Meyler: Hopefully you are right, but you will be long dead before you see the full effects so who cares right?……the thing is your kids won’t and theirs certainly won’t, that is if you have any. If sea levels raise if 1 meter cites on the coast will be swapped……but again who cares right its all just a lot of rubbish!
@Peter Hughes: “you will be long dead before you see the full effects so who cares right?”
Phew!
“the thing is your kids won’t ”
Oh well
“If sea levels raise (rise) if (even) 1 meter cites on the coast will be swapped (swamped)”
Ha ha
@Lar Meyler:
It does.
Pages 9-12
https://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/climate/research223.html
@Will: with all this climate change shite hoing around. Sure is alot of building going on in the flood plains on the Dublin Quays. Google and Linkedin amoung other buying up properties there. They dont seem one bit worried do they? The banks are still lending to build/buy along there too. Must be a good future investment.
It could do with a good wash in fairness!
No need to pump water from the shannon so
Donald Trumps fault….. Obviously
@Michael Byrne: No, it’s not. It’s the fault of Irish Water. The name is a bit of a giveaway, TBH.
@Michael Byrne: I’d say its cyclists, they get blamed for everything else
@Conoroconnor: Yiz are all wrong. It’s climate change. Sure we all know it never rained in November before the Henry started mass producing the car.
@Michael Byrne: Nah, it’s that damned Brexit’s fault!
How dare you
Sure the bog soaks up all the rain. But we complain we are not allowed to cut it up. Up the Dubs. And Tip. And sure the rain is better than the wildfires…. Every cloud
Global warming. 436,000 farm animals farted today causing worst rain in 4 years.
I haven’t heard the farmers complaining yet. The weather is a bit on the mild side for complaining
Wetter than an otters pocket
‘ worst in four years ‘ is hardly one for the history books all the same
Malahide estuary is over flowing now
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