Interesting weather yesterday for much of Dublin. Very heavy rain, with
embedded thunderstorms, crossed the area with much flooding reported.
Thankfully I was to the south of this "band" of bad weather and witnessed
only a few short, sharp showers. Dublin airport reported 76.2mm of rain with
highest temp of 21.5c. Casemont aerodrome also reported high totals but
nothing that high.

The news reports inform that our record rainfall for August was exceeded.
August 1986 was the date when the remnants of Hurricane Charley crossed
Ireland as I recall and to beat that figure took some amount of rain!!!

Extract from http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0810/floods.html

"Met Éireann has said that in the 24-hour period from midnight Friday until
midnight on Saturday 76.2mm of rain was recorded at Dublin Airport.
This is a new record for the month of August.
The previous record was 73mm which was recorded in August 1986."

Here's to some drier weather modelled for next weekend... ;-)

Joe

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:34:10 +0100, JCW wrote
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Interesting weather yesterday for much of Dublin. Very heavy rain, with
embedded thunderstorms, crossed the area with much flooding reported.
Thankfully I was to the south of this "band" of bad weather and witnessed
only a few short, sharp showers. Dublin airport reported 76.2mm of rain with
highest temp of 21.5c. Casemont aerodrome also reported high totals but
nothing that high.

The news reports inform that our record rainfall for August was exceeded.
August 1986 was the date when the remnants of Hurricane Charley crossed
Ireland as I recall and to beat that figure took some amount of rain!!!

Extract from http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0810/floods.html

"Met Éireann has said that in the 24-hour period from midnight Friday until
midnight on Saturday 76.2mm of rain was recorded at Dublin Airport.
This is a new record for the month of August.
The previous record was 73mm which was recorded in August 1986."

Here's to some drier weather modelled for next weekend... ;-)

Joe - the Dublin flooding made the news here in NI tonight. It seems
thousands were stranded in the city and south of the border.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 10/08/2008 20:01:03 GMT