Well there went our summer! Listening to Radio 1 this morning, weatherman Gerard Fleming forecast about 100mm of rain up to tomorrow (friday) afternoon on the Cork / Kerry border. We had about 30mm last night, so we’ve a bit to go yet, and add in some high winds tonight too … but it seems to be just coming and coming! To put it into perspective, in the very bad flooding in June 2009, we got 92mm, though in the space of a few hours.
All the same, look the video below which might give you a laugh, and make you forget about it … for a short while 😉 …
D’Unbelievables – “She’d be a lovely little country if you could only roof it!!
10am 31mm
2pm 42mm
5pm 62mm
10pm 69mm
….still coming down, but the worst is gone
Here’s a video of the Aubane river as a raging torrent last evening at Laharn (near Aubane), … taken by Fr James McSweeney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuhqf2sEEyw
“Nearly a months’s rain (over 50mm) fell yesterday in many parts of the south and west. This is a time of year when silage cutting should be in full swing, bees buzzing with a nectar flow and the smell of fresh mown hay wafting across the meadows. Instead we’re getting downpours and floods that we normally expect later in the year. This video clip is of the River Aubane as a raging torrent last evening at Laharn, near Millstreet, Co.Cork (Irl)”