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MET ÉIREANN HAS issued a Status Yellow rain warning for counties Clare, Sligo, Donegal, Cork, Kerry, Galway, Leitrim and Mayo.
The warning will take effect from 10pm tonight and remain in place until 10am tomorrow.
The forecaster is predicting heavy and persistent rain at times with potential localised flooding, difficult travel conditions and impacts on outdoor events.
A small craft warning is also in place today for all coastal areas between midday and midnight.
⚠️UPDATED:Status Yellow-Rain warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry,Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo⚠️
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) August 26, 2024
Potential impacts:
•Localised flooding
•Difficult travelling conditions
•Outdoor events impacted
Valid:22:00 Mon 26/8 to 10:00 Tues 27/08
Warning➡️https://t.co/FFO2TOnWVe pic.twitter.com/9dAqgzLlBi
Tonight will be wet and windy with outbreaks of heavy rain, especially in areas along the Atlantic coast. An isolated thunderstorm is also possible, Met Éireann said.
Temperatures will be as low as 13 to 16 degrees with fresh to strong and gusty southerly winds.
Tuesday morning will be wet again, with a band of rain pushing gradually eastwards over Ireland and a continued chance of spot flooding.
Sunny spells and isolated showers will follow across the west during the morning, extending eastwards into the afternoon with the last of the rain clearing from the southeast by around mid-afternoon.
Highest temperatures are expected to be between 18 and 22 degrees in fresh southerly breezes, which will be strong at the coast.
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Hard to believe it’s still officially Summer, not that we’ve had one yet. However we are a pessimistic lot us Irish, so roll on next Summer!!
@The
It is autumn. October is deireadh Fómhair or the end of harvest and the beginning of the new agricultural year known as Samhain in antiquity and thousands of years going back to Newgrange people.
Midsummer on the June Solstice equates to noon or the middle of the day in terms of the sunrise/noon/sunset cycle. The time from sunrise to noon is the same as noon to sunset. The position of the North and South Poles defines the seasons due to their position relative to the Sun and the planet’s divisor ( line dividing light and dark hemispheres).
It is why May 1st is the beginning of summer, and there is no such thing as meteorological summer any more than there is astronomical noon and meteorological noon each day. The tv meteorologists have no business with their self-serving notion.
@The Firestarter: you are optimistic if you are already looking forward to next summer.
@Gerald Kelleher: Are you taking into account the gradual heating and cooling of the Earth when calculating the seasons?
@Gerald Kelleher: All divisions of the year into four seasons are arbitrary.
@Gerald Kelleher: So why is it still summer elsewhere in the northern hemisphere?
@The Firestarter: 1 August is beginning of autumn.. our latitude is very northerly. Plus the Virginia Creeper in the garden along with some trees are all changing colours.. I didn’t need to mention the winds and rain
@Brian:
Yes, I do.
The middle of the day (noon) is when your location is geographically between the time you exit the divisor (sunrise) and rotate back through it (sunset). Noon is not the warmest part of the day as temperatures increase between noon and 3 PM.
Midsummer is when the North Pole is geographically between the divisor, as there is just one sunrise on the March Equinox and one sunset on the September Equinox at that latitude. Temperatures increase through July and into August in the Northern Hemisphere after the Solstice, so the annual cycle imitates the same features as the daily cycle.
On this island, the New Year was always Samhain or around November 1st in our calendar, as it is the beginning of the new agricultural year. Midsummer and noon are connected this way.
@Brendan O’Brien:
If you wish to appreciate long-term cyclical weather (the seasons) as a point of departure for researching climate, it is important to appreciate the link between midsummer on the Northern June Solstice and noon, when the terms AM and PM anchor the day.
We live by the wake/sleep cycle, so it is perfectly fine to begin the new day at midnight; however, the links between the sunrise/noon/sunset cycle in terms of temperatures and timekeeping are anchored to noon. The same goes for the March Equinox/ June Solstice/ September Equinox cycle, all linked to planetary dynamics. The recent mess of meteorological seasons obscures what is genuinely important and within the reason of considerate adults.
Midsummer is the June Solstice, and midwinter is the December Solstice.
Over 100 working in Met Eireann. 1 working in Carlow weather, and guess who’s more accurate.
Is this for real?
How can Met Eireann call itself a weather forecasting agency when it can’t seem to give an accurate forecast over a 24 hour period.
“Oh sorry, the rain we forecast for today won’t arrive until tomorrow.”
I know climate change is the excuse for everything these days but this is ridiculous.
@Garry Coll: they get ot wrong every day, I wonder if they make it up.
@Sean Money:
It’s all manipulation Sean.
The cold weather is a shock
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