Heavy rain in many parts of the country since Thursday last has boosted rainfall figures significantly and compensated for an extremely dry July.
Analysis of rainfall levels at Met Éireann’s automatic weather stations for the meteorological summer months of June to August shows that, despite contending with drought for much of July and August, a number of locations recorded their highest rainfall figures of the last three summers.
That was the case at Johnstown Castle in Co Wexford, Moorepark in Co Cork and Mullingar in Co Westmeath, with 190mm, 158mm and 222mm recorded at the respective locations.
Rainfall at all three stations has been below Met Éireann’s long-term average (LTA) for each of the last three years. This is also the case at a further six stations, namely Ballyhaise, Gurteen, Mount Dillon, Oakpark, Roches Point and Sherkin Island. The LTA is the average for the climatological reference period 1991-2020.
At 139mm, Oak Park in Carlow had the lowest rainfall this summer followed by Dunsany in Meath at 151mm and Roches Point in Cork with 156mm. The northwest had the highest levels of precipitation this summer, with 330mm recorded at Newport and 274mm in Belmullet in Mayo and 256mm noted at the station in Malin Head, Co Donegal.
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