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RIVER LEVELS IN Athlone remained high today, following rain over the weekend, with some flooding in the town centre and surrounding areas.
Met Éireann has issued a yellow weather warning and the latest rainfall radar is not very encouraging:
Today Athlone Town Council said river levels remain high but that flooding to low lying houses has not occurred.
“Based on the current weather forecast, the Council is expecting river levels to stabilise in or around current levels over the next five days,” town clerk Pat Keating said today. “However, the situation will be kept under constant review and a further update will issue if the situation changes significantly.”
Rail services
Flooding in certain parts of the country also affected transport services and Iarnróid Éireann cancelled the 4pm service between Connolly and Sligo today because of “extreme weather conditions”. The line between Dromod and Carrick-Shannon is also being served by a bus transfer with some delays.
With widespread heavy showers forecast over the next two days, we wouldn’t suggest you bring in the sandbags just yet…
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I’m told there are countries abroad where it does NOT rain every day. I don’t know whether to believe this or not.
Na..that can’t be true.somebody is winding you up…
I want to go to there :(
10. Tavoy, Myanmar:
9. Kikori, Papua New Guinea
8. Henderson Lake, British Columbia:
7. Andagoya, Colombia:
6. Bellenden Der Range:
5. Quibdo, Colombia:
4.Debundscha, Cameroon:
3. Waialeale, USA (Hawaii):
2. Mawsynram, India:
1. Cherrapunji, India:
The top 10 wettest places
(ps – i always thought no2 was wettest but maybe it’s not anymore)
I presume Henderson lake is as wet as any other lake?
11.athlone
Angela’s Ashes was filmed in Athlone
Paul it was filmed in limerick
It might be an advantage if the locals were born with webbed feet.
Twas a joke!
If anyone complains about the sun or the heat again,if we get sun/heat again il slap them!! (I prob won’t slap them but I will give them an unimpressed look)
Remind me never to fu*k with you so :-)
Out for a run in shorts and t-shirt today, nice sunny early spring day here in Zurich :-)
Go dude…looks like sone are suffeing from red thumb envy to me !
The Irish don’t get a tan, we get rust.
Good ole factor WD40.
How is it that the rain always seems to curve around dublin unlike the rest of the country?
The Wicklow and Dublin mountains provide a rain shadow. They push clouds up high were they cool and precipitate. So the mountains get all the rain before the clouds have a chance to hit Dublin. Still rains in Dublin obviously, but less than most other areas. There’s generally a rain shadow on the lee side of any big enough mountain range.
Shure the people of athlone have nothing but rain and suffering to look forward to
Would anybody even notice if Athlone just like, disappeared overnight?
Probably
Seem ESB have stopped letting off as much water from parteen weir as water levels have dropped in south east Clare
Is the amount of rain the reason for the Athlone hippos?
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