Saturday 2 May 2015

9mm rain since yesterday & plenty more to come!



Conditions.
I awoke this morning to the sound of steady rainfall.
Checked my rain gauge on the way over to the Lodge & 7mm have fallen since I emptied 2mm from it yesterday evening.
Plenty more rain is forecast for the day, & the weather will continue broken for much of the coming week.

The 06.30 radar picture shows the band of rain moving northwards through the catchment.


The 5 Day forecast picture predicts plenty of rain across the country at 18.00`moving up from the south & looking to come straight into the catchment.

The upper river at Millstreet is up 25cm on yesterday’s level & rising rapidly.

The upper river at Killavullen is just starting to rise at 07.00.


The lower river at Ballyduff is at 0.34m & hasn’t started to rise yet.

Water temperature at    Ballyduff: 9.3ºC / 49.0ºF @ 20.00 today.
Water temperature at Killavullen:   10.0 – 9.4ºC / 50.0 – 49.2ºF.

Prospects.
Hopefully we will have a good flood on the river in the next day or so.
High water combined with tides peaking at 3.8m at Youghal from Monday to Thursday next week should bring in the run of large double-figure May fish
and hopefully the first of the grilse.
Conditions should also be much more pleasant with daytime temperatures of 13-15ºC & nighttime temperatures of 5-6ºC.

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