Cork weather station records wettest November day in 33 years

A Cork weather station recorded its wettest November day in 33 years last month, according to Met Éireann’s weather statement for November 2024.

During Storm Bert, the weather station at Cork Airport recorded 52.4 mm of rain on November 23, making it the station’s wettest November day since 1991.

On the same day, the weather station at Roches Point recorded 55.6 mm of rainfall, giving that station its wettest November day since 2006.

Nationally, the highest daily rainfall total was 57.4 mm, which was recorded at Knock Airport, Co Mayo on the same day during Storm Bert, giving the station its wettest November day since it began recording rainfall 27 years ago.

For all of that, Met Éireann’s figures say that on average November 2024 was mild, dry for most part, and dull.

The first ten days were marked by anticyclonic gloom, with high pressure bringing very mild, cloudy and mostly dry conditions.

On Sunday 10, weak weather fronts crossed the country from the west, introducing light rain followed by a cooler, clearer air-mass with high pressure staying in control for the remainder of the second week.

However, pressure began to drop during the third week as high pressure moved away to the northwest.

Initially dry and mild, the weather turned cooler and wetter as Atlantic low pressure arrived, bringing frontal rain.

By Tuesday 19, a cold Arctic maritime air-mass moved south over the country, causing precipitation to turn wintry in places.

The following afternoon, a frontal trough arrived from the west and introduced rain that quickly turned to sleet and snow in some areas, with accumulations in parts of the west, midlands, south, and southwest by the morning of Thursday 21.

The fourth week was dominated by Storm Bert, a deep Atlantic depression named by Met Éireann, which brought the wettest and windiest period of the month, marking the end of the cold spell.

Heavy rain, preceded by snow in the Northwest, and strong winds moved across the country from the southwest late on Friday 22, leading to flooding incidents, particularly in the south, west, and northwest.

Storm Bert continued to affect the country until Monday 25, when it moved northeast.

A brief period of high pressure brought cooler, drier weather with night frost and fog before milder air and rain returned towards the end of the month.