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General => Kayaking => Topic started by: Fuzzy on March 22, 2010, 00:23:07

Title: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Fuzzy on March 22, 2010, 00:23:07
The flesk guage (http://www.irishwhitewater.com/gauge/index.php) looks interesting.
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Bill C on March 22, 2010, 10:31:02
Our plan was to run that this weekend....

Hmm....
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Matt on March 22, 2010, 15:16:49
Not sure, but I thought I heard somewhere the Flesk gauge wasn't working...
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Simon R. on March 22, 2010, 15:29:02
its been reading crazy for a good while....
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Bill C on March 22, 2010, 20:08:09
Reassuring.
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Yu Liu on March 23, 2010, 11:45:01
Annamoe gauge still hasn't been fixed. damn.
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Ley-Ley on March 23, 2010, 11:47:39
You can be sure it's still dog low.
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: JODY on March 23, 2010, 17:12:28
Word is Annamoe is low but doable, i havent been paddling in weeks.... i'll go for a scrape if anybody is up for it!
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: rog on March 23, 2010, 19:28:30
Quote from: JODY on March 23, 2010, 17:12:28
Word is Annamoe is low but doable, i havent been paddling in weeks.... i'll go for a scrape if anybody is up for it!

Really?
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: JODY on March 23, 2010, 19:32:10
Well thats what i was told  :P
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: Eoghan on March 23, 2010, 20:19:13
a post like that is like throwing steak to starving lions jody!! WATER IN WICKLOW is all I see in that post - not the bit about you being unsure  :D
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: JODY on March 23, 2010, 20:44:43
Well i did say i'd head down for a scrape!

I dunno how reliable my source is but there was a heap of rain on Friday as i drove through Wicklow!
Title: Re: There seems to be a lot of rain in the southwest
Post by: kmck on March 24, 2010, 07:57:01
Water levels in wicklow, if it hasn't rained for a number of weeks, the boglands dry up. These get re wetted with rain but it can take alot before this hits the rivers. Luckily for you guys there has been a massive loss of peat in the wicklow mountains, which means the holding capacity has decreased and water hits the rivers faster. Bad news is that while the water rises faster it also drops faster because it's no longer a steady flow rather a spate type flow.