On November 5th/6th 2000, the east of Ireland suffered their wettest November days since 1982. Rain began early on the 5th over Kerry as a depression of 972hPa approached the southwest coast. The depression moved eastwards over Munster during the day deepening to 969hPa over southern England by 12:00 on the 6th. By 09:00 on the 5th, heavy rain had spread into most eastern, southern and midland areas. It was continuous near the east and southeast coast until the afternoon of the 6th. There was considerable flooding in the east and southeast following the rainfall with widespread disruption of transport. Flood damage to property is estimated at £40 million.
In addition to the heavy rain, there were easterly or northeasterly gale to storm force winds near southern and southeastern coasts during the same period. Rain continued to linger in eastern and northeastern regions on the 7th.
Some daily rainfalls (mm) for the period.
All of this was falling onto already very saturated ground from what had been a very wet start to the Autumn season with one of the wettest Octobers on record and whilst it was not as wet as September 1999, September 2000 was also quite a wet month. Autumn 2000 remains the wettest Autumn on record to this day with so many major flooding events taking place, this one on November 5th/6th was one of them. Funny fact is that I, Sryan Bruen, was born nearly exactly a week after this flooding event took place.
Very similar chart to that of December 8th 1954 when a similar severe flooding event occurred in Dublin: https://bruener45.wixsite.com/britishislesclimate/blog-1/dublin-flooding-of-december-1954
Here's an RTÉ Archive video on the event: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/1104/739593-flooding-in-ireland/
The BBC even mention Dublin here.
Courtesy of Steve Humphreys, Lucan, Co. Dublin in November 2000.
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/garden-of-earthly-delights-where-floods-are-par-for-the-course-1.320461
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