Today
Has it rained enough in Cork?
Rain soaked properly in 4 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Cork has had 139.8mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 109.4mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
4 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Cork through a normal year
Across a normal year Cork gets about 963.6mm of rain, most of it in October (109.4mm) and least in June (69.7mm).
A normal October in Cork has rain on 18 days. Only 12 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Cork one of the drier places this site covers in Ireland in October — 5th of 8, against Sligo at the wet end (127.5mm) and Drogheda at the dry end (82.3mm).
JFMAMJunJASOctND
Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.