Today
Has it rained enough in Kilkenny?
Rain soaked properly in 4 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Kilkenny has had 122.9mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 93.8mm, 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 Kilkenny through a normal year
Across a normal year Kilkenny gets about 874.5mm of rain, most of it in October (93.8mm) and least in April (63.8mm).
A normal October in Kilkenny has rain on 17 days. Only 11 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Kilkenny one of the drier places this site covers in Ireland in October — 6th of 8, against Sligo at the wet end (127.5mm) and Drogheda at the dry end (82.3mm).
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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.