Today
Has it rained enough in Sligo?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Sligo has had 168.2mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 127.5mm, 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
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Sligo through a normal year
Across a normal year Sligo gets about 1335.3mm of rain, most of it in October (127.5mm) and least in April (83.1mm).
A normal October in Sligo has rain on 22 days. Only 16 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Sligo the wettest place this site covers in Ireland in October — 127.5mm against Drogheda's 82.3mm at the other end.
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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.