Weather forecast for the Cork Half-Marathon in Blarney...(Updated Sun 14th 9 am)

With about 2 hours to go, the forecast looks bleak. It now looks like that there will a slow moving warm front over the country. This is likely to bring peristent rain or drizzle rather than just showers. The current forecast from Met Eireann is that "Spells of heavy rain developing in the western half of the country this morning may lead to localised flooding. The rain will spread east as the day goes on"

This is the Infra Red image from this morning. The warm front is going to over the country for most of the day. I think you can safely forget about getting any sunshine during the race!!

Here is the rainfall radar at 8am. Persistent rain is now approaching from the South West and should be in Blarney for most of the race.

The temperature is expected to be a mild 15 deg C with a light breeze from the South. This means that the wind will be behind the runners for the first half of the race and into their faces for the 2nd half.

Comments...

"According to Metcheck http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/today.asp?zipcode=cork we are getting around 10mm of rain for the Half tomorrow - not going to stop me going though! :o).........Sean O'Mahony"

"Thanks for all the weather updates John. Pity its not going to be like last year...Just finished breakfast now and it dosent look too bad but its on the way.@sean that metcheck site is pretty good. Looks better than met.ie .Looking forward to the race now :-) ........Derek"