[Elmer Blooker]

I was thinking the same yesterday, this winter was similar to 91-2 - a nothing winter with high pressure close by. I have some old photos (pre digital era) taken on April 4th '92 showing heavy snow lying in Glencree in the Dublin mts.
I also remember a fairly heavy fall in mid April 1998 after a winter also similar to this nothing winter.
Your mum may be right? (sure aren't mammies always right!)

[Deep Easterly]

Originally Posted by Elmer Blooker

I also remember a fairly heavy fall in mid April 1998 after a winter also similar to this nothing winter.

Can remember getting some heavy snow showers as recently as either April 2007 or 2008 (bad memory). I think as a month though April is probably one, if not the most boring month of the year for weather in this country. Any warmth you might get in it is as fickle as any cold it may deliver.

Roll on a hot 40c + summer with plenty of warm, healthy showers.

[Gonzo]

conditions here already feel more summer like and warmer than anything we saw during the height of the summer last year and it's still March. Finger's, toe's everything crossed that this summer will be decent in terms of sun and warmth with a few spanish plumes for good measure, we truly deserve it after a countless run of bitterly crap summers.

[Elmer Blooker]

FI I know but a northerly blast has been showing in recent charts.
Bring it on! who wants summer in March? Darkman might reappear soon?

[Lucreto]

Originally Posted by Elmer Blooker

I was thinking the same yesterday, this winter was similar to 91-2 - a nothing winter with high pressure close by. I have some old photos (pre digital era) taken on April 4th '92 showing heavy snow lying in Glencree in the Dublin mts.
I also remember a fairly heavy fall in mid April 1998 after a winter also similar to this nothing winter.
Your mum may be right? (sure aren't mammies always right!)

What temperatures would that bring?

Another thing, I was looking at some old photos and I came across a picture of me at the Dublin zoo in 1990 with a heavy coat with snow. The camera recorded the date on the actual picture and it was the first week in June.

Doesn't anyone remember it happening or do you think its an error with the date on the camera?

[Elmer Blooker]

It was an error with the date on the camera.
June 1990. TM = max, Tm = min

http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/D...1990/39690.htm

[Gonzo]

i dont remember the 1992 April cold event but i do remember one around the late 80s where we woke up to almost a foot of snow during first or second week of April, however the sun came out around 10am and most of the snow was melted by sunset.

[blackius]

Originally Posted by Elmer Blooker

I was thinking the same yesterday, this winter was similar to 91-2 - a nothing winter with high pressure close by. I have some old photos (pre digital era) taken on April 4th '92 showing heavy snow lying in Glencree in the Dublin mts.

Glencree is in county wicklow...

The winters from 91-92 onwards was the start of a roll of mild snowless for most winters,with the exception of the last week of december '95 iirc.

[nilhg]

"Experts" are predicting that the European freeze may have cut up to 5 million tons of wheat from this years harvest,

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...e-drought.html


And now drought threatens to deliver a followup blow.

http://www.noggersblog.co.uk/prices/blog/EUdrought.png


Paris wheat is up close to €40 a ton since early December