Dry, warm, sunny weather to return by the weekend?

darkman2

Hi,


Currently the weather is a bit disturbed to say the least but later this week two things look likely to happen - High pressure over Scandinavia is going to intensify - and the Azores high is going to build toward us.



http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rukm1441.gif

This is an ideal scenario for a more prolonged period of potentially very warm weather as a blocking high developes over Ireland and Britain. Its still a while out yet but the prospects look good for next week imparticular. Will post more details soon:)

dulpit

job...

ninebeanrows

Hey The LC starts next week, it is a certainty

darkman2

But my forcasting genius is rendered redundant then:( Its always sunny for the LC


- BTW If your doing the LC, best of luck.........keep the head down:)

ninebeanrows

darkman2 wrote:

But my forcasting genius is rendered redundant then:( Its always sunny for the LC


- BTW If your doing the LC, best of luck.........keep the head down:)

Thanks Darkman, i'll try my best! It's pretty difficult covering a 2 year course in a week though! I am trying my best and hopefully i'll be doing Science in Trinity next year:D

CrowdedHouse

Hope you're right about the weather,I'm off to Connemara next week

Supercell

Best of luck WC, now the time to keep the head down alright. Its always sunny during the LC, delighted to hear its coming around;)

mike65

Please let it be so. I've had enough of March

Mike.

Trogdor

Hopefully, the French seem to think so;)
http://www.lameteo.org/saison/season2.html

Weathercheck wrote:

Thanks Darkman, i'll try my best! It's pretty difficult covering a 2 year course in a week though! I am trying my best and hopefully i'll be doing Science in Trinity next year:D

Try revising a three year course for th JC...only joking, JC i nothing like the LC, and plus you've already done that;)
Good luck:D .
Are you going for science course in Trinity and then majoring in meteorology?

rc28

I just got my summer holidays today (i'm in 5th year) and geography was the last test today. 3 months of bliss, it hasn't really sunk in yet though:)
I bet that next year when I'm trying to study for the LC we'll get loads of snow around mock time and then a heatwave just before the real exams start:rolleyes:

Gonzo

its nearly always a given that ireland sees 26C and unbroken sunshine during the leaving cert period and 1st week of september back in school every single year:)

Snowbie

Lollers,my physics exam was interupted by a thunderstorm with hail lashing the windows.The relevance of the two,whats the chances.Long time ago that.
Best of luck WC,im sure we be snowed out when your doin your tests.:p

On topic,if that blocking high sits north of us,the usual onshore chilly wind would result here in the east.

darkman2

Snowbie wrote:

Lollers,my physics exam was interupted by a thunderstorm with hail lashing the windows.The relevance of the two,whats the chances.Long time ago that.
Best of luck WC,im sure we be snowed out when your doin your tests.:p

On topic,if that blocking high sits north of us,the usual onshore chilly wind would result here in the east.

Thats not a concern atm. The models have only picked it up and major changes will occur in the next couple of days. My guessing is that it will become a blocking high with a dry southeasterly wind which will limit mist and fog and it will become very warm inland. Cooler on coasts as you say but none-the-less glorious summer weather all the same. Personally right now im looking for the thundery breakdown:D

Indeed-this would make for a nice bank holiday w/end!

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1321.png

fatherdougalmag

Is there not going to be a good bit of ppn about?

hunnymonster

could we have cool and dry for the Cork marathon on monday?

ninebeanrows

6z shows a prolonged warm period from around Tuesday night :rolleyes:

Monday looks warm 17-21c i would think with cloud burning off through the day

Snowbie

Tristrame wrote:

Indeed-this would make for a nice bank holiday w/end!

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1321.png

Yup,nice to have the HP sitting over us than too far north.
In terms of warmth,id rather have it to our south.We got very little warmth in April and best temps where further west due to HP location.All the same looks like drying out a tad again.

darkman2

12 GFS is very good for the prospects of very warm sunny weather.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn1441.png

Coming together nicely.

CrowdedHouse

Any further updates on this Folks ?

darkman2

Yep, still looking very good. From later on Sunday really it should be fine dry and warmer right through next week. An Easterly though may peg back temperatures on the coast but inland and West anything up to 24C especially later in the week. Good sunshine with a continental flow too.

http://91.121.0.76/modeles/gens/run/gens-21-1-120.png?0

Met.ie:

But the tendency will be for the weather to clear from the west through Sunday with good spells of sunshine developing. The weather will then start to settle. Bank Holiday Monday will be dry with good spells of sunshine. And then through next week an anticyclone will continue to build to the north. The winds will turn easterly and the days will be bright and sunny. Temperatures will start to rise, reaching into the low twenties by the middle of next week.

CrowdedHouse

Great thanks - I'm off to Roundstone for a break.:D

Gonzo

good weather at last, the last 4 weeks were horrible.

fatherdougalmag

Not according to Met E <Sunniest May in 7 years>

darkman2

From tomorrow the sun will be shining - enjoy:cool: Might get the odd thunderstorm aswell:)

darkman2

It will turn hot and thundery by the end of the week:)

Howth head will be a good place to be Friday onward..........Tristame your first as usual - we expect only the best reports


BTW we are heading into a rather unusual period of weather when Easterlies will dominate. Whilst synoptics may suggest the flow is from Scandinavia - this is not the case. The upper flow is from the Southeast. 850hpa temps will show this and this is where our warmth will come from.


Also today will be sunny and warm for all.

ninebeanrows

There is a small cloud machine over Howth ensuring much of Dublin City recieves a cool murky day.

From my view point i can see blue sky literally 5 miles to my north, west and southwest!!

Although the line of blue is encroaching from the north now.

Gonzo

theres currently a 7C difference between the east and the west. Shannon has 22C while parts of the east are only 15/16C. Hopefully this will change over next few days and it will be warm on the east coast too.

BigCon

I'm fed up hearing about all this good weather. It was spilling rain all day Saturday and Sunday. Yeaterday was a murky miserable day too, and the long awaited sunshine predicted for toady has still failed to materilise - I don't think I've seen the sun in about a week.
Every time I look at the satellite picture here everywhere seems to be basking in Sunshine except Laois. Rant over.
Hopefully the sun will make an appearance soon...

completely sunny here since dawn in south wicklow.
just beautifull.
The sea breeze is NE though tempering the max here to just shy of 18c.

BigCon

Tristrame wrote:

completely sunny here since dawn in south wicklow.
just beautifull.
The sea breeze is NE though tempering the max here to just shy of 18c.

:rolleyes:
If it gets any duller here I'll have to turn on the lights.
Can't wait until I get my villa in Portugal, none of this unpredicatable Irish summer weather...

darkman2

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn782.png

Its going to get hot (potentially)

BigCon

Double post!

BigCon

That chart looks amazing. I wonder how long it will last. I'm doing the Whole Way Round run from 15th-18th June. It would be lovely it the good spell lasts until then!

Trogdor

darkman2 wrote:

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Rtavn782.png

Its going to get hot (potentially)

Looks good alright, 10C difference on the east coast and north-west though, from 24C to 14C:mad: .
http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/Rtavn7817.png


OT, but good luck tommorow WC, hope all goes well for you:)

rc28

Good luck trogdor and wc in the exams tomorrow- typical exam weather!

Gonzo

Theres always a heatwave at exam time and I bet as soon as the core Junior/Leaving cert exams are over the weather will break down again...

darkman2

Belmullet is at 19C at 9 in the morning (top temp here possibly today). Some low cloud here on the East coast will burn off soon hopefully.:)

Maybe we should spare a thought for our cousins in the UK........thankfully they act as a sheild between us and the North Sea so their week in Eastern Areas especially is going to be somewhat different to ours

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_uk_vis.html

Gonzo

usually we act as the shield for them from the Atlantic and they get all the warm sunny weather in summer and the cold snowy weather in winter!

rc28

Did anyone else find that boards wasn't working today (technically yesterday)?
Anyway meteireann are forecasting highs of 26c by next monday and tuesday:
http://www.met.ie/#

Gonzo

worked for me anytime I was on it, sometimes it does go down for a few minutes tho.

darkman2

The UK will be mainly cloudy for the next few days restricting temperatures. We should reach 27C before end of weekend before thundery weather moves with a pressure drop from the south.

Sponge Bob

just hit 22c outside. It was 24c at 7pm yesterday.

must mow my lawn

rc28

darkman2 wrote:

The UK will be mainly cloudy for the next few days restricting temperatures. We should reach 27C before end of weekend before thundery weather moves with a pressure drop from the south.

Ye I like the sound of meteireanns forecast:
"Saturday will be mainly dry with good spells of sunshine, light winds and highest temperatures of about 20 to 24 degrees. However rain will develop in the southeast in the late evening and spread across much of the country on Saturday night. It will be heavy and thundery in places"
Although yesterday they were forecasting 26c for end of weekend but now thats been downgraded to 24c- still pleasant tho:)

Danno

Hmmm, will these be imported storms? Or just an upper unstable layer that requires homegrown heat to trigger storms?

rc28

The following link really shows the temp contrast between UK and Ireland
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/Reurmett.html
It's great because usually in Summer it's always the other way round:D
24c in the west now.

darkman2

I dont think its going to be Saturday for the storms to develope tbh. Saturday should be dry, warm and sunny again. More likely to be Sunday/Monday I reckon before thundery showers break out as pressure drops from the South. Southeast England looks like having beefy storms tomorrow:)

darkman2

Danno wrote:

Hmmm, will these be imported storms? Or just an upper unstable layer that requires homegrown heat to trigger storms?

Partly imports, partly homegrown I would think:)

Trogdor

The weather after the six: one news had the storms arriving on Monday. Geography and Maths paper 2:(

rc28

Whoa, shannon is still at 21c at 8pm!
http://www.met.ie/latest/reports.asp

s8n

Lads,

Can anyone provide a reasonably accurate weather forecast for next weekend in the Irish Midlands ?