Current Weather Conditions-May 2008

Mothman

Sunny clear sky,
min 3C, grass min -3C

Current temp 5C and calm

Lovely start

Snowbie

Nice morning and cool. Convection already to my west albeit slight for now.

mike65

Very spring like, well it is May!

Mike.

Supercell

Currently 10.0 and fair weather all day, very nice.

Had a pretty decent little hail shower earlier.

DOCARCH

Mod/Heavy Sleet reported at Oak Park, Carlow at 18.00 - 5.1mm :eek:

Summer me a**e!

Mothman

Cold tonight.
2C and falling slowly

Danno

Not a bad day all in all. Maxed at 13.9c after 3pm. Minumum was 3.1c before 6.30am. Total rain was 0.8mm from a shower after 9pm. Nice sunny spells throughout. I see the bluebells are starting to flower. Hope to go down the woods this weekend with the camera.

Mothman

Very frosty this morning. There will be some casualties, spuds and other vegetables
and maybe even Ash trees.
Air min +0.6C
Grass min record low for May -5.4C

secman

As I left Wexford, just south of Gorey at 5:30 am this morning it was raining very heavily, the edge of this "cloud" seemed to be around Beehive pub. From there on it was a glorious sunny morning. Sunny south east how are you !


Secman

mike65

That rain was here too, gone now. Plenty of cloud which has the look of showers once the temp rises.

Mike.

Mothman

Mothman wrote: »

Very frosty this morning. There will be some casualties, spuds and other vegetables
and maybe even Ash trees.
Air min +0.6C
Grass min record low for May -5.4C

Much milder down here.
We had that rain spoken about in the post above.

Currently there is a moderate rain shower (2nd or 3rd this morning).
Quite breezy too gusting above 20mph SSE in the showers.

There are quite a few cb's in evidence.

10.3c

Raining cats and dogs now according to the Davis console.
33.3mm/hr absolutely lashing with hail


I thought the winking weatherman last night said these showers today were to be mainly in the northern half of the country...

arctictree

Just had a REALLY heavy hail shower here. Now its raining heavy and the sun is out. Water is flowing down the road outside the house - Havn't seen that in a while...

A

Snowbie

Lashed hail here too from a broken cloudy sky. Very localised and the hail was medium sized too.

Supercell

arctictree wrote: »

Just had a REALLY heavy hail shower here. Now its raining heavy and the sun is out. Water is flowing down the road outside the house - Havn't seen that in a while...

A

Nothing here, just a couple of light showers, barely enough to wet surfaces.

Deep Easterly

Currently 10.3c with light rain. Recorded 17mm of rain between 4pm and 7pm during a series of short lived, but torrential showers. Will post up a few pics of cloudscapes tomorrow.:)

mike65

Raining and mild.

Mike.

mike65

Mild and overcast, the rain must have moved on pretty early as its dry.

Mike.

Milky sunshine in a white sky.
11.2c

Mothman

Suddenly got quite warm duirng past hour. Up 3C duirng the hour
Sunny

Nearly 17C.

UV is high today.

mike65

Cloud lifting and breaking.

Mike.

Deep Easterly

18.1c:) Warmest temp of the year so far despite no sun and light showers.

Apeliotus..

At last we are breathing the breath of God.

Edit. Sun just broken through.

18.3c

At long last.

Mothman

A few 19C around country, though not down in Cork, 12C there.

!7C here, breezy and sunny.

Snowbie

Max temp here was 15.9c
Sunny throughout but a SSE wind keeping it cooler here by the coast.

Mothman wrote:

UV is high today

Got a UV of 6.7 today.

Snowbie

Snowbie wrote: »

Max temp here was 15.9c
Sunny throughout but a SSE wind keeping it cooler here by the coast.

Indeed,I was in Tullow today-beautifully sunny skies and the car temp reading 19c(Nice branty new Tesco there I see...I bet the local corner shops aren't happy!)
I got a call from longford to say their car temp was reading 22c up there.

As I climbed over the hills towards the East coast and back towards arklow,the car temp at 3pm had dropped back to 14c! Still in blue sunny skies but up at 800ft or so in full wind from the Irish sea about 5 miles east of there.
I see the peak here was only 14.7c-unsurprising as the wind at ground level here off the sea was hitting almost 30mph)
Fully cloudy now with spots of light rain.

Danno

17.4c here today. clear blue sky all afternoon. breezy.

high cloud overhead now.

Mothman

Wet breezy 12C, just above overnight min

Snowbie

Dry with no sign of any rain. It traveled up through the country just west of here last night.
Min of 11.6c
Currently 13.4c

mike65

Wet at times earlier, now sunny and drying out. Warm

Mike.

Danno

Got 7.8mm of rain since midnight. Sunny with fair weather cloud now. 16.3c and looking sweet.

Alot of the rain seems to have come in two sharp downpours - at 4am and just before 8am. Would anyone know if there were thunderstorms in that front?

mike65

Now like summer, still drying out though. It must have come down last night.

Mike.

Snowbie

@Danno.
Have screenshots of the triangulated lightning from earlier on and in some instances a 1985 type set up was in the making, well not here but the UK. Humid and moist air was advected north from the Bay of Biscay and a squall line developed this morning (7am) over east Wales.

Meanwhile temp is at 19.1c now but a hint of a sea breeze developing now with wind slightly backing into the SE from a SW direction most of the morning.

Snowbie

I see the sea breeze has invaded Bray where trogdor is(15.5c). Atm i have a massive 5c higher here with still a SW land breeze persisting for now.

Clear overhead.
20.5c and is very warm out.
UV 5.3
50% RH
1015.8mb

Damomanye

19.6c here in Limerick
47% Humidity
nice and warm

Mothman

20.0C

Need I say more?

Snowbie

Snowbie wrote: »

I see the sea breeze has invaded Bray where trogdor is(15.5c). Atm i have a massive 5c higher here with still a SW land breeze persisting for now.

Clear overhead.
20.5c and is very warm out.
UV 5.3
50% RH
1015.8mb

Breeze is actually turning land here now,having been SE off the sea so far.
17.5c

Trogdor

Snowbie wrote: »

I see the sea breeze has invaded Bray where trogdor is(15.5c). Atm i have a massive 5c higher here with still a SW land breeze persisting for now.

Clear overhead.
20.5c and is very warm out.
UV 5.3
50% RH
1015.8mb

It be gone now. I'm at 20.7C

Danno

17.9c here. I think you're getting a fohn effect in and around Dublin, lads.

Snowbie

trogdor wrote: »

It be gone now. I'm at 20.7C

Welcome to the dizzy heights:D

Danno wrote: »

17.9c here. I think you're getting a fohn effect in and around Dublin, lads.

Nah, You south midland folk keep generating that heat down there and keep sending it this way.:p

20.7c and a SW breeze circa 5mph.
46% RH

Trogdor

Snowbie wrote: »

Welcome to the dizzy heights:D

21C. Absolutely gorgeous outside!

Mothman

Official 20.4C max so far.

This is actually the earliest in year to record 20C+, previous was 12th May.

But to put it in perspective, I've recorded 19.6C in March.

REcords back to 1999

Snowbie

20.8c now with a gust of wind that came outa nowhere (22mph) odd.
Slight breeze from the SW and then that gust from the SE and now back to SW. Almost as if the seabreeze is tryin to knock on the door here but is losing atm.:D

20.9C now like MM, my highest temp for the first half of May.

Weather BOFH

Reached 22.1C around 4pm here, down now to 21.6C in a light SW breeze.

More of this please over the comming months!

Danno

Maxed out at 18.8c here today. A bit on the breezy side taking from the enjoyment of it. Hopefully it will be less breezy tomorrow then.

Snowbie

Max of 21.3c
20.5c atm

Out in Howth and there was still nothing of a seabreeze either.
Glorious day and very warm.

Snowbie

Mothman wrote: »

Official 20.4C max so far.

This is actually the earliest in year to record 20C+, previous was 12th May.

But to put it in perspective, I've recorded 19.6C in March.

REcords back to 1999

On the 9 Weather, they had the official max of 19.9C in the Phoenix park today.
Was your 20.4C from AWS and not from your screened MM? I was surprised your data was not included.:)

It seems the east of the country fared better in temps today than the rest of the country.
Unofficially i recorded my highest ever May temp today at 21.3C and out in Howth harbour today i had a 20.7C from the digital thermo at 16z

mike65

Something pretty rare happened over Waterford City today - there was not a single cloud not even a stray passing one.

Mike.

Mothman

Snowbie wrote: »

On the 9 Weather, they had the official max of 19.9C in the Phoenix park today.
Was your 20.4C from AWS and not from your screened MM? I was surprised your data was not included.:)

Screen max 20.4C
AWS 20.7C

The screen is the official figure, and I send this data in at end of month, unless I happen to email it, but really, nice as 20C is, it's not exceptional in May

Finner had 20.2C yesterday

Deep Easterly

Max of 18.5c today, actually slightly cooler than yesterday's max of 18.9c despite the near constant sunshine. (Yesterday was mostly cloudy!!). Like Danno mentioned, the strong breeze took the enjoyment out of it. In fact, felt positively chilly in the city this afternoon. (not sure what official temp was there, but car temp reading 21-23c, I.e wrong!!

We need an easterly/south easterly here, south westerlies are ****e.:)
Current readings:

7.9c
87%rh
1023.0 mb rising.

Mothman

See breeze has already kicked in.

Clear 14.4C having been 14.8C a few minutes a go.

A cool night with slight grass frost.

Min below 5C

mike65

Much cloudier but still sunny warm and bright.

Mike.