Current Weather Conditions--April 2010

Speak Now

Not exactly spring like out this morning, light rain shower 2.5c.

dbyrne

Sunny with a cloudy overcast feeling, dry but could end up being wet, windy with a strong chance of some wind here in Rathfarnham. Oh and snow on the mountains,only 1 or 2 miles away that I cant bloody get too as I am still house bound......:mad:

Min

Heavy hail shower, still drifts of snow around after Tuesday's blizzard, depths in the drifts still at the 3ft mark.
Looks like snow for Easter will still be around.

Speak Now

4c heavy rain

mike65

Fairly persistant rain now cleared. Showers on the way no doubt.

mp22

Wintery showers and 6 deg

mike65

Sunny and not bad really.

Lumi

0.8c, calm & sunny - Happy Easter everyone!

mike65

Will the temperatures rise like Christ?

mp22

mike65 wrote: »

Will the temperatures rise like Christ?

I suspect you are several (thousand) years too late.
The weather here is cloudy,6 deg,wind increasing from the south west,4-5 at present.

mike65

Its nice in the sun but chilly enough in the shade

bray man

Lovely day, 9.7C. Very low hunidity for here at 46%, dewpoint down to -1.3C

Trogdor

Yep and continuing to fall as well! Now 10.6C/-0.9C with the humidity at 45%

EDIT: Make that 10.8C/-1.6C, humidity now down to 42%

John mac

strong southerly wind and light rain, cool .

Su Campu

Met Eireann radar's on drugs again this evening, with a wide belt of anaprop down the midlands. It's beyond a joke at this stage. :rolleyes:

Deep Easterly

Su Campu wrote: »

Met Eireann radar's on drugs again this evening, with a wide belt of anaprop down the midlands. It's beyond a joke at this stage. :rolleyes:

I agree. Met radar is not performing well at all over the last while. Once again, it is raining steadily here with rain rate averaging between 1.8mm/ph and 2.2mm/ph. Yet on the latest radar sequence:



the returns show nothing, once again disappearing over north Galway/south Mayo (1.4mm recorded between 7pm and 8pm at Claremorris) only to reappear once again exactly on the east Galway border eastwards, as well as in the NW Roscommon region. Exactly the same area as in the last belts of rain we got over the last week.

I am not sure, but I think met eireann calculate a lot of monthly rainfall from the radar returns. If that is the case, it is going to be way out both this month and last month.

Oscar Bravo

Heavy rain in Castlebar now for the past hour or so and a rumble of thunder in the last 10 minutes,a bit unusual from a typical system like this.

pauldry

Just had a wind gust of 75 knots in belmullet. be the lord. quite a strong wind for april me thinks. maybe its blowing all the unsettledness away for the good weather that is coming after midweek

Deep Easterly

Quite blustery here in Galway with light rain and darkening skies. 11c.

mike65

Variable wind, dry, sunny earlier. Now clouded over.

Oscar Bravo

Windy and wet all afternoon at knock airport,some very bumpy landings with a strong crosswind! back at Castlebar now and its very wet,heavy rain.first time in a while actually that parts of the garden are under water.

rhonin

Lashing rain and very windy!

Deep Easterly

rhonin wrote: »

Lashing rain and very windy!

Ditto, very heavy pulse of rain moving through here. 21mm/ph rain rate currently. Even a couple of mams visible to my north. :eek:

Edit: pulse has moved through and wind has died down to a nothing all of a sudden. Weird weather! :D

SeaFields

In south Kerry:

Wind speed has dropped in last half hour from average of 25mph (Gusts 35mph) to less than 10mph.

Rain had just reached 24mm for the day by 8pm but is struggling to make up much more.

Temp: 8.3




P.S. Indoor temp in now a balmy 23c in front of a roaring fire :cool:


Edit: By the time I got up this morning the rain since the start of this event had gotten up to 37.5mm after some serious downfalls at about 4am. Sun shining here now tho.

mike65

Steady ran, windy night.

mp22

Sunny spells with some showers,12 deg

mike65

Bright and pleasant

mp22

lovely spring day,12 deg,sunny,light southerly winds.

mike65

Nice!

delw

overcast&no sign of sun(yet:()

mp22

Cloudy,10 deg.

owenc

Well, its 11c here, with a little bit of hazy sunshine, wish it would go away lol as everytime we try and get sunshine its hazy!!

mike65

Glorious

Trogdor

Fine day out, a bit of that same haze that owenc has around here too though. Occasionally the sun will make a breakthrough. 13.1C at the moment, was up to 13.8C when the sun was properly out earlier

owenc

Well the Haze is clearing away now and it actually feels warm,its around 18c and it is windy,if it is not hazy tomorrow and it isnt windy then 20-21c would be a high temp..

mp22

twas a lovely day here beside bantry bay.

mike65

Watery sun, quiet.

owenc

Wants to murder that shorty haze because it was 13c and rising quite fast now it's narely rising!! I think some stations are faulty there's no way manchester can jump 5c in one hour and if so I am VERY jealous! Ugh why does today never work out for frigging sake!! **** haze!

delw

at last some sunshine,lovely morning here,light breeze but getting warmer:D

mp22

Sun splitting the stones:D

owenc

Yea and it's 19c here now.. only 2c and I'll be happy!! If wind dosnt come that is possible by 4pm!! yep lucky me 21c here now, lets see how warm we can get to tomorrow its ment to be warmer.

Sulmac

Met Éireann reporting 19ºC in Claremorris at 16:00, and Met Office 18.7ºC in Ballykelly at the same time.

NRA showing 18.9ºC at N56 Gweedore and 18.7ºC at N15 Bundoran as well.

owenc

Sulmac wrote: »

Met Éireann reporting 19ºC in Claremorris at 16:00, and Met Office 18.7ºC in Ballykelly at the same time.

NRA showing 18.9ºC at N56 Gweedore and 18.7ºC at N15 Bundoran as well.

its still 19c in eglinton now, and 20c here, if tomorrow goes aswell as this id say 22-23c for here and if that comes im going down to the beach... does this usually happen this time of year whats the records??

Sulmac

owenc wrote: »

its still 19c in eglinton now, and 20c here, if tomorrow goes aswell as this id say 22-23c for here and if that comes im going down to the beach... does this usually happen this time of year whats the records??

I doubt it's actually hit 20 or 21 degrees in Coleraine, or anywhere on the island. Official (Met Éireann, Met Office, NRA) measurements haven't shown it yet. The highest so far is only 19ºC in Mayo and parts of Derry and Donegal. Are you using your own equipment, or what are you basing 21ºC off?

I wouldn't worry too much about it hitting 22 or 23 degrees tomorrow either, the highest will be 15-19ºC (Met Éireann), or 18ºC in NI (Met Office).

According to Met Éireann, the highest temperature recorded in April (1961-90) was 24ºC at Valentia.

Bambi86

Well it is BEAUTIFUL today!!! lets hope it keeps up for the Summer!

owenc

Sulmac wrote: »

I doubt it's actually hit 20 or 21 degrees in Coleraine, or anywhere on the island. Official (Met Éireann, Met Office, NRA) measurements haven't shown it yet. The highest so far is only 19ºC in Mayo and parts of Derry and Donegal. Are you using your own equipment, or what are you basing 21ºC off?

I wouldn't worry too much about it hitting 22 or 23 degrees tomorrow either, the highest will be 15-19ºC (Met Éireann), or 18ºC in NI (Met Office).

According to Met Éireann, the highest temperature recorded in April (1961-90) was 24ºC at Valentia.

i live in derry and it did hit 21c!!

owenc

Sulmac wrote: »

I doubt it's actually hit 20 or 21 degrees in Coleraine, or anywhere on the island. Official (Met Éireann, Met Office, NRA) measurements haven't shown it yet. The highest so far is only 19ºC in Mayo and parts of Derry and Donegal. Are you using your own equipment, or what are you basing 21ºC off?

I wouldn't worry too much about it hitting 22 or 23 degrees tomorrow either, the highest will be 15-19ºC (Met Éireann), or 18ºC in NI (Met Office).

According to Met Éireann, the highest temperature recorded in April (1961-90) was 24ºC at Valentia.

Tomorrow will be warmer aswell.. theres a station in derry that reached 23.9! http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ICOUNTYL2 You dont always have to follow them friggen stations!! good god.

Sulmac

owenc wrote: »

Tomorrow will be warmer aswell.. theres a station in derry that reached 23.9! http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ICOUNTYL2 You dont always have to follow them friggen stations!! good god.

Whatever about 21ºC, there is no way it was 23.9ºC anywhere in Ireland today.

Using Wunderground data is always very dodgy. There is no way of knowing whether or not the station was set up properly and complies with the professional (international) standards that the official agencies abide by. It's like saying the temperature display in a car is accurate - it's not.

That said, Ballykelly station (Met Office) in Derry recorded 18.7ºC today, one of the warmest places on the island.

The reason I use the official data is that I can see whether or not my station (well in reality it's a glorified thermometer) has a substantial variation from professional measurements. If it was 18.7ºC in Ballykelly and 23.9ºC in Strathfoyle (a distance of only 16km/10mi with the same type of terrain and equally distant from the sea), that's a difference of 5.2ºC which is more than dubious - it's clearly wrong.

owenc

Sulmac wrote: »

Whatever about 21ºC, there is no way it was 23.9ºC anywhere in Ireland today.

Using Wunderground data is always very dodgy. There is no way of knowing whether or not the station was set up properly and complies with the professional (international) standards that the official agencies abide by. It's like saying the temperature display in a car is accurate - it's not.

That said, Ballykelly station (Met Office) in Derry recorded 18.7ºC today, one of the warmest places on the island.

The reason I use the official data is that I can see whether or not my station (well in reality it's a glorified thermometer) has a substantial variation from professional measurements. If it was 18.7ºC in Ballykelly and 23.9ºC in Strathfoyle (a distance of only 16km/10mi with the same type of terrain and equally distant from the sea), that's a difference of 5.2ºC which is more than dubious - it's clearly wrong.

Well when you drive through Ballykelly the temperature is usually 1-2c difference and i'd like to think the thermometer was presice enough in a £50000 car!!! I think 20c will be recorded in Ballykelly tomorrow maybe 21c and in that case probably around 22c here ,depending on conditions. How do you know what the terrain is like from Ballykelly to Strathfoyle? Is there anyway of finding were this weather station is located?

Trogdor

owenc wrote: »

Well when you drive through Ballykelly the temperature is usually 1-2c difference and i'd like to think the thermometer was presice enough in a £50000 car!!! I think 20c will be recorded in Ballykelly tomorrow maybe 21c and in that case probably around 22c here ,depending on conditions. How do you know what the terrain is like from Ballykelly to Strathfoyle? Is there anyway of finding were this weather station is located?

No matter how expensive the car, onboard thermometers aren't going to be extremely accurate. 1-2C deviation could still be accurate over 10 miles yes, but when stations are recording 5C difference (with one an official Met staiton) then the other one must be quite wrong, probably not the best quality station and/or in direct sunlight during the day

owenc

trogdor wrote: »

No matter how expensive the car, onboard thermometers aren't going to be extremely accurate. 1-2C deviation could still be accurate over 10 miles yes, but when stations are recording 5C difference (with one an official Met staiton) then the other one must be quite wrong, probably not the best quality station and/or in direct sunlight during the day

Yes well i'm pretty sure it was 21c because both of my cars recorded 21c aswell as my thermometer thing.. my sister got sunburnt too, oh no haze is forming again!! NOOOOO, i guess we wont be warmer tomorrow then.