The Weather of 2010: Your Highlights/Lowlights/Stats

Deep Easterly

Any highlights/lowlights that stand out for you weatherwise in the year 2010?

For me, top weather event of 2010 was the monsoonal rains on the 6th of September with 2 bouts of persistant and torrential rain that gave me a daily total of over 70mm.

The fine spell in the opening days of September was another biggie as was the frosty, snowy spell in late November/December.


Top lowlights include the lack of thunder; a rotten pointless January/February/March/April which in turn were followed by a consistantly odious summer that rarely saw the themo rising above 20c.


Local stats (NE Galway)

High temp: 25.0c (May)
Low temp: -14.8c (December)
Days with Thunder: 3 (July=1 / October=2)
Highest daily rainfall: 70.1mm (6th September)

thetonynator

High points for me:

Discovering the boards.ie weather forum in January this year . .:cool:
Seeing my first ever proper snow (i.e. lasted for more than an hour on the ground - several days in jan in fact!)
Having it all repeated in november!
Warm weather through the month of June.
Entering the Boards forecast competition . .! :P
Brief Indian summer in early october.
Going outside in -15.

Low points:
Wet weather in July.
Cool August
Blizzard in march/april only giving snow to locations 50m higher than me . .i could see the snow only a few miles away!
Missing out on almost all the snow in the 2nd cold spell of this winter.
Having a big lightning storm miss me to the south east ( can't remember which month - storm was in wexford)

mike65

High point - half decent summer for the first time since 2006 (the residents of the Cote D'deise seem to have had a better Jun-Sept than most)
Low points - 10 days without water in January and December due to the cold.

DOCARCH

Low point - lack of summer thunderstorms

made up by

High point - lots of thundersnow at the end of November and start of December.

nacho libre

highlights:
the town being blocked out due to how heavy the snow was last Friday week.
the ruler almost disappearing beneath the snow
the lightning during the first cold spell.
the temperature by day not making it above - 4c for several days during the last cold spell

lowlights:
lack of thunderstorms from biscay during the summer
the cold spells ending

BEASTERLY

Highlights:
-Snow of Jan'10 -3 times
-Snow of March 29th/30th- 8 foot drifts in the Blackstairs Mts.
-Fantastic night time thunderstorm- 21 July
-Another great thunderstorm with large hail and funnel
-End of November snow reaching 8 inches
-Start of December: Snow reaching the 1 foot mark- 2nd Dec
-Thunder-snow- 2nd Dec
-Dec 3rd: Snow getting to 16 inches
-White Christmas
Lowlights:
-The general lack of thunderstorms
-4 long dry days watching the North and West getting plastered- 16-20 Dec
-28th of Dec: Watching the snow outside the back door melt after if being there for over a month:(

Elmer Blooker

HIGHLIGHTS:
Freeze no 1 -Jan
Freeze no 2 - Nov/Dec
Freeze no 3 -Dec

LOWLIGHTS:
Thaw no 1 -Jan
Thaw no 2 - Dec
Thaw no 3 -Dec

maquiladora

Lows : Experienced no good thunderstorms. Didn't experience much of an impact from any of the big Atlantic depressions. Didn't get a nationwide heavy frontal snow event with 6ft drifts :P

Highs : Lucky to experience great snowfalls in a couple of locations, including the very best I've seen in Waterford City.

Harps

Highlight:
The ridiculous amount of snow we've had this year, January, February, March, November and December all with quite significant snowfall.
Record Low Temp this month
The big storm in mid November

Lowlight:
The boring non eventful summer we had with the temp barely going above 20C
Only getting one thunder storm all year
That depressing feeling of seeing all the snow melting

dirtyghettokid

highs:
- the BEAUTIFUL skies in january during the first cold snap
- the few days it got really warm in dublin in may (i think it was may)
- the day i got married in toronto; it was like 30C and gorgeous sunny skies!
- really awesome thunderstorm a few days before the wedding in toronto.. it was CRAZY

storm looms over toronto by jbredrebel, on Flickr
- the snow of late november & december!
- the thaw after the snow (it was getting too cold!)

lows:
- the whopper thunderstorm that tried to ruin my wedding party in ontario, canada in july lol
- any time through the year where it rains or is grey continuously for a few days .. weeks ..

Lumi

Highlights:

Starting and ending the year with frost-filled, snowy days

Recording a low of -12.4C on the 25th December :eek:

The general lack of thunder in Tuam :P unlike Galway City which had some impressive displays in July and especially the in the early hours of the 6th of September.

Interviewing M.T. Cranium and Gerald Fleming


Lowlights:

The continuing dearth of Atlantic storms; the offering on 11th November was tame by Galway standards.

No OwenC

7 days and counting without water in December

nacho libre

Fionagus wrote: »

Highlights:

Starting and ending the year with frost-filled, snowy days

Recording a low of -12.4C on the 25rd December :eek:

The general lack of thunder in Tuam :P unlike Galway City which had some impressive displays in July and especially the in the early hours of the 6th of September.

Interviewing M.T. Cranium and Gerald Fleming


Lowlights:

The continuing dearth of Atlantic storms; the offering on 11th November was tame by Galway standards.

No OwenC

7 days and counting without water in December

i see signs you might be about to join Derekon in the snow fatigue camp:(

Lumi

nacho libre wrote: »

i see signs you might be about to join Derekon in the snow fatigue camp:(

Never Nacho!!

Though I could cheerfully choke someone from the council at the moment :mad:

Deep Easterly

Fionagus wrote: »

Highlights:

The general lack of thunder in Tuam :P unlike Galway City which had some impressive displays in July and especially the in the early hours of the 6th of September.

Glad my misfortune made someone happy anyway!

Danno

Never got to post in this thread at the time, but initial results from east of Durrow are...

Mean temperature was 8.5c for the year. This value is -0.8c below normal.

Rainfall was 834.6mm for the year. This value is 43.4mm below normal.

Warmest day was May 23rd when 24.8c was recorded on the Davis.

Coldest night was Dec 24th when -13.4c was recorded on the Davis. (-14.0c on the Screen)

Wettest Day was Sep 6th when 90.9mm was recorded on the Davis. (83.3mm Copper/Sep 5th)

Strongest gust was 56mph on November 11th.

Other interesting notes: 94 air frosts and 14 ice days.

A more detailed review on an extraordinary year of weather will be published soon...