Beautiful Summers Day

dm09 · 29-05-2013 11:23am #1

Beautiful Summers Day, The Sun gods have smiled on us for a change. If only it would last in to the Bank Holiday Weekend....

Storm 10 · 29-05-2013 2:26pm

I was looking forward to a nice weekend until Met Eireann just updated their forecast, not looking as godd as I thought.

Outlook

Cloud will increase generally on Thursday night and light rain or drizzle in the northwest and west will tend to spread further east and south. Friday will start cloudy with a little rain or drizzle in places. However, it will become mainly dry by afternoon, although cloud will be slow to break. The most likely locations for sunny intervals to develop will be the southeast and south of the country. Winds will remain light to moderate, northwesterly throughout. It will be rather cool for the time of year in the north and west but the east and south will be reasonably mild. Friday night will continue mainly dry but still rather cloudy. However, a little drizzle or light rain may appear in northwestern coastal districts by dawn. Winds will back northwest to west, light to moderate, overnight and it will stay fairly mild. A mainly dry start to Saturday, with some brightness likely in the south and southeast for a time. However, outbreaks of rain affecting northwestern and western coasts will soon spread to most of Ulster and Connaught. These provinces, as well as parts of north Leinster and west Munster, will experience further outbreaks of rain, most of it light, through the afternoon and evening. Moderate, westerly breezes will keep it quite cool for the start of June. A lot of cloud is likely across the country early on Sunday, with further outbreaks of light rain or drizzle, mainly in the north and west. The rain and drizzle will tend to become confined to coasts of the northwest later and cloud is likely to break slowly elsewhere as the day goes on. Light, west to southwest breezes generally and becoming rather mild in many places by evening with the help of some sunshine. Aside from some coastal drizzle in the west and northwest, Bank Holiday Monday will be dry with a mixture of cloud and sunshine; winds will be light and it will feel warm in most areas. There are indications that Tuesday and Wednesday next will be dry and warm with sunshine and only light breezes.

compsys · 29-05-2013 3:34pm

As always with good weather in Ireland, it's never set in stone.

However, I think that the forecast will chop and change a few more times between mild and sunny and cool and cloudy over the course of the next few days.

I think areas further south and east seem like seeing the best of the weather this weekend.

mike65 · 29-05-2013 4:42pm

Met error are crap forecasters, or maybe I should say curiously pessimistic ones, when as they tell you its going to be crap they smile :mad:

Anyway I see a pretty decent spell of fine weather over the next 10 days or so, sure not all plain sailing but certainly an improvement.

km79 · 29-05-2013 4:52pm

mike65 wrote: »

Met error are crap forecasters, or maybe I should say curiously pessimistic ones, when as they tell you its going to be crap they smile :mad:

Anyway I see a pretty decent spell of fine weather over the next 10 days or so, sure not all plain sailing but certainly an improvement.

Looks dry anyway!

pauldry · 29-05-2013 6:18pm

km79 wrote: »

Looks dry anyway!

As always the period Tuesday to Thursday will see the best weather for fear anyone might want to spend a weekend at the beach

The past 10 Sundays in Sligo have been poor weatherwise while only 4 of the past 10 Saturdays have been

Curious

snaps · 29-05-2013 7:02pm

JUst looked at rain today radar as someone said its tipping it down at the TT practices in Isle of man. Theres a band heading into East Yorkshire with patches of blue, black and white, Never seen that before thats the highest density of rain on the scale!

Harps · 29-05-2013 8:16pm

Rain in the North Sea always seems to be over-amplified on the radar for some reason so I wouldn't pay too much attention to the intensity there

Lovely day here in Galway at long last, windy but still managed a max of 20.1C which is easily the warmest day of the year so far. Nice if it could last until the weekend

pauldry · 29-05-2013 9:51pm

Harps wrote: »

Rain in the North Sea always seems to be over-amplified on the radar for some reason so I wouldn't pay too much attention to the intensity there

Lovely day here in Galway at long last, windy but still managed a max of 20.1C which is easily the warmest day of the year so far. Nice if it could last until the weekend

19.7c in Sligo town

That's it till next week for us though most of tomorrow will hold dry here south and east will see 20s

flazio · 29-05-2013 11:32pm

You can always tell when the Junior and Leaving Cert exams are imminent.

snaps · 30-05-2013 5:18am

We may just get one more day of this in the west, but looking at charts and satellite the Atlantic is ganging up. It'll probably be 10-12c drizzle and muck for the bank holiday, same as last bank holiday, which gave us all cabin fever!

cherryghost · 30-05-2013 7:29am

From Met. Looks promising for the second half.

On Saturday, cloud and outbreaks of rain will spread from the Northwest becoming light and patchy as it spreads Southeastwards over the country during the day. Mainly dry weather with sunny spells will follow to the Northwest in the afternoon and perhaps to other parts in the evening. It will be rather cool with highest temperatures 13 to 16 degrees, warmest in the South and Southeast in a moderate Northwesterly breeze.

Sunday looks like it will become warmer with light Southwest winds developing. Southern parts should stay dry with sunny spells though Northern areas will probably be cloudier with some drizzle occasionally. Temperatures will rise to the mid to high teens generally.

Bank holiday Monday looks warm as well with temperatures between 17 and 20 degrees and very little wind. Weatherwise, apart from a little drizzle in places, it will be dry with sunny breaks mixed in with cloudier periods.

Tuesday and Wednesday of next week look warm and mostly dry days with sunny spells and top temperatures of 18 to 21 degrees.

Israeli Superiority · 30-05-2013 8:09am

I like the way Britain has been covered in cloud for the past two days. It's about time we got some good fortune weather wise.

Supercell · 30-05-2013 8:20am

Was just thinking tpo myself earlier that how odd it was for Ireland to be in the clear skies while the UK is under out usualy cloudy muck.
Haha UK

Joe Public · 30-05-2013 8:57am

flazio wrote: »

You can always tell when the Junior and Leaving Cert exams are imminent.

It wasn't like this last year 2012

Joe Public · 30-05-2013 9:04am

Supercell wrote: »

Was just thinking tpo myself earlier that how odd it was for Ireland to be in the clear skies while the UK is under out usualy cloudy muck.
Haha UK

You could include France, Germany, Austria and general area who have been mostly under the muck for many weeks now.

NinjaK · 30-05-2013 9:20am

cloudy enough today

mike65 · 30-05-2013 9:29am

Joe Public wrote: »

You could include France, Germany, Austria and general area who have been mostly under the muck for many weeks now.

Which is good news for our summer if it persists. Low pressure to the south, high pressure to the north equals win for Ireland.

patneve2 · 30-05-2013 10:14am

What a day! Temp already above 17 C.

Israeli Superiority · 30-05-2013 10:30am

Joe Public wrote: »

It wasn't like this last year 2012

Yeah it was. In fact, it was warmer.

Rikand · 30-05-2013 10:34am

Out in the shorts today! Tis lovely!

mike65 · 30-05-2013 10:44am

Windy though!

pad199207 · 30-05-2013 10:57am

Out of the wind its very nice indeed!

DOCARCH · 30-05-2013 1:46pm

Stunning day here. 20.1c atm.

Dublin AP reporting 19c atm.

Just did a quick tour around some of Europe's capitals. At the moment:

London 13c
Paris 14c
Madrid 18c
Rome 17c
Lisbon 17c
Brussells 12c
Prague 10c

Joe Public · 30-05-2013 2:44pm

Israeli Superiority wrote: »

Yeah it was. In fact, it was warmer.

We had a good day or two around this time last year and then we hit June and it was all over except for brief breaks from the cloud and rain.
Max was 19.3C in Casement on 30/05/2012 which is much the same as today.

Israeli Superiority · 30-05-2013 3:15pm

Joe Public wrote: »

We had a good day or two around this time last year and then we hit June and it was all over except for brief breaks from the cloud and rain.
Max was 19.3C in Casement on 30/05/2012 which is much the same as today.

We had about a full week at the end of May, then it was shite until early September. I got sunburned twice during the May heatwave and I remember having to stay indoors and miss out on a few days worth of rare blue skies.

http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-2012-May.pdf

There's a summary of May.

DOCARCH · 30-05-2013 3:36pm

I am hoping/thinking this year may be different. With no major heat in Europe so far this year...no European Monsoon.

It's the European Monsoon that has knackered us the last few years. Nice enough Springs and then get to June and the rains start.

patneve2 · 30-05-2013 3:38pm

My favourite summer weather is warm/humid and thundery - say 23/24 degrees, sunny with afternoon convection. Makes the plants and trees grow like they're on steroids

Stinicker · 30-05-2013 5:07pm

Ran the Cold Air Conditioning in the car for the first time this year. I run it alot for to keep the car windows mist free on the warm setting but today was the first time I actually needed cold air within the car!

Mr Cumulonimbus · 30-05-2013 6:30pm

MT's increasingly optimistic posts in his forecast thread are causing ever more giddy thoughts............

sunbabe08 · 30-05-2013 9:18pm

these last couple of days have been an absolute delight

was down in ardmore today and no need for a jacket. love it!!!!

Harps · 30-05-2013 10:34pm

Looking good from Monday onwards, too early to know about sunshine but some warmth finally

Solair · 31-05-2013 8:14am

I was expecting some nice weather this morning but it's become fairly overcast in Cork City.
Fingers crossed it clears back to yesterday's stunning weather later on.

Supercell · 31-05-2013 8:20am

Lovely start to the day again here in Loughlinstown, very mild and less windy than yesterday. hope it lasts! Currently 16.6C and rising fast. Heres to a third 20C+ day in a row

flazio · 31-05-2013 10:41am

It's cloudier but still quite pleasant here in East Galway.

John.Icy · 02-06-2013 4:14pm

Fell out of touch with detailed forecasts over the weekend. Checked back today on ME...jeebus...after a few forecasts last Thursday/Friday I was expecting to be basking in glorious sunshine starting today/tomorrow!

And the rest of the week? Sounds gank on ME. Lots of cloud and a few sunny spells usually means no sun of any sorts.

The changeable Irish weather...gotta love it!

Hopefully we make something out of this week...as the UK seem to in for decent weather for the forseable.

Old diesel · 02-06-2013 4:47pm

John.Icy wrote: »

Fell out of touch with detailed forecasts over the weekend. Checked back today on ME...jeebus...after a few forecasts last Thursday/Friday I was expecting to be basking in glorious sunshine starting today/tomorrow!

And the rest of the week? Sounds gank on ME. Lots of cloud and a few sunny spells usually means no sun of any sorts.

The changeable Irish weather...gotta love it!

Hopefully we make something out of this week...as the UK seem to in for decent weather for the forseable.

"Largely dry and settled" from Monday night to Sunday - will take that tbh - once the wet stuff stays largely away, the grass can keep growing and the cows can stay out - im happy.

Anything would be an improvement on Summer 2012

snaps · 02-06-2013 5:45pm

Yes ill take that too, but some sun to warm house up a bit would be welcome

gurramok · 03-06-2013 1:41pm

Today has seen some sun break through those dull clouds. Reading MT's forecasts, it seems that Monday is the start of the battle from the sun with it appearing frequently for the rest of the week ahead

snaps · 03-06-2013 2:08pm

gurramok wrote: »

Today has seen some sun break through those dull clouds. Reading MT's forecasts, it seems that Monday is the start of the battle from the sun with it appearing frequently for the rest of the week ahead

ill take today if its the worse day this week over anything. Glorious here. Yes cloud, but sun is shining through, when its not its warm. Feel good day. Car was reading 23, weather station 22.8c

Israeli Superiority · 03-06-2013 2:34pm

Weather was great in Dublin, but as I looked north into Meath, there was dirty, black clouds are covering the sky. Unfortunately, I live in Meath, so I have to return to the dull weather.

Lucreto · 03-06-2013 3:01pm

Completely overcast here in Naas. There is no sign of a break in the cloud and now there is misty rain.

dexter647 · 03-06-2013 3:38pm

Overcast all day as well here in south Laois with very little wind...Sun on a day like today would have been great. Overall though this week looks like being pretty good:)