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SPRING WEATHER 2015 - GENERAL DISCUSSION

  • 04-03-2015 11:37am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭


    well with the final grip of winter 14/15 being shrugged off today with tempretures to start rising to 14 celcius saturday, what do we think of how spring willl pan out? hopefully plenty of growth, mild with a small bit of rain in april would be great. please god thats the last of the frosty nights. id say when we get to paddys day were in the clear as clocks go forward 12 days later


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Saturday looks to be up to 15c. Thats warm for early march.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    I hope it's not unseasonably warm, it never seems to lead to a good summer when that happens. :) I'd rather the warmth happened in the summer months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    I hope it's not unseasonably warm, it never seems to lead to a good summer when that happens. :) I'd rather the warmth happened in the summer months.

    It also seems that springs with a cold snap in them give better summers, whereas the warm ones give washout summers.
    Think of all those warm springs in the late 00's and terrible summers.

    Though I don't remember a cold snap last spring and we still had a decent summer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Though I don't remember a cold snap last spring and we still had a decent summer.

    We had some terrible terrible storms though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Carnacalla wrote: »
    We had some terrible terrible storms though.

    True, and those storms probably had a bit of polar maritime air in them which might count as cold air!

    The scottish mountains had their snowiest winter for years last year so the maritime air mass we had last year was cool but just not as cold as this years maritime air.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Just bring on the warm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Have to say it was really nice going for a walk under a clear blue sky today. Bring it on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭typhoony


    after the last 2 years we are due a good one. the jet stream profile is weak for the next couple of weeks. if the atlantic dies completely then a window opens for cold air to flood south, I would'nt be suprised if winter came back for a short few days with a NE influence later in the month


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    I'm well fed up with the cold weather at this stage, have had to scrape the windscreen in the morning probably 3-4 times nearly every week this winter. Bring on some warmth, long evenings and great skycapes with convection and thunderstorms. Models at the moment are showing a south westerly dominated first half to the month so mild but damp


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 922 ✭✭✭FWVT


    Today was the first day that the car was "hot" when I got into it at lunchtime. Snow after the end of February should be banned as it's nothing more than sloppy mess. Roll on some nice warmth like we got in March 2012.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭Calibos


    FWVT wrote: »
    Today was the first day that the car was "hot" when I got into it at lunchtime. Snow after the end of February should be banned as it's nothing more than sloppy mess. Roll on some nice warmth like we got in March 2012.
    Got sunburnt doing the first hedge cut that March.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Pity the rest of the year had terrible weather.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    FWVT wrote: »
    Today was the first day that the car was "hot" when I got into it at lunchtime. Snow after the end of February should be banned as it's nothing more than sloppy mess. Roll on some nice warmth like we got in March 2012.

    I recall a Paddys day parade about 15 years ago where it was roasting or am I imagining that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,650 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Driving. South bound today sun beating in the window had to put on the air conditioning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭Calibos


    I recall a Paddys day parade about 15 years ago where it was roasting or am I imagining that

    Yep, there was one in the early 2000's IIRC. Family shop near our Parade route and I remember a high proportion of the crowd in t-shirts and even shorts in a few cases, selling lots of ice cream and people asking if we sold sun cream etc


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭LFCFan


    Calibos wrote: »
    Yep, there was one in the early 2000's IIRC. Family shop near our Parade route and I remember a high proportion of the crowd in t-shirts and even shorts in a few cases, selling lots of ice cream and people asking if we sold sun cream etc

    It was 1999. I remember it because a load of us from work went on a pub crawl around Dublin and it was very warm for that time of year.

    http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-1999-Mar.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,512 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    I recall a Paddys day parade about 15 years ago where it was roasting or am I imagining that

    There was definitely one circa 2003 as well, as myself, the sister and a few friends went on the beer and we were drinking outside in a bar garden overlooking the Shannon getting nice tans for ourselves!

    -edit to add -

    What a good memory I have! :)

    http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-2003-Mar.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Tazio


    Rikand wrote: »
    There was definitely one circa 2003 as well, as myself, the sister and a few friends went on the beer and we were drinking outside in a bar garden overlooking the Shannon getting nice tans for ourselves!

    -edit to add -

    What a good memory I have! :)

    http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-2003-Mar.pdf


    ....and 2003 went on to be a very hot / warm long summer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    LFCFan wrote: »
    It was 1999. I remember it because a load of us from work went on a pub crawl around Dublin and it was very warm for that time of year.

    http://www.met.ie/climate/MonthlyWeather/clim-1999-Mar.pdf

    Lived in Dublin at the time and drank tinnies in the sun in Stephens Green all afternoon (cringe) before watching Man United v Inter Milan that night feeling very sun burnt! Classy times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Does anyone remember April 2007? RIDICULOUS month - basically a whole month of summer temps and conditions. Followed by one of the worse summers I can remember.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Lived in Dublin at the time and drank tinnies in the sun in Stephens Green all afternoon (cringe) before watching Man United v Inter Milan that night feeling very sun burnt! Classy times.

    :pac: Love it, esp the 'tinnies' part.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Does anyone remember April 2007? RIDICULOUS month - basically a whole month of summer temps and conditions. Followed by one of the worse summers I can remember.

    Remember it well as we dug up part of our garden to lay a gravel parking spot, Picked April to do it as a not too hot not too cold kind of month. Ended up filling a skip with soil and moving a couple of tonnes of hardcore and gravel etc in temps in the high 70's and 80's fahrenheit and getting burnt to a crisp in the process. Even at the time though, we knew we'd pay for it that Summer :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Tazio wrote: »
    ....and 2003 went on to be a very hot / warm long summer.

    It was an utterly crap summer in Ireland. Mid to high 20s temperatures with almost constant cloud cover. A humid, sticky, dreary nightmare. Nothing worse than hot cloudiness. Meanwhile across the pond and on mainland Europe, they got their high temperatures with a side of sunshine.

    And it was only August that had the high temperatures. If it had been sunny, that would have been great. But no, it pulled off the impressive trick of still remaining overcast to hazy at the very best whilst being scorchio.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,512 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    It was an utterly crap summer in Ireland. Mid to high 20s temperatures with almost constant cloud cover. A humid, sticky, dreary nightmare. Nothing worse than hot cloudiness. Meanwhile across the pond and on mainland Europe, they got their high temperatures with a side of sunshine.

    And it was only August that had the high temperatures. If it had been sunny, that would have been great. But no, it pulled off the impressive trick of still remaining overcast to hazy at the very best whilst being scorchio.

    As long as its dry. You can do things when its warm and dry....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Rikand wrote: »
    As long as its dry. You can do things when its warm and dry....

    I personally found it oppressive. Hated it. Made me want to lie around all day and little else. I have no energy when it's humid.

    Dry is definitely good, but if it's going to be cloudy, I'd rather it was cool and not humid to go with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    I remember getting a terribly sticky heatwave early in the year a few years ago. I think it was may/june and temps reached 27c. It was unbelievable humid. I remember walking out in a t-shirt to get it stuck to me by the time I crossed the road.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭WheatenBriar


    A deep Easterly is on the way it seems delaying spring
    I said a few weeks ago I thought this would happen and sure enough
    It will be a cold feed,eventually cold enough for snow showers along the East coast
    An absolute nuisance at this time of the year


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    A deep Easterly is on the way it seems delaying spring
    I said a few weeks ago I thought this would happen and sure enough
    It will be a cold feed,eventually cold enough for snow showers along the East coast
    An absolute nuisance at this time of the year

    if this is gonna happen that will be really annoying, It would need to be one hell of an easterly to deliver snow on the east coast at this time of the year. Easterly's at this time of the year ususally result in rain/sleet showers within 5km-10km of the coastline and snow further inland with lying snow confined mainly to high ground. An easterly in mid March is like having a spanish plume late october.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭WheatenBriar


    Gonzo wrote: »
    if this is gonna happen that will be really annoying, It would need to be one hell of an easterly to deliver snow on the east coast at this time of the year. Easterly's at this time of the year ususally result in rain/sleet showers within 5km-10km of the coastline and snow further inland with lying snow confined mainly to high ground. An easterly in mid March is like having a spanish plume late october.


    https://twitter.com/matthugo81/status/573930695803994112


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Glorious Spring day in London today, 16C with cloudless skies and the first real warm day of the year, long may it continue :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Weve been skiing all day here in southern poland. Slopes still have 60+cm snow on them and our snow thats been lying since christmas is melting fast. Todays been glourious here, 12c and we are all a bit red faced......myself from terrible skiing!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    really enjoying the milder temps as well, fed up of cold hands at this stage. The milder conditions are so more comfortable. It's warmer outside the house than it is inside today!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,761 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I hope we don't get a repeat of Spring 2013, that was a disaster.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Harps wrote: »
    Glorious Spring day in London today, 16C with cloudless skies and the first real warm day of the year, long may it continue :cool:

    Bit too breezy in Dublin to fully enjoy the warmth in the air but it was nice to be able to have all the windows open all day and air the apartment out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Finding it very mild these last few days, a big change from last weekend. No longer need the extra bed spread at night time. Actually finding it difficult to sleep with the general warm conditions. Currently 10 degrees here in the Southern capital.

    Is it fair to say spring has arrived?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,368 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    What a glorious day here in west clare! 10.2c is the temp it reached but with the good sun I started to feel the summer arriving.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 607 ✭✭✭jack o shea


    Any sign of this east wind coming in?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    doesn't appear to be, the following week will be dominated by an active atlantic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Any sign of this east wind coming in?

    Its still in FI territory but it could turn east in time for Paddies day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    cant wait for the clocks to go forward soon, love walking the countryside and exploring in mid summer. something alsolutly magical agout mid june and those long days. i personally love being out for the night clubbing and coming in when its broad daylight. or when you are in the middle of a heat wave and you wake up at 7 am and walk out in a tee shirt!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,633 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Do the weather experts here agree that today is actually the start of Spring, it was mentioned by somebody in work and they all scoffed at it and think Spring begins on Feb 1, totally wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,380 ✭✭✭highdef


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Do the weather experts here agree that today is actually the start of Spring, it was mentioned by somebody in work and they all scoffed at it and think Spring begins on Feb 1, totally wrong.

    That's the pagans that think it starts on feb 1st!!!

    But seriously, there are several interpretations as to when Spring officially starts. The old Irish/pagan calender says it's 1st Feb, meteorlogically it's March 1st (most here would probably consider this the real start of Spring being a weather forum and all that). Astronomically it is in or around the 21st of March, America being the main country that I can think of that uses this system.

    There are other variations too, depending on location. Some areas do not have 4 true season....maybe a wet season and a dry season. Other systems may have four season of different lengths.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭Polo_Mint


    Saturday in Kildare . Expect Sun or Rain?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Polo_Mint wrote: »
    Saturday in Kildare . Expect Sun or Rain?

    Cool, windy, heavy showers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭WheatenBriar


    Aye lugnaquilla in co Wicklow is rather ominously covered in snow this morning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Timmyboy


    Snow down here n Kerry on the upper reaches of the high mountains also. Certainly from my vantage point I can see visible white snow on the Reeks.


    Has anyone also noticed the significant change in the forecasting models for the early days of next week and how they are now indicating single digit afternoon temperatures rather than the high teens temperatures that the forecasts were showing yesterday?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Timmyboy wrote: »
    Snow down here n Kerry on the upper reaches of the high mountains also. Certainly from my vantage point I can see visible white snow on the Reeks.


    Has anyone also noticed the significant change in the forecasting models for the early days of next week and how they are now indicating single digit afternoon temperatures rather than the high teens temperatures that the forecasts were showing yesterday?

    Depends which model you look at. GFS still shows mid to high teens in places early next week.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Load, reload and re-reload (if you are happy to look into fantasy territory)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭seamusk84


    Looks like the initial forecast for great weather Tuesday and Wednesday was wrong. Met now saying unsettled and cool conditions for the week days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭B17G


    Winter makes a comeback! Some snow on Nephin & Croagh Patrick this morning.

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