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Fluctuations in temperature

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  • 15-12-2015 6:50pm
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    mick145
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭


    What's with these sharp and sudden fluctuations in temperatures? Like one day It would be freezing cold 1c, and the next day it would be 12 or 13c and it's the middle of December??!! What the **** is going on?


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    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,705 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    One word...zonality. Or, if you want two words...polar front.

    Basically, what's bringing us the bands of rain is a front that separates warm and cold air. When the front moves south of Ireland we get cold air and when the front moves north of Ireland we get warm air.


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    esposito
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭esposito


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    One word...zonality.

    What a disgusting word :p


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    snubbleste
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    mick145 wrote: »
    What's with these sharp and sudden fluctuations in temperatures? Like one day It would be freezing cold 1c, and the next day it would be 12 or 13c and it's the middle of December??!! What the **** is going on?
    The Gulf Stream, caller


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    Nabber
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    Cold front warm front, we have been in the middle where 2 air masses are meeting, cold north west polar air and warmer south west Atlantic air.

    One day last week we had Cork @ 13c and Donegal @ 1c


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    Supercell
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    This..more of the same coming...

    jetstream_atl_h12_00.gif
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie

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    ...And Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭...And Justice


    Nabber wrote: »
    Cold front warm front, we have been in the middle where 2 air masses are meeting, cold north west polar air and warmer south west Atlantic air.

    One day last week we had Cork @ 13c and Donegal @ 1c

    Shouldn't we have more thunder storms being stuck in the middle of warm and cold weather?


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    sryanbruen
    Registered Users Posts: 13,509 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    Exactly the same right now!

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