Unseasonably mild weather.

Fluffy Cat 88

So I left the window on the landing slightly open and the lights on tonight.

My ceiling is covered in midges. Surely those little fcukers should have died off months ago.

There hasn't been any decent frost, usually I see the worst of it coming home from a night shift but this year - nowt!

Its the greenhouse house effect I learned about in school - definitely!

fleet_admiral

Its wetter than an otters pocket though

Magico Gonzalez

El Niño , innit señor.

Bongalongherb

We had many warmer winters than this years ago. It's just a low pressure weather front moving up from Africa that is giving us this lovely mild weather, so nothing unusual about it at all.

Met Éireann forecaster David Rogers explained that the unusually mild weather has been caused by an air mass bringing warm, humid air from the Sahara Desert.

Iwasfrozen

Bongalongherb wrote: »

We had many warmer winters than this years ago. It's just a low pressure weather front moving up from Africa that is giving us this lovely mild weather, so nothing unusual about it at all.

Met Éireann forecaster David Rogers explained that the unusually mild weather has been caused by an air mass bringing warm, humid air from the Sahara Desert.

Mild Weather? It's been continuously raining since I left Dublin Xmas eve. :mad:

Peter Anthony

Mild and lovely weather?? Not sure where you guys are, its basically pissed rain non stop for the past 2 months and its so dark theres barely been a few hours sunlight a day

Its the most depressing patch of weather I remember for quite a while

Fluffy Cat 88

Mild - as in not cold!

Lovely - er... no!!!

Bongalongherb

Well I'm on the east coast here and the rain hasn't been bad. Sure the far west of Ireland are well used to the real prolonged rain there, it's great for the forests and plants ye don't hear them complaining sputtering out their clean fresh oxygen.

We haven't even felt winter yet and the real cold will come very soon as it always does in january febuary.

Here we are, a little tiny Island in the atlantic ocean and we have a lot of rain lol I mean what else would a person expect ?

Iwasfrozen

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Well I'm on the east coast here and the rain hasn't been bad. Sure the far west of Ireland are well used to the real prolonged rain there, it's great for the forests and plants ye don't hear them complaining sputtering out their clean fresh oxygen.

We haven't even felt winter yet and the real cold will come very soon as it always does in january febuary.

No one said the prolonged rain was contained to the far west. I welcome some cold dry weather.

Bongalongherb

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

No one said the prolonged rain was contained to the far west. I welcome some cold dry weather.

You'll get that very soon that's for sure, it's early days yet.

I'd say the AA are down a few quid this year with not much cold spells and vehicle breakdowns. It was actually nice to have a mild christmas for a change, but as we all know, in a week or two we could be under snow. What a great place we are in the world with all of the unknowing effects of the weather cycles. No-one knows what is coming next, quite exciting dont you think.

SEPT 23 1989

My hanging baskets are still in full Bloom

Fcuk you Woodies

kylith

Mild, yeah. Unfortunately the fact that the place is fecking flooded means my house is full of sodding mice.

Do ye think they might go for hummus? I've bog all to bait the traps with.

Armchair Andy

Think I might knock a field of hay tomorrow it's so mild.

YFlyer

Bongalongherb wrote: »

You'll get that very soon that's for sure, it's early days yet.

I'd say the AA are down a few quid this year with not much cold spells and vehicle breakdowns. It was actually nice to have a mild christmas for a change, but as we all know, in a week or two we could be under snow. What a great place we are in the world with all of the unknowing effects of the weather cycles. No-one knows what is coming next, quite exciting dont you think.

Storm Frank.

RhubarbCrumble

kylith wrote: »

Mild, yeah. Unfortunately the fact that the place is fecking flooded means my house is full of sodding mice.

Do ye think they might go for hummus? I've bog all to bait the traps with.

Do you have peanut butter? They love that.

kylith

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Do you have peanut butter? They love that.

I have hummus or roast chicken, and they're not getting my chicken.

Bongalongherb

kylith wrote: »

Mild, yeah. Unfortunately the fact that the place is fecking flooded means my house is full of sodding mice.

Do ye think they might go for hummus? I've bog all to bait the traps with.

Unfortunately the only thing that might work is a tin flute.

donegaLroad

It was 15C in Toronto on Christmas Eve, now that is freaky.

The record before this was 12C in 1964 I think.


It is mild across much of Northern Europe at the minute, but Calabria in Southern Italy was cooler than here yesterday.

Im going to go ahead and plant some tulips tomorrow and see what happens... Im about 2 months late doing this apparently.

The Backwards Man

5C and pishing here. Pretty normal weather for the time of year. I cut the lawn on Christmas Day about twenty years ago, so a mild spell isn't unusual at all.

Bongalongherb

I wonder are we starting to experience a magnetic polar shift.

I see that the far west has some nasty weather of their own...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-8VQ4bxB9o

The dog was pacing up and down at 3.30am so I got up to let her out and I would have sat in the garden for an hour if I hadn't needed to be in work at 7.

The most beautiful night, not even a bit cold, stars shining brightly, the birds were even singing already.

Still beautiful this morning when I did leave for work.

Gwynplaine

No matter what way the weather is, there will always be people to moan and complain about it. I went for a walk Christmas night and didn't need a jacket.
If it's raining or cold, dress appropriately. Yes there has been a lot of rain recently, there's not a thing you can do about it, unless you move to Spain, where then you'll probably say, "god isn't it awful warm".
As the Norwegians say, "There's no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing"

OldRio

Gwynplaine wrote: »

No matter what way the weather is, there will always be people to moan and complain about it. I went for a walk Christmas night and didn't need a jacket.
If it's raining or cold, dress appropriately. Yes there has been a lot of rain recently, there's not a thing you can do about it, unless you move to Spain, where then you'll probably say, "god isn't it awful warm".
As the Norwegians say, "There's no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing"

Yet another one of those wise Norwegian quotes we hear all the time.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

OldRio wrote: »

Yet another one of those wise Norwegian quotes we hear all the time.

Well my GP must be Norwegian because he regularly said that back in the 60s.