Spring 2017 - General Discussion

Rock Lesnar

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

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Dont you be worrying about warm temps and sunshine, it'll still be wet, cloudy and cold down your area

As for here today, its been a showery afternoon, mild though

Clonmel1000

I report it as I find it myself. Totday is showery and breezy about 15 degrees falling in showers. I'll report the good weather here if it comes its just I've a different definition on good weather than others on here. I've got personal abuse over that which the mods are aware of for not towing the party line on some threads but I love this forum and will contribute until told otherwise.ðŸ‘

Oscar Bravo

dry bright afternoon here in Castlebar with a nice fresh westerly breeze.great visibility

JCX BXC

Lovely day in West Clare after the showers cleared. We've really been blessed with little rainfall over the past few months. Suppose there's always another way to look at things though

Clonmel1000

JCX BXC wrote: »

Lovely day in West Clare after the showers cleared. We've really been blessed with little rainfall over the past few months. Suppose there's always another way to look at things though

That there is. Pity that courtesy doesn't extend to the winter threads though......

km79

Every single shower went north or south of me again
Glorious day in East Galway and next week looks even better

Rock Lesnar

Very promising forecast there for the middle of the week, a blocking high no less with sun and temps of 23 degrees

Gaoth Laidir

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

Very promising forecast there for the middle of the week, a blocking high no less with sun and temps of 23 degrees

Just beware anticiclonic gloom, a feature that has spoiled many a May anticyclone with persistent low cloud and sea fog.

Gaoth Laidir

There's pretty much no sign of any warm spell this week now. The high doesn't get to establish itself and erodes quickly to be replaced by westerlies.

Clonmel1000

Another wet dull morning here temps 14 degrees.

JCX BXC

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Another wet dull morning here temps 14 degrees.

Another?

Xenji

Dull, wet and humid morning in Castlebar, 94% humidity with 6.4mm of rain so far, although the rain is very welcome for the garden.

Rock Lesnar

Looks like its about to rain here now, glad i got my cycle in early

pad199207

Bucketing down here in Naas

sryanbruen

The GFS 12z is showing low pressure dominating as we go into June from Saturday onwards but no other model is showing this, TYPICAL GFS when dry spells like this one coming take place. The BBC even says that there will be thunderstorms after the big warmth this weekend in the UK but they say that high pressure will be the dominating feature again after they take place.

Meteorite58

Windy in Kerry this evening, cloud has increased with that cold front nudging up against the coast but staying dry for now. Amounts of rain set to remain light overnight and into tomorrow with patchy rain and drizzle, looks like a low cloud day on the Western side of the country with areas around the mountains getting the most rain. Hopefully will start to clear from the W in the afternoon.

Oscar Bravo

Beautiful evening here in castlebar, long spells of sunshine in calm conditions. You can see mayo sticking out nicely on the latest satellite

Meteorite58

Coming into the reliable time frame now and some areas looking very warm indeed. Cloud will be a factor in places though. Possible rain in western areas on Fri. Models not in agreement yet with the weekend, GFS has a LP moving up the SW coast and showing heavy rain Sat but this is uncertain yet .










Some temp expected for Thurs night / Fri morning and humid too !

squarecircles

12 degress along the west mayo coast on friday? 25 inland, hilarious.Think ill leave my shorts in the suitcase for Barcelona.

i see RTE are blathering away about a mini heatwave.

Meteorite58

Looks like that trough / cold front could be encroaching on Western coasts on Fri unfortunately .

squarecircles

why is it so difficult to sustain these type of high temperatures in ireland, i always notice once the 850 plus 10 or plus 15 isotherm finally encroaches over ireland its being swept away eastwards very quickly.

JCX BXC

Persistent drizzle here in West Clare since 6:30, lovely evening for the last fire.

MidMan25

Praying for a decent weekend, as long as it stays dry i'll be happy. Need to lay a patio

sryanbruen

squarecircles wrote: »

why is it so difficult to sustain these type of high temperatures in ireland, i always notice once the 850 plus 10 or plus 15 isotherm finally encroaches over ireland its being swept away eastwards very quickly.

Our location and how much water surrounds Ireland is the reason why it's so difficult to sustain high temperatures.

Gonzo

squarecircles wrote: »

why is it so difficult to sustain these type of high temperatures in ireland, i always notice once the 850 plus 10 or plus 15 isotherm finally encroaches over ireland its being swept away eastwards very quickly.

yet the heat builds and builds over the UK for several days more while most of Ireland is 15C and drizzle. Very annoying, we've seen it so many times before. Still up in the air tho what happens from Friday onwards.

sryanbruen

Gonzo wrote: »

yet the heat builds and builds over the UK for several days more while most of Ireland is 15C and drizzle. Very annoying, we've seen it so many times before. Still up in the air tho what happens from Friday onwards.

Ireland is closer to the Atlantic than the UK thus we are more prone to getting depressions and cooler temperatures.

pedigree 6

squarecircles wrote: »

why is it so difficult to sustain these type of high temperatures in ireland, i always notice once the 850 plus 10 or plus 15 isotherm finally encroaches over ireland its being swept away eastwards very quickly.

It's hard to keep that cold air from Greenland at bay.
Plus the old adage of High Pressure loves land and Low Pressure loves water.
You always mostly get a low in the Atlantic to steer some of that cold air our way.

Still not bad looking for Friday for 850 temperatures.
Getting some hot air steered up over us.





Plus the Thunderstorm potential there Friday morning.:D

Gonzo

looking very good for us, particularly the East which should just about hang on to the heat over the weekend and a reload of warmth and high pressure for most of next week across the country. Has potential to last all the way to Saturday week.

sryanbruen

Provisional Spring 2017 statistics for Grange (up to 22nd May)

Rainfall: 93.0mm (65% of the LTA)
Mean temperature: 9.4c (+0.3c above the LTA)
Sunshine: 433 hours (94% of the LTA)

It has been a relatively dull, mild and very dry Spring so far here. It has only been dull due to my extremely dull April. March and May have been very sunny months. See why now I was complaining about the dull weather in April? In my opinion, it has been the best Spring since 2011.

What do you think of Spring 2017?

Gonzo

really good Spring here too!

Infact the past 6 months has been mostly incredibly dry, apart from February which from memory was very wet and miserable.

edit: now that I think of it, the past 9/10 months has been very decent with only minor interruptions with rain. There was a very wet weekend around mid September, then a very dry autumn, rain in February and then the unsettled conditions last week. I know I'm leaving some stuff off that I can't remember but compared to most year's the past 12 months has been very kind to us.