Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

TTLF

Loughc wrote: »

Same here in Dublin13

Another grim Winter.

Same here in D14. This type of weather is really hard to try study to, its already depressing enough as is, but the weather makes it worse. :pac:

nacho libre

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/winter-weather-pattern-forecast-january-2021-usa-europe-fa/?fbclid=IwAR0j-bF1dTODXwaOlXAgCjCPY7U0G50Kejvs9G75ZGTbV6Of4BzWi69qecw

Thelonious Monk

Looks like it's rain non stop till Thursday ugh. Blue Monday alright.

mcburns07

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Looks like it's rain non stop till Thursday ugh. Blue Monday alright.

But it's very mild

nacho libre

mcburns07 wrote: »

But it's very mild

I use to scoff at presenters saying this, but is there anything worse than rain at 3c. Maybe if it's 2c and raining.

mcburns07

nacho libre wrote: »

I use to scoff at presenters saying this, but is there anything worse than rain at 3c. Maybe if it's 2c and raining.

I just hate rain during the winter in general tbh :pac:

At least in the summer the ground dries up quickly. The relentless damp of Irish autumns/winters is by far the thing I dislike most about our climate.

Thelonious Monk

mcburns07 wrote: »

I just hate rain during the winter in general tbh :pac:

At least in the summer the ground dries up quickly. The relentless damp of Irish autumns/winters is by far the thing I dislike most about our climate.

Our summers are often like a tropical monsoon season

Rock Lesnar

mcburns07 wrote: »

I just hate rain during the winter in general tbh :pac:

I just hate rain

Dazler97

It's been raining here in Carrick on Shannon since 5pm and it's 6c, imagine if that was snow

Cluedo Monopoly

It's a lovely soft rain!

Clonmel1000

daniel_t1409 wrote: »

I apologise for moaning but it's even worse this winter as we had exactly the same last summer and pretty much 0 sunshine.

Yet you’ll have people tell you last summer as cracking!!! I kid you not.

Cluedo Monopoly

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Yet you’ll have people tell you last summer as cracking!!! I kid you not.

Every summer is cracking. It's all about light.
When you have light from 5am to 10pm, the world is your oyster.

John.Icy

I love heavy rain. Very therapeutic. Rain at dusk as daylight starts to fade is one of my favourites.

So long as I am indoors at the time of course!

Calibos

John.Icy wrote: »

I love heavy rain. Very therapeutic. Rain at dusk as daylight starts to fade is one of my favourites.

So long as I am indoors at the time of course!

I know some people complain that the rain hammering on their Velux keeps them awake. Not for me. I find it somewhat therapeutic too. The White noise helps me sleep, the noise stops me hearing anything else outside and the rain keeps the drunks away or keeps them moving. I live just off the Seafront in Bray on a main pedestrian route to the popular Seafront pubs. Fri to Sun can be noisy with drinkers on their way down or home all year round and in the Summer it can be Wed to Sun. I relax when I hear the rain hammering on the Velux because I know I wont hear or there wont be any drunken shenanigans outside as people don't hang about in the lashing rain. As you can imagine with respect to the aforementioned shenanigans the last 10 months have been Heaven with the pubs closed or closing earlier. Peaceful at night 7 days a week. Still get the relaxed feeling when the lashing rain hits the Velux though cause that neural programming doesn't fade overnight. It'll be a shock to the system when things get back to normal in a few months.

Reckless Abandonment

Just a heads up to anyone driving this morning. Roads are very wet here in Dublin. A lot of standing water on the m50 more than I've seen in a long time

Oneiric 3

Cumulative temperature anomaly (national) for January so far up to yesterday the 18th. A slow but sure bounce back after a pretty cool start:



Data from Met Eireann.

TheMilkyPirate

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Every summer is cracking. It's all about light.
When you have light from 5am to 10pm, the world is your oyster.

This exactly. I love summer no matter the weather we get.

redsteveireland

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

Just a heads up to anyone driving this morning. Roads are very wet here in Dublin. A lot of standing water on the m50 more than I've seen in a long time

They probably shouldn't be on boards either, that would be more dangerous than the rain surely? My coat? Yes I already have it...

Thelonious Monk

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

This exactly. I love summer no matter the weather we get.

Weather doesn't bother me much in Ireland, apart from summer, because I'm always so disappointed.
Spring and Autumn are my favourite seasons, I never have much expectations but we always seem to get nice spells of calm weather that make it lovely to be outside in. I'm getting anxiety now thinking of a typical July weather report for Dublin where it's 26c in Cardiff and sunny and raining in Dublin.

pad199207

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Weather doesn't bother me much in Ireland, apart from summer, because I'm always so disappointed.
Spring and Autumn are my favourite seasons, I never have much expectations but we always seem to get nice spells of calm weather that make it lovely to be outside in. I'm getting anxiety now thinking of a typical July weather report for Dublin where it's 26c in Cardiff and sunny and raining in Dublin.

Or the even better one where Liverpool has sunny and 30c with big thunderstorms and Dublin has 18c with drizzle.

Cluedo Monopoly

John.Icy wrote: »

I love heavy rain. Very therapeutic. Rain at dusk as daylight starts to fade is one of my favourites.

So long as I am indoors at the time of course!

A day like yesterday was the absolute sweet spot for coarse fishing.
12C, cloudy with light warm rain, no wind. Tight lines all day long!

nacho libre

Heavy rain since last night. There are floods in the fields now. Imagine if this was snow. Maybe some day before March we''ll have two days of heavy snow instead.

munsterlegend

nacho libre wrote: »

Heavy rain since last night. There are floods in the fields now. Imagine if this was snow. Maybe some day before March we''ll have two days of heavy snow instead.

Think you might up in Mayo. Looks like there is going to a north/south divide going by the models for cold/milder weather.

nacho libre

munsterlegend wrote: »

Think you might up in Mayo. Looks like there is going to a north/south divide going by the models for cold/milder weather.

Yes. it's just going to be cold rain here, then some mixed wintry precipitation after it.

redsteveireland

That last line of MT's forecast just gives us snow lovers something to hold on to until we give in to the arrival of spring, and slightly warmer rain.

From MT's forecast - - -"February may see an interval of colder weather developing after this variable period ends."

daniel_t1409

Another dull and wet day, and it's quite windy as well.

Birdnuts

pad199207 wrote: »

Or the even better one where Liverpool has sunny and 30c with big thunderstorms and Dublin has 18c with drizzle.

The above summed up the summer over the BI - personally I find wall to wall cloud on long summer days a bit grim:(

Gonzo

the wintry risk for this weekend is lower now than what the GFS was showing yesterday, had a feeling this would happen. Looks very hit and miss and mostly confined to the west and north with many eastern and southern areas staying mostly dry. After this deluge a few relatively dry days is well needed.

This wouldn't be good either
Loads of Northeasters's pumping cold into the Atlantic from labrador means storms wind and rain Ireland bound

https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1351525596791242755?s=19

esposito

All if’s and but’s Aunty. Nobody knows what’s in store for February