Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

Gonzo

With all this talk about cold weather, it's nice to see that the far south and east of Spain is going through some very warm weather at the moment and a taste of Spring or early summer near the coasts. It got into the low 20's on the costa del sol today, and parts of Alicante got up to 29C today. A massive difference from the past few weeks. Temperatures in Alicante and Murcia may reach 25 to 27C over the next 4 to 5 days.

lolie

The Bbc forecast at 11.55pm seemed fairly confident of high pressure building over Scandinavia later next week sending very cold air towards Britain.

Kermit.de.frog

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

December 20th 2010 in the aftermath of that (last proper) northerly that hit a couple of days earlier. You can see why more eastern and south parts depend more on easterly or northeasterly flows for their proper snow.

I see your pathetic 2010 "snow apocalypse" and raise you the beast :cool:

pad199207

Temperatures in Southern Norway this morning so no shortage of decent cold if winds start to come in from the E or NE

Rock Lesnar

ME on their app predicting 23.6mm of rain in 2 hours tomorrow for meath, that cant be right surely?

DOCARCH

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

ME on their app predicting 23.6mm of rain in 2 hours tomorrow for meath, that cant be right surely?

Similar here in Dublin 16, but forecasting 34.3mm in 2 hours!

Rock Lesnar

Rock Lesnar wrote: »

ME on their app predicting 23.6mm of rain in 2 hours tomorrow for meath, that cant be right surely?

You think that's bad
They have arklow down for over 50mm
Nearly 50 of this tomorrow night 10 to midnight
Has to be a mistake on their site

Oneiric 3

Of all the reporting Met Eireann stations up to yesterday, the two coldest for the month of January so far are Mullingar on 3.1c and Ballyhaise with 3.2c. In contrast, the top two warmest are Sherkin Island & Valentia with 6.0c and 6.1c respectively. Wettest stations are Newport on 203.6mm and Athenry 145.0mm, with the two driest being Moorpark showing off with its 49.2mm and Gurteen not far behind on 66.0mm.

You know where I get this data from? Met Eireann, that's where.

Nqp15hhu

I have had 87mm this month, so far. Which is 30mm less than a station 3 miles away.. odd

Thelonious Monk

Windy, rainy, manky in Dublin. I think it's meant to calm down a bit later at least.

Oneiric 3

Nqp15hhu wrote: »

I have had 87mm this month, so far.

You'd know better than anyone else on here, but is there a source where we can look at daily data from stations in the North? I've looked through the UKMO site several times and can't find anything. The UK Met office site is a great resource in many ways, but they seem remarkably stingy with their station data.

Nqp15hhu

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

You'd know better than anyone else on here, but is there a source where we can look at daily data from stations in the North? I've looked through the UKMO site several times and can't find anything. The UK Met office site is a great resource in many ways, but they seem remarkably stingy with their station data.

https://www.ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?lang=en&state=United+K&osum=no&fmt=html&ord=REV&ano=2021&mes=01&day=28&hora=18&ndays=1&Send=send

And weathercast used to have live data from each station, now that has been replaced with weatherpro.

DOCARCH

DOCARCH wrote: »

Similar here in Dublin 16, but forecasting 34.3mm in 2 hours!

Seems to have been corrected now.

Nqp15hhu

The airmass coming in tonight is looking less marginal than thought. Dew points as low as -3c, with wet bulb freezing levels <200 metres for large areas of the island.

Clonmel1000

Nice mild bright day here today would love a couple of months of this. Pleasure to go out in no slush no icy rain or wind that would cut you in 2.

Oneiric 3

California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwzBIbNTo9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwzBIbNTo9o

mcburns07

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Nice mild bright day here today would love a couple of months of this. Pleasure to go out in no slush no icy rain or wind that would cut you in 2.

We've had pretty much none of this in East Cork so far this winter, amazing how different the weather can be over a short distance. Going by your name i'm 50km away.

Nqp15hhu

The temperatures and dew point are on the way down here, now 5.6c.

Supercell

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwzBIbNTo9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwzBIbNTo9o

Wow, would I like to live in a place that had that every so often!

You'd have to live up a mountain in California for that. I once drove up there in a storm actually, up to Lake Tahoe. Would not recommend. The only reason I got past the barriers on I80 was because I got lost in Sacramento and took a back road by mistake, rejoining later. At that stage they had closed the freeway east of Sacramento but I missed it.

I could just see the car in front of me, that was the only way to drive, follow the hazy red lights. If he, or the guy he was following, was a goner and we all were since quite a few were following me. Anyway got to the destination about 7 hours late. Did stop for chains.

(This was in March or April).

bosco12345

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Of all the reporting Met Eireann stations up to yesterday, the two coldest for the month of January so far are Mullingar on 3.1c and Ballyhaise with 3.2c. In contrast, the top two warmest are Sherkin Island & Valentia with 6.0c and 6.1c respectively. Wettest stations are Newport on 203.6mm and Athenry 145.0mm, with the two driest being Moorpark showing off with its 49.2mm and Gurteen not far behind on 66.0mm.

You know where I get this data from? Met Eireann, that's where.

Ballyhaise & mullingar consistently the coldest stations

Dazler97

I think Dublin should be added in that rain warning especially from the city centre southwards

Oneiric 3

Theta E animation showing how warmer air has struggled to reach into Scotland over the last few days:

Oneiric 3

Deleted User wrote: »

You'd have to live up a mountain in California for that. .

Or maybe the Arizona desert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK7qbpancw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK7qbpancw

nacho libre

Boards Weather members awaiting the next set of model runs

Artane2002

nacho libre wrote: »

Boards Weather members awaiting the next set of model runs

I think I might stay up/wake up early for the 0z runs

munsterlegend

Artane2002 wrote: »

I think I might stay up/wake up early for the 0z runs

A sucker for punishment!

mcburns07

Shocking evening in East Cork, wild out there. Plenty of rain in the last few hours.

Oscar Bravo

mcburns07 wrote: »

Shocking evening in East Cork, wild out there. Plenty of rain in the last few hours.

Miserable alright.
Cork Airport 11pm:
Wind 100° 22kt. Visibility 4000m. Rain. Clouds few 100ft, broken 200ft, broken 800ft. Temperature 7°C, dew point 7°C. QNH 990hPa. Temporarily: Visibility 2000m.

Dazler97

The BBC 10 day weather looks interesting from next Thursday onwards showing a possible easterly