Spring 2023 - General Discussion

Oscar Bravo

Bright and breezy here in Castlebar with passing showers. Not to bad overall

SleetAndSnow

Bright morning with some sun in Cork, but alas, more heavy rain is on the way

.Donegal.

Valentia highest rainfall total yesterday 33.6mm

Dublin airport lowest 2.2mm

.Donegal.

Sunny spells today nice to see

Robwindstorm

Looks like horrendous weather approaching us in Meath after a lovely day thus far. Terribly wet land now, if it keeps this up farmers will be in trouble trying to get livestock out for spring grazing

Gonzo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120387750#Comment_120387750

Looks like I've just about escaped those deluges which passed within a mile or 2 west and north of Dunshaughlin. Gone very windy here now as the deluge moves north skirting past here but it's dry and mild. Another push of very heavy rain/showers along the west coast getting ready to move north-eastwards. Some places are going to see alot of rain today while others not so much.

South Galway to North Kerry, Clare in particular seems to be a very extensive area of showers with a shower lane that pushes north-eastwards up to northern Leinster and through the midlands.

mr.stonewall

Looking at the SMDs Soil moisture deficits, the whole country is in negative territory. Soils are waterlogged and just show the impact of the rain and snow since the 8th of march. Payback had to come for the February.

This is putting serious pressure on farms on a number of fronts. Livestock housed for longer, tillage work has been paused and will take time to start back up as soils have to dry. This time last year most spring crops had been planted, this year about 20% are in the ground.

Rebelbrowser

With hilarious timing rte.ie have published the following article today https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0322/1365594-rainfall-ireland-winter-spring-2023-met-eireann/

It is an article all about how the country has been experiencing a drought these last few months. Suspect it was written last month but only published today . It hasn't aged well. I can rarely remember as much rain as we have had in Cork for the last two weeks and its been biblical all day yesterday and today particularly.

Gonzo

I think the media are forgetting that the entire Autumn was a deluge from start to finish. Second half of December was also a deluge particularly the pre Christmas to New Years period. Week after New Years was soaking wet too and then the dry spell started which was a welcome relief. The dry spell lasted about 5 weeks and the rains were back end of February and it's been deluges ever since right through this month. Since September 2nd, we've only really had about 6 dry weeks and the rest has been very wet indeed.

Robwindstorm

You were lucky Gonzo, and now look at the squall line heading for us. We'll need boats soon

Hooter23

Very heavy downpours in Galway...its like the weather we got ln autumn last year from around September onwards

Robwindstorm

Will this ever end, and this time last year we were looking forward to a week of dry 16 to 18c sunny weather even though it did get colder after.

Gonzo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120388896#Comment_120388896

it got me in the end, lots of heavy rain here now and squally winds, wouldn't put a dog out in it.

The rain over Louth and Monaghan looks very intense, must be flooding in places there by this stage.

Tomorrow looks like a repeat of today, a dryish first half of the day and then loads of intense showers from about 3pm tomorrow all through the evening.

the GFS is doubling down on rainfall totals over the next 2 weeks, not just the west but also now the north and midlands in for totals over 100mm over the next 10 to 14 days. It's a grim outlook with no end in sight to the Atlantic onslaught, a complete write off.

Flooding may become a real issue over the next few weeks as rainfall totals mount up on already over saturated land throughout the entire country. If this continues throughout April and into May we could be in trouble, however there are hints that rain may begin to ease from the 7th of April.

CrowdedHouse

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120388989#Comment_120388989

Over !0mm of rain in Oranmore in an hour between 3:30 and 4:30 pm

(21.6 mm yesterday and 16.4 mm so far today)

Neddyusa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120388758#Comment_120388758

Autumn was wet true, but you couldnt describe this winter as a "deluge".

Havent seen the stats, but I'm guessing it was significantly drier than normal across most (if not all) met stations.

Also, prior to last Autumn, we had a run of 13 or 14 consecutive drier than normal months (extremely unusual in Ireland)

We're well over-due a six-month "deluge" as you describe - but it could more accurately described as "a return to the norm".

.Donegal.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120389336#Comment_120389336

Yes winter was drier than normal everywhere. Very dry for Dublin

Rte story from above. Long-Term Average (LTA) period from 1981-2010. The meteorological winter of 2022/2023 was indeed drier than others at provisionally 75% of its LTA. In fact, no matter where you are in Ireland, this winter's rainfall was below normal, ranging from 131.4 mm (71% of its LTA) at Dublin Airport to 429.4 mm (91% of the LTA) at Newport, Co. Mayo.

appledrop

The sun this morning was absolutely beautiful, it was just so bright. Can't wait for clocks to go forward and have much brighter evenings as well if it would ever stop raining.

Of course by late afternoon the rain was back with a vengeance.

If this continues for much longer a boat might be best way to get to work.

Rebelbrowser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120389397#Comment_120389397

Perhaps, but the article makes it seem like it has continued. I can't explain how much rain we've had down here the last two weeks.....

SleetAndSnow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120389058#Comment_120389058

This can't be good, was driving today in rain that was biblical in cork, main road basically had to go to a standstill, but after eventually turning off the main road, the amount of water pouring out the fields and gardens was madness, the ground can't take anymore so it's all just flowing right off. Not sure how farmers are coping really, loads of flooded fields.

SleetAndSnow

Was woken up around 1am last night by some very intense rain, hail and wind in Cork, and then woke up this morning to see there was a mini tornado in the city. Wild weather at the moment!

https://twitter.com/CarlowWeather/status/1638795480749469696?t=R2j0Li8yw_Tc8Pk6Hs7cqw&s=19

sryanbruen

Valentia is currently having its wettest March since 1989 with 185.8mm compared to 195.2mm in 1989.

Cork Airport has seen wetter as recently as 2018 with 144.4mm compared to 164.9mm in 2018.

Gonzo

Those totals for both Valentia and Cork Airport are likely to be much higher by the time we reach the end of March so possibly record breaking rainfall territory.

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120390937#Comment_120390937

Was going to comment on Dunsany for you but it's only the wettest there since 2019 at the moment so wait for more rain to come. 2018 technically had a significantly higher total than both 2019/2023 but more than 70mm of that was from snow/snowmelt.

Hooter23

You would not be able to know the time of year only for the brighter days...Spring is worse than winter🙃

sryanbruen

The aurora visible last night. Shots from Balbriggan and Howth. Could just barely see it through the light pollution but the fact got to see it at all is amazing, especially so soon after the huge flop a month ago from overcast conditions.

DOCARCH

Great pictures Sryan. 👍️

KanyeSouthEast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120394945#Comment_120394945

Spring in Ireland is mainly a brighter winter. Whether you like snow or sun and heat our climate is brutal. We don’t even have seasons really.

esposito

The wind out there is ridiculous despite the nice sunshine here in the East.

Gonzo

Lots of showers on the way again today and a horrible wind. The weekend is thankfully looking a bit dryer, particularly Sunday and Monday before turning very unsettled again from Tuesday.

Meteorite58

Very blustery and showery around Limerick/ Clare this morning, a while since I felt the car being buffeted by the winds during a squally shower on open ground. Good bright spells also, great to be out and about.