Spring 2024 - General Discussion

Eibhir

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121938899#Comment_121938899

True Bill. I think when we're younger, say the teenage years, we have less memories and also you're doing new things.

By midlife a lot of the time we may be doing work we've done for years, a sameness that blends together. Hope that's it anyway!

mcburns07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121938905#Comment_121938905

At this stage I just want the rain to stop, that in itself will be a huge improvement.

Cluedo Monopoly

I agree, we seem to get good dry weather earlier and earlier. Last June was lovely too. We got about 2 weeks of warm sun around the LC exam. Hardly any rain in June.

KanyeSouthEast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121939256#Comment_121939256

First half of June was lovely but from about the 20 June on it was very thundery and intense rain. We had a week of thunderstorms daily. It was the warmest June on record but certainly not true to say we’d hardly any rain.

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121939439#Comment_121939439

Ah yeah it's all relative but we had a very very dry May (with not as much sun) and then 2 fantastic weeks of sun in early June.

Mace Head would be my closest station.

May 2023 = 30mm (Average = 81)

June 2023 = 56mm (Average = 82)

Eibhir

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121939462#Comment_121939462

Yes. It's all extremes, mid May to around 20 June had a drought by the end. Then we went into the Monsoon Season.. and we're still in it!

pureza

Lashing it down In Arklow now

18mm+ since yesterday

Driving rain bashing the windows in a cold easterly

Dire

Supercell

Fax charts are the best a duck has seen in a while for the next few days (to T120), especially if you like to swim in the east.

adocholiday

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121940325#Comment_121940325

Indeed, charts are grim reading up to the end of the bank holiday weekend for the South and East. A bit of a spread in the main models in terms of overall precipitation but it's going to be wet. GFS is the worst of the forecasts, and has the SW much wetter than the other models do.

pauldry

Ya Spain often gets monsoons at end of March n then 40c comes around in May or June whereas we get monsoons and then 14c comes round in May or June. ....and December.

tom1ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121939767#Comment_121939767

Yeah- have we had 5 dry days together since June 20th 2023?

tom1ie

Absolutely hammering it down in south Dublin.

Horrible weather out.

Eibhir

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121941820#Comment_121941820

Start of September 2023 here in Laois. And I think January. But deluges after and before.

Chris_5339762

A little bit yes, but fall victim to the "good week bad weekend" rule of the past nine months.

What we haven't had is an Azores high pressure sitting over us, giving us calm weather and warm conditions. If we have, fog has appeared, or endless grey cloud.

Oscar Bravo

A miserable day here just east of Castlebar. I seen Knock Airport with a temperature of just 4 degrees around lunchtime

Thelonious Monk

enjoy this relatively dry weather while you can folks!

KanyeSouthEast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121941891#Comment_121941891

Good week might be a bit of a stretch but agree the weekends have been an absolute disaster.

.Donegal.

Snow mentioned for high ground

Tonight

Bands of rain and showers will push northwards over Ireland tonight. Later in the night and towards dawn on Wednesday, some of the showers will turn wintry over the hills in the south and there is the increasing chance a few thunderstorms near southern coasts. Lowest temperatures of 1 to 5 degrees in light to moderate easterly winds becoming southeasterly later.

Tomorrow

Outbreaks of rain will gradually clear northwards on Wednesday morning and early afternoon. Sunny spells and showers will follow from the south for the rest of the day. Some showers will be heavy with the chance of hail and isolated thunderstorms, and with some sleet or wet snow possible over high ground. Rather cold with highest temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees in moderate to fresh southeast to south winds.

US3

Galway Beo with more disinformation, discrediting Met Éireann they should be banned from reporting weather

Met Eireann Ireland forecast 20C temperature spike as ‘first taste of summer’ hits

Here comes the sun

Eibhir

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121942168#Comment_121942168

I can see that I'm adapting, I've noticed gills growing over the past few years🤭

beggars_bush

Hopefully it dries up a bit over the weekend according to the bbc deep dive forecast

Their rain prediction models have been very good over the past 2-3 months and I've stopped watching met eireann forecasts

road_high

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121943198#Comment_121943198

What are the BBC saying?

Eibhir

The ECM and GFS this evening keep the low pressure going well into FI. Sometimes change comes more quickly than expected. Here's hoping.

If it rained for April and took up for May and the summer I'd take it.

With my farming hat on I know fertiliser isn't spread, cattle are being housed for much longer and the season is late. Thankfully at home we have enough spare fodder but some will be under pressure.

For the ordinary punter it's miserable and a little depressing. Parents with kids on Easter hols can't do a whole ton outdoors with them.

Neddyusa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121942168#Comment_121942168

What's the timescale for the colour scale on that map? It's certainly not annual!

.Donegal.

Raining heavily in east Ulster tonight

Most parts of the warning area will see 15-25 mm of rain, with widely 30-40 mm, falling across exposed hills of the east. There is a chance that as much as 60-70 mm of rain could fall on the eastern slopes of the Antrim Plateau before rain clears.

Eibhir

No real right place to put this. But my long deceased uncle told me as a child that the Shamrock and Palm (Palm Sunday) were wore on the same day one year!

Easter Sunday was therefore 24 March. (The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox). I did a quick Google search..

'In 1940, an unusual coincidence took place when Palm Sunday (which is one week prior to Easter Sunday) occurred on the same day as St Patrick's day.'

The next occurrence will be 2391!

DellyBelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121944168#Comment_121944168

What's that got to do with the weather 🤔

beggars_bush

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121944168#Comment_121944168

Didn't that happen in the last 10 years?

The medieval lunar calendar used by the rcc should not be dictating our national calendar

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121944168#Comment_121944168

You clearly didn't look very hard for a more suitable place for your post.

https://www.boards.ie/categories/christianity

The above would be a much more suited place. Mods, can we have the post on question moved to a more suitable forum, please?

Billcarson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121944411#Comment_121944411

Don't see the big deal about it.