Spring 2025 - General Discussion

Robwindstorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123494892#Comment_123494892

I flew around mine this evening as well 💪

giveitholly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123495040#Comment_123495040

So did I.....

Robwindstorm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123495088#Comment_123495088

😁 ,anyone else get their lawns done this evening?

.Donegal.

A wet night

appledrop

It's absolutely pelting down, hence why I can't sleep, right I'll try again!

Monkeynut

Happy with the rain I threw grass seed down 4 weeks ago. Only now its starting to pop up. Warm muggy dirty rotten wet weather. Great. Every cloud and all....

Gonzo

Rainfall totals here in Meath have caught up alot after a very dry first 3 weeks of May, currently still a little bit below average but about 44mm of rainfall over the past week. Temperatures here close to average, about +0.3C above average for May overall where the easterlies kept us on the cool side much of the month.

Kutebride

What a horrible day in Meath and looks like we are stuck under this streamer for what seems like the rest of the day. Warm drizzle which intensifies to heavy rain every so often. The sun does look like its behind all this cloud as its glaring on the eyes at times. Ugh. 18°

DOCARCH

Feeling very warm and humid in Greystones. 21.4c atm with limited sunshine and a strong breeze.

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123496462#Comment_123496462

My least favourite day in ages. Exactly as you described in north Dublin with an awful humid or muggy feel in the air.

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123496230#Comment_123496230

Whilst the easterlies definitely had a cooling effect, I think the clear nights made more of a difference there. Wouldn't surprise me (I've not checked though so don't take it as gospel) if your daytime temps (mean max) have been more than a degree above average whilst nights are somewhat below average as we've had a fair number of chilly to cool nights under all the clear skies. A big difference to recent Mays - most notably last May 2024 which was the warmest on record for mean - which had exceptionally mild nights and a good deal of cloud.

alentejo

Why is it raining. ME didnt forcast this in Dublin this morning!

Monkeynut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123497303#Comment_123497303

It's raining because:
Rain is essentially the water cycle in action. Warm air near the Earth's surface picks up water vapor through evaporation from sources like oceans, lakes, and even wet ground. This water vapor rises, cools, and condenses into tiny water droplets or ice crystals, forming clouds. When these droplets or crystals become too heavy to stay suspended in the air, they fall back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, depending on the temperature and atmospheric conditions
🤣

Squeaksoutloud

Forecast on Sunday was for today to be a wet day as cancelled an activity for today on sunday. Complete change in the forecast Monday and Tues and it was looking good even yesterday today didn't look to bad. Reality today has reverted back to Sunday's forecast! Awful day in North County Dublin.

appledrop

Really disappointed it was so wet today, that wasn't forecast and my son had his school tour and of course it was outdoors! I shouldn't have bothered with the suncream!

Yes he was well wrapped up for weather but still an awful shame when it was forecast last night as mainly dry with a few showers.

Major fail Met Eireann!

pureza

And down here near Arklow,we’re calling it a major fail because it was sunny all day and 22c despite a dull damp forecast

They cannot win

Here’s the current view

highdef

I've a good few outdoor jobs to do tomorrow and thankfully it's looking like a fair day. Then I jet off to France first thing on Saturday morning, then a week long cruise around the Med, followed by four nights in a lovely villa in the hills inland from Cannes. Weather looks very pleasant and not too hot (a few degrees either side of 30° based on current data). With the forecast for Ireland being so abysmal for the foreseeable future, this holiday cannot be more welcomed! At least I got a base tan in Ireland with the recent good weather so it could be worse.

CrowdedHouse

But tomorrow is Friday!

Gonzo

wet all day today in Meath, drizzle and blustery mist, nothing heavy but damp all the same that would wet you on a walk. Feeling very warm and muggy at times today as well despite all the cloud and dampness.

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123497886#Comment_123497886

Ooops, fixed that, thank you.

The HorsesMouth

That was an horrific day this part of the country (midlands). Happy to see somewhere get sun but we were out of luck big time today. And the drizzle just keeps piling in across the middle of the country. A depressing day all in all. Hoping for any sort of dry window for the bank holiday weekend.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123497303#Comment_123497303

That's why it's raining. ;-)

Filthy all day in north Tipp - like the last several days. 8:45PM and a buzzard was hunting. First time I have seen one hover.

appledrop

That Buzzard must have been hungry, when it's a dry bright day the amount I see is unreal around here in NCD, they love soaring on the thermals, they are not a fan of the rain like myself😁

KanyeSouthEast

it’s so windy at times wild.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123498232#Comment_123498232

I suspect it might have some hungry beaks to feed, as there are two of them. Hope so, anyway.

giveitholly

Lovely morning with the sun breaking through and temps rising to 18c

.Donegal.

UV is high today where the sun breaks through

Really good advice to slip on clothing once it hits level 3….

sryanbruen

A brilliant site by a UK Met in the link below showing the temperature anomalies at any given time for UK stations. Wish we had something like this for Ireland.

https://istheukhotrightnow.com/

compsys

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123497149#Comment_123497149

The mean max for Dublin Airport is currently 16.7º. That's about 1.5º above the medium-term average. 10 days have gone above 18º – nowhere near as great as stations in the West but very good for Ireland for May.

For Meath it'll be even higher.

The nights were another story though. Many were well below average under the clear skies.

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123499577#Comment_123499577

Had a look at Dunsany, its May mean max stands at 16.9C which will be a similar anomaly to Dublin Airport whilst its mean min stands at 5.3C which is more than a degree below average. In contrast, the May 2024 mean min was 9.3C, 4 degrees warmer!

Confirms my thought that the relatively cool anomaly has been skewed more by the nights rather than the days. Makes a change to see a month skewed by cool nights when we've been becoming used to the opposite of warm, cloudy nights skewing a month.