Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Hippodrome Song Owl

Casement reporting only 0.01mm of rain each hour since early morning but in Celbridge and in Lucan it is very wet with large puddles on footpaths and along the back roads. Got splashed already several times. Also only 2.7mm for yesterday, but I spent most of the day in Clondalkin and Lucan and there were very heavy downpours for a few hours around midday, and drizzle later in the evening. Horrible for the past 24 hours but not being reflected by our nearby station. Feeling damp and cold.

SuperBowserWorld

Dark, very wet, cold. North Wicklow. Filthy day as they say.

DOCARCH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124155559#Comment_124155559

Yip. 12.4mm so far today in Greystones. Heavy showers on and off.

pureza

dull as ditchwater in Arklow

Moderate rain

8.6mm since midnight

.Donegal.

Eastern coastal counties getting the worst of it today.

Gonzo

surprised over the past few days the number of people saying how cold it is. There's been plenty of sunshine over the past week and to me it's felt fairly mild over the past few days especially with the sunshine. Today is a bit showery but a fair bit of sun here today as well and feels relatively mild in it.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124155576#Comment_124155576

Was down by the sea there during the week ... was definitely ☀️ then ...

Thelonious Monk

Strange day. As soon as I consider going out it pisses down. Great bird photo, I love starlings, they're little lunatics.

midlander12

The fifth nice day here this week, or rather in Strandhill where I went for a few hours. Was a bit dull in the morning but nice and sunny for a while around lunchtime. Definite touch of spring.

cnocbui

The day started and ended like this.

appledrop

Very heavy rain showers on and off all day here in NCD. Just as it stops the next downpour comes! Shops were packed as everone had same idea to gef it out of way today in the hope that tomorrow will be better.

It's a sharp reminder how lucky we have been this winter with the mainly dry sunny weather.

Christmas weather in Ireland is usually wet and stormy despite everyone hoping for a white Christmas. It's amazing that it barely rained for the whole two weeks and it was so calm aswell.

acequion

A calm dry morning today in Tralee for my first park run of 2026. And stayed calm and dry all day with crisp,cold temps.A nice winter's day,imo, if a little overcast. The east got the Atlantic crap today methinks.

DOCARCH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124157119#Comment_124157119

Was thinking to myself (in Greystones) today was a lot like what the west gets frequently! Showers on/off all day. 17.2mm so far today.

goingmadted

Any chance this cold weather is gonna piss off soon?! 400 quid my lastest electric bill was.

beggars_bush

Grand day in the midlands.

Some washing out on the line, few jobs done.

acequion

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124157424#Comment_124157424

Yep you said it. It's a horrible climate really, so much bloody rain. I lived in Dublin for years and it really was much drier there. But that was a long time ago before recent climate change where even the east is getting a lot more rain nowadays.

I love quiet, calm winter days like today and to be fair we've had a decent few this winter. But alas rain is never far away here in the wettest county in Ireland [Kerry].

esposito

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124157848#Comment_124157848

Wettest county in Ireland? Donegal says ‘hold my beer’…

OldRio

0C. Overcast. Dampish feel this morning. Spring can't come quick enough for this individual.

A damp and foggy morning in Cork, hopefully we get the easterly after next week to dry things up.

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124158455#Comment_124158455

Kerry is definitely wetter than Donegal, mainly due to vulnerability to southwesterly flows (the prevailing wind direction) and more intense orographic rainfall with Macgillycuddy's Reeks. Valentia has the highest average annual rainfall out of any synoptic station, almost 35% more than Finner Camp in Donegal. One interesting thing is how quick Newport (Mayo) has caught up, its annual average rainfall is not far off Valentia.

pureza

raining most of the night in Arklow,heavy at times in a near constant narrow shower train band flowing up from the Celtic sea that from the radar given how far south its tailing might go on the whole day here

Very dark and dreary

Currently lashing,7.2c and flat calm

Over 17mm now since midnight and streams during the showers flowing down the road

Thelonious Monk

looks like a pig of a rainy week ahead, ugh

bodhrandude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124157476#Comment_124157476

Google tells me this cold spell has at least another ten days.

sryanbruen

If this is considered a "cold spell", Jesus our standards have hit rock bottom.

Gonzo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124158886#Comment_124158886

another easterly failure, the worst of both worlds, Atlantic nipping away at us slowly and just the right measure of cold to make it feel wet and miserable, cold rain and more heating bills, no snow away from high ground. The remainder of January looks fairly wet and temperatures generally between 3 and 8C.

appledrop

Well this morning started off damp and drizzely again in Dublin and I was like feck this but in the end it turned into a nice bright day with plenty of sunshine so thankfully we got to the park.

tradfan1

The weather really improved in Arklow in the afternoon - had a lovely (dry!) walk by the sea and it actually felt quite warm.

pureza

I’ll just leave this here 👇

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acequion

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124158701#Comment_124158701

Thanks for clarifying that @ Sryanbruen. I was pretty certain I had it right about Kerry being the wettest county in Ireland. However on balance we possibly get slightly better weather than Donegal. Milder and possibly more sunshine, again sunshine stats would confirm that. But overall the entire Atlantic coast has a poor climate, it's not called the Wild Atlantic Way for nothing. But we do have world class scenery. 😀

ClimateObserver

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124158886#Comment_124158886

We're at 28.5mm for January so far on the Kilkenny-Laois border. An average January brings 95mm for these parts. Thats a little over 50% of normal for this stage in the month. The week ahead looks rather wet across the south in particular. However, some of the rainfall will be showery so we might miss out on a few of those, fingers crossed.