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Winter 2019/2020 - General Discussion

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    #662
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Fog lifting actually a bit in cork city and sun coming out for the sun set.


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    #663
    Mortelaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    Tigerandahalf wrote: »
    Comparing to Portugal I saw the following online.....

    'In fact, annual precipitation amounts to 1,450 mm (57 inches) in Braga and 1,100 millimeters (45 in) in Porto, while it drops to around 900 mm (35 in) in Coimbra, to 700 mm (27.5 in) in Lisbon, and to about 500 mm (20 in) in Algarve.'
    ...

    It does look a bit like the algarve mid summer here sometimes alright:D


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    #664
    Goldfinch8
    Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Goldfinch8


    Patchy mist and fog throughout the day here. Found a glorious clear spot on the way to work between Charlestown and a few kilometres west of Ballaghaderreen this morning. Blue skies and a rising winter sun. It was heavenly but it wasn't long before I was driving back into the gloom again.
    Fog seriously thickening east of Castlebar now as the night draws in. Shaping up to be a really foggy one tonight.


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    #665
    Rock Lesnar
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    Very foggy with poor visibility in meath today, feeling cool now


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    #666
    Carol25
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    Fog has arrived back here in East Galway around sunset. It was quite something to hear the birds in the woods around dusk as the fog arrived. It sounded like a hive of activity in there. Their tweets were heard by us anyway!


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    #667
    Harry Palmr
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    Somewhat mucky day, dry but foggy start and now foggy again with a brief weak sunny bit in the middle.

    Has anyone got a view on the pattern of low pressure systems this Autumn/winter? The track seems to be overwhelmingly across the southern/eastern flanks, with the same but more pronounced in the UK with a steady stream of wet weather pushing up from Biscay/France.


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    #668
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Somewhat mucky day, dry but foggy start and now foggy again with a brief weak sunny bit in the middle.

    Has anyone got a view on the pattern of low pressure systems this Autumn/winter? The track seems to be overwhelmingly across the southern/eastern flanks, with the same but more pronounced in the UK with a steady stream of wet weather pushing up from Biscay/France.

    since September the jetstream has taken a slightly more southerly track, we've been on the cooler side of it much of the time and this has resulted in the heaviest of rains across southern and eastern Ireland, Wales, central and eastern England with up to 200% above normal rainfall in many of these areas and flooding at times. Central and eastern England has possibly had it even worse than us, they've had flooding alerts since October.

    The north-west of Ireland and much of Scotland has not been hit nearly as bad with the rain and parts of Scotland are actually dryer than normal, due to the more southerly flow of the jet, this is my understanding of it anyway.

    It appears that the jet is going to track further north again over the next few weeks, with milder air up from the south, so we may be at the peak of the deluges now. The next few weeks still look largely unsettled but perhaps not as wet as it has been over the past 3 to 4 months and we may build up areas of high pressure at times too.


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    #669
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I'm sick of it, us residents of the Côte de South East are just not used to this!


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    #670
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    I'm sick of it, us residents of the Cde South East are just not used to this!

    I'm absolutely fed up with it too, normally all I wish for in Winter is snow, but for now I think a few weeks of dry weather is essential if we are to even begin drying out the saturated land. All the ditches in our area are full to bursting point with water and fields have been water logged since October. The council have been out numerous times to clear floods and improve drainage. It really has been excessive.


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    #671
    Tigerandahalf
    Registered Users Posts: 7,811 ✭✭✭Tigerandahalf


    It has been very dull and wet in the west since the start of August when we had that day of the deluge. We got a good week in early/mid September and it has been poor since then. Very few blue sky days. A nice settled spell over Christmas/January wouldn't go amiss.


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    #672
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,839 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Fortunate to have had such a bright sunny day here in Tralee getting up to 9.1C

    The fog showed up well on NASA Sat pic today.


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    #673
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Do you have a link by any chance for these satellite pics??
    Meteorite58 wrote: »
    Fortunate to have had such a bright sunny day here in Tralee getting up to 9.1C

    The fog showed up well on NASA Sat pic today.



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    #674
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,839 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Do you have a link by any chance for these satellite pics??


    Sure. Great resource to explore.

    https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/


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    #675
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Very bad fog from early morning in Kildare today.

    We escaped it Dublin but it was very severe then this evening. Very dense + cold fog.


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    #676
    Mortelaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    Raining in Arklow now
    4.6c
    A 3c rise in the last hour


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    #677
    squarecircles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    gfs 18z would bring a very frosty,cold seasonal christmas week with dazzling winter sunshine.

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    #678
    Kutebride
    Registered Users Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭Kutebride


    The sun wont be shining in the chamber in Newgrange today. Fog continues in Meath.


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    #679
    Oscar Bravo
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    Status Yellow - Fog warning for Ireland

    Update: Fog will be slow to lift and will linger in some parts for much of Saturday. Becoming widespread and dense again on Saturday evening, but retreating to northern areas by Sunday morning.

    Valid until Sunday 9 a.m.


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    #680
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Dense fog in cork city again this morning


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    #681
    SleetAndSnow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    https://twitter.com/trebography/status/1208325385127108613?s=19

    Can't even see the city, only the water tank on the north side.


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    #682
    Rock Lesnar
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    Kutebride wrote: »
    The sun wont be shining in the chamber in Newgrange today. Fog continues in Meath.

    Yeah actually seems to be getting worse in my area, feeling cold to


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    #683
    squarecircles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a mild midgety Irish Christmas Day
    That's the island greeting that we send to you from the land where marigold flowers
    sway Here we know that Christmas will be green and soft.

    Theres still a kick in the sun on these calm clear winter days,it reminds me of winters in Spain.
    should have the daffodil bulbs poping up now before new years eve,
    as it has become tradition.There are rose buds still blossoming in a sheltered corner of the garden.
    and to think some people deny climate change.Id imagine were one of the few locations in the northern hemisphere
    where that is possible.


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    #684
    Oneiric 3
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    Rock Lesnar wrote: »
    Yeah actually seems to be getting worse in my area, feeling cold to

    Ditto here in Galway for the 2nd day running now. Remarkable lack of wind this month, despite the odd blip.

    New Moon



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    #685
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    after some cool weather on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, looks like it's going to turn mild or exceptionally mild for at least a week. Temperatures could peak at 3 or 4C above normal around New Years which could get values on the ground to 13 or 14C. Some of the runs are going for +13 uppers over us which is very high for this time of the year.

    If high pressure was to set up, this would still show a very mild temperature but on the ground inversion along with frosty nights would lower the daytime temperature significantly. Thankfully it doesn't look as wet as recent months, there will still be some rain or showers but the intense deluges look like they are over. Temperatures lower after New Years Day returning to more normal values.

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    #686
    Mortelaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Mortelaro


    Lovely sunny day in Arklow now
    2nd vit D top up in a row :)


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    #687
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    still kinda foggy here in Meath, very calm and settled. I'd take this any day over the heavy rain.


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    #688
    esposito
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭esposito


    Gonzo wrote: »
    after some cool weather on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, looks like it's going to turn mild or exceptionally mild for at least a week. Temperatures could peak at 3 or 4C above normal around New Years which could get values on the ground to 13 or 14C. Some of the runs are going for +13 uppers over us which is very high for this time of the year.

    Why does it always have to get milder between Christmas Day and New Years in this country?! Every goddam year. Really grinds my gears.


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    #689
    Gonzo
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    esposito wrote: »
    Why does it always have to get milder between Christmas Day and New Years in this country?! Every goddam year. Really grinds my gears.

    in the 80s the reverse usually happened, you could often bank on seeing frost or snow during the Christmas holidays once the big day itself was over. In fairness there has been very little mild here since October with temperatures in the single digits most of the time.


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    #690
    esposito
    Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭esposito


    Gonzo wrote: »
    in the 80s the reverse usually happened, you could often bank on seeing frost or snow during the Christmas holidays once the big day itself was over. In fairness there has been very little mild here since October with temperatures in the single digits most of the time.

    I well believe it Gonzo. Even as a kid in the mid 90s in particular I remember some very cold frosty conditions between Christmas and New Years. That seems to be too much to ask for nowadays.

    Fingers and everything else crossed that these mild conditions won’t last long and we’ll be into a much colder pattern change just after New Years Day.


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    #691
    Billcarson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭Billcarson


    Its like since we hit winter nirvana in dec 2010 wintry weather around xmas has become almost non existent. Its almost as if we are still paying back for 2010 .


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