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Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

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    #3812
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,749 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    It says it's like 7c here in Dublin but it doesn't feel cold at all. Is that just because there's no wind, and the sun is blazing?


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    #3813
    highdef
    Registered Users Posts: 6,140 ✭✭✭highdef


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    It says it's like 7c here in Dublin but it doesn't feel cold at all. Is that just because there's no wind, and the sun is blazing?

    Are you in the shade or the sunshine when you say it's not cold? Dublin airport and casement were both reporting 10° at 13:00 so my guess is that you are very near to the coast as the wind is from the east so nearer the coast is most likely cooler than inland a bit.


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    #3814
    Shelby Foote
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 119 ✭✭Shelby Foote


    Sitting in a 11/12C warm back garden on 28 February, you can't beat it!


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    #3815
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    In full sun and no wind you’d swear it was May


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    #3816
    snowgal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭snowgal


    Yeah, it really is a lovely lovely day out there. The best day I’ve seen in a good few months :)


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    #3817
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,712 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    fantastic day today, puts most of June 2020 to August 2020 to shame.


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    #3818
    Tyrone212
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭Tyrone212


    Cloudy up here.


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    #3819
    Rock Lesnar
    Registered Users Posts: 11,880 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Gonzo wrote: »
    fantastic day today, puts most of June 2020 to August 2020 to shame.

    Yep, got out on the bike earlier and just got the grass cut for the 1st time this year


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    #3820
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,064 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Clear blue skies here in Mayo. Fab day :)


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    #3821
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭appledrop


    pad199207 wrote: »
    In full sun and no wind you’d swear it was May

    You really would, once your in sunshine it's gorgeous.

    Even in summer I'd always prefer a sunny day that's a bit cooler rather than one of those muggy days when they tell you it's 22 degrees but it's pointless really without the sun.


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    #3822
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Gonzo wrote: »
    fantastic day today, puts most of June 2020 to August 2020 to shame.

    Gonzo your like me still not over Summer 2020!

    Summer 2020 had less sunshine than Autumn 2020 so that's tells us how crap it was.


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    #3823
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Stunning day

    My children are sunbathing in the garden in shorts and t-shirts.

    Never thought I'd say that in Ireland in February


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    #3824
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Today shows how air temperature isn’t everything. On a long walk I took off my jacket in what was supposedly 9-10 C. It felt warm in the sun. Last day of winter.


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    #3825
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,712 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    appledrop wrote: »
    Gonzo your like me still not over Summer 2020!

    Summer 2020 had less sunshine than Autumn 2020 so that's tells us how crap it was.

    Summer 2020 was probably the worst summer since the early 1980's here in South Meath/Dublin in terms of low temperatures, lack of any warmth, endless days of cloud and dank skies. July 2020 was actually worse than June 2019. Every spell of warmth and sunshine avoided the area after the Spring spell broke on June the 3rd. We got a slight recovery first week of September but summer was over by then. This summer should hopefully be a bit more sunnier, it can't be much worse than last summer.


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    #3826
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Gonzo wrote: »
    fantastic day today, puts most of June 2020 to August 2020 to shame.

    High pressure

    Nothing to get too excited about


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    #3827
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 16,712 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    High pressure

    Nothing to get too excited about

    But we've had so little of it since Spring of last year so it is most welcome after almost 9 months of mostly damp and wet conditions.


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    #3828
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,749 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    I'm still not over last summer either. Really low cloud the whole time, a blanket of it, it was horrible.
    Sometimes I wish we could save days like today for July and August, when it'd be properly warm if the skies were blue.


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    #3829
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,819 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    What a beautiful day, outside for much of it including lunch al fresco !

    Got a respectable temp of 13.1C

    1030.3 hPa down from 1036.5 hPa

    Long may the High Pressure continue.

    Some burning on the mountains today, hope that is the last of it but with the dry spell coming up I doubt it.

    Tralee Bay looking Towards Brandon.


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    #3830
    Donegal Storm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭Donegal Storm


    As is evident from the above pic it was cloudy here in Donegal for most of the day, cleared up in the evening after the sun already set but a nice day nonetheless. Great to be able to do some outdoor work again and seeing fresh buds on all the bushes

    Glad to see the back of the winter all things considered, looking forward to some warmth and being able to have lunch in the garden again


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    #3831
    Rebelbrowser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    appledrop wrote: »
    Gonzo your like me still not over Summer 2020!

    Summer 2020 had less sunshine than Autumn 2020 so that's tells us how crap it was.

    In the East. Was decent enough down here. Dublin had a little over 3 hours sun per day but here we had nearly 5 hours sun per day. Late July and early August was gorgeous. See https://www.met.ie/climate-statement-for-august-2020


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    #3832
    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Was like Pea Soup for a few hours till about 5pm at Bray Seafront after Sea Fog rolled in. Chilly in the Fog too. Visibility down to 100m or so at times.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222651017055637&set=gm.1601687633363413

    https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10214942892724802&set=pcb.1601734910025352

    https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10159455408505739&set=pcb.1601805956684914

    https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158047932048358&set=pcb.1601807496684760


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    #3833
    appledrop
    Registered Users Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    In the East. Was decent enough down here. Dublin had a little over 3 hours sun per day but here we had nearly 5 hours sun per day. Late July and early August was gorgeous. See https://www.met.ie/climate-statement-for-august-2020

    Ah I know it was in Dublin/Meath it was crap. I'll never forget start of August the rest of country had a heatwave +blue skies and every day in Dublin we kept waiting for 'clouds' to burn off as Met Eireann promised and everyday it never happened!


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    #3834
    Rebelbrowser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Rebelbrowser


    appledrop wrote: »
    Ah I know it was in Dublin/Meath it was crap. I'll never forget start of August the rest of country had a heatwave +blue skies and every day in Dublin we kept waiting for 'clouds' to burn off as Met Eireann promised and everyday it never happened!

    We had it in reverse in April and May. Down here it was OK but mostly cloudy, elsewhere it was like the Costa del sol! Swings and roundabouts in this country.


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    #3835
    Tyrone212
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭Tyrone212


    Rebelbrowser wrote: »
    In the East. Was decent enough down here. Dublin had a little over 3 hours sun per day but here we had nearly 5 hours sun per day. Late July and early August was gorgeous. See https://www.met.ie/climate-statement-for-august-2020

    Interesting Gurteen in Tipperary had the least amount of sunshine at 275 hours. Dublin a decent bit more at 361 hours over the Summer period. August was dullest in Dublin yet it also recorded the least amount of rainfall at 85.1mm. Valentia the wettest recorded 219.7mm for August.


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    #3836
    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Winter 2020-21 in South Laois stats:

    Rainfall: 321.2mm (Average 260mm)
    December: 115.6mm (Average: 95mm)
    January: 92.3mm (Average: 95mm)
    February: 113.3mm (Average 70mm)
    Wettest Day: 16.6mm (January 29th)
    Driest Spell: 5 Days (Feb 7th to 11th)

    Snowfall:
    Observed: December 27th, 30th, 31st, January 7th, 8th, 23rd, February 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 18th. (Total: 11)
    Lying Snowfall: December 31st, January 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 24th, February 13th. (Total: 7)
    Max depth 2cm.

    Temperature:
    December: 4.6c (0.5c below average)
    January: 3.2c (1.6c below average)
    February: 5.9c (0.9c above average)
    Winter: 4.6c (0.4c below average)
    Maximum Temperature: 13.1c on February 14th (Only "teen" recorded)
    Minimum Temperature: -9.2c on January 9th (Coldest since March 1st 2018)
    Grass Minimum: -12.1c on January 9th
    Days above 10c: 34
    Air frosts: December 10, January 18, February 6, Total: 34
    Grass frosts: December 18, January 19, February 10, Total: 47

    Wind:
    Gale gusts: December 2, January 1, February 9, Total: 12
    Top gust: 49mph on February 12th from direction: ESE
    Average wind speeds: December 7.2mph, January 5.6mph, February 10.6mph.
    Average wind directions: December NNW, January WSW, February SE.


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    #3837
    Tyrone212
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭Tyrone212


    Space plasma hurricanes

    https://news.sky.com/story/incredible-findings-prove-existence-of-space-plasma-hurricanes-12233173


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    #3838
    Artane2002
    Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭Artane2002


    very dense freezing fog in Dublin 5, definitely one of the thickest fogs I can remember. I wasn't expecting to wake up to this :)


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    #3839
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,899 ✭✭✭circadian


    Foggy with a lovely frost here in D9. Calm as anything outside. Lovely fresh morning.


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    #3840
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Light fog in Kildare but white with frost -3°c


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    #3841
    Artane2002
    Registered Users Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭Artane2002


    Artane2002 wrote: »
    very dense freezing fog in Dublin 5, definitely one of the thickest fogs I can remember. I wasn't expecting to wake up to this :)

    it's already starting to lighten, yesterday's low cloud had no problem lingering for most of the day


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