A new thread for a new season! 🍂
Gentle/fine start to Autumn in Greystones.
Of course it rains in Galway as I need to cycle. Of course it wasn't forecast this morning either!
That's beautiful.
Lovely sunset after all the gloom in Dublin today. Pic from Donabate.
Two full days without rain here in Tralee and it feels only amazing. Two days without ducking and dodging showers and ultimately getting soaked. Feels like a record! But my god is it welcome! A decent settled spell would be so nice for a change. Temps in the 20s, though nice, could easily be followed with more weeks of monsoon. I'd be so happy with calm days like this and mid to high teens is fine by me for October.
The very warm air over Spain ( new Spanish Oct record yesterday, 38.2c) looks like moving north over ireland and UK, temperatures into the 20s c here if it happens.........
Coolish and very grey in Dublin City Centre today. Yesterday was a smashing day and so welcome.
what’s the story with the weekend weather upcoming? The tabloids running with Indian summer and high temps!
Trust me the mozzies here in North County Dublin are every bit as bad as the ones abroad.
Thankfully they don't carry diseases but the bites are the same on me.
Another mild day, hard to believe its October.
You will often get a few Irish mozzies (or gnats) when it's warm and humid. If you live close to water or bog or marshy land, they will thrive and usually come into the house towards evening. Even a pond in your garden is perfect for them. Check your ceilings before you go to bed. They are easy spot and easy kill. The Med mosquitos are a different enemy, they are like ghosts but even one can destroy you and they know how to find the sensitive areas. Luckily Irish mosquitos don't carry disease.
Heard a mossy in my bedroom last night, not sure if it's an Irish or a Spanish one as I could have had a few in my suitcase coming back from Spain but it definitely had that distinctive high pitched sound close to my ear last night.
I find Irish mosquitoes every bit as bad as those found across Europe. They're generally the same species too, Culex pipiens - though there are a couple of other species emerging in the Med. And I have never experienced swarms of mosquitoes in Europe like I have here last night and this morning! This upcoming mild spell is not going to help. I'm now eagerly anticipating a cold spell to finish them off.
Overcast and cool today in North Kildare. Dry, but not enough to dry the grass out yet. Hopefully I get a chance to cut it this evening.
it's the buzzing around your ears during the night that drives me mental, the bites I can deal with
I might be wrong but I don't think they are the same as the nasty mosquitos you get in hotter countries. Here they are more like large gnats that do bite and leave a bit of a hive. Not half as itchy or oozing as foreign mosquito bites. They are much easier to see and kill here. Like mosquitos they are especially active at night. We also have the tiny black "midgees" that swarm and can leave you with loads of lumps.
Ah here do we have mozzies in Ireland now? I always said it's one of the great things about here that you don't have to deal with then. Used to drive me proper mental when living abroad I can't sleep in a room with one.
A fine sunny day in Strandhill. Not in Sligo town though. Frequent showers here.
I am usually very careful about closing windows early - more so to avoid daddy long legs which terrify me. It was 7pm closing the patio doors this evening as the cat was missing, and they had invaded by then. No lights on at that stage, but they were still attracted inside. I'm nearing 50 squashed now at this stage. My flip flop is seeing great action!
They ate me alive during the heatwave we had, at the height of it I had 9 bites, never happened to me to that extent before in Ireland.
Yes I saw a load of Mossies out in the garden this evening, funny thing is they don't bother me at all unlike their French cousins who are really nasty!
You need to get ahead of them and have all the windows and doors closed by dusk, that's the key, easier to do at this time of year as it's chilly anyway at night so you would want your windows closed.
I was cleaning the car this evening before dusk and 5 of them got in before I squashed them!
Well you all have me to thank for this good spell of weather.
I have spent the last week traispring up and down the attic putting away mine and the kids summer clothes and taking down all the winter clothes, so of course in Irish style the nice weather comes now😉.
Beautiful day after the rain fest yesterday. North Burren.
Ditto in Greystones....walking along the coast in T-shirts and at that, felt warm. Nice 99 after! High of 21.7c.
We were saying the same here near Tralee, quite a few flies around today, fella walking across the screen just now 😀. Was out walking along the coast.... 1st Oct with shirt sleeves rolled up! Got up to 17.8C at my station, similar yesterday.
Mostly clear skies with just some light cloud which showed up well on the Sat Pic.
We are absolutely invaded by mosquitos. They seem to love this weather. I have killed nearly 30 of them this evening. It's horrendous. Never saw the like before.
Drove from Belfast to Cork today, the car was reading between 18C and 20C the whole way.
What was very surprising was the number of insects that hit my windscreen from Laois down!
One last day for the beach! When in Laois, the only county that doesn't touch a county that touches the sea, going to the beach is a day trip😊
The latest I went to the seaside was 11th October 2007. I went to Curracloe, Wexford and it was 20c and pleasant, the water lovely too.
What max temperature would you guess?
coming into the reliable now, I think the 25.2c record that has stood for 115 years will go now, Phoenix Park has to be the favourite.
Gorgeous day in Galway. Lovely sea swim even though I cheated with the wetsuit. Some nice waves.
Went out to Maynooth for the day and it has turned out lovely thankfully. Great to have a nice day at the weekend. There is warmth in the sunshine, but nothing drying out if it's in the shade. Still a lot of puddles around.
I won't get back to cut the grass until late - will it stay dry tomorrow and/or Tue in Dublin do we think?
19c Portlaoise. Lovely. A month of this would shorten the winter.
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