Autumn 2023 - General Discussion

It's a climate station, they always take a long time to come in. WOW site gives us real time access to the automatic weather stations of some climate stations (we also have Kilkenny and Durrow climate stations thanks to StratoQ and Danno respectively being active with their data on Twitter) but higher values can be achieved on the manual thermometer. Occasionally the Met might comment on them (such as the overcooked Dundalk 29.9C in June) but rarely they do and I don't get it.

The Ashford station I believe belongs to an old Boards poster Mothman but it is an official Met climate station.

Unless it's a very specific use case (like Fastnet with windstorms), I will never talk about non-official stations.

Some pretty decent cold pools for October showing up over Europe in fantasy land. Even if we did get an easterly, blocked pattern this winter somehow, I'd be willing to bet all those cold pools would have completely vanished.

Last post from me for the night. After a disappointingly cloudy weekend, I loved today in Dublin. Great warm sunshine to be had feeling more like a summery day though without the oppressiveness of the June/July high UV which was lovely. There was a lot of sea fog during the afternoon which gave this bright fogbow at the Great South Wall with the Poolbeg Chimneys. Haven't seen as bright a fogbow since February 2021.

Today was definitely my favourite day of the spell and up there with my favourite October days from 2010 and 2018. Dublin Airport broke its October record for the second day in a row, now with at least 22.0C. 21.2C old record, 21.3C yesterday.

20c forecast for my bike commute to work in the morning, well into October, that's pretty mad!

Gorgeous day in West Dublin. Lovely sunshine, warm not hot. Really enjoyable outdoors weather.

Shame about the swarms of mosquitoes again this evening. If we were to experience mild winters in the long run, you would have to be concerned about the threat of mosquito borne diseases emerging here (since the mass death of the f*^#ers during winter is what keeps the total population low enough to prevent a disease reservoir developing). I've seen more mosquitoes over the past fortnight here than on any holiday abroad.

Wonder what happened to the phoenix park here

Ye same here I was surprised when I didn't see it there 🤔

PP actually got top spot with 23.4

23.2C is crazy for Dublin Airport in October. Sunday already broke its October record set in 1971 by 0.1C with 21.3C but now yesterday Monday has beaten the pre-2023 record by a whole 2 degrees.

That's also warmer than any day it had in July and August this year which both had maxima in the 22s.

Can we have these temperatures all winter :)

That's both warm and cold records broken at Dublin Airport for Oct in recent yrs. Didn't it have a record cold minimum back in 2018 I think ? Around -2c.

Co.Down/blue skys/sunny/20C .. everybody cheerful and happy

Why Can`t It Just Stay Like This? 😕