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Gentle/fine start to Autumn in Greystones.
Yes was frosty here in carrick last night ,freezing fog 0c
Ice on the windscreen this morning. I was not expecting that. 2C. Clear skies.
Leitrim
20C in summer wouldn't be enough for me regardless how sunny. But I'd love 4C in winter accompanied by dry, crisp conditions.
Thanks again for your posts. Always interesting to hear first hand accounts of other climes.
Thank you! Temperatures were, as you'd expect, noticeably cooler than in Ireland. In August, the highest temperature was 20.6C but there were several days in the high teens. The mean maximum temperature was 15.8C, which is nearly 3C above average. Reykjavik is one of the cooler parts of the country in summer though, the north and east are a bit warmer. We had 208.7 hours of sun, which is 135% of average. 59.2 mm of rain fell but over a third of that was just on the 26th. I only came here in August so I wasn't here in July but it was record sunny with a staggering 306.8 hours, surpassing the previous record by a respectable margin. Only 17.2 mm fell and another part of the country had only 4 mm.
The good weather now has max temperatures around 4/5C, which is average to slightly below, but there's barely a puff of wind (except yesterday, which was breezy) so it doesn't feel cold. It's even dry enough to sit on the grass, in contrast to all the saturated ground in Ireland. A lot of the bad weather they get up here has been diverted to Ireland/the UK due to the persistently southerly tracking jet stream.
Cold away from the south tonight
10pm
Dublin Airport 2 degrees
Mount Dillon 2 degrees
Markree Castle 2 degrees
Mullingar 3 degrees
Still in Toronto. Bloomin freezing! High of 4c today but with windchill felt like -1c at best.
I'm finding your posts about Iceland very interesting. I was there once, but a very long time ago, I'd be more a southern, warm climate person and gravitate south these days
But I love the photos.😀 When you say good weather, what temps? You posted earlier in the year about good weather there in summer. Meant to ask about temps but forgot and the thread moved on. But what kind of temps would ye have up there in a good summer and autumn?
And the fine weather continues, I can't resist posting these pictures, the first four from yesterday and the sunset from today. It doesn't get better than this in November. This spell reminds me of this time of year in 2018 in Ireland before turning into a disaster further into November, except the frost has been lingering all day on some surfaces. Ireland hasn't had a properly good November since 2017 so hopefully this year finally delivers.
Torrential rain and very windy a while ago. Eased off now.
It's a surprisingly lovely day in Dublin! Blue sky, bright, dry. But very breezy and chilly. Really nice to be out in it.
I really need to get the leaves off my lawn, and the dry spell is tempting me, but I'd surely be mad to bother if the storm will just fill it up again this evening?!
Will there be any dry and not too windy day in Dublin this weekend to clean up the garden?
Not much more rain now but 10.5mm now for day1. 60mm over the weekend into next week for Sligo. Then a lot of wet days after. So 200mm for the month is certainly likely. That would even beat July.
Cork broke the 300mm mark for October. That's exceptional. Don't think theyl be as wet as the North and West in November though.
Rosses Point = deluge
Not in Sligo town. Rained a lot overnight and now a big heavy spell. Will probably be 20mm after 1 day of November. Currently 8.5mm
A beautiful, fresh morning here in south Sligo while I was out with the dog. Rain during the night and some more to come later but we have been unusually lucky with rainfall amounts this past while. (the North-West never the best)!!!!
We got lucky here with trick & treating.
By the time the rain started we had it all done and dusted and it was very mild aswell so win win all around.
Raining heavy enough now.
Dry day Meath but that damp feeling.
Rain has arrived now. 11⁰
Looks like Cork Airport has hit the 300mm mark as of 1600. Only 2 other months has done that before there, January 1974 and December 2015.
Belmullet meanwhile hasn't even hit 70% of its October average.
The next batch of shite arriving. Will it be here in Ashbourne during trick or treat time....... probably will arrive during it.
It was a very noteworthy spell that primarily favoured the east as it was mostly cloudy and southerly with high pressure over the continent. Got to 24C in Dublin. Had only 13.4mm of rain up to the 16th, big changes since then after Storm Babet came.
Loads of flooding in Newry and places nearby, those of us in NI over the break got lucky we didn't get caught in floods.
I don't remember getting that spell here in Tipperary in early October but if we did it definitely didn't last as long as ye got it in Meath
yeah the hot spell start of September which lead into the Spanish holiday and then when I came back we had another week of lovely weather here which helped enormously!
The sun holiday did you the world of good Gonzo,Can't remember the last time you were so positive about crap weather!!
This has been a very wet year but I think we've had worse years. We've had some interesting weather this year for sure, some years we don't get anything interesting. We had the dry spell in February which was welcome then the sunny weather in May which was nice and then some warm weather in June. Beginning to September was great with the hot weather and then another very nice warm spell first week of October so it hasn't been all that bad. We may still get some surprises in store for December hopefully.
You know it's been atrocious when even Slashermcguirk is not positive about it.
Similar here, we went up Slieve Donard on Sunday morning, which seems like it was the only weather window for it between Saturday and Monday. Wind on Sunday morning in the area was negligible. Drove to the Titanic Experience yesterday and also encountered the heavy rain on the way back to Dublin afterwards.
So tonight looks likely to be a wet Halloween night. That would be 3 wet Halloween nights in a row. The first time i can remember that happening. There hasn't been many Wet Halloween nights that I can remember in my 50 yrs. In the 80s for example I think only 1980 and 87 were wet ( maybe 83).
Thanks,they say a week is a long time in politics,I suppose 10 days is even longer in weather models
ECM and GFS look to build some high pressure from the Azores around then but GFS shows a low coming from Greenland starts pushing it back at the end of the run.
I think we can all confidently predict the remaining months of 2023 will be unsettled too.
