A new thread for a new season! π
Gentle/fine start to Autumn in Greystones.
Cold away from the south tonight
10pm
Dublin Airport 2 degrees
Mount Dillon 2 degrees
Markree Castle 2 degrees
Mullingar 3 degrees
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.
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.
Ice on the windscreen this morning. I was not expecting that. 2C. Clear skies.
Leitrim
Yes was frosty here in carrick last night ,freezing fog 0c
A dry day today so best make the most of it as the rain and showers will be back from tomorrow. Next week looks a bit on the chilly side but signs in the models of the very mild south-westerlies making a comeback from the middle of November.
A smashing autumn morning in East Cork, actually got the grass cut, this week has been not too bad here, a very welcome change from the deluges of the previous weeks. A wet night in store tonight but looks reasonably dry after that for most of next week.
I presume if the mild south Westerlies make a comeback that means plenty of moisture with them?
Back at base now. Fine, mostly sunny, day in Greystones. 12c.
yeah it would likely be unsettled but probably not as overly wet as recent weeks.
Lovely day in Galway. There was some heat in the sun earlier.
After a dry bright day yesterday its one manky morning with heavy rain.
7β° Meath
Some very heavy showers in Wicklow at the moment. I knew it was to be wet today but didn't realise it was to be this heavy! Looks like it's here for the day too based on Met Eireann's forecast.
Every decidious leaf is falling like snow.
I don't think it's showers as they require breaks in between
7mm so far
Wet morning in Greystones. 12.6mm so far. Was woken up by heavy rain around 6am.
Yes correct, I meant to say heavier spells of rain! Bucketing down in Rathdrum at the moment. However on a more positive note, if the ECM is right it looks like after today things will dry up a little aside from some rain Wednesday. Best not talk about the GFS...
Very heavy showers in Cork since middle of last night. Pretty dreadful.
Manky in Dublin. Supposed to train for a half marathon next week in this shite, I'll get hypothermia being soaked running around π₯Ά
Feels cold this morning with the car only reading 7c
Just on this,remind me again is it the GFS model the yr.no website uses and the met eireann app uses the ECM?
Yr uses a combination of models depending on region and time range. They have it well doucmented here https://developer.yr.no/doc/locationforecast/datamodel/
ο»ΏIn summary, MEPS and ECM for Nordics, AROME-Arctic and ECM for the Arctic region, and ECM for everywhere else.
Met Eireann also have some info on their models published here https://www.met.ie/the-ins-and-outs-of-weather-models/#:~:text=For%20longer%20forecasts%2C%20we%20use,km%20in%20the%20ECMWF%20model.
Again in summary:
A combined HARMONIE-AROME model for short range forecasts for Ireland, GB and Northern France and ECM for medium range forecasts.
The surface water is shocking again in East Cork. Roads were perfect yesterday but it has been a very wet 8 hours or so and the water has nowhere to go, land is saturated and everything is draining right off it back onto roads.
Noticed that around my parts,we ONLY got 7 mm so far but floods on roads and the local river up to the too of its banks
Have never seen the place bad, it really has been a unbelievably awful month a bit here.
The downpours keep rolling in off the Irish Sea. What is it with this year, all the rain moving slowly northwards on an easterly wind direction that just stagnates and meanders slowly over the same spot for hours. I have never seen land so wet here in North meath.
Yep, it's bad out there, my 7 year old has a match this morning, I was convinced it would be called off but nope went ahead.
It will be straight into the bath for him when he gets home to clean the muck off and get warm!
No water is springing up from underground in places I never saw before
Seen carlow weather the fella on twitter alan and he said lower air pressure means our kettles will boil a little faster which blew me away as I did not know that ,you learn something new everyday
15 mm recorded in Arklow so far today with another bout of black sky incoming off the sea here
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