A new thread for Spring general discussion.
Wet start in Greystones with definitely no snow. 4.9c atm.
Lovely morning in Kerry with hazy sunshine , 11.9C, place saturated with standing water after yesterday's rain but nice signs of Spring arriving, if only it would ease off the rain for a bit π
the lack of sunshine is ridiculous in this country. grey grey grey and nothing but grey forecast for as long as i can see. give us a break ffs.
That's a nice plant. It looks like Easter could be a washout. When are we going to get a run of fine days?
Down in GC this week TM a beautiful 27 degrees and wall to wall dawn to dusk sunshine. The light, the heat the colour is just so good for the soul.
enjoy, i'm so sick of lack of sunlight! it's no way to live!
I would actually trade sunlight for dry conditions, except in summer that is. For me the constant rain is no way to live, any kind of dry is preferable imo. Lashing again this evening in Tralee, literally the minute I left work at 5 it started, I find it soul destroying.
That plant is the wild blackcurrant. Great scent at this time of year.
Just started pissing out of the heavens here in east clare.
Will this **** every end!
Did a first decent outdoor cycle since autumn this evening. Lovely Spring like evening. Rain arriving in Laois now.
With such a prolonged wet spell, since the end of June last year, things surely will change and it could be at the really right time of the year.
Just passed 100mm of rain so far in March and well on course to match February's total of 150mm. Grim stuff tbh
Unfortunately it looks like going downhill a bit there from tomorrow. I was in Lanzarote for a week until Saturday evening just gone. The week was fairly nice with temperatures in the low twenties and sunny spells. Most people were saying it was over 30Β° every day because they rely on those amazingly inaccurate displays outside the pharmacies.
Only on the last day did it get nicely warm, up to about 28Β°, with light winds..... Typical.
The Spanish Met Office high level forecast for Gran Canaria is not all that good looking for the remainder of the week but on the upside, it's better than at home..... Plus you're not working π
Iβll keep you posted highdef but lots of areas of GC have their own micro climate and where I am is the sunniest warmest part of the island.
Raining for much of the evening now here near Tralee, the roads are getting seriously cut up back my way, one house near me put a traffic cone out to mark massive potholes outside their house, looks like no let up with the ECM making for grim reading showing between 50mm and 80mm projected for Kerry over the next 10 days and very wet up along Western counties
On this day back in 1986, the strongest wind gust for March was recorded at Malin Head, Co. Donegal.Β
It was an incredible 167 km/h (>Storm Force 12) ππ¬οΈ
A very different day today in Tralee. I would say a pet day but we seem to yoyo here from a non stop deluge day followed by a lovely day followed again by deluge and so on. Crazy stuff. I mainly come on here on the dreadful days to bitch and depress people, lol π So am here today to enthuse about how nice it was. Dropped everything, finish work earlier on Wednesdays anyway and out the country for a fabulous walk. You could literally smell the vegetation bursting into life and just a joy to be out in it. Life would be so much more pleasant if we only had a little more of this. But without even checking the forecast I'd bet we're yoyoing back to deluge tomorrow. Easter holidays next week and I really want to get a start on cleaning up my garden so will be really fed up if it's a wash out. A trip to Malta planned the week after Easter for my first dose of decent spring weather. Bring it on!π
Turned out a gorgeous evening in Dublin with no wind or clouds and not that cold. Lovely evening for a jog, more of this please.
Was posted over on netweather. Looks like the over the last 2 weeks El NiΓ±o has crashed. Wonder what effect that will have on our weather over the coming months?
Well done Yet again Oscar. Nasty storm on the archive charts. Amazing how Malin Head was top of the charts back then. Incredible gust alright
News report of that storm
It was a common occurrence until the last 10 or so years
Another drizzly day
rain back here in Meath. Brace yourselfs as we will soon be entering an incredibly unsettled 7 to 10 day period with the washing machine recycling deep areas of low pressure over us next week, Easter and possibly into the following week. High rainfall totals and flooding could become a problem.
Class, badly needed π«
Should keep the dust down anyway
Just to follow up on this high def the last 2 days were more of the same glorious sunshine and warm temperatures Iβd guesstimate around 25/26 absolutely gorgeous. Gone a bit cloudy here in South of GC this evening but still a lovely warm bright evening.
Cheers for that, I can only assume you are staying in or around the English Beach (Playa Del Ingles)? I see it got to around about 23/24Β° with good sunny spells in that area today so not too bad at all. Best part of the island by far. Tomorrow looks similar, maybe closer to low twenties and then a few showers the following day (maybe longer spells of light rain on Saturday morning). Could be far far worse!
Oh definitely, Malin Head and the Belmullet peninsula were top of the pops. The storm track is more southerly now and less intense as regards windspeeds. I'd say you notice the difference more than anyone Donegal, well depending on your vintage π
Iβm down in Playa Del Cura Highdef so a little further south and west than PDI.
Great to see a sunrise. Went out in it too early morning. Wouldn't it be lovely every morning for the Easter Holidays.
6β° Meath
blowing a gale out there today, the few days of no wind were lovely, normal service resumes ffs
Some very heavy squally showers, bit of hail mixed in the last one. Brief period of -6 uppers across the N tomorrow morning. Maybe the mountain tops could see a brief dusting.
Cold and windy on Friday night with a clear spells and showers, some of the showers will be heavy and prolonged with hail and thunder possible. Some wintry falls are possible, mainly over the hills. Lowest temperatures of 1 to 4 degrees in fresh to strong westerly winds. A touch of frost is likely in some sheltered spots.
-8 uppers park over Lerwick for a couple of days but thatβs as close it gets to us.
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