Spring 2024 - General Discussion

Lovely day in Cork, blue skies and great drying with a strong north westerly.

All the seasons today along with a biting arctic northerly. Hard to believe it is late March

Shower of sleet when I driving home over high ground.

West Limerick

200M ASL

Heavy hail shows rolling in from North West since afternoon

Stiff north westerly breeze

Temperature @21:30: 2.9C

Shocked by how cold it was at football training tonight.

When I came out of house this morning I was like wow its lovely, sunshine was glorious up until lunchtime, then the showers set in.

Tonight feels more like a Dec evening, took ages to warm up when I came home.

White outside after a torrential hail shower.

Horrible night and morning with frequent heavy showers and 8mm in the gauge since midnight. Top of Galtee Mor is white.

We had warmer weather in December!

I remember posting here at Christmas about how I felt cheated on Christmas day as it felt more like April and I felt more like being out gardening than cooking Xmas dinner. Now it's almost April and I want to be in the garden but we're getting the Xmas weather now. How fecked up is that!!😩

I agree..I reckon we've had at top's a few what you would call Spring like weather over the 1st 2 months of the season.

I know this is a long way back but easter 1984 was lovely, quite warm but with a chilly breeze if not directly in the sunshine. It continued all the way through that summer. I remember it very well as my father was sick.

Status Yellow - Rain warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick & Galway ⚠️

Heavy rain at times today for all of Kerry & for western parts of Cork, Limerick, Clare & Galway.

• Localised flooding 🌧️

• Difficult travelling conditions 🚗 🚴‍♀️

Terrible terrible March, there's no putting lipstick on this pig.

Only on 55.9 hrs of sun to 23rd March at Dublin Airport. Should be ~85 hrs by then.

If the current avg hrs per day were retained, it would give a final monthly total of 75 hrs. Only March 2013 will have been cloudier this century for March.

The very poor stats don't end there because it's also been very wet and set to be even wetter with a wet final week ahead.

GFS suggests another ~40-50mm here for the rest of March.

Dublin Apt is already on 90.8mm for March 2024. Another 40mm to this would give 130mm which would be wetter than last March and March 2023 was the wettest March here since 1947!!!

March 1947 had 147.5mm of rain. Could beat that if some slow-moving frontal boundaries were to set up shop here but at the moment somewhat unlikely.

Only "slight" saving grace is it hasn't been cold. Better get a decent summer for this shitshow.