A new thread for Spring general discussion.
Wet start in Greystones with definitely no snow. 4.9c atm.
Galway Beo with more disinformation, discrediting Met Éireann they should be banned from reporting weather
Met Eireann Ireland forecast 20C temperature spike as ‘first taste of summer’ hits
Here comes the sun
Snow mentioned for high ground
Bands of rain and showers will push northwards over Ireland tonight. Later in the night and towards dawn on Wednesday, some of the showers will turn wintry over the hills in the south and there is the increasing chance a few thunderstorms near southern coasts. Lowest temperatures of 1 to 5 degrees in light to moderate easterly winds becoming southeasterly later.
Outbreaks of rain will gradually clear northwards on Wednesday morning and early afternoon. Sunny spells and showers will follow from the south for the rest of the day. Some showers will be heavy with the chance of hail and isolated thunderstorms, and with some sleet or wet snow possible over high ground. Rather cold with highest temperatures of 6 to 9 degrees in moderate to fresh southeast to south winds.
Good week might be a bit of a stretch but agree the weekends have been an absolute disaster.
enjoy this relatively dry weather while you can folks!
A miserable day here just east of Castlebar. I seen Knock Airport with a temperature of just 4 degrees around lunchtime
A little bit yes, but fall victim to the "good week bad weekend" rule of the past nine months.
What we haven't had is an Azores high pressure sitting over us, giving us calm weather and warm conditions. If we have, fog has appeared, or endless grey cloud.
Start of September 2023 here in Laois. And I think January. But deluges after and before.
Absolutely hammering it down in south Dublin.
Horrible weather out.
Yeah- have we had 5 dry days together since June 20th 2023?
Ya Spain often gets monsoons at end of March n then 40c comes around in May or June whereas we get monsoons and then 14c comes round in May or June. ....and December.
Indeed, charts are grim reading up to the end of the bank holiday weekend for the South and East. A bit of a spread in the main models in terms of overall precipitation but it's going to be wet. GFS is the worst of the forecasts, and has the SW much wetter than the other models do.
Fax charts are the best a duck has seen in a while for the next few days (to T120), especially if you like to swim in the east.
Lashing it down In Arklow now
18mm+ since yesterday
Driving rain bashing the windows in a cold easterly
Dire
Yes. It's all extremes, mid May to around 20 June had a drought by the end. Then we went into the Monsoon Season.. and we're still in it!
Ah yeah it's all relative but we had a very very dry May (with not as much sun) and then 2 fantastic weeks of sun in early June.
Mace Head would be my closest station.
May 2023 = 30mm (Average = 81)
June 2023 = 56mm (Average = 82)
First half of June was lovely but from about the 20 June on it was very thundery and intense rain. We had a week of thunderstorms daily. It was the warmest June on record but certainly not true to say we’d hardly any rain.
I agree, we seem to get good dry weather earlier and earlier. Last June was lovely too. We got about 2 weeks of warm sun around the LC exam. Hardly any rain in June.
At this stage I just want the rain to stop, that in itself will be a huge improvement.
True Bill. I think when we're younger, say the teenage years, we have less memories and also you're doing new things.
By midlife a lot of the time we may be doing work we've done for years, a sameness that blends together. Hope that's it anyway!
I feel our spring/summer peaked too soon in other years. Basking in warm temperatures and sunshine in March/April/May and then hitting a cold brick wall later in the actual summer.
Hoping for an actual summer in summer this year.
We're in Ireland, we live in hope!
Indeed the same for me. The weather the last ten yrs or so has gotten very bland I think. With blandness not as much sticks out in the memory.
With the clock changing there'll be an hours less rain 😁
Jesus that would be just awful! Lousy luck for anyone going there to escape here. I'm going to Malta, week after Easter. Please tell me the forecast there is better 🤞🤞
Was grand and mild day today in Kildare
Wasn't such a bad day after.....rain wise anyway. Some ugly drizzle between 12 and 1 Meath/Dublin. Dry rest of the day. That band of rain coming up the Irish Sea is knocking on Wicklows door now. Is it to stay around long tomorrow :(
A very pretty sunset in Meath. Wasn't expecting that after a cloudy day.
Yeah raining down here in Arklow the past 2hrs or so
This time next week it will be bright until 8pm+
Game on!!
GFS 12z rainfall totals for Spain and Portugal are very high indeed over 300mm in places. This could potentially cause flooding problems and when they get floods from rain it can be fairly serious as we have seen other years around this time. Rainfall totals in parts of north Portugal and north-west Spain almost going off the scale.
Looking at radar, looks like a (very) wet evening incoming for the South East and East.
Rain total for the month so far here in Greystones at 114.2mm.
Spain and much of Portugal need rain more than they ever have, unprecedented drought in some parts, let them have a few days rain ffs
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