A new thread for Spring general discussion.
Wet start in Greystones with definitely no snow. 4.9c atm.
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!
At this stage I just want the rain to stop, that in itself will be a huge improvement.
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.
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.
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)
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!
Lashing it down In Arklow now
18mm+ since yesterday
Driving rain bashing the windows in a cold easterly
Dire
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.
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.
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.
Yeah- have we had 5 dry days together since June 20th 2023?
Absolutely hammering it down in south Dublin.
Horrible weather out.
Start of September 2023 here in Laois. And I think January. But deluges after and before.
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.
A miserable day here just east of Castlebar. I seen Knock Airport with a temperature of just 4 degrees around lunchtime
enjoy this relatively dry weather while you can folks!
Good week might be a bit of a stretch but agree the weekends have been an absolute disaster.
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.
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
I can see that I'm adapting, I've noticed gills growing over the past few years🤭
Hopefully it dries up a bit over the weekend according to the bbc deep dive forecast
Their rain prediction models have been very good over the past 2-3 months and I've stopped watching met eireann forecasts
What are the BBC saying?
The ECM and GFS this evening keep the low pressure going well into FI. Sometimes change comes more quickly than expected. Here's hoping.
If it rained for April and took up for May and the summer I'd take it.
With my farming hat on I know fertiliser isn't spread, cattle are being housed for much longer and the season is late. Thankfully at home we have enough spare fodder but some will be under pressure.
For the ordinary punter it's miserable and a little depressing. Parents with kids on Easter hols can't do a whole ton outdoors with them.
What's the timescale for the colour scale on that map? It's certainly not annual!
Raining heavily in east Ulster tonight
Most parts of the warning area will see 15-25 mm of rain, with widely 30-40 mm, falling across exposed hills of the east. There is a chance that as much as 60-70 mm of rain could fall on the eastern slopes of the Antrim Plateau before rain clears.
No real right place to put this. But my long deceased uncle told me as a child that the Shamrock and Palm (Palm Sunday) were wore on the same day one year!
Easter Sunday was therefore 24 March. (The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox). I did a quick Google search..
'In 1940, an unusual coincidence took place when Palm Sunday (which is one week prior to Easter Sunday) occurred on the same day as St Patrick's day.'
The next occurrence will be 2391!
What's that got to do with the weather 🤔
Didn't that happen in the last 10 years?
The medieval lunar calendar used by the rcc should not be dictating our national calendar
You clearly didn't look very hard for a more suitable place for your post.
The above would be a much more suited place. Mods, can we have the post on question moved to a more suitable forum, please?
Don't see the big deal about it.
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