A new thread for Spring general discussion.
Wet start in Greystones with definitely no snow. 4.9c atm.
Yep much more like spring in East Cork today, lovely.
Bit of blue sky and sun in west cork after a foggy and wet evening yesterday. Was able to finally get out for a walk. Windy, but not cold at last.
was in northern France yesterday just for a couple of days around Calais. Again an area not noted for particularly great weather but low and behind low 20s and lovely and sunny yesterday and Wednesday. Thursday was overcast and cloudy. But the light and warmth yesterday in particular was great. Flew into Dublin last night grey low cloud. Raining now.
Similar in neighbouring Longford.
Drizzle turned to rain and now the wind is getting strong.
Leitrim.
Already reached the entire spring average rainfall here now (Dublin Airport) and it's not even halfway through.
Mother of all downpours in the last 5 minutes. Plan on planting spuds after lunch ...wish me luck 😁
The oppressive grey of the last week is being pierced by blasts of sunshine, moods lifting.
Cork harbour.
A band of very heavy showers passing over here in Castlebar. Place soaked again. Blustery also.Looks drier and brighter for the afternoon.…
In Austria last weekend they recorded the earliest ever 'heat day' (temp over 30°) since measurement history started
Grass is growing like mad
Warm, sticky rain here earlier this morning. I suppose if I look at with a glass half full perspective I’ll take the warm rain over cold rain .
whereabouts are ya?
Thankfully we seem to be mostly free of them here being so close to the coast, though as you say if warming and wetter is the way of the future thats going to change.
Very muggy here now with intermittent hazy sun and 19.8C, Wicklow mountains have punched a leeward hole in the clouds like they often do here.
Dank
Cork Harbour.
The grey is starting to get to me.
Well, there's nothing more horrible than a typical Irish summer imo, I hate it. But if you have any suggestions on how to dress in (female) professional attire for indoor work in a formal office-type environment, but also frequent outdoor work that might require wet gear, while also spending a lot of time commuting by bus between locations, then I'm all ears. I'm obviously no rocket scientist, but a solution to avoid becoming either soaked in rain or soaked in sweat still eludes me.
Anyway, it has been a much better day today in West Dublin/North Kildare. Dry, breezy, overcast. I really hope this nice spell materialises next week!
Interesting to see the frost stat from your location @Supercell. I've already seen a lot of mosquitoes gathering around in certain spots. If this trend of mild winters continues we may be in trouble in a few years, in terms of there being a large enough surviving population to become a disease reservoir.
I took (dragged) the dogs out this morning at 7 am in the rain. Still raining now.
I'm at least 6 weeks behind in my gardening. No spuds in yet. No onions. No weeding. The ground is far to wet and cold. The commercial growers and us as consumers, shall be in serious problems if this weather doesn't relent.
Day 243 of autumn 🫠
Overcast with a light breeze and 13.7C here in south Dublin, at least its not raining! Was hoping for another warm day like the last two, can't complain, grand weather for a lunchtime jog.
No air frost here since January 19th, which is potentially heading for my earliest ever last frost date by some margin.
it’s not rocket science 😂 how do you cope in a typical Irish summer
Disagree, cold and wet with a cold wind is truly miserable. Would make you sick. At least some warmth I could still go out and just get wet.
Completely with you on that. I just don't buy into this "at least it's mild" malarky. It's another euphemism to play down crap weather like "soft rain."😏
And ya I'd also prefer it colder when wet, much easier to dress for. Mild and wet is a sweaty, muggy nightmare, imo, and you just don't know what to do with yourself.
Lovely warm dry day in Antrim. Lots of work done outside.. even got the grass cut.
Miserable. I hate warm rain - much more difficult to dress for than the cold. I'd rather it stayed cold if it's going to be wet.
At least the rain is warmer this evening 😂
Dank.
Torrential rain in West Mayo this evening, we haven't had it too bad here in the last few weeks compared to other places but this is the heaviest rain I've seen for quite a while.
It really is a remarkable spell in the fact that there hasn't been a break for more than a few days - we'd typically get a period of East winds and settled weather in early April if not late March but this pattern feels quite different. No big storms, no settled weather, just constant weakish lows dumping rain.
Certainly was lovely earlier in Dublin with warm sunshine, sometimes hazy. Cherry blossoms out in Herbert Park. It's been lightly raining now for the past hour.
Spring was here earlier, I'm sure I saw it at some stage.
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