Spring 2024 - General Discussion

I don't want or expect 'mad temperatures' in spring. I just want, you know, spring type weather. And this is not it.

Icy cold strong wind in Dublin. Still numb from cycle to work. Monday morning and all I can think about is emigrating somewhere without this horrible climate.

went for a run at 6:30am this morning it was “challenging” to say the least and I’m not just talking about my fitness levels.

It’s absolutely Baltic a wind there now that would cut you in half.

I see the tabloids have started their relentless nonsense about heatwaves and warm plumes heading our way. What could possibly go wrong!!

I can’t remember ever such a long spell of depressing weather if it’s not lashing it’s blowing a Gael if it’s not windy it’s Baltic . Seems to be like Groundhog Day for the past 7/8 months

Sure enough you’ll have people point to things like it’s the warmest April on record but by god it doesn’t feel it

On that I was just looking at Irish monthly temperature records and there is no recent ones at all

Very out of date, whatever source you used.

Unusual that there's no warning for wind like NI has, it was hard to stand at times with the wind here in Coastal Donegal

Despite being woken in the night by the wind and rain, it was a lovely morning commute in Dublin, with sunshine and dry. A short shower around 11.30 and back to lovely and bright. Very cold and breezy, but a pleasant day outdoors overall so far.

Northeast: wind and hail woke us up during the night. Very blustery and loud here today and a couple of nasty hail showers earlier.

Another day of no gardening possible - all plants still in the green house and indoors. Dog is really fed up as she won’t go out in weather like this.

You can feel the warmth in the sun during the very brief interludes in the strong cold wind. One day things will settle down.

Windy, Very Cold, Heavy Showers on and off all day. More like a day in January than mid April. Oul dears walking around town in wooly hats and scarves an hour ago. North Kildare

Tornado 🌪 reported In England

Well I'm working outside on the Dublin/Kildare/Meath border area so not the same area. But yes there was a very heavy downpour around 1.50pm. It had been nice up to that and cleared up.lovely snd bright again quickly afterwards too. Incredible gusts though, serious windchill! Still a million times preferable to the mild and fully wet days of the previous fortnight or so.

Today just takes the absolute biscuit.

The wind is so cold and strong it takes your breath away and just for fun the sun is out for a few mintes mocking you before the torrential hail or rain shower soaks you to the skin.

Thank god no football training tonight, we would have froze.

Playing at 9pm on North facing hill...

The Graphics used by MÉ are so inaccurate, you're better off seeing it and assuming the opposite will happen. I don't know why they bother with hourly forecasts if they are so far from the truth.

There was a shower of hail with near 100kph winds in Sligo today and people were videoing it it was so bad. We truly get some muck weather on the wild Atlantic way.

It's going to be absolutely hilarious on this forum when MET E's stats for the month come out and show that it was a mild April. By Irish standards. Which it is almost guaranteed to be.

The Dublin stations are all currently running 2º ABOVE the long-term average. And this isn't all down to high night-time temps for once.

There'll be screams about false news, false reporting and Met É getting the figures wrong. People will be told to shove their facts you know where. Anecdotal evidence and thoughts and feelings will trump everything else. There'll be a march on MET É HQ in Glasnevin!

Anyway, joking aside (kind of) I do marvel at our collective amnesia each year when we complain that it's still only 11º or 12º in mid April or 15º in early May etc. When (sadly) that's exactly what the temperature is supposed to be.

The rainfall is another thing however. And actually backed up by the stats.

Looking forward, things look better for the rest of the week. But there also seems to be a lot of showers still around going by the latest MET É forecast, which is a bit disappointing given how close HP is.

I’ve never heard so much talk about a HP coming. The way some are talking it’s going to me epic but from listening to you folks who I would trust far more it’s already beginning to sound a little underwhelming?

A miserable start to the day in N Kildare