Autumn 2024 - General Discussion

Tis shocking that the reverse happens in March

Wexford as usual is like it’s own little cove of Mediterranean sunshine

Feeling very autumnal this morning, brrr

As bad as it can possibly get in Tralee for early September. A perfect demo day for the bad Irish climate ticking every box: freezing, wet,windy, wild and slate grey. Just bloody awful! 😣

Cleared up nicely around lunch albeit a bit breezy.

Menorca, this evening, weather has been relatively trash here past week, odd nice days, would remind you of the scraps of good summer weather we get. Hotel I'm staying in is a nitemare and the place is full of the most nauseating people from across the water, can't wait to get home to start complaining what a kip ireland is

I don’t want to come across as a smart Alec but that has more to do with astronomy than meteorology …

Yup, the change in daylight hours follows a roughly sinusoidal curve, like a swinging pendulum in an old clock.

The summer and winter solstices are like when the pendulum is at the end of it's swing about to change direction. It's moving slowly and at near the very top of the swings it's hardly moving at all.

Then around this time of year near the autumnal equinox (and vernal/spring equinox in March) the pendulum is moving very fast at the bottom of it's swing, and the rate of daily change is much much larger.

Horrendous night but GFS has a lot of good weather still showing. The next 3 days the worst of the next 14 I'd say.

Weather has been pretty poor in the Ionian islands too. Dreadful night on Monday in particular, where over 80mm of rain fell in about 6 hours. That's a red warning level in Ireland. Yesterday it improved but still showery and this morning the same, and looks like that pattern will continue until the weekend when we return home. Overall a very disappointing escape to the sun weather-wise before autumn properly sets in.

Cold bright and windy in Dublin 16. I’ve my warm winter jacket on and it’s needed. That wind would cut you in two. Of course I’ll be sweating later on in the day but hey ho.

Back to summer next week..

Nice sunny day in Dublin but that wind would cut you in 2….

Feels bloody freezing for this time of year. I remember swimming at the forty foot 3 years ago in mid sept, feels a long way from that

September us a funny sort of a month . A mix of cool and warm spells usually. This Week is very cool but next week back at 20c.