Autumn 2024 - General Discussion

Indeed, incredibly mild day in N Kildare, so much so, i went for a walk an hour ago in a T shirt and it felt extremely pleasant. Currently 16c

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Well here's a collage of my day in images since you are so curious from sunrise to moonrise + A3 comet.

Wait until Monday the trees will be looking a lot more bare!

I have 3 very mature beech trees and a horse chestnut, all of which are well over 100 years old, and all of them are still mostly green. The beeches always tended to leaf late and shed late, but the chestnut has always been bare by now and the beeches would be mostly turning brown. I even have a few silver birch trees that are only just starting to go yellow now which is late for them. And to top it off I have some lupins in the garden still getting new albeit small blooms. Strange season this year. I expect we'll see some changes though after the upcoming windy weekend, might speed things along.

The small trees in my housing estate changed colour a few weeks ago and some are nearly bare. But walking around my local area in Ashbourne I did notice many of the bigger trees are still quite green. Which I don't understand as it hasn't been a particularly warm first half of autumn like last yr. This yr the weather and temperatures have been more typical, cooler episodes and warmer episodes.

Thats a manky day and the rain hasnt started yet. After the still evening under the full moon its well breezy, dull and grey out there.

14⁰ Meath

Super lashing in Oranmore, Galway at the moment.

I don't think there's anything unusual with the leaf situation currently? At least here, it looks pretty normal to me, mid October should still have a decent amount of green. The end of October into November is when they normally peak. I remember some trees still had some green leaves in early December 2022, which was crazy. When I was in Iceland last year, the colours peaked in late September, which was interesting to observe, though they don't have many trees there.

I drove through a cloudburst near there about half an hour ago, I could hardly see beyond the bonnet 😯

Country-long squall line showing on the radar

What ever about the rain which I have never seen the likes of in Galway I take my hat off to the Crew of Air Corps 112 the Air Ambulance it landed in UHG during that cloudburst fantastic flying all I saw was a dark shadow landing well done that crew.

Holding off here. Spitting rain. School run in 30 mins will the squall build up again towards Meath.

So today is windy, dark and rain on the radar. Tomorrow sunny spells-no wind? Sunday the named storm.

16⁰ Meath