FI Charts ( T120+ onwards) Winter 2024/2025 **READ MOD NOTE IN FIRST

I remember a lot of snow in 1987 just as we returned to school. That spread from the north so pretty sure it was fairly widespread across the island.

It was a very hard frost though in Galway at least. The lawn was pure white for many days. The roads were compacted ice. We had -15 one night. All our pipes froze. I was so jealous of the folks in the east getting snow.

2010 was as close to nationwide cover as you will get, but the reality is snow cover is not often nationwide during cold spells- there are always winners and losers. I'd agree that there will be no quick return to cold. It s unfortunate but we often have to go through seven to 10 days of milder weather to get a reload of cold. However people without electricity and tired of the cold spell will be saying that Nacho guy is mad…the milder weather can't come soon enough!

As for the MJO, there was a good post over on Netweather about the correlation between it and the onset of past cold spells- quite often the mjo was in an unfavourable phase or had just left a favourable phase, yet the cold persisted.

Ya 11th to 25th January will be milder period. I reckon another cold push will come at the end of January.

I'd be happy with mild uppers and mild temperatures if there was also some sun.

I've had enough of fog and dark, dank conditions. We had almost three non-stop weeks of it in November and another week in December.

It's frustrating that so much of the recent HP systems (which were nowhere to be seen all summer) have delivered so little sun as they don't come around very often.

2010 in Kinsale we got a ninja snow that Nov. Just the old head of kinsale as far as kinsale. Nowhere else. That thawed and all of Ireland went into the freezer and we didnt see a flake of snow.

I rem reading in mallow (Doneraile) they found reindeer bone in caves indicating Ireland was inhabited and supporting reindeer 33,000 years before they thought. They thought Ireland was an ice sheet at that time. I remember thinking, yep typical. Couldnt get snow in an ice age :) :). Emma was March 2nd. Long winter season yet.. and most got a flurry of snow this year.

what type of weather would this bring ? would it be mild and dry? is that not the type of weather we should get from st patricks day onwards? really would love a nice march and april this year. even a good dry mild mid march onwards. long long time since that was the case

It's going to be a long way back from this. Can bin mid-January and more than likely the rest of the month too.

I would tend to agree with Kermit, we see these limpet highs year in year out, they become established over the Azores, Iberia or Europe, not that it matters where it is as the result is the same, the heart of winter is eaten up.
I do believe it’s to do with the expansion of the Hadley cell due to the warming climate.

Want to hear my prediction for winter 25/26?

Seem to be getting summer charts in winter and winter charts in summer these days

Would that not be a frosty, foggy HP, inland?

cold and foggy in southern England but the look of this, many cold spells in the past were preceded by large anticyclones and fog according to many accounts.
Wheres the Greenland purple blob?