Winter 2024/25 - General Discussion

Great stretch in the evening to aid storm repairs .

Ye, the ivy is a devil. That's actually an elder tree that came up from the roots. The hawthorn beside has a bit of damage too. I cut as much of the smaller stuff as I can with handsaw before tackling it with the chainsaw. 'Ear to the Ground ' is out your way on next week's programme, Cluedo. All about storm Eowyn's effects on forestry.

Squally rain led to a decent mild afternoon with some sunshine.

Surprised there is not much chat on here regarding tomorrow morning. Looks particularly nasty along the south east coast.

That is one miserable night out there in South Wicklow. Just been woken by the wind and rain it sounds absolutely rotten. Looks to be a brief clearance coming behind this heavy band then more rain on the way behind it. At least the afternoon looks like it will be brighter and a brief reprieve tomorrow.

Wind rain and more of the same. Utterly depressing.

Leitrim

Yeah, very windy and pouring rain for last 3 hours. Miserable.

Chin up everyone, it should improve dramatically this afternoon for a day or two

Close to 2 inches of rain predicted for my area on Sunday plus another inch Wednesday. Weather is badly broken now and probably no fixing until March at least.

There hasn't been a single decent season since summer 2022 in my opinion though autumn 2024 wasn't bad as far as autumns go, just very bland. Sure there's been very occasional great or nice months such as June 2023 but on the whole, seasons have been subpar to terrible.

After having around 30mm of rain in the first 19 Days of February in Sligo there's been 54mm in the past 2 with nearly 40mm yesterday alone and 15mm of that coming during a thunderstorm at 8pm.

So what had looked like a dry February will now end as one with well over 100mm.

Currently 84.9mm

Funny coz when I look at yesterday's weather on Met Eireann I see Markree caught the edge of some of that heavy rain but nowhere else in Ireland got near 40mm. However I was questioning my rain gauge until I went outside and it was ankle deep in floodwater

Awful afternoon in Dublin, was hoping I'd get a quick walk in on my lunch break before the latest rain arrived but no such luck.

I generally haven't found this winter too bad up to recently, we had a nice enough autumn so it was late starting and then the bright sunny weather in Jan helped, but February has been absolutely grim (other than 1 or 2 sunny days early on). Really craving just being able to sit outside in the sun again

At last ,the front is passing through

The front cleared alright to lovely bright skies. However it's very dodgy looking again with black skies overhead. Must be a few surprise bursts around eek

12⁰ Meath

Today was a mad day, woke this morning and it was horrendous, pitch dark and driving wind and rain. It lasted well into the early afternoon but then it cleared and it was a lovely bright evening.