Winter 2024/25 - General Discussion

Horrible out even with the sun. Feels like it has been windy for ages now. Sometimes it doesn't let up for weeks and weeks in this country I hope this isn't one of those spells, I'd prefer grey and calm compared to this sh*t, it just makes being outside so unpleasant.

Stormy afternoon in Sligo force 8 or 9 I'd say. Raining pretty steady too.

North east Dublin looks like being spared from most of it………it is one of the driest parts of the country, after all.

Beautiful starry night out

Good clear evening ahead

Beautiful day in Dublin today. Feels very Spring like now.

Beautiful day, just getting to start some chainsawing now before sunset. I hope there's an amnesty granted to burn all this ivy and offcuts as result of the storm clean up.

And then the bloody ivy pulls the chain off the saw. Back to the shed for repairs 😬

Last sunrise of winter

On February 28th, 2018, Storm Emma struck Ireland.

The impacts of StormEmma and ‘TheBeastfromtheEast’ were widespread across the country

Various sources.

The Met daily data has the daily figures here for all the sunshine recording synoptic stations: https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/daily-data

Meteociel have the sunshine figures for Dublin Apt, Casement, Shannon Apt and Cork Apt: https://www.meteociel.fr/climatologie/obs_villes.php?code2=3955&mois=2&annee=2025&sn=0

Dublin Apt climate sunshine averages have been calculated by me. You can find avg sun hrs per day (and multiply by the number of days in that given month) using the 30-year climate averages: https://www.met.ie/climate/30-year-averages

March of many weather's is right!

I always use St. Patrick's Day as the classic indicator. Some years is is absolutely lashing rain, other years its freezing cold then you can have glorious days like last year!

This was a hard winter in the West. There were wild swings in temperatures. I remember 18c one dark November day followed a week later by the unprecedented snow event along the Atlantic coast in November. Then Storm Darragh caused a lot of destruction, and knocked trees in our garden. We lost water and power but thankfully it came back after 24 hours.
Next up more cold and ice, snow and dangerous road conditions in January.

This was followed by the catastrophic Storm Éoywn which many areas are still reeling from after the widespread destruction caused. Our roof was damaged and we were without power or water for a week. The lack of care or response to this crisis will live long in the memory. The media and certain people on the East trying to play down the severity of this storm due to their own IMBY experience was a surprise. It opened my eyes to the fact that even after parts of Galway lost full forests, flattened to the ground, walls knocked, communication networks destroyed, roads impassable for many days, roofs blown off houses, posters and some media decided this storm ‘wasn’t too bad’ as their own area wasn’t affected. I saw similar responses to the snow event in January in Munster. Not having water or electricity in the depths of winter in the dark should be a national emergency and declared as such. I’m glad this winter is coming to an end. But I just hope the summer will be good.