Spring 2025 - General Discussion

It looks like you in the West will be getting on average 6 degrees higher than us poor shivering creatures in the East , until Tuesday anyway when that easterly is set to calm down .

Beautiful out here in Dublin ..heading out with fleecy, warm jacket on and hood up ..oh and shades 😎!

Its on this subject that I usually bring up the fabulous Summer of 2014. No, not a typo. I didn’t mean to say 2013 which was an epic Summer for everyone. However for the 20 mile wide coastal strip down the East and South coasts 2014 nearly rivalled 2013 if memory serves. For the other 90% of the country it seemed to be glorious gin blue skies every morning till mid day when it invariably clouded over once convection got going. However along the east and south coasts the cooler maritime air held down temperatures enough to prevent convection and cloud formation over us giving us gin blue skies all day every day.

With regard to the pesky patch of cloud over Wicklow and Dublin the other day while the rest of the country basked in yet another day of glorious sunshine, I consoled myself that the inverse is often true and actually happened only a few days previously where the rest of the country was clouded/hazed out and there was a ‘stubborn’ clear patch over North Wicklow and South Dublin the whole day thanks to the mountains. The hills giveth and the hills taketh away! LOL.

The trick in Dublin today was to be in a sheltered spot. We had a match this morning and the 3 year old was nearly crying with the wind at the pitch 😬 even though he was well wrapped in up in a warm coat.

Then we hit Malahide Castle and parts were very windy other bits sheltered but we were perfect in our coats.

However when we got to playground it was like another planet absolutely roasting! I was left with all the coats😁

After been out all day my husband has sunburn on his face, but he is very fair. He will have to plaster on the factor 50 for gardening tomorrow!

You would be wearing jackets at this time of year anyway. Dunsany is running 2C warmer than average already and it's very early in the month. Average temp for April is 8.1C. The average is currently 10.1C. You don't realise how good you have it with all this sunshine and dry weather. Embrace it before normal service is resumed 😉

That long winter was worth suffering.. 🤩

Best day of the week.

Sun with some heat.

You could fry an egg on your solar panels, if you had solar panels, and Sally O Brien and the way she might look at ya.

12 degrees and a real feel of 6 with the wind and cloudy and misty all day in west cork. Lovely day yesterday, but chilly and windy. Here’s to hoping tomorrow is better! Looks to be clear and sunny 😎

Gorgeous day. Wall to wall sun. I have been outside since morning. 18C recorded in Athenry at 5pm.

Beautiful here in Wicklow too

I’ve been watching my panels in this weather

Produced over 85kwh of solar today,a new record since install in December

Over 30 of that exported to the grid and zero grid imported thanks to the batteries (15kw) and they were full by 10am

What an exceptional few days we've had, and more to come! It was sure colder than it looked over the weekend with that chilly wind. So nice to look at those blue skies though!