New season so time to open the spring thread.
Will we get an improvement from the previous two stinkers? Time will tell.
A mostly cloudy and dry start in Dublin 13 with any rain spreading southeast fizzling out.
Smashing morning in Cork but things have backed southerly so the humidity is slightly higher and the drying isn't quite as good.
Not going to complain though, hoping the breakdown isn't too severe - lets have one more weekend of it and not screw the workers of Ireland over please.
make the most of it, this wonderful spell of weather ends tomorrow with today being the best and warmest day of the spell. We're in for a bit of a shock from Sunday and into next week with temperatures barely getting much above 10 or 11C and more unsettled than what we have seen in quiet a while.
A beautiful morning run earlier. 😎
Mount Dillon April 10: max 21.5c min -0.7c. never seen anything like it, extraordinary. 70f down to 30f in old money.
I was just saying the same thing a page back and wondering what was the record drop in temperature for Ireland. That's a 21C drop, amazing
Yes a 22c drop in temperatures is incredible but not sure if it would be a record-breaking drop Syran might know
Cracking sunset and beautiful almost full moon rising.
Spells like this and large diurnal ranges aren't all that unusual in April I'd have thought, we've had similar spells in the past, though air frosts after a >20C day must be rare enough.
The first covid lockdown was similar and lasted for longer and April 2011 also comes to mind when there were huge wildfires across Donegal and the west
Montana appears to hold the world record temperature swing of 38c, so for Ireland to have a 22c swing is mighty impressive
Yesterday the high at Castlederg was 21.8c and the low was -3 at katesbridge
Yes that was last year wasn't it , it's probably a record for Ireland 22c because the more I think of it the more it sinks in etc
In contrast to reports in Ireland, it was a cloudy, very windy day here in southeast Spain again. There was a thunderstorm a couple of hours ago that brought some rain. I have no pictures of the storm but I do have other photos. The weekend is meant to be cooler and damp too. I was having a look at the weather data and it looks like Dublin Airport has seen around 15 hours more sunshine this month so far than my nearest station (AlmerÃa), though that station is still a good bit away from me. That puts into perspective how sunny it's been in Dublin, as its been sunny here too bar the last two days.
There's another thunderstorm now with extremely heavy rain, potentially the heaviest rain I've ever seen. It would be nice to get a picture of the lightning but it's way too wet.
Misty morning back in Leitrim after our Alicante sojourn. Spent yesterday watering plants. No fatalities but some close shaves.
Foggy in places this morning with poor visibility at Cork Airport resulting in lots of diversions
The largest daily temperature range (diurnal range) on record for Ireland I'm aware of is 23.9C at Clonsast (Offaly) on 8th July 1983 from a minimum temp of 5.1C to a max of 29.0C.
There is a larger value of 25.7C at Arklow on 1st July 1976 (from 0.0C to 25.7C) but the minimum temp of 0.0C is certainly false, particularly when Rathdrum's minimum temp on the same date was 11.5C…
Some other large diurnal temperature ranges:
Kilkenny: 23.8C 2nd August 1975 (from 4.0C to 27.8C)
Ballybrittas: 22.9C 28th June 1976 (from 6.0C to 28.9C)
Mount Dillon: 22.8C 4th July 2018 (from 5.3C to 28.1C)
Mallow: 22.6C 26th December 2010 (from -12.2C to 10.4C)
Phoenix Park: 22.6C 30th August 1906 (from 6.7C to 29.3C)
Ballybrittas: 22.6C 25th June 1975 (from 4.9C to 27.5C)
High diurnal temperature ranges are typically associated with spring but the largest can also be in summer due to summer having the ceiling raised when it comes to maximum temperature potential and when the soil dries out during the warmest of summers, it can create a feedback loop where whilst the temperature will rise during the day, that heat is lost to space at night under clear skies.
There was another thunderstorm here that ended a few minutes ago with really crazy hail, the biggest I've ever seen. I don't have the patience to capture lightning so I've put a screenshot from a video 😂
Wow sryan, your brain is like a bee hive. A vast tapestry of braincells like an intricate honeycomb.
The December 2010 jumps out as unique.
I'm just wondering on the Loma, Montana record, why is it recorded as a 57.2c temperature swing with 103f in brackets beside. I am confused thinking 103f is around 38c in my calculations?
Coming to an end. What a great spell of weather. Saved on kerosene. Will be back on this week. This is now the mid month blip that was mentioned. Hope it just lasts a week. But it looks like Easter will be cool enough. The week after mightnt be too bad but not like the last 2 weeks but maybe 18 or 19c and clouds.
Of course the weather breaks on Saturday morning after a glorious week stuck indoors working. Raining here in SE since 11.30 or so, it feels like we're not supposed to enjoy our weekends with the weather. I know it's a weird thing to be annoyed about but it's very frustrating 😕
This made me laugh ! Sorry.
Himself is up there muttering " I will make those heathen Irish ,workers in particular , suffer now for this weekend and the whole of their Easter Holidays " Cue a not evil because its God , but let's say ,thunderous laugh with a few bolts of lightning .
You just can't rely on the weather to be reliable here anymore !
I experienced a greater drop than that in Australia, and it happened in likely less than 20 minutes.
Definitely colder today but dry still. And we have clouds again 🙂
To put the last month and a half in perspective - Dunsany, our driest station in March, has received 11.2mm of rain in March and April so far. Compare that to 165mm of rain it got in March+April 2024 and 198mm in March+April 2023.
I hope you weren't in your t-shirt and shorts at the time 🥵😱
Trump has put tariffs on our weather. Wer doomed. From 20.8c yesterday to 8.7c today.
The sun is back out here again in Meath.
That's enough chopping timber for me. A takeaway and a pint bottle of bulmers sounds good to me.
Biggest temperature drop I've experienced was here in carrick before the thunderstorm in 2022 it was 25c and after it dropped to 17c in the space of an hour felt bitter
Beautiful full moon rising in the East
Raining this evening. I can’t remember the last time it rained tbh.
See it between the showers. Castlebar
