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.
Rain holding off in Meath. You'd miss the good spell - the kids school holidays! Dodgy clouds everywhere. Bank holiday forecast not looking so great either?
Kerry Climbing sharing snow falling at high elevation.
Meath 11° Brrrrrrr. Will I resist turning on the heating. Boo.
Some very low cloud/fog in southeast Spain this morning and a much worse moon picture than Sryan's, though mine is a moonset rather than a moonrise.
Cloud blocked the moonrise yesterday evening on the east coast but not a problem this evening, aligned from Clontarf.
Not a bad weekend at all really in Dublin considering the fine spell has ended, sitting on the balcony in shorts and t-shirt at the moment with clear blue skies. A few brief showers but plenty of sun and considering it's mid April its perfectly pleasant
Today felt more like an August day on the west coast of Ireland rather than the southeast coast of Spain: 18°C, dull, and wet with persistent rain. The rain doesn't seem like it will let up soon, so that'll make two days in a row with 0 hours of sun, though yesterday had a few seconds of sun.
Played golf this morning and it was cooler but very pleasant when sun came out. Two light showers. Let's hope Rory can do the business later.
Beautiful bright fresh day here in Kerry, one shower earlier this morning but dry since, cool W'ly breeze 11.7C.
You mean this?
I thought I was going to miss it, as there was a bit of cloud about, and she was being a tease. Earlier I had hung about in the hope of getting a shot of her rising, but there were clouds to the east, sun to the west and some patches of rain.
But I'm not complaining, because I got something even better.
I was. It was around 46°C and the air was utterly still, and then it got quite dark, given the temperature, as a presumably massive cu-nimb built up directly overhead, then there were a few cracks of thunder and hail started to fall at a furious rate. Absolutely insane, a once in a lifetime experience. The temperature just plummeted about 26° in an incredibly short space of time.
God it was bliss
See it between the showers. Castlebar
Raining this evening. I can’t remember the last time it rained tbh.
Beautiful full moon rising in the East
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
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.
Trump has put tariffs on our weather. Wer doomed. From 20.8c yesterday to 8.7c today.
I hope you weren't in your t-shirt and shorts at the time 🥵😱
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 experienced a greater drop than that in Australia, and it happened in likely less than 20 minutes.
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 !
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 😕
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.
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?
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 😂
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.
Foggy in places this morning with poor visibility at Cork Airport resulting in lots of diversions
Misty morning back in Leitrim after our Alicante sojourn. Spent yesterday watering plants. No fatalities but some close shaves.
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.
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.
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
Yesterday the high at Castlederg was 21.8c and the low was -3 at katesbridge
