Current Weather Conditions - April 2025

I'm not sure if I'm the only one person here who gets conflicting messages when someone posts "fine" as a description of the weather but then go on to use other terms to describe the same type of weather such as "mostly cloudy", because they seem at odds with each other. I'm not directing these comments at any particular poster, BTW. Just using the most recent as an example.

Fine/clear on a met eireann report means the sky is clear or mostly clear with minimal cloud cover. I use the fine/clear description is such a case. If there a few clouds present (but still sunny more of the time than not), I'll describe it as partly cloudy. I think Met Eireann use the term "Fair" for the same thing so perhaps I should really do the same…..see, I may be just as guilty!!!! If more than half sky is covered in clouds, then it would be mostly cloudy....... And so on.

A person's judgement of the amount of clouds present above ones head can vary a bit with regards to what word or combination of words to use to describe it but using fine (or fine/clear) and mostly cloudy to describe the same weather phenomena is very confusing for me. Not sure if anyone is similar?

Wow, snow falling below 200m ASL puts a fair few people in the snow category! Is that falling snow or lying snow? I'm guessing the former. Even so, that would mean snow may be falling at relatively low lying built up areas such as Blessington and Roundwood.

Very late air frost for here (about 1 km from the sea) in south Dublin, overnight low of -0.7C. My latest ever was 2021 06/05 -0.1C so just a couple of weeks off that

Bright sunny & cold morning in Limk. City. White frost on cars. 3.6c at present.

Sunny all day in Arklow

12.2c

The solar panels are singing again,they were nearly crying yesterday

Breezy & overcast morning in Limk City. Rain has stopped. 8.1c, 9 mm overnight rain.

On the radar there looks to be some clearance coming from the South so hopefully we get some breaks in the rain. Miserable here in Rathdrum Wicklow, it's been raining since about 11pm last night.

you’ll get your steps in at that Istanbul airport !

Light rain now,total so far has reached 27mm

Wettest locations up to 11.00am today:

- Roches Point, Cork 29.8 mm- Cork Airport 23.0 mm

- Johnstown Castle, Wexford 14.0 mm

- Ballyhaise, Cavan & Shannon Airport, Clare 10.0 mm

- Sherkin Island, Cork; Valentia, Kerry; & Gurteen, Tipperary; 9.0 mm

Mace Head in Galway has recorded the maximum wind gust (68 km/h).

Carlow/kilkenny look to be escaping well so far