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.
Great chances of seeing the northern lights tonight 👌 that's if cloud cover doesn't spoil it
Great to see snow pics in April!
Very nice day here today but I believe we are getting the long overdue rain on Friday. Some places in Europe have had very heavy rainfall in the last 7 weeks. Spain were delighted because their reservoirs were very low after a drought last year.
I heard my first cuckoo this evening.
Nice evening in Dublin after a horrible day…very cold though
Most of it gone by the time I got up there with the dogs at 4pm after work. Drove back down to Bray via Glendalough. Had the dogs there last week and was wearing a T-shirt. Today was icy, misty and windy and wearing wooly hat, gloves and scarves. LOL.
What a sunset driving Wicklow to Meath, after most horrible day.
2⁰ on waking today. Seemed to around max 6⁰ in the hills. Like 22⁰ in me garden last Friday.
Boooo the cold (with such inclement conditions today)
6⁰ Meath
Horrible day of rain in Meath. Brightened up in the evening but a sharp frost looks imminent.
Got down to 0.2C here near Tralee this morning, had to get warm water to get the ice off the car windows at 08.10. got up to 13.4C and cold again tonight now at 4.2C and calm. Great day between Tralee- Cork- Tralee from early to late tonight.
Very fortunate for the fine day in the SW.
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Frosty morning in Arklow,min was 0.6c
A very snowy Lugnaquilla behind the trees
Stunning morning in Dublin...hardly a cloud in the sky
I wouldn't usually be posting much about the weather in Dublin anymore because it tends to be very bland but there's an impressively hard frost for the time of year out there this morning.
A better view of Lug this morning
Covered from head to toe
Went down to -2.2°C on the Kilkenny-Laois border last night, a nippy start to the day but lovely to see clear blue sky again. Clouds popping up now showing the strength of the sun is increasing with each passing day - the dreaded inland convection.
Could see some snow on the Wicklow Mountains peaks from Bayside, Dublin this morning left over from yesterday. Was weird to see with blue skies at this time of year.
Jaysus that's some rain this morning in Dublin yet again.
Thank god I'm so obsessed with the weather, no trapssing around the Zoo or farm in that weather for us!
That's the problem nowadays with all the booking online and in advance. In the old days my father would decide the night before or even on morning of a nice day that we were going to beach, Zoo etc!
Tomorrow looking like more of same, Monday might be our best hope.
Today is without doubt the cloudiest and wettest day in about 7/8 weeks. A day for the fire and TV. Watch the explosive growth after this.
Athenry received just 6.7mm of rain this month until today. Tomorrow will be perfect for fishing with new rains and oxygen activating the fish to move and feed.
A day for the fire is right cluedo.
I agree with you there appledrop, pre booking is a disaster at times. Imagine dragging the kids around Emerald Park today.
We had the exact same day here on Wednesday, your right though about growth, I was just thinking looking out kitchen window this morning that everything is looking very green.
As the 3 year said 'Yippee mammy rain, the flowers will be dancing'😂
That's because we spent all last week watering them in evening.
Wicklow gone to an orange warning now for the next 24 hours or so
Met Éireann Weather Warning
Spells of heavy rain. Expected Impacts: • Localised flooding
Valid: 10:28 Friday 18/04/2025 to 11:00 Saturday 19/04/2025
Issued: 10:28 Friday 18/04/2025
there’s a reason I try to go abroad at every opportunity when I’m off work and today is a stark reminder of why. Desperate. Fine to say a day for the fire but when it’s a day few from work the last thing most people want to do at the end of April is sit by the fire.
The last 6 weeks have been great, one wet day isn't going to kill anyone…..
Can you show any posts you made during the many weeks of lovely dry sunny weather? 😂
The Easter weekend washout is well and truly under way here in Meath.
no? Why would you care? I was enjoying the weather and busy with other things. What a strange obsession.
Bank Holiday weekend. People off work. Weather crap. Its not hard to understand people's frustration.
Needless to say queues to get into shopping centre are unreal and I thought I was early at 10am and it would be quite 😅
The foliage growth is going to be spectacular after today
Lol the misery returns . Not one post during the great spell we had and bang the first wet day poor me returns .
Loads of us posted during the nice weather, but most of us were working and kids in school so limited time to enjoy it.
Most of us are lucky to be off this weekend( the supermarket was busier than Christmas!) so it's crap when we can't get out and about and enjoy it.
No doubt some will be on to say it's grand just wrap up!
If he still lives in the South East he has a lot less to moan about than most in the country anyway. He should be thankful for the few truly miserable periods of weather we get in the South East as it gives him his rationalisation/excuse to go off gallivanting to Sunnier climes multiple times a year by the sounds of it.😉😉
Many of the weekends during the past good spell, particularly in the SE, were not all that great. During the week was great but not much use when you're in work. I think there was 1 weekend out of 4 or maybe 5 that was decent. And I was acutely aware of it because I've been trying to get an outside job done and it's been so frustrating to try to finish it when the weather was good during the week.
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