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.
Pauldry don't come East at the moment raining here since Thursday evening😂.
Ah I managed to get out for walk for an hour with kids just got back before another shower.
At least we can eat our dinner guilt free now we have our exercise😁
So much for today being the 'nice' day.
You're right. I've been twice now in past 5 years. Once in August there was 60mm in 1 day and now this 100mm in 4 or 5 days. Never coming here again. At least in Sligo you get 8 to 10mm of light rain. Maybe East is the place to go. Might drive to Waterford today as rain doesn't seem as heavy there.
Cork has some of the driest/sunniest parts of the country. It's a big county and west is very different to east
I know head wrecking, just have the kids ready to go out the door to finally get some fresh air before the Easter dinner and it's lashing again!
Mist starting to form in Leitrim.
It's raining again in Dublin. This was not forecast
Spot on, 300 metres visibility in light rain and Fog. Yuck.
EIKN 200830Z 15006KT 110V190 0300 -RA FG VV002 09/09 Q1005 NOSIG
A few diversions at Knock Airport this morning. I'm guessing fog could be issue.
Wet and damp in Leitrim
I live on the East coast but am from Cork. I would never advise anyone to go to Cork to miss out on rain. Cork must be one of the wettest counties in the country. Every time I visit it seems to be raining
Went to Cork for Easter coz thought weather would be better than in wet NW but in 3 days there's been 61mm of rain and will be over 100mm by the time we leave on Wednesday. Not much ya can do when it's constantly raining foggy and dark.
On the bus back to carrick after been at the leinster V Ulster rugby game , was dry here in Dublin since 4 , going back into the rain by the looks of the radar , not to chilly either maybe that's because I walked a good bit today
I have been editing some photos I took before the current drear. More cheerful than what's been outside.
a damp, wet cold day wouldn't be out of place in the middle of January. Weather looks like it should improve from Tuesday.
Ye agree, with no solar gain through the windows like last week the temperature indoors drops very quickly.
I remember planning Easter Egg hunts around the garden and once having to rescue everything from the back garden Easter Sunday morning 😁
Only once though .
What time will I drop my little one off at?
The difference between this week and last week couldn't be more stark. Took the dogs to Glendalough last week and the jacket and hoody ended up in my backpack and was wearing a T-Shirt for most of the walk. Then a mere 8 days later on Wednesday I end up back in Glendalough with the dogs in full Winter attire due to the icy wind and rain after my trip up to Sallygap with the dogs for the snow turned out to be too late as it had mostly melted. Decided to drive down to Glendalough from Sallygap before returning to Bray. Sun Tan and Snow in the space of a week. Feel really bad for the neighbours atm. They probably booked their re-roofing job sometime last year for the Spring of 2025. With the 2 months of dry and bright weather they were probably praying it lasted past their re-roofing job. Mr Murphy had other plans though and it hasn't stopped raining since the Roof tiles came off!! Worst timing imaginable! Turned the CH off Shedule March 25th (Target 20ºc 7am-10pm). That said it was only coming on for 2-3hrs most days to top the temp back up to 20ºC for weeks before that anyway. Air temp wise we have very similar temperatures today and yesterday compared to a lot of that Sunny weather since March 25th where in the East with the Easterlies off the Sea the temps were lower than out west (7-9ºc). Didn't need the CH on though because the house was holding at 20ºc all by itself thanks to the massive Solar gain we have with most of our Windows facing south and massive Thermal Mass of our 2ft thick walls absorbing all that radiant heat from the Sun all day and slowly transferring and releasing that heat into the house.
I turned the CH back on yesterday and today because the house is freezing despite the outdoor temperature being the same 7-9ºc its been for weeks with the CH off. I'm sure the humidity difference is a factor in how we are physically feeling the heat or lack thereof today compared to the last few weeks but the loss of that Sunny Weather Solar Gain through the Windows and Wall Thermal Mass absorbing and releasing heat into the house is likely still the main factor given the Hive Thermostats that don't care about Humidity 'Feels Like' temperatures are showing that the house temp was down 3ºc compared to the last few weeks of Sun despite outdoor air temps being the same 7-9ºc as late March and Early April.
A miserable day right across the country with the conditions at Knock typical in a lot of areas. Light easterly, 7km vis, light rain low cloud.
EIKN 191130Z 09006KT 7000 -RA BKN003 OVC009 09/08 Q1008 TEMPO BKN005
Nice in Alicante mind you
Muck.... Utter misery. Flooding on roads and in fields. It's hardly stopped since Thursday 7pm in this area.
Leitrim
a day for the fire.
Can’t remember a much wetter 24 hour period since July 2023. Truly miserable Easter holidays weather
I very rarely have my heating on in April. Hopefully once this rain clears, might get a dry week.
God almighty it's still pelting down!
It was that bad during the night that it woke me up.
Well I've good indoor activities planned for kids today so they will enjoy that.
It's true that we have had a very good 2025 so far, weather wise. That said, a wonderful dry March and a heatwave in early April is no good if we have to pay for it now in this year's late Easter and onwards. And unfortunately that's a pattern in Ireland.Beautiful spring, awful summer.
I flew back into Dublin this morning from Greece, where I spent a wonderful sunny 5 days, on the back of a sunny week here last week. And though the most miserable day to arrive back, I've no complaints. But I do feel very sorry for all the school kids and the many who had hoped that good weather might just last for the Easter weekend, but no such luck it seems.😏
Feels like a long time since we had an all day rain event, apart from Wednesday though it did clear up a bit in the evening that day.
A proper miserable day today! Went shopping in Swords after work and the place was teeming. I feel sorry for the kids off school. Brighter, warmer days are coming though!
Like a winters day today.
Raining constantly from early morning. Depressing.
Doesn't Lent end on Sunday ?
Or I don't get it.
**** ... I googled ... You are right !
All this time I thought it was Easter Sunday when lent ended. 🙀
Set to be ok and a little warmer alright on Monday .
Am perished here today and yesterday ..heating on again 🥶
Not to worry,I just read on social media there,it’s in the papers,a 400 mile wall of sun is coming next week…
It's not early though. Lent ended last night.
