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.
The charts make for some grim reading now with no real settled period in sight. Low after low coming out way making it very difficult for any high pressure to properly establish over us despite its best efforts.
Hopefully we see a change soon, a bad May always shortens the summer for me. Feels like we're constantly chasing the good weather and then suddenly it's October. I can't deal with another bad summer!
This definitely won't be popular here but I preferred March 2024, it brought the best snowfall in six years and I made great memories that day. Ironically, the only day from March 2025 that I can specifically recall was a wet one.
As for April, I've never seen this much bad weather in April. On top of the 75+ mm we've had since last Wednesday, the 11th-14th April was a washout period when I was in Spain, so I've probably had over 100 mm in the last two weeks between Ireland and Spain. As well, a named storm there brought very strong winds on the 10th and the 11th before the rain came.
My garden needs cutting again however no point right now, the tractor mower would just sink through the mud and leave brown tracks all over the garden, need a few dry days before I event attempt cutting the grass.
Just how wet the past week has been is more exceptional in the east than we actually think.
It was the wettest of any 7 day period on record for April at Dublin Airport with 75.1mm from 16th-22nd April 2025. The previous wettest April 7 day period was 58.8mm from 31st March-6th April 1987. So it absolutely smashed that.
It's the wettest of any 7 day period since October 2023. There's only been 11 months this century so far with a wetter 7 day period before April 2025 (May 2002, Oct 2002, Nov 2002, Aug 2004, Aug 2008, Oct 2011, Aug 2014, Nov 2014, Sep 2022, Aug 2023, Oct 2023).
As well, I think it was so wet that we're practically bang on average for rain up to this point in spring, soon to be above average with the rain that's due.
No rain yesterday. Cloudy yet pleasant. Ground is utterly saturated. Thankfully all my flower and vegetable beds are raised with moats around them.
Leitrim
YR giving me 20 degrees next Wednesday in Kildare, is it going to happen?
lovely start to the day in SCD. Quite warm in the sun also.
Something I've found really frustrating since moving to Dublin 5 years ago is the almost complete lack of real warmth in the spring, it's usually not until around the solstice that it starts to get comfortably warm which can make the summer feel far too short for me. Further west and inland you just don't get that nagging easterly breeze that kills any feeling of heat on nice sunny days
a nice day today and feeling milder than it has done in quite some time. Going to make the most of today as tomorrow looks like another washout Friday.
Sunny morning Meath
Heavy dark clouds everywhere now but rain not due until tonight.
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A perfect spring morning in Meath. A bit of colour, mist, good sunshine. Enjoyed it at Skryne and Bective. Fog was thick in the Ballymagarvey direction.
Cool wind taking the edge off the temp.
Yes, I grew up in D13, just a couple of hundred metres from the sea and yes, the cold onshore breeze was horrible, right through June, if not the first half of summer. At the same time, it would often be clear blue skies all day in such high pressure situations but without the warmth, it would not be pleasant. I'd rather calm, warm and cloudy than breezy and chilly with blue skies.
I've moved to Longford and am now right in the middle of the country. When there's high pressure overhead in the summer, with clear skies, there's often no wind…..literally nothing. And it's then that you really feel the warmth, plus the heat remains much longer in the evening and into the early night as the lack of a breeze means that the ground (and manmade materials in particular) have been absorbing the heat all day and then release it again slowly, after the sun has set.
Aw stop @sryanbruen just over the fields.
and that it was.......fabulous.
Hazy sunshine now Meath.
Hear reports of heavy rain Galway City. On its way.
Horrendous wash out day in Tralee. Rain, muck and chill, literally all day! And are we to expect more of the same tomorrow?? Jesus!
When it's not always raining, there will be days like this!😎😎😎
Looking good after all the recent rain!
Unreal how much of England is looking for rain and we’re here soaking it up. Not looking forward to another 25mm just starting now
Powerscourt waterfall always amazing after a lot of rain.
Also just read this on Wikipedia...
"In August 1821, during the visit of King George IV to Ireland, Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt dammed the waterfall so he could release a torrent while the two stood on the bridge below the falls. For reasons unknown, the king did not leave the banquet at Powerscourt House to view the waterfall, which was fortunate as, when the water was finally released, the bridge was washed away."
That's mad SuperBowser, no bridge there no under waterfall after it washed away!
I'd love to know exactly where it was, there is a small bridge now but much further away.
Did they not get the rain we did, I'm sure they got a few deluges but probably not on the scale that we got.
The far southwest of England and south of Wales did, probably even worse than us.
Although we've had much worse weather this month, this morning is really screaming autumn, even the poor weather we've had over the past week and a half just felt like bad spring weather rather than autumn.
You are probably right with that tbh I know people near London who could do with rain, but the SE of England is a completely different climate to our own
Dark, heavy cloud.
Quite depressing really.
Washout last night and this morning. Leitrim
After a wet morning the sun is out and it feels lovely and mild,good growthy weather
Pvssing rain all day and feeling a bit cold in NCD .
We are getting a takeaway and have the fire going to cheer ourselves up .
No most of the UK have avoided the very wet weather with the exception of the southwest as mentioned by @Artane2002. Dublin Airport and Plymouth sticking out as the sore thumb with at least 150% of the average April rainfall.
