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 HP is going to stay near us and we'll warm up midweek again. Get the silage done, possibly the earliest for us, a hill farm.
May 1992 would probably be my favourite, a very warm month. I was 16 and a few nice sporting memories. That age where you can play a few matches or do a few sports events in the one day and energy's on tap. Knees struggle to last 70 or 90 minutes these days!
Well said Sir. I wholeheartedly agree.
The last 2 Mays were good. Dry and warm. 2024 had well below average sunshine but it was the warmest on record.
I love May, I love this month. It's even irregardless of the weather. It's like nature spreads it's wings, flexes her muscles.
The day are getting so much longer in the mornings and evenings. It's the growth, the month being called after Maia, the Greek Goddess of growth and fertility.
Length of days plateau in June, July begins the decline in day length. June and July will be warmer. (There might be the odd historical May warmer than June).
But May is always growing, in every way, and it brings so much promise of what might be in store in Summer. The brightness of the gardens and wild flowers. It's the direct opposite, in most ways, of November.
Beautiful evening in Galway. The day has improved as it went which I didn't expect.
Wherever YR .no has been getting its data from it’s been incredibly pessimistic today - kept forecasting rain and cloud that hasn’t shown up and far lower temps than reality.
23 degrees at Cork Airport at 4.30pm
EICK 011530Z 34011KT 9999 FEW020CB 23/14 Q1015 WS RWY34 NOSIG
Thunderstorm with plenty of lightning just east of Bantry
15C Glorious sunshine in this part of Leitrim. Beautiful afternoon.
18c here in carrick bad move yet again wearing 2 layers , on the train to Dublin so it should be cooler by the time I get there , I see the south is 22c to 24c and much of southern England is 27c
still glorious in Arklow,temperature has settled around 17 or 18 c with that strong sea breeze
Can see convection to the west about 20 to 30kms inland along the usual convergence zone
Cork looks like it’s in for a Spanish summer
25.7C on the Glengarriff climate station, only 0.2C below Athenry's record-breaking value yesterday. Of course a new month now so how does it compare for early May?
The record for the first week of May in Ireland as far as I can see is 25.9C at Boora (Offaly) on 3rd May 1990.
gloriously Sunny in Arklow still
Hottest day for sometime in Cork, don't think they really predicted the 25.2c it got to in Cobh today at my station. Still at 24c.
Temps rocketing across Cork, 25C widely now. Thunder clouds forming to our North!
14C here now in Meath, an 8C drop in just over 2 hours. Time to put the Huddie back on.
Walking around you can see the storm clouds to the north. Looks like Cobh and Carrigtohill area could be hit instead
Aaaand back to normal, hottest day of the spell here close to the coast with 23.5C in south Dublin, but back to 17c now and dropping in the cloud
@mcburns07 Indeed it is, here in carrigaline too. BUT Interrupted by what looks like a heat storm at 5pm for Cork City:
Scorchio in Cork
Was coming in to report same. Towers/convective looking cloud over the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains.
14.3c now in Greystones and misty.
still sunny down here in Arklow but a stiff Sea breeze has dropped temperatures by almost 6c to 17.3c in under an hour
Quite noticeable cb convection visible over the Wicklow mountains from the sea breeze heat convergence zone
Hopefully the blue sky returns some time soon, our weather never fails to disappoint
was a beautiful warm and sunny morning here in Meath, however the wall of cloud has moved in and temperatures sliding away. An hour ago it was 20C, now currently 16C. The next week will definitely be noticeably cooler however the good news is it looks mostly dry over the coming week. I saw enough rain over the Easter bank holiday weekend to last a lifetime.
A fabulous morning run 🏃♂️ 🌞
23.3c in Arklow
Feels it
Already nudging 21c in Arklow this morning,feels almost tropical
Thomas?
This is the start of my favourite time of year. 7 weeks before summer solstice and 7 weeks after. I try to get as much done in this period as possible so that the summer doesn't get away from me - it can be so fast! Loads of light and hopefully loads of dry weather.
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