Spring 2025 - General Discussion

Blue skies in Dublin from 6am, cold but as the morning has gone on it’s steadily getting warmer.

Very good week ahead according to my app.

Another air frost for some last night. Casement also recorded an air frost.

Lovely day down on Bray Seafront. Air temp 14c but with little to no sea breeze it felt warmer in the Sun and very pleasant.

The sea was very calm for the first half of the beach with the dogs and then all of a sudden big white top rollers loudly crashing on the shore. Evenly spaced and 45deg to the shore. There was still no wind. Was scratching my head for a minute until it hit me. The WB Yeats had passed Bray about 6k off shore about 15 minutes before. It was the Bow waves from the Ferry finally arriving at the shoreline. Confirmed when the waves stopped and it went back flat calm after 5 minutes. On a normal day with normal wave action you wouldn’t notice the bow waves interspersed with the normal wind action waves but because it was flat calm they really stood out as unusual.

The other unusual sight was various ships including the WB Yeats before it disappeared behind Bray Head floating in the sky over the ‘Horizon’. ie. Flat calm out to sea with some kind of temperature inversion layer or something like that creating a Mirage like sight.

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10 days for me..N Tipp

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Good summer ☀️ sorry that posted while I was typing 😅

Costa del Irlanda

The sun pillar from Tipp.

When I was looking at adjusting the exposure in photoshop, I accidentally jogged a slider and went way too far, and noticed a circular bright spot which given the lens, would correspond pretty much to the size of the sun, except that had already set.

Was this the ice crystals acting like a mirror and reflecting the image of the sun from below the horizon?

Stunning day again in Dublin

Beautiful afternoon

Lough Corrib with Connemara mountains in distance.

Oh no, looks very dodgy for Sunday now. These shallow lows moving close to the south coast can pump in alot of rain from the Irish Sea. I'm going to the Leinster final on Sunday and was often drenched in these set ups. Also there's alot of communion outdoor parties on Sunday with bouncy castles etc. With the beautiful sunny warm weather and blue skies recently, this could catch alot of people by surprise. Hopefully the track might change, I'm keeping a close eye on this one, even MT and Wolf are struggling to predict this one.

Similar to the first 2 weeks of April the majority of MetE stations are showing 0mm of rainfall after the 1st week in May. Malin Head has the highest rainfall with a whopping 0.5mm of rain.

Another beautiful day in Galway.