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.
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.
0.2C looking at the list on WOW
Lovely morning around Tralee, 14.6C back at my house.
Pic of Fenit around 11.00.
A beautiful afternoon with all stations reporting fair conditions at 2pm with a pleasant 18 degrees at Claremorris
Another air frost for some last night. Casement also recorded an air frost.
Cracking day. A few stations still at 18C at 6pm. Just like the first two weeks of April, the end of April and start of May have been superb.
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.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/brayopenforum/permalink/2784886798376818/?
When is the last time it properly rained? weeks?
10 days for me..N Tipp
Cracking weather. When Nature says goodnight !
We had plenty over the Easter week!
That was over two weeks ago now. It can rain like that every second weekend if it means it’s followed by two weeks of almost non-stop sun and mild temps.
less than 2 weeks ago
Just watching the deep dive on YouTube and similar patterns so far this spring to 2020 and we all know how sunny that spring was followed by a plesent summer as well so fingers crossed 🤞 we have a
Good summer ☀️ sorry that posted while I was typing 😅
An amazing sunset this evening in Sutton, Dublin. The hazy cloud gave the brightest sun pillar I have seen in a long time and with good colour to beat.
Costa del Irlanda
The day only got nicer as it went along here near Tralee, reached a peak of 17.8C at my site around 17.00, big range after an overnight low of 3.8C.
Cool night again now down to 7.7C. What a beautiful sunset .
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?
Just gone over 14C at my house, still pockets of cool air in the shade around town but lovely morning, could get into the high teens or touching 20C here in Kerry today.
Stunning day again in Dublin
Another class day. Just like the first half of April, the great thing about this spell is the consistency. You know what you are going to get every day and can plan accordingly. Unusual for Ireland.
A few stations showing 18C at 1pm.
Beautiful afternoon
around Easter, didn’t you get any? I got around 75mm in the third week of April. (Dublin)
Mount Dillon May 6th: max 19.4c min -0.9c, even more remarkable than the 22c daily temperature range a month ago with the nights now a lot shorter.
Lough Corrib with Connemara mountains in distance.
First morning in a while where it's cool and grey in Dublin...hopefully the sun breaks through
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.
I was really hoping this weekend was going to be properly dry and sunny but not looking so great at the moment and then back to sunshine and warmth from Monday. Hopefully those shallow lows can stay away from us a bit more over the weekend, still some time to correct that.
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.
this really has been a great spell of weather. Proper blue skies and pleasant temps life is so much more enjoyable when you can get out and do things without that constant nagging breeze or grey cloud. So enjoyable. Someone mentioned above I think the pattern being similar to 2020 which led to a good summer afterwards? My memory of 2020 is not of a good summer at all.
