Spring 2025 - General Discussion

It was a magical 4 weeks. It really was. We had about 30 mins of rain since 25th April. Athenry still showing 0.0mm in May. Loads and loads of sunshine, it has set us all up nicely for the summer months. And we managed to break the April temperature record. I will remember Spring 2025 for a long time. Less than a month to the June solstice, embrace the light!

Spare a thought for the graduations tomorrow. And the last of the communions. If the Atlantic would just wait and let those pass on in relative calm before it pounces. Please 🙏

We've been over this many times - Here in Ireland, we are currently in the season of Spring. Summer begins in just over a week. The meteorological seasons are well defined and split into four, three months each. This keeps record keeping accurate. May is not in summer, just as August is not in autumn. November is not in winter, just as February is not in spring. This is a weather forum and it's important that we do not bring in our personal beliefs to the chats here. Abiding by official standards is required so that statistics are not skewed. Please be courteous and observe the seasons as defined by our national Met service. It becomes tiring when a person repeatedly insists that we are currently in a different season than is the case.

Quote from Met Eireann:

Meteorological Seasons

The change from winter to spring or from summer to autumn is gradual and the general trend is subject to reversals which may last for a week or more. For climatological and meteorological purposes, on the basis of air temperature, seasons are regarded as three – month periods as follows: December to February – winter, March to May – spring, June to August – summer and September to November – autumn. This is a common grouping in the meteorological practice of many countries in the middle and northern latitudes.

Ignore him Highdef,he does this all the time to try get a reaction,best ignore the poster

El scorchio again today in south Dublin, breeze feels very warm for a change, currently 21.6C here and fair conditions with a lot of high cloud.

Possibly a Foehn wind blowing there?

In Trim, there's a moderate cool breeze and it's cloudy. 18°. Jacket weather.

Rain washing Galway City's landscape. Still warm 16c. Much appreciated, weather gods 😃

Yeah a decent drop of rain in Galway today. A lot of people will be delighted to see it. Farmers, gardeners, greenkeepers and anglers especially so.

What on earth is that wet stuff falling out of the sky ?

Well it's the end of the glorious sunshine, but to be honest I'm glad to see the back of the easterlies. I have an awful headcold these past few days and alot of kids at school had chest infections this past week. As someone said at the school gate 'don't cast a clout until May is out'. West was definitely best. We're hard to please !

yes, I think you’re right, these wave clouds looking south in Dublin at 11.30 today indicate Foehn conditions.

and now a return to the damp southwesterlies, chocked in cloud at stuck at 15 degrees, I can just envisage it now, a narrow sausage shaped finger of the Azores tilted at 45 degrees slithering into southern England, and the pratai people under a south westerly pig flow on the north western flank of it with stratus cloud, rain, mist , pig scald, sea fog impingement and general skank. Grey grim damp bleak and depressing. It must be mid summer in Ireland.

dry but cloudy all day in cork city, bar this morning when it was still sunny! Currently about 18 degrees and just feels a lot “heavier”!

I'm complaining of the east wind and i'm 30km inland 🤫. I forget, is it Bray your from DOCARCH ?

Squarecircles I was waiting for one of your rants 😁. How did your plant survive storm Eowyn, you never give us hourly updates.

Gerry was so excited and delighted with all the rain coming ,he didn't even need charts for the forecast.