Spring 2025 - General Discussion

You can nearly hear the plants and trees rejoicing for the rain.

Docarch lives in Greystones and right beside the beach by the sounds of it given he said he is 25 metres away. Amazed you have issues with the East wind 30km inland. I don't disbelieve either of you and yet my personal near literal 'My back Yard' take on this period has been that I haven't missed out much with the East Coast temps here in Bray. Local topography and elevation must come into play.

I live one road back from the Seafront in the Meath Road Area. Temperatures were always pleasent, warm and sometimes even hot a mere 200m from the Seafront along the Meath Road. It was amazing though how one would walk down towards the Seafront under the railway bridges and feel warm on one side of the underpass and suddenly feel the cool breeze/wind on the other side. Its like the railway embankment and the 3 storey Victorian Terraces on the Strand Road were deflecting the cool Sea Breezes up and over us and shielding us from them. That said its not like the walks with the dogs along the Beach were always cool either. Half the time the sea breeze would be light enough that I had to strip a top or jacket off. Guaranteed though, no matter how cool it felt in a breeze on the Beach, soon as I looped back up under the railway bridges to the Meath Road for the return leg of the Dog walk the Meath road was always warm and pleasent. Another interesting observation I had was on some of the coldest sea breeze days when I decided to walk up the front of the Head to the Scenic Carpark before looping back around to the top of the Meath road, the breeze went from Cold to Warm!! What I mean is that literally 20 metres up off the beach was the boundary layer between air/breeze that was chilled by the Sea Surface Temperatures and warmer air!! In other words folks living on the side of the Head on Newcourt Road at 30m elevation and me along the Meath Road might have had a completely different impression of the prevailing temperatures for the last few weeks compared to folks living on Strand Road itself or like Docarch right beside the Beach in Greystones.

Mild and breezy morning at parkrun finishing with manky drizzly rain for a period. Dried up for an hour around noon. Drizzling again and thats before heavy rain moves in from the West. 3pm throw in locally for Meath football game. Be pouring me thinks.

17° Meath

That smell of rain after a dry spell has a name: Petrichor. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Petrichor

That's the one. The bacteria itself that causes this phenomenon gives off a chemical called Geosmin.

Very autumnal feeling today, even though we haven't had our summer yet🤣.

The weather has been so outstanding that today feels like change at the end of summer.

Well hopefully loads more nice days to come, it's actually not that cold but the rain and wind means it feels more miserable.

Always a silver lining though, as 3 year old says the flowers are dancing in rain!

They'll be giving out to us that we're muddling up the correct definition of seasons, but agree that today felt like autumn.And spring never felt like spring this year, it pretty much felt like summer all the way.

So what will summer feel like??

Hopefully good, in whatever form it takes.

In Howth this evening and even walking atop the pier it didn't feel cold at all .

Just spits of rain on and off but mild .