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Autumn 2025 - General Discussion

  • 31-08-2025 10:52AM
    #1
    sryanbruen
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    As meteorological autumn starts tomorrow, I thought I'd get the ball rolling now and start the autumn thread.

    Looks like autumn will be getting off to an appropriately unsettled start compared to many modern ones.

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



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  • #2
    joebloggs32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭joebloggs32


    Could someone tell the primary school teachers that Autumn starts tomorrow. I'm a secondary Geography teacher and it bugs the sh1t out of me when all the students have the seasons wrong..... I know it is really a1st world problem 😂😂



  • #3
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    I thought the transition from summer to autumn this year was the most abrupt and well defined I can ever recall.

    Last Monday, August 25th was a warm cloudy and humid day here in Limerick city. Typical late summer pleasant heat and everyone in shorts and tee-shirts.

    The following day was several degrees cooler with a brisk westerly breeze bringing a mix of heavy showers and bright spells… typical blustery autumnal day with umbrellas and long sleeves back in use. It's been similar every day since.



  • #4
    Hippodrome Song Owl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123771266#Comment_123771266

    I think it's just so deep rooted from our Celtic heritage, which seems to have divided the year according to day length rather than temperature. With September being mid-autumn and October being end-autumn as Gaeilge, I think it will always be a challenge to completely convert everyone to the proper scientific definitions of the seasons, especially in primary school where Gaeilge is prominent.

    I'm 100% on board with following the meteorological definition, especially here, but I kind of like the connection to the past that the other way keeps. It's also not like astronomical seasons aren't also based on science, so I think there's room for that too, outside strictly meteorological discussion.

    I'm looking forward to autumn now, hope we get some bright crisp weather and not just storms.



  • #5
    adocholiday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    There are signals from the models for a decent second-third week in September with temps over 20 on some. Still quite a bit away yet. Meanwhile I'm kicking off the Autumn in a sunny 27 degrees in Tuscany. I'll try to bring the weather home.

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  • #6
    WolfeEire
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,624 Mod ✭✭✭✭WolfeEire
    Clare (430ft asl)


    Met Éireann has unveiled the list of names for the 2025/26 storm season, which begins today and runs until 31 August 2026.

    Storm Season 2025-26 Square post (1080 x 1080 px).png

    www.weatheire.com



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  • #7
    Billcarson
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    My favourite time of year has arrived. Now I just want the weather to be seasonal. A proper autumn and a cold festive Christmas. Probably neither of which will happen but anyways.........



  • #8
    mykrodot
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774223#Comment_123774223

    please dont mention Christmas!!!



  • #9
    SuperBowserWorld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,201 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774223#Comment_123774223

    Ber as in Brrrrrr 🥶 ?



  • #10
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    September 1st… first morning I felt a chill in the air as soon as I got up. Takes a little adjusting I must say. The vest goes on!



  • #11
    Billcarson
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774238#Comment_123774238

    Once we get to September it's just around the corner lol



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  • #12
    mykrodot
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774253#Comment_123774253

    Whisht, stop! Seriously I know I know, Halloween is almost bypassed in the shops as the Christmas stuff appears. I hate the commercialism, the over spending, the pressure it puts on people, I just hate it all. Its the loneliest of times for many. Just the thought of it makes me stressed.

    I just want to enjoy these early days of Autumn, maybe some cold crisp weather in October and to hear about Christmas in early December…..guess I'm old fashioned.



  • #13
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,564 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    On this day back in 1906, the highest air temperature for the month of September of 29.1°C was recorded at Clongowes Wood College, Co Kildare.



  • #14
    Cluedo Monopoly
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    After the wonderful Spring people were getting nervous that we would be punished with a wet cold Summer but thankfully we had a very good summer. However I am nervous myself now that Autumn could be very wet and windy. I do love Autumn so fingers crossed we get a large high pressure soon.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #15
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,783 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Another wet start. 3 in a row. Thank goodness the strong wind has stopped. 13C.

    Leitrim



  • #16
    Rugbyf565
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭Rugbyf565


    Definitely feels much colder today in Dublin, can feel that winter chill outside



  • #17
    Billcarson
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774283#Comment_123774283

    I agree . I like the seasons to be seasonal including what's in the shops. Seeing Halloween stuff in shops in Aug , or Christmas stuff in September does ruin it a bit. St Stephens day last yr some shops were already taking down Christmas decorations and a week or so later seeing Easter eggs on some shelves. Just ridiculous.



  • #18
    esposito
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774613#Comment_123774613

    The world is as mad as it has ever been.



  • #19
    Hippodrome Song Owl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774406#Comment_123774406

    I'm hoping it will be reasonably dry here to end the year to balance things out, as Casement is at 111% of LTA rainfall for the year to date. I live in hope!

    A cool bright and dry morning, but blustery and wet now.



  • #20
    ClimateObserver
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123774613#Comment_123774613

    I was heading into Kilkenny City last night and there was a woman in the front porch of her house hanging Christmas lights on her Christmas tree in the porch. No kidding. I would have taken a photo but for I was driving. They do live amongst us.



  • #21
    Thunder87
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123771571#Comment_123771571

    I've never really got why people get in such a twist over this, defining seasons based on daylight is every bit as relevant as using the miniscule temperature variations we get from month to month.

    I get that Met Eireann use the temperature method but live and let live.. in reality we don't get four neatly packaged seasons in this country, we get a few weeks of winter and a few weeks of summer and everything else is mostly cloudy and a few degrees either side of 13C.



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  • #22
    Billcarson
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123775241#Comment_123775241

    Someone down the road from me puts their tree and decorations up as soon as Halloween is over and I thought that was mad enough lol



  • #23
    mcburns07
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123775548#Comment_123775548

    This is simply not true, we might not get seasons as well defined as other parts of the world, but to say most weeks of the year our weather is the same nonsense.



  • #24
    sryanbruen
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123775548#Comment_123775548

    The only time it really bothers me is when people try to be contrarian on this forum about it. We go by the meteorological definition on the weather forum to save typing the months every single time for stats which let's be real stats are often a point of note in posts (especially mine) as well as avoiding the confusion it would inevitably bring. It would be terribly confusing if we went by the multiple definitions on this forum. All the other sub-forums it doesn't matter at all.

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  • #25
    Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123773894#Comment_123773894

    Pity Wubbo will never hit us!

    'Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns It's lonely eyes to you.'



  • #26
    Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire
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    Such a hyped up day and I'm usually run down with a sore throat or chest infection.

    'Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns It's lonely eyes to you.'



  • #27
    Thelonious Monk
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    Really windy, feels much colder, random torrential downpours. Really not liking autumn so far. Felt like I was sunbathing a week or ago. Feels so abrupt.



  • #28
    mrsnrub2.0
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    Wednesday looks wet in Dublin.



  • #29
    Gonzo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,800 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    This year Autumn certainly arrived very sharply when the summer heat ended a week ago, an almost instant transition from summer to autumn. 1st September most years we're used to the autumnal conditions as summer usually breaks end of July and August goes down the pan. Thankfully that didn't happen this year so for me this big pattern shift back to cool Atlantic muck is a bit of a shock to the system after over 2 months of warmth. Also worth noting many Septembers usually have a very good spell within the first 10 days of the month and again this is not the case this year.



  • #30
    Thunder87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭Thunder87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123775802#Comment_123775802

    I'm admittedly exaggerating there but just making a general point, we have probably amongst the least extreme temperature range of any country in the world outside the tropics, while daylight/darkness is a very noticeable difference between the seasons so I can see why it's what we traditionally divided them by.



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  • #31
    Thunder87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭Thunder87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123775808#Comment_123775808

    Yeah that's all I'm saying, I've seen plenty of heated arguments and genuine nastiness around it on here over the years. I've always used the modern definitions as well and it's obviously the "correct" method to use on a weather forum, but if someone wants to go by the traditional method that we've used for centuries then whatever, no need for stupid arguments



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