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Autumn 2025 - General Discussion

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  • #212
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Desperate weather yesterday evening and last night. Rain and more rain. Pleasant morning. Sunshine. 7C.

    Leitrim



  • #213
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Blue skies here this morning. Damp and cool outside.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • #214
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,583 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123808178#Comment_123808178

    That's a very interesting graphic. I see the supposedly sunny south-east seems to have similar values to much of the south, south-west and northern areas.

    I would have thought the drier Dublin region value would have extended right down through Wicklow into Wexford. Still, the statistics don't lie.



  • #215
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123808664#Comment_123808664

    Dublin has the benefit of the Wicklow Mountains rain shadow which is often a factor in our moisture-laden tropical maritime southwesterlies whereas the southeast doesn't.

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • #216
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Very cold this morning in Dublin City Centre…but at least it's dry



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  • #217
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123808215#Comment_123808215

    Not as detailed but the Met have a 1991-2020 averages summary with the following maps including the % change in rainfall between the 1961-90 and 1991-2020 climate periods.

    Screenshot 2025-09-12 at 10.09.47.png Screenshot 2025-09-12 at 10.09.23.png

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • #218
    acequion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭acequion


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123808156#Comment_123808156

    You seem to think I'm having a personal go at you, which I'm not. Merely commenting on your posts, which is what posters do.

    Of course you are entitled to your opinion. And so am I. And my opinion is that anybody denying that the Atlantic driven Irish climate is unpleasant, is delusional. Granted we do get nice spells and granted there are big regional variations where some parts get it a lot worse. But in general we don't have a nice climate in this country, imo.



  • #219
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 13,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123808967#Comment_123808967

    Mod Note: acequion please refrain from the antagonistic posts , creating arguments, goading for rows and dragging the thread off topic. Please don't call people delusional, you keep referring to your opinion but please accept other opinions too.



  • #220
    gilly1910
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 297 ✭✭gilly1910


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123808967#Comment_123808967

    I would agree with you, our Summer was not bad in that it was quite dry and reasonably warm for most of the Summer, although we didn't really have any sustained spells of really hot, sunny weather. However outside of Summer, I don't like our climate either, it's generally wet and windy for the most part with a damp cold to add to the misery. Yes people will say that we don't get bad winters which is true, although we wouldn't be able to handle them either, a bit of snow, and the entire country shuts down.

    Post edited by gilly1910 on


  • #221
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    I have several of these puffball mushrooms in the garden. They produce a cloud of spores when touched.

    IMG_20250912_113343.jpg

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



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  • #222
    Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire
    Site Banned Posts: 4,164 ✭✭✭Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire


    I think I'm going to put on the heat tonight! Unusual for me in September.



  • #223
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123809294#Comment_123809294

    I did that this same day last year funnily enough. Went to Louth to capture aurora at the fairy tree which was successful after waiting hours out to 1am before a substorm finally kicked in. It was genuinely cold. One of the coldest feeling nights I've been out photographing - granted I'm not often out late.

    Northerly wind provided idyllic clear skies with minimal haze but it was so cold.

    2024-09-13 Fairy Tree aurora vertical 2 soft focus 13 September 2024.jpg

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • #224
    mykrodot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123809502#Comment_123809502

    absolutely stunning! What part of Louth did you take that in, I used to live there, its a very underrated county, some beautiful spots.



  • #225
    mykrodot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    I know Kerry gets it fair share of rain. My sister in Donegal says they get far more and I believe her as I have been there so often too. They also get colder temperatures.

    There's no denying the last few days and indeed few weeks would test anyone and its been a shock after the beautiful August we had.

    What I feel about Ireland is that there's always hope, hope of beautiful green fields, blue skies, stormy winds, dramatic clouds, incredible waves on all our beautiful coastlines……and in between some beautiful Summers! I think this Summer was amazing and I have a bank of photos to prove it and even more memories in my head.

    Give me Ireland anyday over countries that are experiencing drought, unbearable heatwaves and fires that kill crops and animals, floods that wipe out towns, tsunamis, tornados and hurricanes.

    This morning early I got out for a swim in the sea as the forecast was best early on, there were lots of other people swimming too, going for walk, getting a coffee, meeting friends…….making the most of the brief respite from the rain. Last Sunday the forecast in my area was brutal yet we got out hiking for 5 hours in the mountains with only 1 heavy shower. So what I'm saying is I guess its best to make the most of it, make the most of being alive, being healthy, having seasons! Yes its annoying when plants get battered …..but I've adapted my planting to suit where I'm living. Some years are good for plants, some aren't.

    Now I'm off out to try and plant some hedging (as shelter!) before the next shower!



  • #226
    mykrodot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    IMG_4498.jpg IMG_4434.jpg

    Hope is not over yet. These photos were taken on 20th and 21st September last year. Great Blasket Island and Derrynane beach. Keep the faith!



  • #227
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123809739#Comment_123809739

    Good ol' Knockbridge southwest of Dundalk. If you put fairy tree Louth on Google Maps, it brings you straight there as if it was an actual landmark. The tree stands on a small hill with great views of 5 different counties on a day with good visibility. Said to be at least 300 years old and who knows how long it will survive with the trees we've lost from storms of late.

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • #228
    Ros4Sam24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭Ros4Sam24


    Up to the 11th of September, Finner in Donegal is at 73mm, Newport in Mayo at 86mm, and Valentia In Kerry at 89mm. Keep going the way it is then it’ll be the wettest month of the year for all official stations in the west I’d imagine.



  • #229
    Illusory
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Illusory


    Time to get the closing kit for my swimming pool in preparation of winter. Not a happy time of the year.



  • #230
    Ros4Sam24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭Ros4Sam24


    A very showery day, one particular shower looks quite intense near Westport

    IMG_0880.jpeg


  • #231
    Supercell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,808 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Ran out to cut the back garden grass before that big shower, just got it done as the first drops started falling. Me:1, that supercell: 0 😉

    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/


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  • #232
    Robwindstorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Robwindstorm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123809200#Comment_123809200

    Now cluedo, don't be tempted to serve it to anyone in a stew !

    Storm Eowyn has me prepared for a hardy winter

    1000011792.jpg


  • #233
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123810542#Comment_123810542

    Especially the in-laws



  • #234
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123810549#Comment_123810549

    I am a fungi so I wouldn't do that but I do make a lovely Beef Wellington with chestnut mushrooms all the same.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • #235
    Robwindstorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Robwindstorm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123810558#Comment_123810558

    🤔, would you chance going to cluedo's for stew giveitholly ?



  • #236
    giveitholly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭giveitholly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123810603#Comment_123810603

    I been such a generous person I would let you go first and see how you get on😉



  • #237
    Robwindstorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Robwindstorm


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123810619#Comment_123810619

    😁 I wonder what would be for dessert



  • #238
    Thunder87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Thunder87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123809801#Comment_123809801

    I think statistically the south west gets the most rain but the thing Donegal and the NW get probably far more than anywhere else is that miserable misty drizzle that spills over the top of high pressure while the rest of the country is dry. It doesn't amount to anything much in rainfall totals so barely adds to the stats but obviously that's not much help when you have to live through it, I've been there where it doesn't lift whatsoever for 4 or 5 days at a time yet probably only recorded a few mm of rain.

    The one consolation is that overall Donegal gets far more interesting winters, snow is pretty much a guarantee every winter and there's lots of days with intense hail showers and thunder that we basically never experience here on the east coast



  • #239
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123810603#Comment_123810603

    I am more a dagger or lead pipe in the Study kinda guy.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • #240
    Dazler97
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,961 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    Just had the heaviest rain shower in a long time here in carrick easily 100mm hr rate thankfully it only lasted 5 minutes



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  • #241
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,957 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Just back from a walk with the dog and saw a moonbow for the first time in years. Bright half moon low in the east, light shower overhead and a beautiful moonbow in the west. It lasted less than 5 mins.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



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