Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Horrible day in North Wicklow. And more on the way.

I'm not sure what you're expecting Gonzo. Winters are supposed to be dark and fairly miserable. Especially in Ireland. The lack of snow is frustrating of course but are you expecting long days and lots of sun and dry weather in the pit of winter?

Besides, if there's one month where we shouldn't really care about the weather it should be January, surely? If this were late spring or summer I'd understand the frustration with the rain. But January is the pit of winter, not even the farmers care too much. And as we all know, we usually have a very finite quota of sunny and dry weather each year in Ireland so I sure don't want it wasted in January…

I would hazard a guess that those who say every January is like this would rarely venture outside in this incessant rain, they probably drive to work, so going from the house to the car, or office to car is probably the only time that they are outside. Like many on here I cycle to work, and I can safely say that in all my years, I have never ever seen so many successive wet, grey, damp days, honestly it's head wrecking. Winter is long enough in this country since we don' really get defined seasons, but this constant rain would depress even the biggest optimist in the world. Due to all of the rain, even my missus can't be bothered going to the pub most weekends, which is a very worrying sign indeed of how bad the weather must be 😄

Absolutely vile here in Wexford. Some areas with 60mm/hr+ over Waterford/Kikenny/East Wexford area. And this is before the rainfall warning lasting all day tomorrow. If there's no river flooding by tomorrow night I would be very surprised.

Not sure what point you're making, it's a notably awful spell of weather on the east coast, Sryan mentioned yesterday it's on course to be the second wettest January on record in Dublin and potentially the second wettest three month period on record in the south east so of course people are going to remark on that fact and not be particularly enthusiastic about it.

Another wet and dark day in Leitrim. Same oul same oul. The rain is a pain but you get use to it. The darkness and lack of sunlight is the real pain for me. Screws up my sleeping pattern. Dreadful. I worked shifts for 40 odd years and as I got older the worse my sleep got.

Yeah but that summer had its revenge on us by being absolutely awful. I suppose intermittent nice weather over the year works best!

"The 2 week dry spell over Christmas does seem like a lifetime ago, this winter will be just remembered for one thing. A chilly dark miserable winter with day after day of rain."

We still have one month of winter to go. And December was a sunnier than average month everywhere. And the East, including Meath, had a dryer than average December.

So the point I was making is that the winter hasn't been dark with "day after day of rain".

I personally find some of the comments descend into hyperbole on here at times. People often let present conditions cloud their view of what the weather has actually been like.

I get that the recent weather has been very poor. But for many parts it's not been that out of the ordinary for the pit of winter, bar the past few days really.

Good lord it's heavy in D3 now, I would imagine there'll be localised flooding galore