Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Yep, nicest afternoon in a long time in Dublin, I know we had similar weather over Christmas but the sun is so low in that period that even sunny days are still quite dull, the increased brightness is really noticeable today after weeks and weeks of incessant gloom

Today is the first day of spring after all 😉

Totally agree…turned into a lovely Spring like day. Lovely to see so many daffodils blooming as well as the birds in full song. I do love this time of the year however it can often have a sting in it's tail

The final week in February and the first week in March is probably the coldest. By late March and April things would have "warmed" up a tad.

0c. I think it’ll be a colder night than the M.E text forecast mentions with a low of -1c. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some areas drop to -3/-4c.

Thanks for reminding me . It can snow in Febuary come on i need my fix

Beautiful bright moon lighting up the sky.

3⁰ Meath

I'd say today was my second favourite weather day ever, maybe even joint first, the perfect start to February. The Baltic Sea snow machine hasn't let up here in Stockholm since 7 pm yesterday. The snow was light to moderate most of the time but there were some heavy to very heavy bursts. Some of the time, it seemed clear overhead yet it was still somehow snowing. The snow was very feathery and it was flat calm away from bodies of water, so the snow fell very gracefully. The high temperature was -5 °C and it should get to -9 °C, which is impressive considering the cloud cover and onshore flow. The conditions were very enjoyable for skiing and plenty of people were out happy having a great time. I spotted a massive snow pile inside a stadium while out on a walk. The number of images in this post is actually me trying to limit myself!

Last night was the scary Moon of Thorns

A bit later and it was lovely, still and cloud free, but then a few hours later the wind was howling.

Lit by moonlight:

And here she is:

The thing about whether it's spring or winter is determined strongly by a phenomenon called the hysteresis effect, where basically the response of a system lags the inputs that stimulate the response. In seasonal terms, it means that the weather lags the shortest and longest days by a good bit so the cold weather peak of winter might be upon us.

Since the birds don't cause the weather, I'm ignoring them.

All these pictures make me homesick.

I'm in Finland since 2010s

Here's a shot of the Garden.
-19 atm.

Heating on, fire going, I'm peeking out of the windows "the air out to get me" 😁