Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Another dull damp day yet again. At least from tomorrow our weather will start to get more mobile again and we wont continue to be stuck in this endless rut.

Awful morning up the road in D13, heavy drizzle and fog with very low visibility

The weather is Kerry has been decent all this time, compared to what I'm seeing and hearing from the East coast. Walking every day, hiking at the weekend, a few swims every week. Not wall to wall sunshine, but we really escaped the worst of the rain since Christmas. Cork seems to have got it much worse than Kerry.

However I was just thinking yesterday when I was out walking that this entire Winter in the part of Kerry I live in we have had just ONE morning where there was ice on the car! That's how mild this Winter has been. One frosty morning.

I miss the Winters of my childhood, and even my young adulthood……fresh cold weather from October onwards. Frosty mornings everyday , a lovely feeling and smell in the air, cold bright Winter sunshine, crisp leaves underfoot not wet mush, big roaring log fires, walking on icy ponds in our wellies listening to the cracks, neighbours checking on neighbours, a real "feel" of Christmas in the air in November and not because of Lidl/Aldi ads on TV promoting over eating.

Ah I know we all look back through rose tinted glasses and we genuinely knew cold in those days, but to me it was better. The seasons have changed beyond all recognition.

Lashing in D3 now. Mildest it's been in a while though.

Got lucky on my cycle in this morning with no rain whatsoever, but surprise surprise it's now belting down in Dublin, god forbid we might get a day off from this incessant rain. Very hard to be positive after over 6 weeks of constant rain.

Sunny this morning after some showers, North Wicklow. Really is nice ☀️

some sunshine here atm . At least we are now starting to move out of the rut we have been in for weeks. Might not always be great but at least something more normal.

Rain train here. One shower blends in to another.

M i s e r a b l e.

11° Meath

I mean it's pissing rain in Dublin right now too

Yeah the "start raining" part seems fairly inaccurate in that forecast given the phenomenon of "stop raining" hasn't really happened this past while

Pouring down here near the airport

A cold and snowy Sligo this week back in 1978

This is just brilliant altogether. The rain has been pumping into the East from the Irish Sea for weeks , and guess what, it's going to start pumping into the West from the Atlantic now.

Will March provide us with a prolonged dry spell ? 🤔