Winter 2025/26 - General Discussion

Is the forecast rain moving South East into Southern UK nothing of note over Ireland

Cold in a crisp SE breeze this morning in North Longford. So far we have had no rain and everywhere is dry. But i see a finger of rain is fast approaching on the radar, so it won't be long till it is wet here. Anyway managed to get stock fed and stay dry, off to the day job now.

heavy drizzle and a few heavy showers all yesterday evening in cork city, dry all morning so far. Some activity appearing now on radar, given the amount of coverage on this particular event interesting to see how heavy that will be

I can’t remember a worse winter in recent years. As runners in Ireland, we’re used to rain and usually just get on with it, but the recent combination of heavy winds and relentless, driving rain has been something else. It feels like it’s gone on for six weeks straight, broken only by a few v short interludes, like yesterday and Saturday.

Over in Lithuania we’ve had our first fresh snowfall since we arrived on Friday, about 5-6cm overnight and this morning to add to the 40-50cm of snow already on the ground…

Time to go for a walk down to the beach to see how it all looks and if it’s still frozen!

In normal times this ‘path’ is actually an elevated boardwalk, but now it’s well below the level of the snow on either side..

At almost every junction there are massive mounds of snow that have been there for weeks/months now..

And now to walk through the forest (on another boardwalk) to get to the beach.. snow on the ground isn’t as deep under the Pines

And then we see the sea, and it appears to be a lot more viscous than it was a few days ago…

And I see some more snow is coming…. so time to head back…

And then I realise I’m a red pepper short of our chicken enchiladas tonight, so time to clear the car of snow and head off and make snow tracks..

at least it’s a lot warmer than it was a few days ago…

Although this mornings snow shovelling efforts are appearing to be slowly undone by the very fine snow that’s falling..

And on the way back from the shop I was treated to a herd of wild deer legging it from something!!

We do see them regularly enough out the young lads window, but I’d never seen that many!!

The rain arrived about 20 mins after my first post. Heavy at times, but mostly light and mizzley.Its cold in the breeze too. We are replacing some roof sheets on a shed close to home today and the lads on the roof are fn freezing they tell me. They have rain gear on. I'm nicely enclosed in a heated cab driving the teleporter. I told them we can leave it if they like, but they're hardy souls. We can't sit at home every day they tell me.

Terrible day in Galway wet and cold is that line on radar approaching Galway a squall line or what ,worst of the weather appears to be further West and North.

looks like the Dublin radar is back up

Pretty much incessant heavy rain in Mid Louth for the last 6 hours with no sign of it easing. I'm at the coast so incredibly windy too at times.

very heavy downpours all of a sudden in cork city in the last half hour. Looking at net weather they Genuinly look to be appearing out of nowhere, developing just before hitting the city

Another sodden day here in Loughlinstown, 10.8mm recorded. Beat my January rainfall record this year, wouldn't be surprised to see the February record, 147.2mm, fall (13th year recording) too, 24mm short of it at the moment. In third place as is.

As a jogger, I've absolutely had enough of this wet spell by now.

Most recent day with zero rainfall recorded in Ireland was 29th December 2025.

That was amongst if not the strangest downpour of rain I've ever experienced here. Something was very off with it, far too intense.

Great photos. It's a case of sunny southwest this winter

it’s been pretty much pelting it down all day… probably 12-15cm… has fallen…

Ventured out to the garden for a look!!

My new boots have only touched snow…

And with darkness brings a blank canvas for my smart floodlight..