Spring 2026 - General Discussion

The chill is gone out of the air anyway and wind seems to have changed direction to whatever it was playing at the last few weeks. Much nicer jog in that breeze today and house doesn't feel cold.

Also welcome our new fluffy residents to the Tolka

68mm so far in May now. Wont stay under 100mm so it will be the 11th wet month in a row in Sligo. Last warm spell of any note was late May last year and a couple of days in June last year.. here anyway. It rains nearly every single day now. Is this the new normal in NW.

absolutely crazy rain fell a while ago near Trim, you know when they say the heavens opened, well the heavens literally opened, like a sheet of rain falling!

And another shower of similar intensity is just arriving now.

Finner camp had its hottest recorded temperature last July although the station hasn’t been open that long. Just under 30c if I remember right. It's coastal and very close to Sligo.

After a miserable day it has cleared up here in the past 20 minutes to bright sunshine :)

At least temperatures will begin to rise as the days go on and next week with low to mid 20s

I’m excited for the heat wave :)

Dull, damp and murky morning in north Longford. 12c with sky's starting to brighten somewhat now. I might get a bit of work done today.

such a bad summer surely one of our worst if not the worst in decades . June 2012 was particularly depressing with the Irish team doing poorly in the Euros and the never ending rain.

same lol

It wasn’t really.

It’s a classic mistake of warmer weather = automatically good (sun etc). Lots of cloud and some rain/drizzle about has been forecast for the earlier parts of this week.

Yesterday into today was the beginning of the warming period. Today should hit 17/18c in Dublin. It’s getting better and better as the week goes on and into the weekend.

There is some proper May heat on some of the models for England. Some gorgeous runs for us too. We are just getting going. The high pressure due overhead by the weekend isn’t effecting us yet, so today was never going to be sun splitting the stones, just warmer air arriving. We still have a low pressure to our NW currently, with the high nudging in closer to Friday.

Sit tight, some really good (even hot) weather is approaching.

Just for fun - the GEM has it hitting 30c in parts of the midlands Monday to Wednesday next week.