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Spring Weather 2016

sryanbruen

The milder weather towards next weekend is giving me Spring vibes! What does everybody think what Spring will give to us?

A Spring like 2007 / 11?

OR

A Spring like 2006 / 13?

My predictions

March - Very dull, cold and wet. - Dullest March on record
April - Very cold, dull and wet. Potential cold snap. - Coldest April on record and maybe dullest in over 24 years
May - Average temperatures but sunny and dry. - Nothing remarkable

^ I hope not! LOL

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Meteorite58

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Terrible wind chill there.

At one stage around 14.45 the temp dropped during a huge hail shower from 9.2C to 5.6C in blustery wind ( getting up over 60 kph ) giving a wind chill of 1.1C.

4.6C now after another hail and rain shower with a wind chill of -0.6

Even so the sun continues to get strong. Got a Solar Radiation reading of 912W/m² and UV of 4.2 , plenty strong to give a good colour. Noticed today that the wet roads dried up very quickly after the showers , refueling the atmosphere of course

lapua20grain

was sitting in my office about 2ish looking out the window and saw the mother and father of all showers, rain with a sleety mix very dark skies

Clonmel1000

Terrible wind chill there.

sryanbruen

Wow temperatures of only 6-8c during the weekend coming and I predicted 14.0c on the 10th in the Boards contest,

:pac::D

coconnellz

In cavan meath border temps plumeted to 3.0c rain turning sleety

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It's like mid-February out there now.

Roll on next week.

sryanbruen

Carnacalla wrote: »

This morning started out overcast, a shower of rain even pushed through around 8am! Clouds dispersed through the afternoon giving sunny spells and then an extended period of sunshine from 3:30pm (ish) to 6pm. Got cloudier since then, now its a horrible light drizzle/rain with poor visibility and truly miserable.

Daily max 14.6c.

It has been truly pleasant here all day up to 13.9c (not as high as yours though) - I bet you're jealous now LOL.

JCX BXC

This morning started out overcast, a shower of rain even pushed through around 8am! Clouds dispersed through the afternoon giving sunny spells and then an extended period of sunshine from 3:30pm (ish) to 6pm. Got cloudier since then, now its a horrible light drizzle/rain with poor visibility and truly miserable.

Daily max 14.6c.

Meteorite58

Well, in for an unsettled spell of weather over the next few days. Talking of the unstable air on the very informative weather forecast last night producing Cb's with thunderstorms and hail over the next few days , cameras at the ready!

Blustery day tomorrow right into Thurs morning.

Wintry weather over the week end after the fronts go through on Fri with a very cold Fri night / Sat morning according to the GFS

sryanbruen

Knock Airport recorded 110 hours in March (121% of its LTA). Wow, this has been a long time since it recorded way above its average this high (well without April 2015).

2014 was previously its dullest year on record before 2015 came which was even duller. Man it's shocking to see this now.

sryanbruen

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

.... but winter 78/79 was a good one
Jan 2nd 1979 recorded the lowest official temperature of the 20th century in Ireland, -18.8c at Lullymore, Co Kildare.

'fraid not.

Look on the positive side!

Recent colder than normal Aprils and the Summers that followed them

2015 (well April was pretty variable really) - Summer was meh.. pretty average
2013 - Epic Summer, one of the better ones.
2012 - Worst Summer I have experienced (though 1986 is the worst in Grange's records...)
2000 - A grand Summer, wasn't remarkably great but wasn't very bad either! It was a good Summer to experience as a whole.
1998 - Horrible June & July with an alright August - so a bad Summer
1994 - Exceptionally dull and cool Summer - one of the worst

WOW... I expected more than that. Only 2013 and 2000?

Well Spring meanwhile

2015 - Summer was meh (as I said above)
2013 - Again... epic Summer
2006 - Summer was my favourite ever
2005 - Summer was alright... nothing remarkably decent but wasn't terribly bad
2004 (some might have mixed opinions on this Spring) - Like 2005, wasn't terribly bad
2002 - Man... dullest Summer I ever experienced

And there we go, there's the positives, only one recent bad one in this list!

Elmer Blooker

sryanbruen wrote: »

Well the only one I know about from the above list is that April 1978 was followed by what was a "poor" or "very average Summer"

.... but winter 78/79 was a good one

Jan 2nd 1979 recorded the lowest official temperature of the 20th century in Ireland, -18.8c at Lullymore, Co Kildare.

Any of those lead to anything resembling a summer?

'fraid not.

sryanbruen

Well I can happily say now that Grange has finally had its first pleasant day of this April so far (4 consecutive miserable days before).

sryanbruen

jack o shea wrote: »

Any of those lead to anything resembling a summer?

Well the only one I know about from the above list is that April 1978 was followed by what was a "poor" or "very average Summer" - something like 2015.

jack o shea

Any of those lead to anything resembling a summer?

Elmer Blooker

Its looking on the cold side for the first half of April and I think we are in for one of those rare occurrences when April will be colder than December, obviously it only happens after a very mild December and has only happened five time since records began in 1855 at the Phoenix Park.
Dec 1857 8.8c April 1858 8.2c
Dec 1905 7.4c April 1906 6.2c
Dec 1921 7.4c April 1922 4.6c
Dec 1934 8.5c April 1935 7.3c
Dec 1977 6.6c April 1978 6.5c
Dec 2015 9.0c April ?

JCX BXC

Another beautiful afternoon/evening here in West Clare. Started off the morning with a very dense fog, less than 100m up to 9am, thinned fairly quickly thereafter and had turned into a faint mist/haze by 11am. Cloudy at first after the fog lifted, but sunny spells became more frequent and they sky was relatively cloudless by 5pm. High of 15.6c according to the weather station.

Schadenfreudia

Yet another dull wet day...it seemed to be raining all the time, yet the total so far is only 2.6mm.

Proving you don't need very much rain to make a miserable day

sryanbruen

NMB wrote: »

Spring sucks.

Spring is actually the best season. Springs like 2006, 2013, 2016 suck bro.

Oscar Bravo

Very spring like here in castlebar with good sunshine all afternoon in just light winds. 12 degrees. 1003 - steady

NMB

Spring sucks.

kingshankly

jambofc wrote: »

after being stuck in for 3 days the lads are back in school and its a lovely sunny day :rolleyes:

Lashing down here on the east coast

jambofc

after being stuck in for 3 days the lads are back in school and its a lovely sunny day :rolleyes:

JCX BXC

The squall disbanded before reaching west clare, there is rain to the north and south of me though!

After an exceptionally wet Friday, I haven't seen any rain since.

Oscar Bravo

anyone with clear skies the ISS is passing over between 2103-2108 tonight, magnitude of -2.6. so its going to be a really bright one.

Meteorite58

sumtings wrote: »

Does anyone know what caused the line of heavy rain from Killarney to Aeskeaton to form in 30 mins?

Took this picture about 18.15 ,looking towards the Killarney direction, from the Kerry coast near Ardfert showing some big Cumulonimbus. I see sferics showed up around East Kerry in the late afternoon.

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Much cloudier hear now except over the sea.

Rock Lesnar

Gonzo wrote: »

finally stopped raining after close to 72 hours of almost continuous rain and drizzle. The past 3 days have been horrendous. Plenty of waterlogged fields and roads half flooded.

Did you not get a break from it friday evening til saturday morning around 11, im near slane and we got a break, its been raining non stop since then though.

Gonzo

finally stopped raining after close to 72 hours of almost continuous rain and drizzle. The past 3 days have been horrendous. Plenty of waterlogged fields and roads half flooded.

mickger844posts

55.9mm of rain here in the first 3 days of April. Had just a little over that for the entire month last year.

www.waterfordcityweather.com

JCX BXC

Can see it from the window, very dark in that direction. There's a brisk northwesterly breeze blowing towards it here in West Clare, but it seems to be slowly edging closer.