Ave temperature jump

vandriver · 17-05-2016 11:50am #1

April averaged 6.2°c in Dublin Airport,and May so far is averaging 11.1°c,an increase of 4.9°c.
If this continues will it be a record jump month on month for Ireland?

pauldry · 17-05-2016 1:46pm

I wouldnt think so

Surely in the really cold Winters we saw bigger differentials but it would be interesting to know

sryanbruen · 17-05-2016 4:43pm

vandriver wrote: »

April averaged 6.2°c in Dublin Airport,and May so far is averaging 11.1°c,an increase of 4.9°c.
If this continues will it be a record jump month on month for Ireland?

In Spring maybe but all-time record, no.

My highest jump (from negative to positive, not positive to negative since I call that a drop) for my station Grange is:

April 1989: 4.2c (my coldest April on record)
May 1989: 12.1c

Increase: +7.9c

Oneiric 3 · 17-05-2016 9:05pm

vandriver wrote: »

April averaged 6.2°c in Dublin Airport,and May so far is averaging 11.1°c,an increase of 4.9°c.
If this continues will it be a record jump month on month for Ireland?

Biggest month on month mean temp jump I can find for Dublin Apt is 5.3c from April to May 1970.

April mean temp that year: 7.1c
May mean temp that year: 12.4c

From met.ie.

Kingswood Rover · 19-05-2016 8:16am

Interesing stuff guys, the recent heatwave in India seemed mental for the time of year are we getting close to an event when excessive heat is going make parts of our planet uninhabitable for certain times of the year for large populations of people and/or such whensuch heat is going to kill thousands in a sort space of time ie a few days. i think it is only after a series of events like this are we as a species going to take human influenced climate change more seriously.

sryanbruen · 19-05-2016 4:58pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Biggest month on month mean temp jump I can find for Dublin Apt is 5.3c from April to May 1970.

April mean temp that year: 7.1c
May mean temp that year: 12.4c

From met.ie.

Where did you get stats from before 1985 on Met Éireann's site?

Supercell · 20-05-2016 7:04am

sryanbruen wrote: »

Where did you get stats from before 1985 on Met Éireann's site?

Maybe not where Oneiric 3 got it, but can highly recommend "The Climate Of Dublin" - http://www.met.ie/publications/books.asp , data is a bit old now (published in 1983), but data set goes back a long way and has just about every stat imaginable for about every location in Dublin where people have measured the weather. Mine is a well read tome!

Ave temperature jump

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