Spring 2021 General Discussion

1pm met reports May 4th

Ballyhaise just 4 degrees. Thats brutal

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

1pm met reports May 4th

Ballyhaise just 4 degrees. Thats brutal

Worth keeping it on the records:

Heavy hail showers now the last 2 hours or so really nasty. We’d a week almost of nice weather albeit a bit windy but as always we’re paying for that now in spades. I know our summer is really between the June and August bank holiday but you’d hope things would pick up soon as this is dreadful.

Blustery and cold with the sun coming out every now and again and showers forecast, I hate this kind of weather! This is how I imagine normal summer days in Ireland except a few degrees warmer. Hoping for a settled spell soon.

A snowy scene at Ponderosa restaurant, Derry , altitude 288m this morning.

The sun is as high and as strong today as it would be on August 6th believe it or not, and when sheltered from the wind, you'd know it. But once it goes behind the clouds again, it feels more like March 6th. It is the classic sort of 'summer in the sun; winter in the shade' sort of day.

Tyrone212 wrote: »

A snowy scene at Ponderosa restaurant, Derry , altitude 288m this morning.

Is that a red Focus I see?

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

Is that a red Focus I see?

Took me a minute to get it haha

While I appreciate the lovely descriptive language being used can I just say for someone who likes nice dry warm sunny summer weather this is horrible. It’s cold it’s breezy it’s rain/hailing it’s unpleasant and honestly if this is a sign of our summer God help anyone with the outdoor summer lark we are being sold!

PowerToWait wrote: »

I’d rather have summer weather in summer and wet spring.

True but the danger is we get a wet spring and no summer. Would just like it to warm up a bit. It was 4.5 degrees during one of the showers earlier that’s just wrong!

KanyeSouthEast wrote: »

While I appreciate the lovely descriptive language being used can I just say for someone who likes nice dry warm sunny summer weather this is horrible. It’s cold it’s breezy it’s rain/hailing it’s unpleasant and honestly if this is a sign of our summer God help anyone with the outdoor summer lark we are being sold!

As much as I love warm (25° - 30° every day for a couple of months would be heaven for me.....wrong country to be living in for that though!) and sunny summer weather above anything else, we have only just entered the final month of Spring so the weather of late, although still cold for the time of year, is typical April showers type weather, albeit ever so slightly later than usual. In fact, the showery weather often associated with April very often overspills into May.

You question whether the weather we are experiencing lately is a sign of what is to come during the summer months. Well, quite often we get stuck in a pattern of similar weather and it often lasts for weeks on end, if not a few months. Take last year, for example. April and May were generally gorgeous and then once we got a few days into summer, we entered the most miserable summer in quite a while especially with regards to sunshine.

Better than normal summers quite often follow poor Springs and worse than normal summers quite often follow good Springs. Of course, this is not a rule, it's simply a result of us often getting stuck in a similar pattern of weather for a long period of time before flipping to something quite different.

Now I'm not saying that this upcoming summer is going to be one to remember (for the right reasons) but I am saying that going by the weather of late combined with the poor weather forecast in the short to medium term, it would not surprise me one bit if we had a flip to high pressure/warm settled weather sometime in June (maybe slightly after, maybe before), with the weather remaining generally settled for a good while after that.

It would be unusual, based on past years, to have a poor summer following a poor Spring.

highdef wrote: »

we have only just entered the final month of Spring so the weather of late, although still cold for the time of year, is typical April showers type weather, albeit ever so slightly later than usual. In fact, the showery weather often associated with April very often overspills into May.

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I've never really understood this 'April showers' thing, because that implies that showers are exclusive to April. I think most of us, in the west at least, would agree that showers are a year wide occurrence, with the most brutish of them tending to occur in the winter months.

highdef wrote: »

As much as I love warm (25° - 30° every day for a couple of months would be heaven for me.....wrong country to be living in for that though!) and sunny summer weather above anything else, we have only just entered the final month of Spring so the weather of late, although still cold for the time of year, is typical April showers type weather, albeit ever so slightly later than usual. In fact, the showery weather often associated with April very often overspills into May.

You question whether the weather we are experiencing lately is a sign of what is to come during the summer months. Well, quite often we get stuck in a pattern of similar weather and it often lasts for weeks on end, if not a few months. Take last year, for example. April and May were generally gorgeous and then once we got a few days into summer, we entered the most miserable summer in quite a while especially with regards to sunshine.

Better than normal summers quite often follow poor Springs and worse than normal summers quite often follow good Springs. Of course, this is not a rule, it's simply a result of us often getting stuck in a similar pattern of weather for a long period of time before flipping to something quite different.

Now I'm not saying that this upcoming summer is going to be one to remember (for the right reasons) but I am saying that going by the weather of late combined with the poor weather forecast in the short to medium term, it would not surprise me one bit if we had a flip to high pressure/warm settled weather sometime in June (maybe slightly after, maybe before), with the weather remaining generally settled for a good while after that.

It would be unusual, based on past years, to have a poor summer following a poor Spring.

I’m with you on this. I remember May 2013 & May 2014 being very showery and the summers that followed were very good. It’s not a rule of course but in my opinion it bodes well for a good summer. A bold prediction I’m making is a warm/ settled June extending into most of July followed by an unsettled August ( nothing new there).

That wasn't the worst of days here, only caught the edge of a few showers that barely wet the ground. Spoke to a few people earlier who were caught in big hail showers.
Cold out though, down to 3c already.
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks tonight with up to 10-20 per hour later in the night,wrap up if heading out.