Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

Gonzo · 22-02-2021 1:48pm

another beautiful day here in Meath, mild and plenty of sunshine. I can hear the first lawnmower of the season going in the distance.

Kunta Kinte · 22-02-2021 2:07pm

Gonzo wrote: »

another beautiful day here in Meath, mild and plenty of sunshine. I can hear the first lawnmower of the season going in the distance.

I thought you said last week that all the lawns and fields in your area were waterlogged. Have they already dried out enough so that mowers can be used?

Gonzo · 22-02-2021 2:15pm

Kunta Kinte wrote: »

I thought you said last week that all the lawns and fields in your area were waterlogged. Have they already dried out enough so that mowers can be used?

not all the area is saturated only certain parts of it. My garden has dried out alot since the cold spell. It started to get wet again when the mild weather came in but this weekend brought great drying conditions will all the mild and sunshine. However we may be back to square one by Thursday if the rain is bad tomorrow into Thursday. After Thursday hopefully we get at least one solid week without rain, that would go along way at solving the parts that are still fairly saturated.

Thelonious Monk · 22-02-2021 4:30pm

Yeah I was thinking of mowing today but I think I'll leave it till next week. Looks like we'll get plenty of rain in Dublin although we never seem to get as much as anywhere else. 14c tomorrow, sizzling!

appledrop · 22-02-2021 7:02pm

What an absolutely beautiful day.

No trips to park for me as very busy day working but my son was able to play out the back for most of day which was brilliant.

Reminded me of last year's good weather during lockdown but I doubt it will last!

Cluedo Monopoly · 22-02-2021 7:47pm

appledrop wrote: »

What an absolutely beautiful day.

No trips to park for me as very busy day working but my son was able to play out the back for most of day which was brilliant.

Reminded me of last year's good weather during lockdown but I doubt it will last!

Lovely day and next weekend will be lovely too. Looks like a load of dry bright days from Friday.

Unfortunately rain coming now. Lots of it. I can see it on the radar.

Oscar Bravo · 22-02-2021 11:01pm

A nice forecast on the bbc long range forecast there. After tuesdays and wednesdays rain it settles down with light winds and dry weather. temps in and around 11/12 degrees.

Thelonious Monk · 23-02-2021 3:39pm

Feels warm in Dublin, think it's 14c here. Hasn't rained much but been very blustery. This could be a day in June or July that I'd definitely be posting about here in foul humour because our summers are so sh*te.

Gonzo · 23-02-2021 3:41pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Feels warm in Dublin, think it's 14c here. Hasn't rained much but been very blustery. This could be a day in June or July that I'd definitely be posting about here in foul humour because our summer are so sh*te.

The majority of July 2020 and several days in August 2020 werent any milder than today and filled with rain or mist as well.

appledrop · 23-02-2021 7:39pm

We definitely had plentiful of days in June 2020 that were not much warmer than today.

It didn't feel mild to me today but I will admit I was only outside for about 5 minutes going into the shop!

I think it's just because it's so damp and windy so feels more miserable even though mild.

KanyeSouthEast · 24-02-2021 3:48pm

Dreadful day in the sunny south east again. Raining most of the day.

Gonzo · 24-02-2021 4:16pm

not a bad day here in Meath, dry for the most part but cloudy and feeling fairly cool.

Parts of eastern England are hitting 17 and 18C today and a taste of early summer there!.

esposito · 24-02-2021 4:21pm

Gonzo wrote: »

not a bad day here in Meath, dry for the most part but cloudy and feeling fairly cool.

Parts of eastern England are hitting 17 and 18C today and a taste of early summer there!.

Nice and bright here in Dublin 16. Still quite cloudy though. The beginning of this dry settled spell at long last.

Kutebride · 24-02-2021 5:07pm

Not a bad day in Meath. Overcast and dry for the most part until now.
Raining now. The poor lawn isnt getting a chance to dry out.

DOCARCH · 24-02-2021 5:45pm

Lovely late morning/afternoon in Dublin 16....but....just looked at radar and that will change soon!

Gonzo · 24-02-2021 5:55pm

rain back here too, just when I thought it was all over for a week or so.

nacho libre · 24-02-2021 6:14pm

A few heavy showers last night and this morning, it has been dry since then.

Goldfinch8 · 24-02-2021 7:54pm

It dried out nicely alright here near Castlebar as the day wore on. With the strong wind gone of the previous few days, this evening had a lovely soft nature to it with more than a whiff of early spring about it. The skies cleared nicely in the late afternoon and there were some pretty pastel shades of oranges and pinks in the sky as the day drew to a close.
With the birds still chattering well after sunset, it was one of those evenings where it was hard to drag myself inside from the garden. A few more settled days like this would be great.

Graces7 · 24-02-2021 8:22pm

highdef wrote: »

It's ???? Mother Nature, who? ???you need to embrace her and not call her "nasty"

Hmmmm. Interesting misreading/misattribution. lol....

The breeze, which is what I was referring to, was nasty, wherever it came from. Very nasty indeed.

The wind alone knows where it comes from and where it is going. We just get in the way of it

Calmer and milder today and the rain not as heavy or frequent.

The daffodil leaves are growing fast and the first shoots of chickweed are breaking through. And barely cold enough to need the turf fire .

The ocean at the back of me changes mood many times a day,, calm silent to rhythms of white capped tide and winds. Wondrously expressing the changes of mood and wind many times a day. Rocks crashing at high tide,....

And daylight slowly lasting longer each day now.

Early and late extending its gentle kindness with the small signs and promises of spring and summer to come...

Much offline now until Easter. Stay safe.

Graces7 · 24-02-2021 8:23pm

nacho libre wrote: »

A few heavy showers last night and this morning, it has been dry since then.

A couple of fast heavy showers out here.

windows 7 home premium · 24-02-2021 10:26pm

Another wet day here, really looking forward to the dry weather that is forecast. Could do with a break from all this cloud and rain. West wexford.

appledrop · 24-02-2021 10:32pm

Good forecast there for high pressure for rest of week according to Met Eireann.

Emme · 25-02-2021 4:04am

windows 7 home premium wrote: »

Another wet day here, really looking forward to the dry weather that is forecast. Could do with a break from all this cloud and rain. West wexford.

I'm not holding my breath. Monday was the only day in the last few weeks it didn't rain in South Kildare. The promised improvement in the weather keeps being pushed forward one day at a time. We got that guff last summer and all it did was rain.

appledrop · 25-02-2021 12:02pm

An absolutely beautiful spring morning here in NCD, not a cloud in the sky, birds singing away to their hearts content.

Meteorite58 · 25-02-2021 5:35pm

Good sunny spells today here in Kerry, small sprinkle of rain a short time ago but otherwise a great day.

Got up to 11.2C and 8.9C atm

Cold night in store, touch of frost in places.

NASA Sat Pic from earlier today. Just noticed on the Sat pic what looks like darker water run off from the rivers into the sea in the S and SE

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circadian · 25-02-2021 5:39pm

Anyone else catch that short but heavy hail shower in North Dublin? Sunny skies and hailstones.

25-02-2021 6:09pm

Grr. The weekend gets cloudy and then sunny again on Monday.

Good news. Only 4 weeks from Sunday and the sunset is close ~8pm. Roll on summertime.

nacho libre · 25-02-2021 7:19pm

I am looking forward to some frosty and foggy mornings over the weekend.

Goldfinch8 · 25-02-2021 9:14pm

A mainly bright, cool and fresh day in Central Mayo. We had a few passing showers earlier in the day including a fairly sharp one of hail during the early afternoon. Finished off with a nice sunset though.

Oneiric 3 · 26-02-2021 8:21am

Spread out contrail on the far eastern horizon this morning. Either from an earlier flight going into (or out of) Dublin Apt or even Manchester. Hard to judge.

Artane2002 · 26-02-2021 9:37am

it's such a great morning in Dublin 5, clear skies and frosty, pretty much the best possible combination if there isn't going to be snow. I wasn't expecting the frost since over the last few years, my area has generally stayed frost-free (excluding this winter of course).

26-02-2021 9:51am

Gorgeous morning here too
Nicer than during the 'cold spell'

https://twitter.com/Arklowweather/status/1365215727670673409?s=19

Thelonious Monk · 26-02-2021 10:04am

Joyous in D5, no wind and sun splitting the sky. Off for a run now in the park, reminds me of last Spring.

KanyeSouthEast · 26-02-2021 10:28am

Beautiful morning also here lovely light in the early morning sky. Is tomorrow looking gloomy though as per ME last night?

Thelonious Monk · 26-02-2021 11:35am

Kermit.de.frog · 26-02-2021 2:04pm

Really beautiful day in Dublin.

Sunny, temp 9c, calm here.

highdef · 26-02-2021 2:11pm

Was sunny earlier with light winds but it's mostly cloudy now with a fresh breeze in North Kildare.

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Sunny, temp 9c, calm here.

You must be very sheltered at your location, Kermit, as mean winds at nearby Dublin airport are around 25 km/h for the past few hours. And looking at some of the traffic cameras around the M50, clouds are building fairly quickly so your sunny/clear sky conditions are probably already gone as I type.

Thelonious Monk · 26-02-2021 3:02pm

Just got my grass cut, praise the Lord.

Darwin · 26-02-2021 5:57pm

Tried to cut mine earlier, but was still very wet after a heavy frost overnight. Need a good warm southerly to dry out the land.

Tyrone212 · 26-02-2021 6:45pm

I came across this earlier. Found it interesting.

Elmer Blooker · 27-02-2021 12:21pm

20 years ago today saw what I always think is the 'forgotten' snowfall which is strange as the 00s were snowless except for a bit of slush at xmas '04 and a dusting I think in Feb '09.
Monday the 26th was a very wet day in eastern areas with a low over the Irish Sea, in the evening the low drifted SE dragging in very cold air and the rain turned to snow. This was the only occasion that I can remember seeing rain turning to snow in Ireland, of course snow turning to rain is as common as muck! It is a myth that snow will not stick because the ground is too wet, if the air temperature drops to freezing or below snow will lie immediately.
I can remember recording temperatures as low as -8c after the fall and only around 2c by day in dazzling sunshine, snow lay in places that had shade around noon for the best part of a week.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0227/12848-snow/
https://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/archives/archives.php?day=28&month=2&year=2001&hour=0&type=ncep&map=1&type=ncep&region=&mode=0

Rebelbrowser · 27-02-2021 1:26pm

Tyrone212 wrote: »

I came across this earlier. Found it interesting.

Forgive my stupidity but what is that showing?

Rebelbrowser · 27-02-2021 1:27pm

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

20 years ago today saw what I always think is the 'forgotten' snowfall which is strange as the 00s were snowless except for a bit of slush at xmas '04 and a dusting I think in Feb '09.
Monday the 26th was a very wet day in eastern areas with a low over the Irish Sea, in the evening the low drifted SE dragging in very cold air and the rain turned to snow. This was the only occasion that I can remember seeing rain turning to snow in Ireland, of course snow turning to rain is as common as muck! It is a myth that snow will not stick because the ground is too wet, if the air temperature drops to freezing or below snow will lie immediately.
I can remember recording temperatures as low as -8c after the fall and only around 2c by day in dazzling sunshine, snow lay in places that had shade around noon for the best part of a week.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0227/12848-snow/
https://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/archives/archives.php?day=28&month=2&year=2001&hour=0&type=ncep&map=1&type=ncep&region=&mode=0

I remember it Elmer. Was living in Dublin at the time. Gerry Ryan was playing Christmas songs the following morning on 2FM

highdef · 27-02-2021 1:34pm

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Forgive my stupidity but what is that showing?

The jpeg pretty much tells you everything by way of the explanation of what is in the graphs. UVB is the ultraviolet radiation that causes sunburn/cancers and the bigger the numbers, the more UVB that is present. So the graphs show that there is quite a disparity regarding the amount of UVB reaching ground level between the north and south of the country and to a lesser extent, the west and east.

Entering "UVB" into a search engine such as Google will tell you everything you want to know about UVB.

Tyrone212 · 27-02-2021 3:49pm

Rebelbrowser wrote: »

Forgive my stupidity but what is that showing?

I see highdef already answered. It was from a study on vitamin d in Ireland. Link below.

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/irish-winter-sunshine-important-for-our-vitamin-d-levels-study-shows/

Nqp15hhu · 27-02-2021 5:11pm

65 mm of rainfall here this month. Just about average, but most of the month has been rain free. Infact about 2mm of that rain was from frost. The grass around here is still brown from the cold spell and has not recovered.

Gonzo · 27-02-2021 5:26pm

More lawnmowers on the go today in the local area. Will get around to giving my lawn it's first cut of the season next week before any potential unsettled weather comes back. The garden hasn't been this dry since the beginning of June despite over 100mm of rain here during January and February. All the wind and mild temperatures of the past 2 weeks has been great at drying out the saturated land, something that wasn't possible throughout most of the summer, Autumn and Winter.

mcburns07 · 27-02-2021 8:44pm

Stunning evening in East Cork, not a breathe of wind.

Gaoth Laidir · 28-02-2021 1:18am

Gonzo wrote: »

More lawnmowers on the go today in the local area. Will get around to giving my lawn it's first cut of the season next week before any potential unsettled weather comes back. The garden hasn't been this dry since the beginning of June despite over 100mm of rain here during January and February. All the wind and mild temperatures of the past 2 weeks has been great at drying out the saturated land, something that wasn't possible throughout most of the summer, Autumn and Winter.

I got my first cut done today.

JCX BXC · 28-02-2021 1:27am

Went out on the sand banks at 10 this morning, lovely sunny morning in West Clare, not a breeze to be felt. Sadly it had become overcast by midday, but was a fantastic morning.

Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

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