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Early glimspe of summer from Thursday

  • 04-04-2011 4:12pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    Continental high pressure pushing north over the UK/Ireland looks like bringing a very happy mix of blue skies and temps in the high teens. Could 20 get nudged in the flats lands of Laois/Offaly? Bring it on :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    I'd say it will get quite close to 20 in parts even before Thursday.

    The weekend and early next week could be even better... :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    I think it will get to to 20C here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭GSF


    so no snow then? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    We've been spoiled already over the past month with the weather, warm, at least a few hours of sunshine most days and very little rain. Hopefully a sign of things to come for the summer months


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Itll be dry and warm up to midmonth but cooler and unsettled then


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭200motels




  • Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭shamcfc


    great the lawn mower will be out:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    200motels wrote: »

    Just fcuk off! :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭aurora 527


    GSF wrote: »
    so no snow then? :D

    LOL.. Even as a true snow lover.. i say bring on the blue skies and the sun!!
    :):):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭pauldry


    slight slight slight slight chance of snow midmonth on mountain tops

    keep an eye on the forecasts but high could win out and this would be nonsense


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    pauldry wrote: »
    Itll be dry and warm up to midmonth but cooler and unsettled then

    That's a given considering the Easter holidays don't start till the 15th. My long range weather forecast for the Summer is as follows.


    Starting the 15th April, I forecast 2+ weeks of not just cooler and unsettled weather but downright cold with morning to evening rain... it'll warm up every night and the rain will stop but will start again at 8am. There will be some breaks in the weather where the rain will stop and blue skies will appear...probably for about two hours at a time. Just enough time for optimists to pack up the kids and head to the nearest beach only to find it shrouded in fog and persistent rain coming in from the hidden sea. When they return home it will be raining but they will be told by the neighbours that they missed several hours of blazing sunshine.

    However, we can look forward to a sudden return of the Summer weather on Tuesday, 3rd May, waking up to bright blue, cloudless skies with a gold sun heating us up to a good 18-22 degrees. It will take a downturn again from the evening of the 7th May but be sure that it brighten up again on 9th May. This pattern of 5 days of dry and sunny weather alternating with 2 days of sometimes artic cold and heavy rain will continue until the end of June when we will have 8 weeks of unrelenting drizzle and grey skies with the odd unremarkable storm.

    The first week in September will be an excellent time to holiday in Ireland as sunshine is guaranteed.

    That's the way it usually goes. :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭TimMac


    Any of this based on fact or is it just you opinion?
    (not being a smartass, getting married on the 30th of April :eek:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    I'm pretty sure its just tongue in cheek based on school holidays :D It always used to feel that way at school, I remember back doing my leaving cert and there was blazing sunshine for 2 weeks

    Nobody can do any more than take a reasonable guess for the end of the month at this stage but for the next two weeks at least its looking warm and calm from Thursday onwards, no real breakdown on the gfs right up to the 20th


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Summer term exams nearly always were warm and sunny I remember, and September is always the most settled month in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Harps wrote: »
    We've been spoiled already over the past month with the weather, warm, at least a few hours of sunshine most days and very little rain. Hopefully a sign of things to come for the summer months

    some rain on 57 out of 95 days this year (is that spoilt ?)

    can you tell i got a weather station for xmas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Well, January and March were both far drier than usual, February was the complete opposite but especially throughout March it was warm and settled for the most part. Thats about as good as we can hope for usually


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    pauldry wrote: »
    Itll be dry and warm up to midmonth but cooler and unsettled then

    When you say mid month, do you include the 16th of April?
    Im getting married that day. It would be sickening to see the weather break just in time for my wedding! :(


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    16th looks like a good day for a white wedding :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    16th looks like a good day for a white wedding :)

    I wouldnt mind a white wedding myself, but I dont think she would like it ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    my car said 20 degrees today at palmerstown on the n4, very muggy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    That's a given considering the Easter holidays don't start till the 15th. My long range weather forecast for the Summer is as follows.


    Starting the 15th April, I forecast 2+ weeks of not just cooler and unsettled weather but downright cold with morning to evening rain... it'll warm up every night and the rain will stop but will start again at 8am. There will be some breaks in the weather where the rain will stop and blue skies will appear...probably for about two hours at a time. Just enough time for optimists to pack up the kids and head to the nearest beach only to find it shrouded in fog and persistent rain coming in from the hidden sea. When they return home it will be raining but they will be told by the neighbours that they missed several hours of blazing sunshine.

    However, we can look forward to a sudden return of the Summer weather on Tuesday, 3rd May, waking up to bright blue, cloudless skies with a gold sun heating us up to a good 18-22 degrees. It will take a downturn again from the evening of the 7th May but be sure that it brighten up again on 9th May. This pattern of 5 days of dry and sunny weather alternating with 2 days of sometimes artic cold and heavy rain will continue until the end of June when we will have 8 weeks of unrelenting drizzle and grey skies with the odd unremarkable storm.

    The first week in September will be an excellent time to holiday in Ireland as sunshine is guaranteed.

    That's the way it usually goes. :(
    TimMac wrote: »
    Any of this based on fact or is it just you opinion?
    (not being a smartass, getting married on the 30th of April :eek:)

    Joking, but many a true word spoken in jest. :D


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Thermo reading 20 here in Athlone. Very close here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Anyone got sun?


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Yep, hazy sunshine here, the odd break in the haze. Very nice to be out in :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    mike65 wrote: »
    Anyone got sun?
    yeah mike sun came out early afternoon,lovley out there,warm with slight breeze :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Finally out here, but its blowing a gale with it, so not warm at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭je55ie


    Lovely day here, really nice in the afternoon with warm sunshine


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭Su Campu


    Max today 18.6C at Shannon, 17.9C at Dublin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    fceking low cloud :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    Drizzle in Dublin this morning - who was the tit who started this tread? :)


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,154 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Yeah, light rain and drizzle here. 11.4c atm. Definitely an early glimpse of an Irish summer! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,708 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    Is this summer version of a darkman winter thread :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Well it took its flipping time but at about 3 pm it cleared and it felt like summer for a couple of hours. The BBC forecast looked like same again tomorrow for the south while RTE didn't suggest any such thing, either way it won't last Saturday front will kill the temps. Boo!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Harps


    Next week is looking a lot worse now as well, wind and rain from Monday onwards

    Today was lovely here, unbroken sunshine all day but quite cool with a strong breeze so it definitely didnt feel like a proper summers day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,962 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    I must admit I really enjoyed the warm sunshine today. it's a pity to hear the fine weather is going to break down so soon, but hopefully it will be only temporary


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    I must admit I really enjoyed the warm sunshine today. it's a pity to hear the fine weather is going to break down so soon, but hopefully it will be only temporary
    :eek::eek: ok who hacked nacho's profile,doesnt sound like him :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭patneve2


    Atlantic coasts Ireland's 'hotspots' once again. Valentia 21c and Belmullet 20c (reason:warm offshore breezes). IWN reporting many +20c in the Kildare area too (SEasterly breeze warming up as it blows over the Wicklow mountains). Here in Dalkey my best guesstimate would be about 12/13/14c hazy sunshine and damn breeze blowing off the cold Irish sea cooling things down. Still feels pleasant in the sun though!

    Enjoy the sun!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    Lovely here, tis a summers day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭lolie


    A lad could get used to this weather, still nippy out at night though. Pity it's nearly at an end. Would i be right in saying the haze today was the sand from the sahara? There looked to be a haze tonight around the moon tonight from it


  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ive seen and heard a few people mention this 'sand from Sahara', is this what caused the sandstorm in Germany yesterday?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭patneve2


    Jake1 wrote: »
    Ive seen and heard a few people mention this 'sand from Sahara', is this what caused the sandstorm in Germany yesterday?

    No, the sand was blown from surrounding fields (they were very dry and some had just been ploughed). Germany (as well as the most of Europe) has seen a very dry spring so far so soil is very dry and can be lifted into the air easily.


  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cheers for that. I did subsequently read that . According to AOLtravel,its on its way to Britain.

    http://travel.aol.co.uk/2011/04/09/sand-storm-heading-to-the-uk/?icid=main|uk|dl1|link5|http%3A%2F


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,520 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    A very brief glimpse. I'll enjoy what's left of it today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Truly summery day today, previously the sun has been accompanied by wind. Now its all over, foggy outside.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    That's a given considering the Easter holidays don't start till the 15th. My long range weather forecast for the Summer is as follows.


    Starting the 15th April, I forecast 2+ weeks of not just cooler and unsettled weather but downright cold with morning to evening rain... it'll warm up every night and the rain will stop but will start again at 8am. There will be some breaks in the weather where the rain will stop and blue skies will appear...probably for about two hours at a time. Just enough time for optimists to pack up the kids and head to the nearest beach only to find it shrouded in fog and persistent rain coming in from the hidden sea. When they return home it will be raining but they will be told by the neighbours that they missed several hours of blazing sunshine.

    However, we can look forward to a sudden return of the Summer weather on Tuesday, 3rd May, waking up to bright blue, cloudless skies with a gold sun heating us up to a good 18-22 degrees. It will take a downturn again from the evening of the 7th May but be sure that it brighten up again on 9th May. This pattern of 5 days of dry and sunny weather alternating with 2 days of sometimes artic cold and heavy rain will continue until the end of June when we will have 8 weeks of unrelenting drizzle and grey skies with the odd unremarkable storm.

    The first week in September will be an excellent time to holiday in Ireland as sunshine is guaranteed.

    That's the way it usually goes. :(
    i dont care ill be in my appartment in malaga spain sitting out on the balcony with my laptop and bottle of jd telling everyone on bords it's 38degres while it's probabley pissing rain in Ireland:D:D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    it allways amazes me the way people go on about the weather here and what really amazes me is when we do get a good summer everyone mones that it's tooo hot or ya might even hear as i did yesterday from an ol wan well id say it might rain tommorrow ahhhhh let me away from negative people:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭GSF


    it allways amazes me the way people go on about the weather here and what really amazes me is when we do get a good summer everyone mones that it's tooo hot or ya might even hear as i did yesterday from an ol wan well id say it might rain tommorrow ahhhhh let me away from negative people:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
    "moaning and cribbing is a lost opportunity" as the great philospoher St Bartholomew once said.......;)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Just had a very quick shower of hail in dublin 2. Irish summer is here again :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    it allways amazes me the way people go on about the weather here and what really amazes me is when we do get a good summer everyone mones that it's tooo hot or ya might even hear as i did yesterday from an ol wan well id say it might rain tommorrow ahhhhh let me away from negative people:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

    Rain is not a negative unless one thinks all rain is a negative, we are lucky to have a good climate with not many extremes and the rain to keep the grass green.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Looks like this weekend will be good for my wedding after all.
    A nice anticyclone seems to be setting itself up, might end up quite summery again.
    Thats a nice change from the way it looked 3 days ago (stormy and wintry), Thank God the models arent very accurate at long range! :D


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