Spring 2021 General Discussion

AuntySnow wrote: »

We now have our first sea breezevof the Summer (:D) in Arklow
18kmh East
Currently 16.3c

Weather just now Mt dillion was mentioned as the hot spot today with 15.3c recorded if I remember correctly. Maybe you were the real hot spot. Did you get any higher than that?

That map is, at best, a 'best guess', and at worst, just made up. Met Eireann don't record sunshine for most of the north and west. Knock, Belmullet & Malin Hd are the only stations that do as far as I know. So how do they know how much sunshine we get... or don't get, here in Galway, or the bulk of Connacht & west Ulster?

If I remember correctly, when Claremorris & Clones did record sunshine totals, they came in with the lowest overall annual totals not only nationally, but globally.

Tyrone212 wrote: »

Weather just now Mt dillion was mentioned as the hot spot today with 15.3c recorded if I remember correctly. Maybe you were the real hot spot. Did you get any higher than that?

The Arklow met station reached a similar value, but given that it only reports every 30 mins, this may not be the actual highest max it recorded today.

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I don't get how people can live in the West of Ireland and not expect it to be cloudy and rainy pretty much all of the time, I thought that was just the deal over there?

'Over there...'

Of course, given that we live on the Atlantic side of this great & expansive continent of Ireland, we are never going to compete with the Floridian style sunshine you get over there in the far east pretty much all of the time.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Not too different on the coasts.

https://www.met.ie/climate/what-we-measure/sunshine

The major difference across the country is rain not sun.

For tiny NI you're roughly averaging 1 hour less sunshine per day over the course of the year from best to worst. Coastal areas fair much better as that map you provided shows. Big difference in rainfall for NI as well.

On the whole, Northern Ireland is cloudier than England, because of the hilly nature of the terrain and the
proximity to the Atlantic. Even so, the coastal strip of County Down manages an annual average total of over
1450 hours of sunshine. This compares favourably with some coastal areas of England and Wales, though not
with the figures of around 1750 hours achieved by many places along the south coast of England. The dullest
parts of Northern Ireland are the upland areas of the north and west, with annual average totals of less than
1100 hours.

The wettest places are in the upland area around Killeter Forest in the extreme west
of County Tyrone, where the annual average reaches about 2000 mm. The driest places are further east -
around Strangford Lough and close to the east coast, and near to the southern and eastern shores of Lough
Neagh - where the annual totals are just under 800 mm

Source Met office climate Ni

appledrop wrote: »

Yea I actually saw a tortoiseshell butterfly. It must have come out of hibernation with the nice weather.

Just back from my second walk today and tomorrow to look forward to as well!

No butterflys here yet, plenty of Buzzards scowling overhead and i seen the Bluetits in and out of their anual nesting hole in the wall.
Looking forward to a nice day here but i doubt it will be as sunny as today, as long as it's dry though.

National weather records for St. Patrick's Day across Ireland.

Yeah cloudy and 9.2c in Sligo.

Glorious in Kildare now

Stunning day here in South Wicklow. Garden furniture is out, lawn cut and bbq ready to go for later. Might be a short lived spell but making the most of it. Probably be all packed away again by Monday!

This day is turning out even better than I thought. Beautiful

Foggy misty day in Sligo. Got to 9.4c but back to 8.9c

Still last year it rained all day and 3 years ago it was 3.5c so this prob goes down s a good day. However last week the forecast was 14 to 17c and sun everywhere.