Autumn 2020 - General Discussion

Graces7 · 23-10-2020 12:09pm

Dazzlingly bright and blue skies and ocean. And a shivery chill in the air. A slight breeze set to blast us later, in what met ie defines as a west coast event

Gonzo · 23-10-2020 5:29pm

today was a beautiful autumn day in Meath, almost unbroken sunshine all day.

Graces7 · 23-10-2020 7:25pm

The wind is wildening out here now. A wet and breezy night ahead.

west mayo

Artane2002 · 23-10-2020 8:49pm

Gonzo wrote: »

today was a beautiful autumn day in Meath, almost unbroken sunshine all day.

same in Dublin 5 after the rain this morning cleared off.

Oscar Bravo · 23-10-2020 8:51pm

After a fairly ok afternoon its turned into a wet and windy night here in Castlebar.

nthclare · 23-10-2020 8:53pm

Winds whipping up here in North Clare,was going to go out watching owls, but I'll leave them alone tonight.

Samsgirl · 23-10-2020 11:05pm

Unreal winds here in South tipp!

Meteorite58 · 23-10-2020 11:57pm

That looks like the warm front going through, heavier rain from the cold front to follow and stronger winds. Picking up on the W coasts.

Windy from the S here near Tralee. 12.3C , not much rain here from this yet.

SleetAndSnow · 24-10-2020 12:29am

Winds picking up in cork city, cork airport reporting gusts of 38kts but it has gotten stronger since that report half an hour ago.

Goldfinch8 · 24-10-2020 12:36am

Belmullet gusting up to 54kts in the midnight reports and Mace Head hitting 51kts as it did an hour earlier. A wet and breezy night here in Mayo.

Little snowy old me · 24-10-2020 12:52am

Is it true we are going to have an ex hurricane on Tuesday??

Danno · 24-10-2020 12:56am

Little snowy old me wrote: »

Is it true we are going to have an ex hurricane on Tuesday??

Unlikely, latest models suggest it will hold off (as in the centre of it) to our NW, however it will deliver a breezy day as the windfield is impressively large.

Graces7 · 24-10-2020 7:29am

Wild, wilder, wildening..wet.

It had been a while since the last gale but the roaring and ranting are familiar sounds out here. "Ah yes I remember it well"

And a couple more days of strong winds ahead. With a mention of thunder added in.

Interesting times we live in. Normal equinoctial autumn weather. So all is well.

pauldry · 24-10-2020 1:36pm

Very sunny day in Sligo.

Clear blue skies until now.

7 and a half hours

Much sunnier than forecast

SleetAndSnow · 24-10-2020 2:48pm

Heavy hail shower just now in cork city, big enough hails too.

Carol25 · 24-10-2020 3:41pm

Sunset from Rinville last week. Overall a very good Autumn in the west. Not too wet. Will miss the hours brightness in the evening when the hour changes tonight.

JCX BXC · 24-10-2020 4:09pm

Brief but heavy shower here in Galway city, some hail too.

Graces7 · 24-10-2020 4:39pm

There are high winds out here and set to last a while. Up to Force 8 predicted. The ocean is magnificent.

west mayo

and sudden din of hail or ferocious rain - or both. Incredible noise..

Oscar Bravo · 24-10-2020 6:33pm

Some heavy showers off the west coast. Coastal areas of Mayo may see some lightning after

24-10-2020 6:36pm

and that's a close to our Summer and Autumn.... for me anyway. I always feel a sadness on the last bright day of the year. A kind of loss for those lovely long Spring and Summer days. I was out walking around my limit of 5km today, local fields and lanes, thinking that the last time I did this it was during the first lockdown with the lovely warm dry bright weather we had then and everything blooming. I got so many wild flower cuttings for my garden , comfrey, wild woodbine etc.
Its so different now, no gardening for a few months, no hiking up in the Mourne mountains. I'm dreading this Winter.

Meteorite58 · 24-10-2020 7:47pm

I always feel a sadness on the last bright day of the year.

Funny that I was just saying this evening that I cant believe that the clocks are going back tonight. I think it is because I have been out a lot recently and the weather has been quite good and bright. I'm at my best when I am doing a few projects during the winter, made 30 birdhouses with my young fella recently and been making a few things for the garden, next on the list is a big insect hotel and will have a go at making a few bat houses, made a bat nursery before but only got a few birds in it :pac:

Been a great day here today, surprised how fine it was, cool breeze with sunshine for much of it and just a few quick moving side swipes from showers. Rosy cheeks from being out all day, made a new walkway down by my ponds, creating a short version of a woodland walk and a hide for wildlife photography.

Got up to 13.7C and currently 9.4C

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daniel_t1409 · 24-10-2020 8:31pm

A clear night in wexford/ Moon is shining brightly.

Graces7 · 24-10-2020 9:23pm

Winter has great beauty and challenge. Far more so than summer and spring. Even with the effect it has on mood etc.

A natural alternation. Like day and night. Each a beauty.

And a day at a time. Seeing what comes. Just now a wild time out here. But that has beauty too. Sheer exuberant energy in the gale.

And the battering of hail.

Then there will be peace. A smiling sun.

The beauty by day of the rumpled ocean, wind- ruffled. Beyond our control!

Firelight and candlelight.

Hot soup and warm jerseys.

Bulbs pushing small green shoots , ready to flower at the darkest time. When the hedgerows are bare and sere, wind stripped.

Face to the gale! Wind-walking. Life!

West mayo offshore.

esposito · 24-10-2020 9:41pm

daniel_t1409 wrote: »

A clear night in wexford/ Moon is shining brightly.

Same here in south Dublin. A very bright moon. Chilly enough out now but calm.

24-10-2020 10:04pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Funny that I was just saying this evening that I cant believe that the clocks are going back tonight. I think it is because I have been out a lot recently and the weather has been quite good and bright. I'm at my best when I am doing a few projects during the winter, made 30 birdhouses with my young fella recently and been making a few things for the garden, next on the list is a big insect hotel and will have a go at making a few bat houses, made a bat nursery before but only got a few birds in it :pac:

lovely photos!
Bug/insect hotels are the best fun to make. I made 2 huge ones in the last few weeks an am thrilled the way they turned out! It brings out your inner child! I used old red bricks, straw, chestnuts, pine cones, tubes, moss, an old birds nest I found, dried up sticks and wood. I topped it off with an old railway beam. I'm not good at posting photos but it looks pretty good. I made a 2nd one beside my pond (which has a huge frog in it for the Winter) . I also made a hibernaculum for the frog which is like an underground shelter full of sticks, stones etc. Mad the things we find to do in the garden but its so therapeutic!

daniel_t1409 · 24-10-2020 10:25pm

daniel_t1409 wrote: »

A clear night in wexford/ Moon is shining brightly.

Weird, now the wind has picked up and heard rain bashing against the window. Changed quickly.

Gonzo · 24-10-2020 10:53pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm dreading this Winter.

Winter should be a beautiful time of the year, crisp blue skies and dazzling sunshine, frosts layered on the grass and bark of trees, that orange glow from an early sunset. Other times snow showers or the excitement of seeing bands of rain turn to snow, lampost watching at night and then the vibrant orange glow in the snow and skies by night. Unfortunately we rarely ever see proper winter weather in this country and end up with endless mild Atlantic muck most of the time and that's why we dread winter. Hopefully we will finally experience some proper winter days this year, even if it's just for a few days. It's well overdue.

Cluedo Monopoly · 24-10-2020 11:36pm

One bout of thunder and lightning in Galway. Quite prolonged thunder.

Meteorite58 · 24-10-2020 11:37pm

I also made a hibernaculum for the frog which is like an underground shelter full of sticks, stones etc.

That's a new one for me, come across the odd frog and get spawn in spring time , have a few areas with rocks and old tree trunks and branches set aside but nothing as good as the pictures I am seeing when I looked it up.

Another project for me

Oneiric 3 · 25-10-2020 12:16am

Had an intense hail shower here about noon today. Thought they were going to break the front windows at one point such was the racket.

Autumn 2020 - General Discussion

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