Spring 2018: General Discussion

highdef · 07-04-2018 10:26am

DOCARCH wrote: »

Looks like another dose of wet coming up along the east coast!

Which I don't recall being forecast by Met Eireann although it does seem to be losing intensity in the past hour

Artane2002 · 07-04-2018 11:44am

Good start to the day in Dublin. Overcast but some sunshine breaking through. I'm not going to complain because it is far better than the weather we've had recently.

Artane2002 · 07-04-2018 11:44am

double post sorry.

highdef · 07-04-2018 11:54am

North Kildare, quite pleasant too with very light winds. Still overcast but quite bright with the sun visible through the cloud. I reckon it'll clear off in the next couple of hours. Expecting a heavy shower or two by mid afternoon so using the current calm weather to perform weed killer applications.

JCX BXC · 07-04-2018 1:08pm

Some sunshine in West Clare and one of the warmest 13c I've ever felt.

Probably because it's been so cold the past few months.

Artane2002 · 07-04-2018 2:01pm

Wet and foggy in Dublin now...

SleetAndSnow · 07-04-2018 2:38pm

Pretty nice in Cork City. Some very dark clouds around, but sunny and warm which is a very nice feeling. Even the breeze is warm! 14.5 degrees. One of the warmest feeling yet.

Artane2002 · 07-04-2018 3:11pm

The rain and fog have left overcast skies in their wake. 11C at the moment.

JCX BXC · 07-04-2018 3:12pm

Up to 14.2c now (warmest of 2018 so far) and sunny in West Clare. Some very heavy showers around with dark skies in the near distance, however it's remained totally dry all morning and afternoon.

km79 · 07-04-2018 3:49pm

JCX BXC wrote: »

Up to 14.2c now (warmest of 2018 so far) and sunny in West Clare. Some very heavy showers around with dark skies in the near distance, however it's remained totally dry all morning and afternoon.

Showers missing us here too and they look heavy on the radar

Gonzo · 07-04-2018 5:17pm

was dry and feeling warm up to an hour ago, now very heavy rain shower and a few cracks of thunder.

sryanbruen · 07-04-2018 5:18pm

Lovely and sunny now at Grange after what has been a quiet, murky day.

pad199207 · 07-04-2018 5:22pm

Beautiful in South Wexford and mild

SleetAndSnow · 07-04-2018 5:30pm

Foggy and cloudy now in West Cork, just across from the coast. was sunny in the city not sure what it is like there now.

Clonmel1000 · 07-04-2018 5:33pm

Heavy showers here all afternoon but I’ll take it as at least it’s not bloody freezing.

Meteorite58 · 07-04-2018 6:28pm

Got up to a very welcome 14.4c here near Tralee today, looks around the same tomorrow.

Xenji · 07-04-2018 8:04pm

Nice bright and dry day in Castlebar, got up to 12C, surprised it did not pour rain as there were quite a lot of very dark clouds around at times, still have the windows open, first time this year at this hour I have been able to do that.

Artane2002 · 07-04-2018 9:36pm

I had a heavy shower at around 6:30 but other than that it's been fine since the fog and rain lifted.

Clonmel1000 · 08-04-2018 8:29am

ME giving cold weather again midweek with northeast wind.

giveitholly · 08-04-2018 8:30am

Awful morning in tipp with heavy rain all morning

Neddyusa · 08-04-2018 10:06am

giveitholly wrote: »

Awful morning in tipp with heavy rain all morning

That's a bizarre looking band of rain on the radar!

Fairly narrow band heading due North from Cork into Tipp.

Is it a streamer?

Looks like it's heading our way in Roscommon - hope to God it dies out soon!

giveitholly · 08-04-2018 10:08am

Neddyusa wrote: »

That's a bizarre looking band of rain on the radar!

Fairly narrow band heading due North from Cork into Tipp.

Is it a streamer?

Looks like it's heading our way in Roscommon - hope to God it dies out soon!

We are sick of it here so hope it goes someplace besides here!

Neddyusa · 08-04-2018 10:19am

giveitholly wrote: »

We are sick of it here so hope it goes someplace besides here!

We sure as hell don't need it here either!

Any way we could divert it to Dublin??...sure they're always having water shortages

MidMan25 · 08-04-2018 10:22am

Neddyusa wrote: »

giveitholly wrote: »

Awful morning in tipp with heavy rain all morning

That's a bizarre looking band of rain on the radar!

Fairly narrow band heading due North from Cork into Tipp.

Is it a streamer?

Looks like it's heading our way in Roscommon - hope to God it dies out soon!

I'm on the coast In Cork underneath it. I woke up to heavy rain at half 6 and presumed it was a shower heading east. It hasn't stopped since! I was equally surprised to see on the radar that it was heading due north.

Clonmel1000 · 08-04-2018 11:28am

The only people I hear talking about good weather and gorgeous days are here the rest of the country is sick **** of this winter. We’ve had no good day here this year really.

JCX BXC · 08-04-2018 11:39am

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

The only people I hear talking about good weather and gorgeous days are here the rest of the country is sick **** of this winter. We’ve had no good day here this year really.

Your location = rest of country location.

Right.

Artane2002 · 08-04-2018 11:40am

No don't send it here! Send the rain to the sea where it disturbs no one! On another note, good start to the day in Dublin, some sunshine but a lot of clouds around. In Dublin we've had a few good days, February had a number of them (I'm talking about sunshine here). The last Sunday before the cold spell was brilliant. I think those in the South were plagued with clouds.

There are signs of nicer weather to come next week with more sunshine and warmer temperatures but since the wind would be an easterly, the temperature on the east coast would be pegged down a bit. Those on the east coast of England will really be suffering, with temperatures struggling there because of the cold SSTs and there would be plenty of cloud and mist. Yuck.

Graces7 · 08-04-2018 1:04pm

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

The only people I hear talking about good weather and gorgeous days are here the rest of the country is sick **** of this winter. We’ve had no good day here this year really.

We have had some lovely days. Today has been warm and sunny and dry... West Mayo offshore and many like today.

km79 · 08-04-2018 1:09pm

That is the strangest rain pattern I’ve ever seen
Still holding dry here just about

One one or two things to do so hope it stays that way

Graces7 · 08-04-2018 1:16pm

km79 wrote: »

That is the strangest rain pattern I’ve ever seen
Still holding dry here just about

One one or two things to do so hope it stays that way

Well the rain has just arrived here.. West Mayo coast. No idea what direction now but this is heavy rain..

Clonmel1000 · 08-04-2018 2:19pm

JCX BXC wrote: »

Your location = rest of country location.

Right.

No that’s not what I’m saying at all but I guess you know that already.

Clonmel1000 · 08-04-2018 2:22pm

Graces7 wrote: »

We have had some lovely days. Today has been warm and sunny and dry... West Mayo offshore and many like today.

I’d consider warm for early Spring to be 14 degrees or warmer. We’ve had no day here like that and any sunshine has been sporadic and not perlonged. It seems like we’ve had rain most days. I work widely in Munster and this is the experience of everyone I talk to. Farmers are at their wits end. I’m sitting in Kilkenny now and it’s raining.

km79 · 08-04-2018 2:39pm

Started raining in east Galway
Was nice and warm before that

Rock Lesnar · 08-04-2018 2:46pm

Clouded over a bit since this morning but still nice and sunny here in north meath, feels warm to

km79 · 08-04-2018 2:47pm

km79 wrote: »

Started raining in east Galway
Was nice and warm before that

Stopped again
We appear to have some kind of rain shield of late !

Donegal Storm · 08-04-2018 3:31pm

Heavy hail shower in north Kildare

Gonzo · 08-04-2018 4:23pm

downpour shower here, lots of surface water.

pad199207 · 08-04-2018 5:12pm

Sunny skies here in South Wexford. Really can’t beat the weather down here.

SleetAndSnow · 08-04-2018 5:13pm

Sunny blue skies and warm on the West Cork coast.

JCX BXC · 08-04-2018 6:02pm

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

No that’s not what I’m saying at all but I guess you know that already.

You said this "The only people I hear talking about good weather and gorgeous days are here the rest of the country is sick **** of this winter. "

Maybe your location has gotten a bad dose of weather relative to other areas, or maybe we just have a better outlook and enjoy the little patches of good weather we do get.

Whatever it is, there's some contrast there.

On another note, a mild day here in West Clare, not much in the way of sunshine, and there was 2 quite heavy showers. Overall not a terrible day though, easy to get out and about.

Artane2002 · 08-04-2018 6:16pm

A relatively ok day today in Dublin, one very light shower earlier. A bit of sunshine but mostly cloudy. Tbh I'm slightly disappointed at how the weekend went here, I expected more in the way of sunshine. Not much improvement for here in the reliable timeframe.

Cantona's Collars · 08-04-2018 6:18pm

Sunshine all day here in Wexford, about bloody time we had a full day of it.

alentejo · 08-04-2018 8:36pm

In Terenure seemed to have several showers from around 1pm onwards. Seemed very much hit-and-miss today.!

giveitholly · 09-04-2018 9:12am

Yet another dark and very wet day again,thought the weather was to improve,if anything its getting worse,ground is gone beyond saturation point at this stage

sryanbruen · 09-04-2018 9:19am

giveitholly wrote: »

Yet another dark and very wet day again,thought the weather was to improve,if anything its getting worse,ground is gone beyond saturation point at this stage

Lovely sunny morning here at Grange after what was a pretty mediocre though not terrible weekend.

On the whole, it's going to be a rather quiet week with the west seeing the best of any dry weather 'til the weekend. Chance of some showers today as well as a band of light rain pushing into the west for a time tonight lingering in the east 'til tomorrow. England & Wales have a washout of a day with this rain just clipping the east but elsewhere, dry with some sunny spells but on the whole, cloudy and temperatures fairly close to average for the time of year though feeling cool in any cloud and rain.

The weather has improved statistically wise and it will continue to do so gradually. The ECM ensembles as well as the GFS ensembles all show a southeasterly flow for next week with high pressure to the east bringing in scorcher conditions - see MT's forecast.

No frost expected this week.

km79 · 09-04-2018 1:20pm

Gorgeous day in East Galway
It's been a grand spell since February apart from the snow ,:p

Xenji · 09-04-2018 2:22pm

Nice bright day again in Castlebar and 13C, besides a few spots of light drizzle it has been a lovely 3 days.

Graces7 · 09-04-2018 2:47pm

Sweet day. Mild and strong air. YOU know! Just.. lovely. Listening to the ocean just past the garden.. and the skylark.. Bliss

Artane2002 · 09-04-2018 3:53pm

Another meh day in Dublin with cloudy skies but some blue patches.

Pangea · 09-04-2018 6:50pm

Horrible day here, downpour of hailstones earlier

Spring 2018: General Discussion

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