Spring 2019 - General Discussion

starting to brighten up after nearly 24 hours of mostly light rainfall, hopefully we won't need to light the fire tonight.

sun starting to make an appearance now, drying up and feeling much, much warmer than it has at any other point since Easter, it's actually beginning to feel like it's the end of May and not early March.

rain here again, things looked like they were improving earlier on, but back to grey slate skys and drizzly muck.

Donegal Storm wrote: »

I would have said the opposite tbh, I've always seen April through to early June as the sunniest and driest time of year, one we get to late June it usually goes back to the usual crap.


Utterly miserable still in Letterkenny for what it's worth, pouring down non stop all day. Second time this week we've had 48+ hours of persistent rain

unfortunately there is going to be very little let up in the rain particularly for the north-west of Ireland in the coming few days, with rain more of less continuous between now and tomorrow night, brief respite on Saturday morning before more rain and showers becomes established on Saturday and Sunday and on into Monday.

Not as bad in the south and east, but everywhere prone to rain at times over the next few days, I don't think anywhere will escape with a dry day.

Will be tough watching England and Wales go through a mini heatwave this weekend, but even there the good weather is set to end on Sunday or Monday and we'll all be in the same boat next week.

There will be no shortage of rain nationwide into the first half of June. Next week brings a cool to cold and unsettled spell, followed by possibly a significant increase in temperatures towards next weekend and beyond, but a continuation of unsettled conditions throughout.

Just looking at the Cork run today, and it really does look very wet indeed. Dublin only looks slightly drier. Even the south-east of England has a wet outlook, but they also have some crazy hot outlying runs.

It does appear that much of continental Europe is going to have a decent heatwave this June, with an intense plume of heat coming out of Africa and making it's way north-eastwards, this could clip parts of the UK, but I suspect it will completely miss Ireland. We could end up in a very mild to warm and unsettled mix into the middle of June, but that's way off in FI for now.