Spring 2020 - General Discussion

Kermit.de.frog · 23-05-2020 8:44pm

Looking good for the coming week :cool:

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Gonzo · 23-05-2020 8:55pm

thankfully we see a return to mostly settled and dry conditions from tomorrow. Today has been a write-off here in Meath with loads of showers on and off all day and a dark evening with misty rain, a real dirty evening. The wind is finally dying down. Haven't set foot outside all day.

Mortelaro · 23-05-2020 9:05pm

Gonzo wrote: »

thankfully we see a return to mostly settled and dry conditions from tomorrow. Today has been a write-off here in Meath with loads of showers on and off all day and a dark evening with misty rain, a real dirty evening. The wind is finally dying down. Haven't set foot outside all day.

Max today here of 16.4c,which wasn't too bad apart from the wind
Shower of rain atm
A few light brief ones earlier

Slashermcguirk · 23-05-2020 11:17pm

Strange that you got so many showers in dunshaughlin. It's so close to Dublin and yet I saw just one shower here in and it lasted about 5 minutes and amounted to nothing. Irish weather is so random.

quote="Gonzo;113531070"]thankfully we see a return to mostly settled and dry conditions from tomorrow. Today has been a write-off here in Meath with loads of showers on and off all day and a dark evening with misty rain, a real dirty evening. The wind is finally dying down. Haven't set foot outside all day.[/quote]

Harry Palmr · 23-05-2020 11:19pm

Whatever about the rain, this must also be the least humid prolonged spell in the history of the country!

highdef · 24-05-2020 1:57am

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Strange that you got so many showers in dunshaughlin. It's so close to Dublin and yet I saw just one shower here in and it lasted about 5 minutes and amounted to nothing. Irish weather is so random. ]

I'm less than 40km West of Dublin city, in North Kildare, very close to the Meath bother. Several showers during the day and fairly persistent rain since well before dark. Was out with the dog an hour ago and it was still spitting rain.

Gonzo · 24-05-2020 2:44am

highdef wrote: »

I'm less than 40km West of Dublin city, in North Kildare, very close to the Meath bother. Several showers during the day and fairly persistent rain since well before dark. Was out with the dog an hour ago and it was still spitting rain.

yep it basically rained here nearly all day, mostly very light but it would be enough to get wet fairly quickly outside and the gusty winds wouldn't have helped. Winds died down earlier on this evening but it's back fairly gusty now again and still spitting rain outside. It really was a horrible Saturday here, wasn't expecting today to be this bad, it was much worse than yesterday which was quite pleasant at times.

24-05-2020 7:13am

Calibos wrote: »

Whenever I need to remind myself when the Heatwave of 2018 really kicked off I just have to Google the Taylor Swift concert at Croke Park. Cousin, his wife and kids were over on holidays from Perth in Oz and another relative bought them tickets to Taylor Swift in Croker. Never could get him to believe us when we told him that 26ºc here could be like 35ºc+ over in Perth due to the humidity and it certainly didn't look like this holiday was going to change his mind as they were all dressed up in their Winter Woolies...literally....for the concert. Light jacket weather for us. However a day or two after that concert they headed off to Galway to be greeted by blue skies and 30ºc. He finally understood what we meant as he was melting in Galway at 30ºc like he would in 40ºc Perth Heat.....and nowhere over here has Aircon!! LOL.

So yeah, Summer 2018 kicked into high gear about the 18th of June.

The corrollory is true also due to the humidity. Uncle has lived in Edmonton in Canada for decades. Exact same line of latitude as Dublin but in the centre of the continent where a normal Winters day could be minus 20-25ºc. He's never as cold there as when he comes back to Ireland some Christmases. ie. He feels a lot colder on a drab damp +4ºc Winters day in Ireland than he does on a -20ºc day in Edmonton.

Had a Swedish guy over as part of work a few years ago. He's from the very north and used to really low temperatures but he said the 3-5 degrees with damp, biting winds we get here is colder than anything he has experienced before. He gave a week in Cork frozen solid and was glad to get home to -20.

appledrop · 24-05-2020 9:53am

Very disappointed with weather do far this morning. Still really windy here + dark clouds.

Hope it improves. Last night felt like a winter evening. Miserable + lights + heating on from early evening.

Thelonious Monk · 24-05-2020 10:18am

appledrop wrote: »

Very disappointed with weather do far this morning. Still really windy here + dark clouds.

Hope it improves. Last night felt like a winter evening. Miserable + lights + heating on from early evening.

RTE has it cloudy all week. Hopefully we get some prolonged spells of sun, warmer than yesterday in D5 today but no sun.

Thelonious Monk · 24-05-2020 10:21am

Deleted User wrote: »

Had a Swedish guy over as part of work a few years ago. He's from the very north and used to really low temperatures but he said the 3-5 degrees with damp, biting winds we get here is colder than anything he has experienced before. He gave a week in Cork frozen solid and was glad to get home to -20.

Might have something to do with our buildings being terribly insulated too. I lived in the basement of a creaky old house in Calgary for a year once, I never even saw the heating controls, I think it self regulated, but I could walk around half naked in the mornings when it was -35c outside.

sryanbruen · 24-05-2020 11:13am

I too am disappointed so far with the cloudy or hazy conditions in Dublin. I remember reading MÉ saying long spells of sunshine... takes me back to last summer all over again. Only the start of the day though.

TheMilkyPirate · 24-05-2020 11:23am

Sun is shining and it's warm in Wexford. Beautiful day

Gonzo · 24-05-2020 11:26am

Yep this morning is a bit dissapointing, I could still hear the wind up to 2 hours ago but it's completely gone now thankfully. Sun is trying to have a go at breaking through the clouds but is having great difficulty, hopefully will see some proper breaks by the afternoon.

Tomorrow could be a mostly cloudy day, particularly in the western half of the country where there could be spells of rain at times from a dying front. Tuesday is likely to be quite cloudy at times too as another front tries to move down over us. From Wednesday is when we should start to see a bit more in the way of sunshine fingers crossed.

giveitholly · 24-05-2020 11:28am

Not a cloud in the sky here in tipp and a lovely 17.1 already

Thelonious Monk · 24-05-2020 11:30am

Still windy af in Dublin

jaffa20 · 24-05-2020 11:30am

appledrop wrote: »

Very disappointed with weather do far this morning. Still really windy here + dark clouds.

Hope it improves. Last night felt like a winter evening. Miserable + lights + heating on from early evening.

Heating on? :eek: Where are you? It didn't feel cold enough for heating here. A light jumper would do the same job.

esposito · 24-05-2020 11:32am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Still windy af in Dublin

Yeah this annoying wind needs to die down. Other than that it is feeling pleasantly warm with the sun starting to break through.

appledrop · 24-05-2020 11:32am

jaffa20 wrote: »

Heating on? :eek: Where are you? It didn't feel cold enough for heating here. A light jumper would do the same job.

North county Dublin. It was quite cold here last night with windy weather. No I hate been cold so heating had to go on for an hour.

Oneiric 3 · 24-05-2020 11:33am

Deleted User wrote: »

Had a Swedish guy over as part of work a few years ago. He's from the very north and used to really low temperatures but he said the 3-5 degrees with damp, biting winds we get here is colder than anything he has experienced before. He gave a week in Cork frozen solid and was glad to get home to -20.

Same with a Spanish work mate of mine a couple of years ago who could not bear the July heat in this country. He declared that it was 'ugly', and I totally agreed. I sometimes think if the summer heat here in Galway, and particularly my region of it (NE) is made all the more unbearable due to the fact that there are no hills to help 'churn' the air about a bit more as it would in pretty much any other part of the country. There is always that odd stagnant feel to it here, and the swampy damp bog land that makes up much of the countryside locally hardly helps either.

Gonzo · 24-05-2020 11:33am

giveitholly wrote: »

Not a cloud in the sky here in tipp and a lovely 17.1 already

We probably have to be a bit more patient further north as the ridge of high pressure is slowly extending it's influence northwards during the day. Certainly feeling milder today already despite the cloudy morning here. Most of the forcasts for my local area are going for 19 to 22C throughout the next 7 days and some low 20's for the following week as well. Looks fairly promising so far.

The only real threat so far is not the Atlantic but the possibility of a colder plunge in about a week's time from the north but that's a long way off.

SleetAndSnow · 24-05-2020 11:58am

Lovely morning in cork city. Clear blue skies, a bit of a breeze and about 16 degrees at the moment.

nacho libre · 24-05-2020 12:08pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Same with a Spanish work mate of mine a couple of years ago who could not bear the July heat in this country. He declared that it was 'ugly', and I totally agreed. I sometimes think if the summer heat here in Galway, and particularly my region of it (NE) is made all the more unbearable due to the fact that there are no hills to help 'churn' the air about a bit more as it would in pretty much any other part of the country. There is always that odd stagnant feel to it here, and the swampy damp bog land that makes up much of the countryside locally hardly helps either.

The damp cold actually causes more heat to leave your body than dry cold. I remember back in 2010 feeling more comfortable in the dry cold of - 5 degrees than the 3 - 4 degrees damp weather we normally get during winter

Oneiric 3 · 24-05-2020 12:30pm

nacho libre wrote: »

The damp cold actually causes more heat to leave your body than dry cold. I remember back in 2010 feeling more comfortable in the dry cold of - 5 degrees than the 3 - 4 degrees damp weather we normally get during winter

Maybe it is a call back to genetics or something, but I am just not suited to the miserable damp cold and the even more miserable damp heat in this country. Those living in Europe or North America have no idea how lucky they have it when it comes to weather. There is nearly always a pay off when it does get hot and humid (big storms) in summer and guaranteed deep, healthy dry frosts in winter.

Thelonious Monk · 24-05-2020 12:47pm

Ok it's lovely in Dublin now i can stop moaning, I'm getting a 2018 level tan so far this year with all the lovely sun

Slashermcguirk · 24-05-2020 12:50pm

Beautiful day in Dublin 5. Sun splitting the sky and drinking a coffee in the garden. Feels much warmer than last couple of days

esposito · 24-05-2020 12:59pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Beautiful day in Dublin 5. Sun splitting the sky and drinking a coffee in the garden. Feels much warmer than last couple of days

Yep really nice in Dublin now. That annoying wind has died down making it feel quite warm.

nacho libre · 24-05-2020 1:46pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Maybe it is a call back to genetics or something, but I am just not suited to the miserable damp cold and the even more miserable damp heat in this country. Those living in Europe or North America have no idea how lucky they have it when it comes to weather. There is nearly always a pay off when it does get hot and humid (big storms) in summer and guaranteed deep, healthy dry frosts in winter.

There is only one thing worse than damp cold, and that's damp heat.
I'm thankful we don't get humid weather too often in this country. If i had to live in a country with high humidity as a daily occurrence i would absolutely hate it, that's why Holidays to such places don't really appeal to me.

Gonzo · 24-05-2020 2:16pm

beautiful day now in Meath, unbroken sunshine and feeling much warmer, wind is just a light breeze at this stage. Currently 19C here in Meath, might get to 20C in the next few hours. A world away from yesterday.

Xenji · 24-05-2020 2:20pm

A bright and sunny afternoon in Castlebar, still a few moderate gusts around which is making it feel slightly cooler.

Mortelaro · 24-05-2020 2:37pm

19c and beautiful also here in Arklow
SW breeze gusting 30kmh that feels warm for a change

SleetAndSnow · 24-05-2020 2:41pm

Sunny spells in cork city now, some clouds keep coming and blocking out the sun! Mild even in the shade though and warm when the sun is out.

Chris_5339762 · 24-05-2020 3:18pm

East Cork has disimproved.... it was lovely earlier on and calm but the onshore breeze has now piped up a bit.

Slashermcguirk · 24-05-2020 3:35pm

Such a beautiful day in Dublin, 20 degrees ar phoenix park in 3pm report. Garden day

Meteorite58 · 24-05-2020 8:03pm

Looks like most had some sunshine today, fantastic day here near Tralee, blue skies all day and a beautiful evening now. Looks like we are entering a much warmer spell for most , improving from Tuesday and getting very warm Weds and Thurs and keeping on the warm side up to and over the June Bank Holiday weekend .

NASA Sat Pic from earlier today.

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Oscar Bravo · 24-05-2020 9:06pm

Co.Mayo coast just before 9pm

appledrop · 24-05-2020 9:21pm

I take it all back. It turned into a fabulous day!

Sat was so miserable great to be outdoors all day today.

Slashermcguirk · 24-05-2020 9:25pm

Great looking forecast from met eireann after the news. Looking like it might get up around 24-25 degrees later this week. Low 20s earlier in the week

lolie · 24-05-2020 9:30pm

After a dull start today it turned out to be a cracker here.
Looks like a clear skies so a good night for star gazing.
Two passes of the iss this evening, first one at 10.05 - 10.12 W to E but will probably be too bright out for most.
2nd bright pass at 11.42 - 11.47 W to E.

Also theres a Japanese Htv supply capsule due to dock with the Iss tomorrow that may be visible at 11.10 - 11.15 W to E, it wont be near as bright and may be confused with other satellites going W to E.

And after sunset look N,West

Oscar Bravo · 24-05-2020 9:47pm

On wednesday 27 May 2020 at 21:33 UK time . A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral and will pass over Ireland about 10 minutes later.

Probably a bit to bright here in the west but some in the east may get a glimpse.

Oscar Bravo · 24-05-2020 10:31pm

@ lolie. great view of all 3 now out west. Very thin Crescent Moon. lovely evening for viewing

Calibos · 24-05-2020 11:10pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

On wednesday 27 May 2020 at 21:33 UK time . A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will blast off from Cape Canaveral and will pass over Ireland about 10 minutes later.

Probably a bit to bright here in the west but some in the east may get a glimpse.

Doubtful. I'm in Bray on the East coast and put the bins out tonight at 21.40 and it was still too bright to see anything Astronomical.

Oneiric 3 · 25-05-2020 10:34am

Nice sunny morning here but that wind, while not as strong a recently, is still there. There is no comfort in it and my little budding flowers are just being skinned alive.

snowgal · 25-05-2020 11:10am

nice day here in Meath. But yes that pesky breeze is back, making a feel abit colder. Still looks like we're in for a very good week weather wise so Im not complaining!

Slashermcguirk · 25-05-2020 11:49am

What a beautiful morning in D5. This has been an epic spell of weather since March

compsys · 25-05-2020 12:08pm

Just looking at yesterday's temps for Dublin Airport.

According to the hourly readings it was 9 degrees at 11pm and 8 degrees at midnight last night i.e. late evening of 24th. However the overnight low was given as 5.7 according to the figures for yesterday. Could this be true? As the temp didn't fall to 5 degrees until around 3 in the morning of 25th (the temps for 1am to 6am i.e. early morning of 24th were around 11 degrees so it wasn't that the 5.7 temps was from the previous 'day' if that makes sense).

I've noticed this a few times over the past few days where the overnight low ends up being a fair bit lower than the 11pm/midnight reading on the hourly reports. Anyone any thoughts?

Oneiric 3 · 25-05-2020 12:40pm

compsys wrote: »

Just looking at yesterday's temps for Dublin Airport.

According to the hourly readings it was 9 degrees at 11pm and 8 degrees at midnight last night i.e. late evening of 24th. However the overnight low was given as 5.7 according to the figures for yesterday. Could this be true? As the temp didn't fall to 5 degrees until around 3 in the morning of 25th (the temps for 1am to 6am i.e. early morning of 24th were around 11 degrees so it wasn't that the 5.7 temps was from the previous 'day' if that makes sense).

I've noticed this a few times over the past few days where the overnight low ends up being a fair bit lower than the 11pm/midnight reading on the hourly reports. Anyone any thoughts?

The Dub report at 1am was 6.0c (so prob 5.7c) which would probably mean that was carried back into yesterday's report, given that (I think) the daily maxima and minima are measured within UTC time rather than summer time

Kermit.de.frog · 25-05-2020 12:42pm

:cool: Delighted it looks like a gorgeous week ahead. Looks cooler by Friday but lots of sunshine and decent temps. Can't ask for much better.

Slashermcguirk · 25-05-2020 1:06pm

Fantastic forecast for the week. Some places could see into the mid 20s I reckon

compsys · 25-05-2020 1:17pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

The Dub report at 1am was 6.0c (so prob 5.7c) which would probably mean that was carried back into yesterday's report, given that (I think) the daily maxima and minima are measured within UTC time rather than summer time

Well that would make sense. Often a big difference in temp at DA between midnight and 1am.

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