Winter 20/21 - General Discussion

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Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Looks like it's rain non stop till Thursday ugh. Blue Monday alright.

But it's very mild

nacho libre wrote: »

I use to scoff at presenters saying this, but is there anything worse than rain at 3c. Maybe if it's 2c and raining.

I just hate rain during the winter in general tbh :pac:

At least in the summer the ground dries up quickly. The relentless damp of Irish autumns/winters is by far the thing I dislike most about our climate.

mcburns07 wrote: »

I just hate rain during the winter in general tbh :pac:

I just hate rain

It's a lovely soft rain!

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Yet you’ll have people tell you last summer as cracking!!! I kid you not.

Every summer is cracking. It's all about light.
When you have light from 5am to 10pm, the world is your oyster.

John.Icy wrote: »

I love heavy rain. Very therapeutic. Rain at dusk as daylight starts to fade is one of my favourites.

So long as I am indoors at the time of course!

I know some people complain that the rain hammering on their Velux keeps them awake. Not for me. I find it somewhat therapeutic too. The White noise helps me sleep, the noise stops me hearing anything else outside and the rain keeps the drunks away or keeps them moving. I live just off the Seafront in Bray on a main pedestrian route to the popular Seafront pubs. Fri to Sun can be noisy with drinkers on their way down or home all year round and in the Summer it can be Wed to Sun. I relax when I hear the rain hammering on the Velux because I know I wont hear or there wont be any drunken shenanigans outside as people don't hang about in the lashing rain. As you can imagine with respect to the aforementioned shenanigans the last 10 months have been Heaven with the pubs closed or closing earlier. Peaceful at night 7 days a week. Still get the relaxed feeling when the lashing rain hits the Velux though cause that neural programming doesn't fade overnight. It'll be a shock to the system when things get back to normal in a few months.

Cumulative temperature anomaly (national) for January so far up to yesterday the 18th. A slow but sure bounce back after a pretty cool start:



Data from Met Eireann.

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

Just a heads up to anyone driving this morning. Roads are very wet here in Dublin. A lot of standing water on the m50 more than I've seen in a long time

They probably shouldn't be on boards either, that would be more dangerous than the rain surely? My coat? Yes I already have it...

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Weather doesn't bother me much in Ireland, apart from summer, because I'm always so disappointed.
Spring and Autumn are my favourite seasons, I never have much expectations but we always seem to get nice spells of calm weather that make it lovely to be outside in. I'm getting anxiety now thinking of a typical July weather report for Dublin where it's 26c in Cardiff and sunny and raining in Dublin.

Or the even better one where Liverpool has sunny and 30c with big thunderstorms and Dublin has 18c with drizzle.

Heavy rain since last night. There are floods in the fields now. Imagine if this was snow. Maybe some day before March we''ll have two days of heavy snow instead.

munsterlegend wrote: »

Think you might up in Mayo. Looks like there is going to a north/south divide going by the models for cold/milder weather.

Yes. it's just going to be cold rain here, then some mixed wintry precipitation after it.

My sister lives in Collooney (of Mackree Castle fame) in Sligo, I can only remember one visit where during the whole day it didn't lash out of the heavens at least once. On one occasion it was 16C with intermittent showers, my sister thought it was amazing weather, back home in Dublin my PWS was recording 25C, i said nothing
Planning retirement in the south east somewhere around Wexford/Wicklow for obvious reasons!

Calibos wrote: »

Summer 2014 was nearly as good as Summer 2013 where I am in Bray and this Sat image and your image shows why. Day after day in Summer 2014 the morning would start clear over nearly the whole country but by mid day all but the eastern and southern coastal strips would cloud over with convective cloud while the onshore breezes or maritime Irish/Celtic Sea air or whatever would prevent convective cloud formation. Half the population living in 90% of the country probably thought 2014 was a boring grey Summer not a patch on the year before whereas the other half the population living in that coastal strip down the East Coast felt Summer 2014 was nearly as good as the year before.

Another example of that pesky convective cloud back in Summer 2014:

I see the Met Eireann monthly has been updated, it mentions the possibility of an easterly influence in February, then northerly by mid February.

Colder air getting into the north and west, 10pm:

Knock 4 degrees
Finner 4 degrees
Malin head 4 degrees

Milder further east and south:

Phoenix park 11 degrees
Dublin airport 11 degrees
Sherkin 11 degrees