FI Charts ( T120+ onwards) Spring 2021 READ MOD NOTE IN FIRST POST

[Deleted User] · 25-03-2021 8:04pm

bosco12345 wrote: »

Any update on this potential northerly blast heading our way over Easter?

Considerably watered down on tonights ECM,thanks be to fcuk

Looks quite bland on that for Easter
Touch of NE by day 10
But you know what they say about day 10's

Nqp15hhu · 26-03-2021 2:44am

I'm not sure what the above poster is referring to. The 12Z ECMWF run today still showed the -10c 850hPa flirting with the northern coasts next Thursday.

At this moment in time, the cold spell is still in play.

nacho libre · 26-03-2021 12:41pm

Typical! Chase a northerly all winter and one may well come along in April. Although, i seem to recall in years gone by we often got potent northerlies in late March into April.

Drum Maigh Eo · 26-03-2021 2:24pm

nacho libre wrote: »

Typical! Chase a northerly all winter and one may well come along in April. Although, i seem to recall in years gone by we often got potent northerlies in late March into April.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2019/0305/1034374-april-snow-showers/

pauldry · 26-03-2021 2:53pm

we need rubbish weather until the end of May then we might get a Summer......or rubbish weather

Meteorite58 · 26-03-2021 9:13pm

Just have to include the chart for next Thurs !

Next week ,after some mild days if not feeling relatively warm in places, set to cool down again towards the weekend. Looks like a lot of dry weather up until around Sunday. Models showing it to get very cold around Sunday from a Northerly plunge of Arctic air.

GFS showing it to get cooler earlier than the ECM from Weds. Will see.

Kermit.de.frog · 26-03-2021 9:39pm

Winter's not done yet.

scooby77 · 26-03-2021 10:28pm

Met app forecasting 19° for Sligo on Wednesday afternoon!

Neddyusa · 27-03-2021 1:00am

PowerToWait wrote: »

I've only ever heard it the other way around?

Really?!!

Goes both ways. In like lamb, out like a lion - or vice versa

LameBeaver · 27-03-2021 1:53am

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Winter's not done yet.

At this point in the year winter can fcuk off and not have any notion of coming back before November/December at the earliest.

[Deleted User] · 27-03-2021 10:43am

LameBeaver wrote: »

At this point in the year winter can fcuk off and not have any notion of coming back before November/December at the earliest.

Yeh. MT’s forecast not looking good on that front though.

Meteorite58 · 27-03-2021 4:24pm

Certainly a cold outlook in the models after the mild few days early next week, ECM showing some very cold widespread frosty nights next weekend, could turn wintry again out at the end of the run.

Artane2002 · 27-03-2021 5:00pm

I'm astonished by the silence in here considering we're seeing charts like these:

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compsys · 27-03-2021 5:18pm

Neddyusa wrote: »

Haven't seen the charts but cold, wet and windy is a safe bet.
"In like a Lamb, Out like a Lion" is surely the most accurate of all the weather-lore sayings.
Only remember one or two exceptional years where March didn't play out that way.

The saying is: 'in like a lion, out like a lamb'.

March usually starts off poor as so close to winter but ends up milder as spring gets underway. Which usually happens in Ireland too - many years our coldest weather is very end of Feb and first few days of March.

PukkaStukka · 27-03-2021 5:19pm

Artane2002 wrote: »

I'm astonished by the silence in here considering we're seeing charts like these:

The charts have only themselves to blame !

Oneiric 3 · 27-03-2021 5:52pm

Chart from early April 2008. I recall quite frequent snow showers during this time, but they passed over quickly. They may well have been more significant further north but this I don't recall.

TTLF · 27-03-2021 5:55pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Chart from early April 2008. I recall quite frequent snow showers during this time, but they passed over quickly. They may well have been more significant further north but this I don't recall.

If you look up some videos on Youtube of April 2008, you can see the snow cover actually wasn't that bad. I recall walking out of the opticians aged 6 to a blinding blizzard that made everything white! Of-course, it melted when the sun came out, but it stuck during daytime hours when it was snowing! Truly incredible.

Oneiric 3 · 27-03-2021 6:06pm

Another chart from early April 1998:

No doubt this would have brought down some snow showers to places as well. Funny thing is, if you look back on the reanalysis charts for this similar period in April down through the years, northerlies are actually very common and it would seem that Arctic air masses have an easier time getting down towards us than at another point in the year, which may well have something to do with the sea temps between here and there, which are generally at their coldest of the year around this time.

External Association · 27-03-2021 6:09pm

That's the Good Friday Agreement shot

Bitter Good Friday. Snow showers and -5C at night. 10 April 1998.

External Association · 27-03-2021 6:10pm

TTLF wrote: »

If you look up some videos on Youtube of April 2008, you can see the snow cover actually wasn't that bad. I recall walking out of the opticians aged 6 to a blinding blizzard that made everything white! Of-course, it melted when the sun came out, but it stuck during daytime hours when it was snowing! Truly incredible.

I remember cycling in heavy snow showers in north Kilkenny, snow sticking to fields initially, the roads above 250m.

Nqp15hhu · 27-03-2021 6:21pm

Would hopefully bring a decent covering of snow. Let’s hope it comes off.

Storm 10 · 27-03-2021 7:32pm

What's up with ME they have an orange wind warning for tonight on their weather map on RTE

Oneiric 3 · 27-03-2021 7:46pm

External Association wrote: »

That's the Good Friday Agreement shot Bitter Good Friday. Snow showers and -5C at night. 10 April 1998.

BBC weather forecast from this day. Warning: crap sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7nLoDUp_c

Oneiric 3 · 27-03-2021 7:48pm

Storm 10 wrote: »

What's up with ME they have an orange wind warning for tonight on their weather map on RTE

Got a notification on my phone about an hour ago as well about potential strong winds.

External Association · 27-03-2021 7:52pm

1998 had been an amazing Spring up to that. A few 16c days in mid February here. With hazy sunshine.

beggars_bush · 27-03-2021 8:31pm

compsys wrote: »

The saying is: 'in like a lion, out like a lamb'.

March usually starts off poor as so close to winter but ends up milder as spring gets underway. Which usually happens in Ireland too - many years our coldest weather is very end of Feb and first few days of March.

It was always in like a lamb, out like a lion

External Association · 27-03-2021 8:33pm

beggars_bush wrote: »

It was always in like a lamb, out like a lion

I've always hear it both ways. Whatever way it comes in, it invariably will go out the opposite!

Widdensushi · 27-03-2021 8:40pm

Always in like a lion and out like a lamb I heard.

Birdnuts · 28-03-2021 1:35am

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

BBC weather forecast from this day. Warning: crap sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7nLoDUp_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7nLoDUp_c

Remember 98' well - was living in North Kildare at the time. What stood out was a stupidly warm Feb, followed by a wet,cold April with severe frosts that burnt all the vegetation that had come out early after the mild winter. The following summer was muck too - we defo don't want a rerun in 2021!!!

coillsaille · 28-03-2021 2:14pm

As one poster said above, and it's the way I was told growing up, March will always do one or the other. If it comes in like a lion then it will end like a lamb and if it starts out like a lamb it will go out like a lion.

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