Spring 2021 General Discussion

12-05-2021 1:57pm

May was cold in the east last year but very sunny. Nicer than this month. That said May is never totally horrible. Days like yesterday, which was lovely in the east coast of Dublin, tend to pop up even under low pressure regimes.

highdef · 12-05-2021 2:13pm

The Saint Marks flies are out in abundance here in North kildare, seen mostly along the (hawthorn) hedgerows. Perhaps not such a regular sight in non rural areas. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thejournal.ie/flies-2091751-May2015/%3famp=1

Tyrone212 · 12-05-2021 4:25pm

Dublin airport recorded 0c at 3.30am.

Thelonious Monk · 12-05-2021 4:29pm

Not a bad day in Dublin after all, I don't mind cooler temperatures if it's nice and calm, grand weather for doing things outside, looks like the next few days will be similar too

US2 · 12-05-2021 4:32pm

28°c in Northern Finland today! Be going to the artic circle for some summer sun soon.

Meteorite58 · 12-05-2021 10:39pm

Nice calm evening here in Kerry and continuing to clear, 9.2C. Feeling fresher now with less humidity.

Pic about 21.30

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Oscar Bravo · 12-05-2021 10:41pm

@meteorite , into the weeks now that when you get clear skies its nearly bright all night espicially here in the west. Still blue in the sky looking north west from Castlebar now at 1042pm

Meteorite58 · 12-05-2021 10:49pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

@meteorite , into the weeks now that when you get clear skies its nearly bright all night especially here in the west. Still blue in the sky looking north west from Castlebar now at 1042pm

Yes isn't it great, I love the blue hue on the horizon well into the night along the coast, it really is a special time of the year. Was out with the young fella earlier by the pond listening to the birds, lovely freshness there tonight but cool! Going out in awhile to see if I can get a pic of the Aurora borealis , might be strong tonight .

Will try and get better pics of Noctilucent clouds this year although I'm not great at being out too late with work early in the morning.

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1392502392936087557?s=20

Tyrone212 · 12-05-2021 11:30pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

@meteorite , into the weeks now that when you get clear skies its nearly bright all night espicially here in the west. Still blue in the sky looking north west from Castlebar now at 1042pm

I was looking at sunset times recently and came across this. After Night, Astronomical Twilight is the next darkest. Malin Head has 0 Astronomical Twilight for over a month and at its darkest is in Nautical twilight during this period.

Astronomical Twilight 21st June
Malin Head - 0
Donegal town - 0
Belfast - 0
Omagh - 0
Sligo - 1hr 3mins
Castlebar - 1hr 37mins
Dublin - 2hr 7mins
Galway - 2hr 10mins
Limerick - 2hr 27mins
Arklow-2hr 32mins
Killarney-2hrs 59mins
Cork- 3hr 05mins
Bantry- 3hr 12mins
Mizen head - Error.

Night - Astronomical Twilight - Nautical Twilight - Civil Twilight - Daylight

Find your own location here
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@2966356

The 3 different Twilights explained with pictures of each
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/nautical-twilight.html

Thelonious Monk · 13-05-2021 8:58am

Beautiful morning in Dublin. At the seafront now and no wind and warm sunshine.

esposito · 13-05-2021 11:05am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Beautiful morning in Dublin. At the seafront now and no wind and warm sunshine.

I’m really hoping we won’t have many windy days over the summer. Can’t stand the wind especially when temperatures are cool.

Oscar Bravo · 13-05-2021 1:25pm

The met station at Knock and a Qatar A330 that landed this morning for part out/scrap

Harry Palmr · 13-05-2021 2:01pm

Met Error are fecking useless for Waterford!. If you were to take their forecasts at face value then we'd have been in general showery regime for the last three days. Waterford hasn't seen a daytime drop in that period (yes rain on Tuesday night)

Just now the lunchtime forecast started with the same suggestion of widespread showers before coming clean and mentioning that Muster might well be dry with long sunny spells. Which it is.

Tyrone212 · 13-05-2021 2:26pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/1392758650201120771

Two years ago there were 65,000 sheets of paper containing hand-written measurements of rainfall taken all across the UK & Ireland before 1960. Virtually all of the 5.28 million observations on these sheets were unavailable to climate scientists as they had never been digitised. 16k+ stepped forward during lockdown to transcribe every observation.

Has locations in Ireland going back to 1826.

13-05-2021 6:58pm

This week has once again been better than forecast. East coast Dublin.

Not just met eireann, the iOS weather app was showing rain every day.

13-05-2021 6:59pm

Tyrone212 wrote: »

https://mobile.twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/1392758650201120771

Two years ago there were 65,000 sheets of paper containing hand-written measurements of rainfall taken all across the UK & Ireland before 1960. Virtually all of the 5.28 million observations on these sheets were unavailable to climate scientists as they had never been digitised. 16k+ stepped forward during lockdown to transcribe every observation.

Has locations in Ireland going back to 1826.

Wow! Great with there.

Also Great handwriting on the sample there.

mcburns07 · 13-05-2021 7:59pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This week has once again been better than forecast. East coast Dublin.

Not just met eireann, the iOS weather app was showing rain every day.

The ios app shows rain if there's a chance of any rain at all during that day, it's absolutely rubbish.

13-05-2021 8:40pm

mcburns07 wrote: »

The ios app shows rain if there's a chance of any rain at all during that day, it's absolutely rubbish.

Yeh, clearly written in California :-p

appledrop · 13-05-2021 8:53pm

A beautiful evening in NCD.

Great to be able to come home from work sit outside, have dinner and relax.

Bring on the summer!

13-05-2021 9:28pm

10c outside in wicklow
Feels like 20c!

Gonzo · 13-05-2021 10:03pm

a relatively cool day here in Meath, some nice sunny spells earlier in the afternoon. Not much rain has fallen this week either and the ground is still fairly dry, not as bad as a week as I was expecting.

lolie · 13-05-2021 10:18pm

After a dull cloudy start to the day it turned out a cracking afternoon and evening, very warm out in the sun.
We escaped all the showers all week.
Theres a nice crescent moon out now and the planet Mercury a little above it to the right. Venus is to the right of them very low on the horizon.

Meteorite58 · 13-05-2021 11:48pm

Turned out a grand day after the cloudy morning with just a few drops here near Tralee. Bit breezy on the coast but pleasant sunshine and felt that mit milder then of late although still had a jacket on , clouded over again later in the evening. Silage contractors working late tonight., I'm sure the farmers would like to get it in before the rain tomorrow into Saturday.

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compsys · 14-05-2021 1:37am

mcburns07 wrote: »

The ios app shows rain if there's a chance of any rain at all during that day, it's absolutely rubbish.

Exactly.

The forecast itself is not necessarily rubbish but the icons Apple chooses to represent a day's weather are ridiculously pessimistic.

Once you get to within 24 hours and can see the hourly forecast, things are reasonably accurate.

The main problem is that the iOS app doesn't have a 'sunshine with showers' icon, which I cannot understand.

So after 24 hours, if there's more than a 30% chance of rain on a given day - even just a few showers with lots of sun in between (which let's face it in Ireland is almost always a possibility) you just get a 'grey cloud with rain icon', which on first glance would make it appear like it's going to be cloudy and raining for the entire day.

toffeeshel · 14-05-2021 8:03am

compsys wrote: »

Exactly.

The forecast itself is not necessarily rubbish but the icons Apple chooses to represent a day's weather are ridiculously pessimistic.

Once you get to within 24 hours and can see the hourly forecast, things are reasonably accurate.

The main problem is that the iOS app doesn't have a 'sunshine with showers' icon, which I cannot understand.

So after 24 hours, if there's more than a 30% chance of rain on a given day - even just a few showers with lots of sun in between (which let's face it in Ireland is almost always a possibility) you just get a 'grey cloud with rain icon', which on first glance would make it appear like it's going to be cloudy and raining for the entire day.

The app is showing rain for Dublin 13 for every day up to and including tomorrow week. Hopefully you’re right and it’s only showers.

beggars_bush · 14-05-2021 9:53am

from Tuesday on, this has been the best week of weather all year in the midlands

pauldry · 14-05-2021 10:10am

Very good in Sligo too.

Id say well in excess of 30 hours sun in the past 4 days.

Last July we got that much in the first 2 weeks if even.

And more hours so far today.

April and May are easily the best months for sun.

Zipppy · 14-05-2021 10:48am

I have noticed most of week that Met.ie forecast changes a lot more than noirmal..one minute rain forecast,..then showers...then less showers...and we eventually get none , in Dublin anyhow.
Forecast was very pessimistic earlier in week but had some very nice days (cool, but calm and no rain and sunny)

Thelonious Monk · 14-05-2021 1:42pm

Blazing sunshine with no cloud in Dublin but RTE are telling me it's raining right now, what are they at?

lolie · 14-05-2021 1:47pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Blazing sunshine with no cloud in Dublin but RTE are telling me it's raining right now, what are they at?

Check the radar its raining in places.

Very warm out here but a lot of black cloud bubbling up, more so than any other day this week.

DOCARCH · 14-05-2021 1:48pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Blazing sunshine with no cloud in Dublin but RTE are telling me it's raining right now, what are they at?

It was raining in my part of south Dublin for an hour earlier and it looks like it's raining at the moment in west Dublin.

Thelonious Monk · 14-05-2021 1:50pm

Weird, it's beautiful in D5

Donegal Storm · 14-05-2021 3:14pm

Heavy rain every day this week in Letterkenny (except maybe Monday, can't remember..)

Torrential rain/hail at the moment

14-05-2021 3:57pm

Dublin east coast. Another nice day in a supposedly bad week.

Gonzo · 14-05-2021 4:46pm

wettest day of the week here in Meath, plenty of showers on and off for past few hours.

SleetAndSnow · 14-05-2021 4:59pm

Rain just starting here now in cork city. Not a Great month, some lovely sunsets though.

Oneiric 3 · 14-05-2021 6:09pm

Pressure pattern animation for the last 7 days. Flabbed out low which anchored itself off the west coast on Saturday stuck around for the best part of the week. Dissipating now but only to be replaced by another fresh one for next week.

The yawn fest to continue.

Harry Palmr · 14-05-2021 6:13pm

Lovely day in the SE. A very little wind, a few bits of fair weather cloud drifting by. If anything a bit too warm when working outside (yeah I know!)

KanyeSouthEast · 14-05-2021 9:16pm

Horrible wet dreary evening. Today was ok up to about 5 there was a bit of sun and no wind. This month has been dismal so far. Cold, at times wet at times windy not much sun. The outlook for the next week not great either. Things need to start picking up surely?

Danno · 14-05-2021 11:49pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Pressure pattern animation for the last 7 days. Flabbed out low which anchored itself off the west coast on Saturday stuck around for the best part of the week. Dissipating now but only to be replaced by another fresh one for next week.

The yawn fest to continue.

It always amazes me how the weather can be so different across this island depending on location. Apart from the 6mm that fell here in Southern Laois on Wednesday afternoon and the Monday showers it has been a relatively decent week in these parts. Not much to complain about round here apart from the lack of decent heat, but the good sunny spells coupled with a largely benign breeze made it pleasant enough considering the atmospheric profile.

Donegal Storm · 15-05-2021 12:26am

Danno wrote: »

It always amazes me how the weather can be so different across this island depending on location. Apart from the 6mm that fell here in Southern Laois on Wednesday afternoon and the Monday showers it has been a relatively decent week in these parts. Not much to complain about round here apart from the lack of decent heat, but the good sunny spells coupled with a largely benign breeze made it pleasant enough considering the atmospheric profile.

Always think the same. When you're coming in to land at DUB you can easily see all the way from the Mourne mountains to the tip of Wexford. Makes you realise how a tiny body of land we live on compared to the scale of weather systems yet the difference between e.g. Donegal and Wexford can be night and day for much of the year

Gaoth Laidir · 15-05-2021 7:43am

On that; here are the distances between the stations. It's a small island in some ways but not others...

Thelonious Monk · 15-05-2021 8:46am

Horrible morning in Dublin. Just watching BBC weather, it's cooler than normal pretty much all over Europe this month. I think it was 2 years ago we were having highs of 12c in the middle of June, I really hope it has changed by then.

Oscar Bravo · 15-05-2021 10:11am

Status Yellow - Thunderstorm warning for Leinster, Munster, Connacht

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and evening, bringing some heavy downpours with a risk of hail and localised spot flooding.

Valid: 12:00 Saturday 15/05/2021 to 21:00 Saturday 15/05/21

Chris_5339762 · 15-05-2021 11:01am

Absolute cracker of a day yesterday for my trip to Waterford (Tintern Abbey, Cheekpoint). 15, 16c throughout and tshirt weather for a time. Glorious.

I replanned the day when I saw that Killarney would be under the pisser from lunchtime onwards. Great call. Headed home from Waterford when it started drizzling.

appledrop · 15-05-2021 11:46am

Miserable auld morning in Dublin alright.

Ah well I suppose that means it's time to do the boring jobs around the house.

Hopefully tomorrow will be nicer to get out and about.

highdef · 15-05-2021 12:26pm

There was rain first thing this morning in North kildare but that was gone by about 9am. Good warm sunny spells between 11 and 12 but has clouded up again and will be surprised if there are no showers in the coming hours.

Donegal Storm · 15-05-2021 12:30pm

Horrible wet day in Letterkenny again

Gonzo · 15-05-2021 1:22pm

wet day in Meath. No let up in the cool and unsettled conditions between now and the end of the month. Infact we could have one more cold plunge about a week from now with possibly wintry conditions on hill tops.

KanyeSouthEast · 15-05-2021 1:24pm

Gonzo wrote: »

wet day in Meath. No let up in the cool and unsettled conditions between now and the end of the month. Infact we could have one more cold plunge about a week from now with possibly wintry conditions on hill tops.

Ah ffs! Write off of a month so. June and July needs to deliver something really.

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