Recent notable weather extremes (temp, sunshine, rainfall) in Ireland

Supercell

Impressive figures alright, the cold seems to be very localised in this snap.

Was -2c this morning in the back garden and it took a good 15 mins hacking at the car windows with an icescraper and de-icer spray this morning to clear the car windows (the car thermometer was registering -3 but its not very accurate when stationary I think). Yet Dublin Airport was +3 at the same time and presumably had a light ground frost.

Interesting weather, tbh I dont like the frost and slippery roads as a L driver (had first slip on the road this morning ..thankfully was early so didnt hit anything or anyone on the almost empty road)..give me snow and an excuse not to make it into work and i'll happily make a snowman instead!!

Mothman

Belmullet 8.3h, equal to previous day and station record for Jan. Station opened in 1956
Malin Head 7.6h Highest Jan figure since at least 1957
Valentia 7.6h Highest Jan figure since at least 1957

Mothman

I should have mentioned this earlier, but the 8.5hrs sunshine recorded at Cork Airport on 29th Jan 2006, is the highest daily Jan amount ever measured in Ireland

Mothman

Sunshine has been absent in places for a week and more.

Rosslare has recorded no sunshine during the 7 days from Jan 31st to Feb 6th, Birr has gone a day longer without sunshine, with the sunless spell beginning on the 30th.

Like Rosslare, I’ve recorded none in Ashford Co. Wicklow for the same period, and as today Feb 7th has been sunless, this makes it 8 days on the trot.

I’ve no idea how unusual it is to have a weekly period without sunshine, but I think it’s even more notable with the fact that it’s Rosslare.

Mothman

Mothman wrote:

Sunshine has been absent in places for a week and more.

Rosslare has recorded no sunshine during the 7 days from Jan 31st to Feb 6th, Birr has gone a day longer without sunshine, with the sunless spell beginning on the 30th.

Like Rosslare, I’ve recorded none in Ashford Co. Wicklow for the same period, and as today Feb 7th has been sunless, this makes it 8 days on the trot.

I’ve no idea how unusual it is to have a weekly period without sunshine, but I think it’s even more notable with the fact that it’s Rosslare.

Sunless spell ended being 8 days at Rosslare and 9 at Birr

Mothman

Got to be worth noting that the -1.0C at Rosslare this morning is first sub zero air temp at the station since Feb 2004 and lowest in March since -1.6C in 1995

Mothman

-2.3C this morning at Rosslare lowest March temp at the station since 1980.

With wind tending to be from east again, I don't expect it to be as cold tonight though other parts of country will.

Temp at least as low as -16.4C recorded in Scotland this morning.

Mothman

Ireland, mins to 06z, and lowest since.

Birr -4.3° 2000

Dublin Csmt Aero -4.0° 1999

Clones -2.8° 2000

Dublin AP -3.3° 2000

Mullingar -4.4° Lowest on record, station opened early 1950s

Kilkenny -2.1° 2002

Shannon -2.1° 1979

Cork-Corcaigh -1.1° 2000

Belmullet -0.6° 1996

Valentia Island 0.6° 2001

Mothman

Updating the figures as some mins may have been after 06z. Some changes.

Ireland, mins to 5th April, and lowest since.

Birr -4.4° 2000 Also -13.2C grass min. I think likely to be station record low for April

Dublin Csmt Aero -4.2° 1998

Clones -2.9° =2000

Dublin AP -3.3° 2000

Mullingar -4.4° Since records began 1943

Kilkenny -2.1° 2002

Shannon -2.3° 1968

Cork-Corcaigh -1.3° 2000

Belmullet -0.6° 1996

Valentia Island 0.3° 2000

Mothman

Belmullet 123.9mm Wettest since 2002 (125.7mm)
Birr 123.6 wettest since 1916
Casement 75.4 2002 82.5mm
Clones 124.1 1967 146.4mm
Cork AP 134.7 2002 162.8
Dublin AP 116.9 2002 120.8
Kilkenny 98.2 1993 149.8
Malin Head 74.2 2005 94.6
Mullingar 133.7 Since at least 1958
Rosslare 108.3 2003 112.6
Shannon 126.2 1981 141.4
Valentia 208.2 Wettest on record (since 1866)
Ashford Co. Wicklow 113.3 2002 153.4

Mothman

17th July

Shannon Airport 28.6C
Casement 28.0C
Highest temperatures since August 1995 at both stations.

It'll be similar story at other stations such as Kilkenny and Birr, but i don't have actual maxes at hand yet
Edit to add more
Kilkenny 29.5C
Birr 29.5C
Clones 28.7C
Mullingar 28.2C

Highest July temp at all the above stations since 1989, and apart from Mullingar, the highest temperatures since 1995. Mullingar 2003.

Snowbie

Keep them coming Mothman,you can probably add 1c to most today tuesday.

Mothman

Some of the sunniest July days for decades.

15th July
Clones 15.2h sunniest July day since 1977
Birr 14.8h sunniest July day since 1987

Mothman

Max at Shannon, 30.2C, equals that recorded in June 1995. Have to go back to July 1983 to find higher.
Casement 29.0C, highest since Aug 1990, and highest July temp since 1983.


Valentia 26.6 highest for July since 1990
Cork Airport 25.3
Rosslare 19.0
Dublin Airport 25.2
Knock 27.3
Belmullet 26.9 highest for July since 1983
Malin head 23.8
Birr 30.1C Highest since July 83
Kilkenny 30.2C Highest since Aug 95

Mothman

19th July Max temps.

Casement 31.0C Highest on record. Station opened 1964
Belmullet 29.9C Highest on record. Station opened 1956
Dublin Airport 26.5C highest since Jun 95, highest for Jul since 89
Valentia 26.8C Highest for Jul since 1990
Cork AP 21.4C
Rosslare 23.3C
Shannon 25.9C
Knock 27.5C
Malin Head 25.0C Highest for Jul since 95
Ashford Co. Wicklow 28.9C Highest on record (Nov 99), beating previous high of 26.7C

Mothman

Valentia 47mm, (wettest September day since 1993)
Kilkenny 28.4mm (2000)
Cork AP 24.4mm (1999)
Mullingar 24.2mm (1999)
Birr 24.1mm (1999)
Shannon 24.1mm (1993)

In contrast
Dublin AP 1.7mm
Casement 4.7mm

Snowbie

October was my wettest month so far with 79.9mm.
March had 75.5 is my second wettest.
Comparing to June had 9.1mm for the whole month.
Total YTD 499.0mm

Mothman

Unbroken sunshine across much of Ireland.

Dublin AP 8.8 hours. Sunniest day on record for November
Kilkenny 8.7h Sunniest Nov day since 1968
Casement 8.4h 2nd sunniest on record, after 8.5h in 1968

I had 8.6h, and considering I loose exposure at both ends of day, it'll certainly never be bettered in November.

billy the squid

It's been bloody windy down here all night.

BTW 966 hp at knock airport.
963 at Finner
962 at Mallin head

Snowbie

968.1hpa was lowest pressure which is a new station record.A moderate breeze here nothing more.

ninebeanrows

Malin Head recording a pressure of 959mb .... very low ... awaiting 1300utc update.

Pherekydes

Interesting to note the extremes in temperatures on the Met office website for Friday, 12 Jan:

Weather Data for Yesterday 12-Jan-2007

Station 	Max 	Min
Belmullet 	12.5	7.6
Birr     	12.6	7.7
Casement	13.4	6.8
Claremorris 	12.3	7.1
Clones      	12.3	6.7
Cork Airport 	11.6	7.6
Dublin Airport 	12.8	6.8
Finner Camp 	13	7.1
Kilkenny 	13.3	7.9
Knock Airport 	12.2	5.9
Malin Head 	12.6	7
Mullingar 	12.4	6.6
Roches Point 	12.3	9.1
Rosslare 	12	9.2
Shannon Airport	13.2	8.6
Valentia 	12.7	10.7

Note that the temperature range for Valentia for the entire 24-hour period is only 2 degrees! :eek:

Mothman

Max at Clones was 17.4C
Claremorris 16.7C
Kilkenny/Mullingar 16.5C

With me last night equal record April low of -1.4C (soft record)
Grass min -6.9C, 0.1C behind record low.

Record April diurnal range of 15.8C will certainly go today.

Snowbie

11.2hrs of sun today.Not bad at all for early April.

Snowbie

12.3 hrs of sun today.
Max solar 691 w/m2
Max UV 3.9
Max temp of 13.4c

Snowbie

8.37hrs of sunshine
Max solar 907 w/m2
Max UV 4.1
Max temp 15.9c
9 days without rain.

Mothman

I'm not going to give all the stats, its just too much.
Full report from Met Eireann

It was the driest April at 2 stations.
Casement 5.4mm
and Shannon AP 11.2mm

It was warmest April nearly everywhere inc Phoenix Park where previous record of 10.2C set in 1865 and 1987 was broken by 1.0C

All stations bar Valentia had a mean higher than the normal for May and it was warmer at many stations than May last year!

It was sunniest April on record nearly everywhere. And by huge margins in places. Some examples
Dublin AP 239hrs, previous highest 205hrs
Casement 230hrs (198hrs)
Rosslare 243hrs (232hrs)

Incidently I recorded 246hrs with Campbell Stokes, though the official reading of cards could vary by a couple hours. My 2nd sunniest month on record, in my 4th year now. Though that month, July 06 has an extra day, so daily mean was higher.

Finally a couple interesting daily stats, one of them very odd considering how dry a month it was.
Belmullet recorded 23.5mm rain on 25th, its wettest April day on record (1956). The following day, 26th, 14.1 hrs sunshine was recorded, the joint highest daily value on record for April at any staion

Trogdor

Had 0.3mm here today, the first recordable rainfall in 38 days

Mothman

While I'm here.

Roches Point 23.1C, highest on record for May, stationed opened 18??
Rosslare 22.3 highest on record for May, stationed opened 1957, previous highest 21.1c
Cork Airport 23.5C, 0.1C behind record set in 1991

Snowbie

I worded that wrong (too late too tired) was meant to say windiest May day instead of May as a whole.Personally i dont remember a day in May being as gusty with a high mean before.
First for me here.High 10 min avg of 25mph.