First 0c tonight?

Snowbie

Min of 5.9c True MM the wind has to take on a more NE to E direction over the next few days,so thats us snookered for very low temps here.

Supercell

Bah humbug,
/shakes fist at the sky

Maybe over the weekend . One thing is for sure, with a NE I'm not going to brake any local low temp records, 100% cloud cover and the odd spit and spot of rain in the wind.
If this was winter I'd be climbing the walls willing the Irish sea to deliver though

Put the storage heaters on this evening, house is bloomin freezing, today's max was 11.1°C which really is a winters day type temp.

arctictree

Getting cooler now but still quite windy and cloudy. If the cloud clears and wind drops, we could see some low temps but otherwise will probably be later in the week.

6.5c ATM, the wood stove is on for the first time this autumn!

A

Damomanye

Sky news weather maps have dublin at -4 at some point over the night..are they for real?

EDIT: ok didnt have my glasses on, it was 4 degrees , no minus..doh

Snowbie

Temp has risen here half degree in the last 10 mins,a blob of cloud has passed over my house being the culprit.:rolleyes:

Edit:has passed falling again 8.9c

mike65

Prolly don't need it but I've put card across the windscreen. Its very still down here with a brilliant moon.

Mike.

SpitfireIV

Well, tis colder than lastnight already , currently 5c here.

arctictree

Longfield wrote:

Put the storage heaters on this evening, house is bloomin freezing, today's max was 11.1°C which really is a winters day type temp.

My mean temp today so far (and will only go lower) is 7.3c. From my records, I can see quite a few days in January with higher means than that.

Reached 4.4c a while ago but has got cloudy now and back up to 4.8c

A

Weather BOFH

Temp has dropped over 2°C in the past hour or so, down to 3.8°C here at the moment.

SpitfireIV

Ah, now thats a little more like it , low of 1.8c.

Mothman

Birr sub zero this morning

Snowbie

All the coastal resorts here in the east well above freezing due to an onshore NE breeze.
6.1c my low.

Weather BOFH

Nearly made it here, overnight low of 0.9°C.

-0.4 @ 07:00 in Athlone, first one of the winter.

Trogdor

Low of 7.1C last night, so far the 18th has been the coldest with 6.7C

Supercell

My mean temp last couple of days has been in the 7°C range, if there wasn't that onshore breeze it would probably be a couple of degrees or more lower..in September!!

Of course this means this winter will be the mildest ever ever!*





























*Outside WC's house

Hal1

The met office said a low of -1 tonight, probably cooler near the coast. I can feel the wind chill already :eek: Stick another log on the fire

Supercell

Hal1 whereabouts are you based, was it Louth or Meath or am I thinking of another poster?

Does anoyone know of any Vantage stations in the midlands?, would like to compare like with like during this spell.

Snowbie

I think Hal is near Dublin foothills.
I dont know of any Davis stations in the midlands only the met synoptics.

Hal1

Err hi guys , Im about 2 miles down the road from casement. No weather station though.

SpitfireIV

Not even close..........last night low of 5.5c :rolleyes:

Longfield

Longfield wrote:

Does anoyone know of any Vantage stations in the midlands?, would like to compare like with like during this spell.

Well I have an Oregean Scientific system if that's any good. The sensor sometimes reads a bit high in the sunshine but looks OK for the minimum temperatures.

arctictree

Looks like Birr hit -1.1 last night :

http://www.met.ie/latest/yesterday.asp

As far as I can see, thats a 30 year September record for Birr :

http://www.met.ie/climate/birr.asp

A

Supercell

I can't help the "what if?" feeling.

9 weeks from now I'd probably be looking at about 9-10 cm snow ...
Very pleased to see the pattern of precip in a NE wind though under these conditions, looks like this location is pretty favoured

Snowbie

Agree with that Longfield,cant help refering back to October 2003 when South Dublin and Wicklow where again in the firing line of,at the time TS and snow,while here was just on the northern side of all that.

Although in Febuary 1991 we got a blizzard from the NE that dumped nearly 5 inches of snow in a short space of time.I live in hope.

Supercell

Snowbie wrote:

Agree with that Longfield,cant help refering back to October 2003 when South Dublin and Wicklow where again in the firing line of,at the time TS and snow,while here was just on the northern side of all that.

Although in Febuary 1991 we got a blizzard from the NE that dumped nearly 5 inches of snow in a short space of time.I live in hope.

You and me both mate, we're overdue something special this year..

La Nina is going to make it interesting..hopefully not a repeat stormy one.

Mothman

arctictree wrote:

Looks like Birr hit -1.1 last night :

http://www.met.ie/latest/yesterday.asp

As far as I can see, thats a 30 year September record for Birr :

http://www.met.ie/climate/birr.asp

A

Lowest September temp at a synoptic station since -1.6C at Kilkenny and -1.2C at Claremorris, both in 1972.

Birr recorded -1.0C in both 1986 and 1987

BTW the -6.6C grass min is fairly harsh for September as well.

Supercell

Synoptics are interesting.
Cold temps are possible at the weekend here also.

I'm confidant that a clear night with no or low winds could give sub zero low temperature here.

Mothman

Longfield wrote:

Synoptics are interesting.
Cold temps are possible at the weekend here also.

I'm confidant that a clear night with no or low winds could give sub zero low temperature here.

Its the last night or even the night after the cold spell that sneeks in a cold night here along east coast.
With the easterly (or even northerly with me) it'll stay fairly mild with low diurnal ranges. But when an atlantic front comes in it shuts off the easterly and while the rest of country has finished with cold spell, here on the eastern side of Wicklow Mountains, bang we suddenly get a cold one just ahead of the advancing front.

In the past I've been caught out by this but I've wised up to it now