Wetterzentrale extends 500pHa and 850 hPa re-analysis all the way back to 1870!!!

patneve2

Sorry to open up a new post, but those legends of wetterzentrale have made 850hPa charts and 500 hPa charts available for every day all the way back to 1870!!

Two interesting charts I've dug up:

1. 27th February 1947...Now THAT's an Easterly
2. 3rd February 1929... -25 @ 850 hPa flirts with southern Europe

Check out the 1947 spell, the last two winters are nothing compared to it...Also interesting to see all the heatwaves...enjoy....and lets see who digs up the coldest Irish chart:D

patneve2

Link: http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsreaeur.html

maquiladora

April 1917 snowstorm :

Harps

Nice find, another from 1917 in the middle of a two week spell of strong easterly winds

patneve2

Harps wrote: »

Nice find, another from 1917 in the middle of a two week spell of strong easterly winds

One of those few times that Cork would have gotten way more snow than Dublin (I think)

je55ie

maquiladora wrote: »

April 1917 snowstorm :

Was the cold weather in 1917 caused by Katla erupting or was that a different year?

Min

patneve2 wrote: »

Sorry to open up a new post, but those legends of wetterzentrale have made 850hPa charts and 500 hPa charts available for every day all the way back to 1870!!

Two interesting charts I've dug up:

1. 27th February 1947...Now THAT's an Easterly
2. 3rd February 1929... -25 @ 850 hPa flirts with southern Europe

Check out the 1947 spell, the last two winters are nothing compared to it...Also interesting to see all the heatwaves...enjoy....and lets see who digs up the coldest Irish chart:D

Yes, my father says the last couple of winters were as you say, nothing compared to 1947, he said it freezed for weeks before the snow came, he knew it was bad with the winds from the east so he gathered firewood everyday, when the snow eventually came, it was so high that the ditches disappeared...wouldn't fancy that.

Min

The warmest day ever recorded in Ireland, 33.3c at Kilkenny castle.

Min

The coldest recorded temperature in Ireland, Markree castle, Sligo at -19.1C

patneve2

Min wrote: »

The warmest day ever recorded in Ireland, 33.3c at Kilkenny castle.

That's a funny one cause if you see the temp at 1400 meters on that day, its not all that warm (About 12/13 C)...any thoughts?

Min

patneve2 wrote: »

That's a funny one cause if you see the temp at 1400 meters on that day, its not all that warm (About 12/13 C)...any thoughts?

Looks like it was a long hot spell of at least three weeks so the ground would have been warm and very dry so it would have been favourable for higher temperatures, the centre of the high was over Ireland for a long period so maybe heat was trapped at the core, also around the longest day of the year so a short night. Winds would have been calm or near calm with sea breezes around the coasts.
Well that is my guess. I will leave it to the experts to see how right or wrong I am.

patneve2

My personal favourite so far

cherryghost

We should set up an 'On This Day' thread, picking out the most notable weather that occured on the date :P

TheInquisitor

This is my favorite anyway... THE DAY I WAS BORN!

Harps

Mine, be great to get this setup at this time of the year, not much good in November :rolleyes:

dsmythy

August 10th.


Sometimes it is nice like in 1991





And for those looking outside today the people on the same date in 1885 probably had the same despair.

SEPT 23 1989

My father told me there was thundersnow the night i was born

thetonynator

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

My father told me there was thundersnow the night i was born

So you weren't born on 23 sept 1989? :eek:

:pac:

Strangegravy

Apparently there was heavy snow when I was born, and worries that my father wouldn't be able to get into the hospital to collect my Mum and I!

Maybe I noticed it around me and that's what started my obsession with it.

fizzycyst

thetonynator wrote: »

So you weren't born on 23 sept 1989? :eek:

:pac:

My thought's exactly!

dsmythy

The 11th of August

The bad of 1989:






And the much better of 1880:

Pangea

Snow Week 2000

Pangea

Christmas Day 1995
I remember it started snowing Christmas Eve

patneve2

Pangea wrote: »

Snow Week 2000

The Snow in the North and West was impressive during that week. Even more impressive was seeing snow showers reach Dublin all the way from the Atlantic Ocean during a North/North Westerly!

hotwhiskey

Snow in MAY!

I remember this so well i was a bricky back then started on a new site that week, We had no cover from the biting North wind and heavy snow showers.

dsmythy

17th of August. This day 1940. I'd say it was quite warm....

dsmythy

A random one from the same year in December. Enough to rip the heart out of snow lovers. Epic battle between high and low.

dsmythy

A few hours after Michael Fish broadcast his most famous forecast

Min

The thunder and lightning all Ireland hurling final and also the day WW2 started.

dsmythy

16th September 1961. The remnants of Hurricane Debbie approach Ireland.





Could be many a year before a storm which is still holding it's tropical status comes so close to Ireland I'd imagine.

admiralofthefleet

can someone put a pic up of the start of the heatwave in the best summer ever; 1995