Spring Weather 2016

sryanbruen

Carnacalla wrote: »

Very warm here today in West Clare. Quiet unpleasant in heavy clothes.

Feeling very warm here as well in the sun - though most of Dublin isn't, so I'm quite lucky.

sryanbruen

By unseasonably cool conditions next week, are we talking unseasonably cool in which of the following kind:

- December 2010
- January 1963
- May 1996
- April 1989

I'm thinking May 1996 (definitely not December 2010 and January 1963 at least :pac:).

Clonmel1000

Beautiful evening here quite warm glorious sunshine.

Oscar Bravo

Likewise -castlebar, clear blue skies, moon rising low in the East now.

km79

Dinner outside
Music on
The form is good tonight

sryanbruen

Why can't it be like this for the rest of April? . COLD AIR :mad:, we wanted you at Winter but now we don't want you, feck off until the end of November.

sryanbruen

sryanbruen wrote: »

My predictions

March - Very dull, cold and wet. - Dullest March on record
April - Very cold, dull and wet. Potential cold snap. - Coldest April on record and maybe dullest in over 24 years
May - Average temperatures but sunny and dry. - Nothing remarkable

^ I hope not! LOL

Well I am half right so far.

March

Dull - X
Cold - ✓
Wet - X

April

Cold - ✓
Dull - ✓
Wet - ✓

And May is looking like a cold first half followed by a possible warm second half though it could be just average! If it works out like cold first half then warm second half, I will be bang on for average temperatures in May.

MJohnston

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why can't it be like this for the rest of April? . COLD AIR :mad:, we wanted you at Winter but now we don't want you, feck off until the end of November.

Given today, I suspect that as long as it's sunny and not too windy, it'll not *feel* too cold. Of course, that's a lot of 'ifs'

JCX BXC

Tomorrow looks very nice, finishing early tomorrow so I think I will be sitting outside for a while!

Clonmel1000

Absolutely freezing tonight once sun went.

Padster90s

How long is next weeks cold expected to linger? I seen a big blocking high next week to our N'west on the forecast today , I really hope it pops down for a visit.

sryanbruen

Padster90s wrote: »

How long is next weeks cold expected to linger? I seen a big blocking high next week to our N'west on the forecast today , I really hope it pops down for a visit.

Possibly into the start of May 😬

kittyn

km79 wrote: »

Dinner outside
Music on
The form is good tonight

I was wondering who was playing the music

Haha 8)

Rikand

The Summer has arrived!

Oscar Bravo

beautiful clear skies here in Castlebar and very good visibility , little or no wind.

cherryghost

Nice day. Pity I'm work with broken aircon. Went out for lunch. Gloriously mild (perhaps even warm without the breeze) in the sunshine.

sryanbruen

Mad fact about the weather here at Grange

Wednesday, April 20th 2011: Very warm and abundantly sunny.
Wednesday, April 20th 2016: Feeling quite warm and abundantly sunny.

km79

Rikand wrote: »

The Summer has arrived!

This is my fear !

sryanbruen

km79 wrote: »

This is my fear !

Why? Because you're worried then we will get absolutely ****e weather at Summer time itself?

km79

sryanbruen wrote: »

Why? Because you're worried then we will get absolutely ****e weather at Summer time itself?

Yes but I'll enjoy this now

JCX BXC

Very dissapointingly a thickish hazy cloud has arrived causing the sun to be very weak.

Lumi

17.2C in Galway city - a real peach of a day

sryanbruen

km79 wrote: »

Yes but I'll enjoy this now

It has been an exceptionally poor April so I wouldn't fear if I were you.

Billcarson

^^^^^^^^
I would not call this april exceptionally poor,the temps have been on the cool side but its been not all that wet.

Lovely day here today in the east ,cooler then in the west ,current temp 13.8c.

sryanbruen

Billcarson wrote: »

^^^^^^^^
I would not call this april exceptionally poor,the temps have been on the cool side but its been not all that wet.

Lovely day here today in the east ,cooler then in the west ,current temp 13.8c.

OH YES IT HAS BEEN WET...!!

My totals this April

1st: 3.6mm
2nd: 19.5mm
3rd: 8.4mm
4th: 4.5mm

^ that's already 36.0mm (92% of my monthly LTA)

5th: 0.0mm
6th: 5.3mm
7th: 2.9mm
8th: 9.7mm
9th: 0.0mm
10th: 0.0mm
11th: 39.2mm

^ now that's 93.1mm (239% of my monthly LTA)

12th: 0.0mm
13th: 0.0mm
14th: 1.4mm
15th: 3.8mm
16th: 0.0mm
17th: 0.0mm
18th: 0.2mm
19th: 0.0mm
20th: 0.0mm

Recently, it has gotten a lot better but the first 11 days (most of them) made this month very poor here.

As you can see from my April statistics up to now

Rainfall: 98.5mm (253% of the LTA)
Mean temperature: 7.0c (-1.2c below the LTA)
Sunshine: 92 hours (64% of the LTA) - it has gotten better recently but still duller than usual by this time of the month

By this time last year, I was up to twice that sunshine total around 170-180 hours - and it was my sunniest April on record.

You can tell a big difference between the first and second half (not done yet so of course not as wet/sunny) also

Rainfall

1st-15th: 98.3mm
16th-20th: 0.2mm

Temperature

1st-15th: 6.9c
16th-20th: 7.2c

Sunshine

1st-15th: 58 hours
16th-20th: 33 hours (already - compared to the first half)

So I think I know what I'm talking 'bout when it has been exceptionally poor here.

Billcarson

^^^^^^^
Second half of the month should make up somewhat from the wetter first half which should balance things out in the end .


I should say if you are already way above your LTA rainfall well clearly it will go down as a very wet month. But the number of wet days is what also should be considered. So a very wet first half for your location and a much drier second half doesnt seem exceptionally bad to me OVERALL.

sryanbruen

This has been the best day in a long while!

Elmer Blooker

I'm getting excited now and the possibility of something exceptional that could be remembered years from now!
I'm not interested in summer in April and when did an Irish summer ever begin in April anyway?
-7.7c (Markree, Sligo, 15-4-1892) is the one to beat.

sryanbruen

A question that has been on my mind, has been 2016 been as windy as 2015 or even windier?

Here are my record positions

2015

January - third windiest in my records
February - sixth windiest in my records
March - fourth windiest in my records
April - sixth calmest in my records
May - fourth windiest in my records
June - second windiest in my records
July - third windiest in my records
August - fourth windiest in my records
September - pretty average
October - third calmest in my records
November - third windiest in my records
December - second windiest in my records

2016

January - fourth windiest in my records
February - fourth windiest in my records
March - pretty average
April - sixth windiest in my records

^ Well it has been a very windy start to the year and is actually kind of along the line as 2015. Springs meanwhile

2015 - fourth windiest in my records
2016 so far - ninth windiest in my records (nothing remarkable)

sryanbruen

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

I'm getting excited now and the possibility of something exceptional that could be remembered years from now!
I'm not interested in summer in April and when did an Irish summer ever begin in April anyway?
-7.7c (Markree, Sligo, 15-4-1892) is the one to beat.

April 2007 and April 2011 is when an Irish summer began in April. Plus NO NO NO, I'm not getting excited. Me want warmth. It's not the time of year for that kind of air mass.