Spring 2018: General Discussion

Artane2002

Today isn't particularly bad in Dublin but it just feels miserable. Frequent showers interspersed with sunshine.

sryanbruen

Artane2002 wrote: »

Today isn't particularly bad in Dublin but it just feels miserable. Frequent showers interested with sunshine.

It’s a typical April day, what an April day should be. Nothing unusual.

vicwatson

lovelyhurler wrote: »

Imagine that, temperatures rising in May and June.
Who'd have thunk it???????

What his speciality - stating the bleedin' obvious.

Oh no not him again ffs

Artane2002

sryanbruen wrote: »

It’s a typical April day, what an April day should be. Nothing unusual.

Showers aren't this frequent normally for here though.

Sorry I made a typo. I meant to say 'interspersed' but it was autocorrected to 'interested'

vicwatson

sryanbruen wrote: »

It’s a typical April day, what an April day should be. Nothing unusual.

April showers bring forth May flowers

NAGDEFI

vicwatson wrote: »

Oh no not him again ffs

Apparently 6 foxes were seen doing the Siege of Ennis in Donegal and as we all know that's a sign of great weather ☺️

sryanbruen

"It's an old people saying, that if you get a very cold winter, with an east wind. We had it in the early 60s and 70s. It's a great guide to what's coming and I hope I get it right."

Yeah but that's a myth. You'll rarely find significantly cold Winters followed by equally hot Summers or just warm Summers. Like April or Spring, Winters have no consequence on the succeeding Summer. Not to mention, 2017/18 was a pretty average Winter overall in terms of temperatures, it wasn't anything significant! December was close to average, January was close to average, February was cold.

Summer 1995 was preceded by the exceptionally wet and mild Winter of 1994/95 as one example.

The 1960s had awful Summers whilst the early 70s Summers weren't anything special including June 1972 being the coldest June of the 20th century.

Ultimate Seduction

Glorious morning there's a bit of heat off the sunshine already, thank god the horrible wind has gone

irishrover99

Please let the warm front come in from the South.
I'm sick of it been a nice day in Dublin but as soon as you go out into the open, the wind would skin you alive.

sryanbruen

Very nice ECM 0z FI this morning. To go along with that, the NAO is looking decently positive which means we should be seeing a strong Azores High that is likely to throw up transient ridges to us - I had been saying this as a possibility in the forecasts when I was doing them.

The few ensembles that were going negative with the NAO seem to be favouring positivity of the index now with the exception of one going to down neutral but that's a large outlier.

Ultimate Seduction

Sorry, what exactly is a transient ridge?

sryanbruen

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Sorry, what exactly is a transient ridge?

A temporary area of high pressure.

cute geoge

sryanbruen wrote: »

A temporary area of high pressure.

For when?????

sryanbruen

cute geoge wrote: »

For when?????

Impossible to say at this stage. If you'll look at the FI Charts thread, ECM 0z says for the 4th and 5th May currently. Can change easily.

giveitholly

Another cool day with frequent showers

Gonzo

another horrible day here with plenty of short, sharp showers making this a very wet week. I should have taken advantage of the few drys days last week to cut the grass after the very long winter. The garden is more like a meadow and it's just too wet to cut any grass.

Doesn't look to be much in the way of drying over the next week with plenty of rain or showers to come.

Artane2002

Very good day in Dublin. Nice sunshine but the wind is really bitter if you don't wear a jacket or jumper. A few showers too. Really what you would expect in April apart from possibly the temperatures.

Periscal

Showers arriving bang on time between 4pm and 5pm-check, like usually in fresh westerly wind-check, the default pattern of 12 out of 12 months-check, temperature range between 7-13 degrees all year round-check. meantime central Europe is having 2nd warmest April on record.
Meanwhile heading in to May, the mean is looking to flip from -2 in 850 hPa to a factor 50, roasting +1.
Breaking news of the day - Donegal Postman predicting hot summer, in reality 2 warm weeks and 10 crap, yet it will be regarded as a good summer, as the 3 sunny days will be regarded as a nice spring,rant over.

http://www.meteociel.fr/cartes_obs/gens_display.php?ext=1&lon=-6.5325&lat=53.17&ville=Blessington

Artane2002

It's April... this is how it should be. No one said it's been a nice spring. Everyone's been complaining about it.

sryanbruen

Nice day at Grange, lots of sunny spells with only two showers.

JCX BXC

To be honest it's not been particularly bad, lots of nice sunshine.

SleetAndSnow

Overcast day here in cork with some spits of rain and kind of cold. Not the best day

Ultimate Seduction

I think people's interpretation of current weather says an awful about them rather than the actual weather.

Clonmel1000

JCX BXC wrote: »

To be honest it's not been particularly bad, lots of nice sunshine.

Today or spring in general JCX?

JCX BXC

Clonmel1000 wrote: »

Today or spring in general JCX?

Last few days.

Clonmel1000

JCX BXC wrote: »

Last few days.

Ah ok.

pauldry

Was 5c here this morning with hail

Got up to 11c in sunshine

A normal enough April day

Artane2002

I forgot to mention, the mornings today and yesterday were quite chilly.

Clonmel1000

Dark wet cold evening here.

sryanbruen

For the second time this week, the rain to the south is further northwards than what the models showed. The other time was Tuesday of course.