Turning very warm/hot, heatwave conditions likely; Sunday 24th -->

sryanbruen

sdanseo wrote: »

April?

Yes April up to today still held the highest maximum temperature of the year in the UK of 29.1c.

Ultimate Seduction

Disappointed to walk out of work to see thick cloud and reading of possible showeres tomorrow. I thought it was blue skies until at least Friday.. still 25c now so not really complaing.

Oneiric 3

Latest 'Harmonie' temps for my town on Weds:



35c


I'll say that again. 35c.

Franz Von Peppercorn

It felt very pleasant today in north Dublin. Low humidity.

Supercell

This Pyrenees plume is taking the edge of the heat here for sure as the direct sunlight isn't countering the sea breeze as normal. It may even bring rain to Cork/Kerry later from the looks of the radar, could use some of that here.

Kermit.de.frog

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Disappointed to walk out of work to see thick cloud and reading of possible showeres tomorrow. I thought it was blue skies until at least Friday.. still 25c now so not really complaing.

There won't be any showers tomorrow.;)

Cloud will be dispersing as well so not as hazy.

morphman

Heading to achill on Saturday..what's it gonna be like weather wise??

pauldry

Roastin

We are in a great spell of weather

Only blips like cool Sundays in NW which happen weekly in these set ups

Timistry

pad199207 wrote: »

I’m at 28c in the shade now in Kildare. :O

Note that all temps are in the shade

sdanseo

ARPEGE has been as near as makes no difference to hitting the nail on the head yesterday and today at 24hrs although it did suggest 29-31 at a longer range for today.

Now it's predicting 33 on Wednesday and 34 degrees both Thursday and Friday. Maybe reduce by 2 degrees or so to temper that. It's showing temps staying above 30 degrees nearly up to midnighg, duvets will NOT be required.

Harmonie and NAVGEM showing similar as posted by others.

GFS now showing more widespread 26s and 27s - add 3 or 4 to these (which is odd because as little as six weeks ago I found it very accurate on the continent but it seems not to be able to handle our little island)

Danno

Screen maximum temperature of 28.2c in Durrow (Laois).

pauldry

the radar on me phone is picking up rain 100 miles south of the cork coast. must be broke.

lawred2

Some high haze over Portmarnock but sun still getting through it..

Very warm and a remarkably absent 'chill' breeze

RobertKK

Siobhan Ryan said we could see the highest ever temperature recorded in Ireland this week, so 33.3C could be broken.

Xenji

It got up to 25.8C in Castlebar today, unlike the last spell the humidity has been very low so far, currently 33% compared to nearer 70% at the same hour in the last spell.

RobertKK

I'll say it again maybe NAVGEM the other day was the most accurate.

Danno

RobertKK wrote: »

Siobhan Ryan said we could see the highest ever temperature recorded in Ireland this week, so 33.3C could be broken.

Where was that said? TV, Radio?

lawred2

RobertKK wrote: »

Siobhan Ryan said we could see the highest ever temperature recorded in Ireland this week, so 33.3C could be broken.

Jaypurs

There's climate change I can get onboard with...

statesaver

Danno wrote: »

Where was that said? TV, Radio?

RTE Six One News

RobertKK

Danno wrote: »

Where was that said? TV, Radio?

On the 6-1 news.

Gaoth Laidir

When it comes to temperatures, official stations are official for a reason. Many of the high reports here are amateur stations in what I assume are back gardens. These will always read higher than an official station with standard exposure, and that's been the case again today. While the coverage of standard synoptic stations reporting hourly is not as dense as we'd like, there are plenty of approved climatological stations (e.g. Danno) that will feature in the monthly report, if they manage to report a proper high reading.

Personal stations are great for reporting conditions in your garden, where it will always get warmer due to buildings, walls, hedges, trees, concrete, etc., but they are useless for comparing with those in the official network. So as it stands, 27 seems to be roughly the highest of the 35 official stations on the island of Ireland today, and there's no reason to assume that there has been several degrees higher in between.

Danno

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

When it comes to temperatures, official stations are official for a reason. Many of the high reports here are amateur stations in what I assume are back gardens. These will always read higher than an official station with standard exposure, and that's been the case again today.

Spot on. I recently gutted my Davis station and put the temperature sensor inside the Stevensons screen for higher accuracy. It used to typically record maxes +0.7c on days like today, since the move it records -0.2c maxes, alot more accurate but still not the 100% that is provided by the manual thermometers. The sensor is also +0.2c on minimums too, so it's not a calibration issue.

Gaoth Laidir

Having said all that, we now have Shannon reporting 27 at 18:30, increasing during the evening, as is so common in this type of weather. I believe the screen there is located near a carpark extension.

irishrover99

What is up with the 3 small rainbows in the sky but instead of the usual way they go, they are horizontally across the sky. Very weird looking

pauldry

ah come on ...several degrees

ok maybe sheltered back gardens but on a like for like basis id say 29c was maybe the top temperature if even that.

Wednesday will be well over 30c though. Wow.

I told my wife Id say some year soon Ireland will get near 35c and she laughed me outta the house. I said theres slow climate change. It is getting a tiny bit warmer each decade so why not.

Who will have the last laugh or will 32.5c mean a draw?

Gaoth Laidir

Danno wrote: »

Spot on. I recently gutted my Davis station and put the temperature sensor inside the Stevensons screen for higher accuracy. It used to typically record maxes +0.7c on days like today, since the move it records -0.2c maxes, alot more accurate but still not the 100% that is provided by the manual thermometers. The sensor is also +0.2c on minimums too, so it's not a calibration issue.

My Oregon consistently read 3-4 degrees higher than nearby Weston Airport on sunny days (before it packed it in, so it's now an Ore-gone). I've no doubt that's what it was in my garden area, and the number of times it hit 30 on days like these was pretty high (a couple of times per year). I would always go with the Weston figure, though. It's like my sister sending me a photo of a street thermometer housed in a black metal box attached to a pharmacy wall in southern Spain reading 54 degrees and then not accepting that nearby Malaga Airport's 35 was more correct.

Harry Palmr

irishrover99 wrote: »

What I said up with the 3 small rainbows in the sky but instead of the usual way they go, they are horizontally across the sky. Very weird looking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumhorizontal_arc

Oneiric 3

How is a station, located in the often very exposed middle on nowhere, representative of those of us who live in towns etc? 'Amateur' stations, at least some of the higher quality ones, give very accurate readings. My back garden temperature, as is everybody else's, are every bit as important as a reading in some exposed field 15-20 miles away where nobody actually lives.

And anyway, the bigger point here is why there is so few 'official' stations reporting? Look, for example, that the big gaps in official data in the SE of the country in particular. Does a temp reading at Oak Park mean that 27 was the common temp in the entire SE inland region? No.

irishrover99

Harry Palmr wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumhorizontal_arc

It's much brighter now and bigger.
I've used my pint of Guinness as a size reference.

igCorcaigh

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

How is a station, located in the often very exposed middle on nowhere, representative of those of us who live in towns etc? 'Amateur' stations, at least some of the higher quality ones, give very accurate readings. My back garden temperature, as is everybody else's, are every bit as important as a reading in some exposed field 15-20 miles away where nobody actually lives.

And anyway, the bigger point here is why there is so few 'official' stations reporting? Look, for example, that the big gaps in official data in the SE of the country in particular. Does a temp reading at Oak Park mean that 27 was the common temp in the entire SE inland region? No.

I always thought Cork airport doesn't reflect conditions in the city, being at a higher altitude.

These things can't be very expensive, right?

Anyway, very pleasant day in Galway city, not hot by any means, and not sweating with the 67rh.

Maybe that will change as the week goes on.