Winter 2019/2020 - General Discussion

Graces7 · 23-02-2020 12:11pm

appledrop wrote: »

What is that bright thing in the sky!!!!!!!!

I'm actually in shock. Another dreary morning but then it cleared + sun is shining. Delighted to get out + enjoy it while we can.

All blissfully quiet and bright out here too; still serious windchill though... may potter a while. Counted over 12 healthy lupin seedlings I grew last year so need to find a place to pot them on.

Thoughts of spring and summer creep in !

sryanbruen · 23-02-2020 1:08pm

sryanbruen wrote: »

Now the wettest month of the winter as of the 22nd with 185% of average rainfall.

Recent wet Februaries in comparison including 2016.

Feb 2016: 129.3mm
Feb 2011: 131.0mm
Feb 2020 to 22nd: 153.0mm
Feb 2014: 191.9mm

Data via Met Éireann.

Updated the above now to the 22nd. It is the wettest month relative to average since December 2015! It is also the wettest month in terms of actual rainfall total since January 2018.

Shannon Airport is currently having its 4th wettest February on record with 176.4mm standing behind only Februaries 1990, 2014 and 2002. It's the 2nd wettest February on record at Claremorris with 217.7mm, standing behind only February 1990.

giveitholly · 23-02-2020 1:40pm

appledrop wrote: »

What is that bright thing in the sky!!!!!!!!

I'm actually in shock. Another dreary morning but then it cleared + sun is shining. Delighted to get out + enjoy it while we can.

Yeah sun out here as well and can feel a bit of heat from it,feels a bit like spring

Thelonious Monk · 23-02-2020 1:42pm

Feeling absolutely baltic and breezy in Dublin right now

Naggdefy · 23-02-2020 2:36pm

Feeling very mild around the Aviva.

*Twickenham

Losing my bearings!

Only here once before, 1994, let's hope for a similar result!

Graces7 · 23-02-2020 2:36pm

Actually took a cup of coffee outside! Too chilly to be out too long but lovely all the same...

:)

Clonmel1000 · 23-02-2020 2:54pm

Naggdefy wrote: »

Feeling very mild around the Aviva.

*Twickenham Losing my bearings!

Only here once before, 1994, let's hope for a similar result!

Where?

m17 · 23-02-2020 5:31pm

Lanzarote this morning

spookwoman · 23-02-2020 6:12pm

Very mild in waterford, last few nights have had to kick off the duvet and have the window open. There is a stuffiness to the air.

appledrop · 23-02-2020 6:26pm

Well it may have been sunny but Jesus once it went in it was Baltic! Unfortunately still windy aswell.

Brrrrrr home for the rugby to a nice warm house.

monty_python · 23-02-2020 7:04pm

appledrop wrote: »

Well it may have been sunny but Jesus once it went in it was Baltic! Unfortunately still windy aswell.

Brrrrrr home for the rugby to a nice warm house.

Better of out in the cold than watch that **** show

Graces7 · 23-02-2020 7:32pm

A gift of a day. I was only outside a short while with my coffee but it lightened and blessed the whole day.. and I have 16 wee lupins and a marigold bud opening...Had almost forgotten what it is like to just sit and enjoy the air and scenery. Usually dashing out head down and diving back in.

Utterly still and deeply quiet now. Just... a healing, after the last while.

I know the gale will come tonight, but the break has been treasured. NB a very warm house now so no idea what it is like outside...

nacho libre · 23-02-2020 8:31pm

Naggdefy wrote: »

*Twickenham Losing my bearings!

Only here once before, 1994, let's hope for a similar result!

So it's your fault they played so badly. You should have stayed at home:p

Naggdefy · 23-02-2020 8:34pm

nacho libre wrote: »

So it's your fault they played so badly. You should have stayed at home:p

Well no

I was there in 1994. Simon Geoghegan try

Meteorite58 · 23-02-2020 9:48pm

Mod Note:Posts removed. No need for the personal jibes Naggdefy.

Stay on topic.

vladmydad · 24-02-2020 6:38am

Booked my flights today for next week. Costa del sol here I come. Definitely going to retire to a warm climate when I’m old.

Graces7 · 24-02-2020 9:00am

vladmydad wrote: »

Booked my flights today for next week. Costa del sol here I come. Definitely going to retire to a warm climate when I’m old.

That was why I left the North Isles for Ireland; to get away from the gales and storms...get some sun on my bones :rolleyes:

zell12 · 24-02-2020 10:09am

Galway City 43.8 mm fell in the past 24h

Xenji · 24-02-2020 11:04am

Newport has now had it's wettest February on record, it is up at 283.2mm currently.

2020 - 283.2mm
1990 - 265.6mm
2002 - 261.2mm

358.1mm is still the overall monthly record which was December 1999.

Logan Roy · 24-02-2020 12:15pm

Graces7 wrote: »

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That was why I left the North Isles for Ireland; to get away from the gales and storms...get some sun on my bones :rolleyes:

Should have done your research in advance :pac:

Graces7 · 24-02-2020 12:24pm

Logan Roy wrote: »

Should have done your research in advance :pac:

Oh I did; was here in the late 70s and nothing like this then.

And you have no idea what the weather is like up there. :eek:

Climate change is a reality

Three day gales.. winds up to 127 MILES per hour. Around 4 hours daylight in winter...whole summers with no sun.

Graces7 · 24-02-2020 12:25pm

It is ********* cold out there.

Oneiric 3 · 24-02-2020 2:25pm

Xenji wrote: »

Newport has now had it's wettest February on record, it is up at 283.2mm currently.

2020 - 283.2mm
1990 - 265.6mm
2002 - 261.2mm

358.1mm is still the overall monthly record which was December 1999.

Claremorris is already on its second highest Feb total on record, but still a good bit behind the record of 251.2mm (1990)

km79 · 24-02-2020 2:30pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Claremorris is already on its second highest Feb total on record, but still a good bit behind the record of 251.2mm (1990)

Everywhere I go do do
I always take the weather with me do do

Oneiric 3 · 24-02-2020 2:42pm

Sky here around this time last year, when temps easily got into the mid-teens, peaking at 16.0c on the 25th.

I'm thinking that we won't be seeing a repeat this time around. That wind out there would cut you in two.

Oneiric 3 · 24-02-2020 2:45pm

km79 wrote: »

Everywhere I go do do
I always take the weather with me do do

You're a jinx!

Gonzo · 24-02-2020 2:57pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Sky here around this time last year, when temps easily got into the mid-teens, peaking at 16.0c on the 25th.

I'm thinking that we won't be seeing a repeat this time around. That wind out there would cut you in two.

the next two weeks look rather cold indeed with temperatures between 1 and 3C below average with a few milder interludes. Certainly a world away from the summer conditions of last February!

Oscar Bravo · 24-02-2020 3:11pm

A dry day with sunny spells here in Castlebar. Cool in a fresh NW breeze. Far better day that i was expecting.

nacho libre · 24-02-2020 3:27pm

Like a lot places around the country, there are floods in fields i've never seen before, and rivers very close to flooding the road. The fresh breeze and dry conditions today will help a bit, though. It will be very interesting to see does this February turn out wetter than 2014( i was not here for that one). It's certainly the wettest February I can remember in a long time.

Thelonious Monk · 24-02-2020 3:43pm

Gonzo wrote: »

the next two weeks look rather cold indeed with temperatures between 1 and 3C below average with a few milder interludes. Certainly a world away from the summer conditions of last February!

I can live with that but it's been a constant storm in Dublin for weeks now. Today is really windy. Any sign of that dying down?

Winter 2019/2020 - General Discussion

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