Autumn 2022 - General Discussion

Hooter23

It does not look like there will be any storms now for the start of october...its looks like we will going to the beach instead

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119671001#Comment_119671001

I lit the solid fuel stove and the difference! Spartan living has its limits... Sheer bliss now even with a smalla amount of coal used. Bliss!

giveitholly

Just the 20mm of rain so far today in what can only be described as an awful day!!

esposito

Feeling very raw in Dublin today. 11c

Graces7

Just a small souffle of wind in the quiet night...

Oscar Bravo

Cool night ahead , Mount Dillon 6 degrees at 9pm

Quick glance at the models. Nothing out of the ordinary forecast. I’d love for it to go full zonal and get a couple storms in October.

Meteorite58

Showers and sunny breezy spells in Kerry today, not bad , cooler today but pleasant in the sunshine , cooled down quickly tonight , currently 9.8C from a high of 13.8C. Havent been keeping a close eye on the manual gauge but this evening cleared out 23 mm for the last few days .

Pic 18.30 approx

Graces7

First bird singing... 7.13 am

West Mayo offshore...

Calm and quiet and very chilly..

A more lovely morning there never was. Even a small rainbow birthing....

The most vivid and perfectly formed rainbow I've ever seen in Cork City yesterday. . Photo barely does it justice.

Gonzo

thankfully we're beginnng to lose that extreme chill of the past few days. Today should be a lovely day in most places and feeling milder too. Tomorrow will be a bit of a write off but after that it certaintly looks milder compared to the past week.

Status Yellow - Rain & Wind Warning for Clare, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo

Met Éireann Weather Warning

Becoming wet and windy tonight and during Friday morning with strong and gusty southerly winds developing. Heavy rainfall may cause some localised flooding.

Valid: 02:00 Friday 30/09/2022 to 14:00 Friday 30/09/2022

Graces7

It be rare wild out here.. Watching the ravages of Ian with authentic sound effects...

A nocturnal metamorphosis.. It was soooo peaceful when I went to sleep..

I have visitors due, bearing cats for me, but no way will they get here now.

West Mayo offshore

km79

First bird drowning …..7.27am

Onshore (for now ) South Mayo

Yes it’s wet :D

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119671297#Comment_119671297

That was tempting fate- and listening to the gale out here, fate was fast to respond... wild indeed

OldRio

Utterly stunning day yesterday. Had an afternoon doze in the sun. Today wet and driving rain and very very windy.

Chalk and cheese.

Graces7

Well as they say a change is as good as a rest? IF IT WOULD JUST TURN THE VOLUME DOWN.

But at least it is mild.

highdef

In between weather fronts for a short time in Trim, Meath......perfect time to bring the dog out for her morning walkies.

Gonzo

hard to believe that this day last month we still had a drought going on and everything was brown. September this year brought an almost immediate flip from Summer to autumn right on time as we entered the 1st/2nd of September. Pouring rain outside in what has been a very wet month for most parts of the country notably during the opening 10 days of the month and plenty of rain overnight to add to the already high totals. It's been unseasonably cool as well but we are about to turn milder as we head into October. Dunsany sitting at just over 115mm of rainfall for September and that doesn't include any of the rain that fell last night and this morning.

Fingers crossed October will be alot drier. The temperature anomaly for Dunsany is now just 0.1C above normal which will make September the coolest overall month compared to normal we've had in over a year.

Blustery wet morning. Farming commentary yesterday for the next 7 days mentioned varied rainfall across the country. Drier than average for the south and wetter than average for the North with 85mm at Malin head and 17mm for Cork airport.

Some recent lightning over Donegal, Sligo and leitrim

Artane2002

Provisionally, Dublin Airport has finished September with 128mm of rain, making it the sixth wettest on record and the wettest since 1976.

giveitholly

186mm recorded which was mostly recorded in the first and last week of the month

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119688090#Comment_119688090

Edit: Never mind. I made a mistake. Can't delete post.

162mm is a remarkable total for Cork for the month of September. I would imagine most of it came in that biblical spell of rain we had in the first week of the month. All that after 14mm in August and 28mm in July.

Just goes to show that in this country, even in a drought, rain is never too far away.

Despite all the rain, the ground is still quite dry; I would imagine that much of the initial heavy rain after the drought broke just ran off the rock hard ground and didn't soak in.

Gonzo

September finished up with 126.4mm of rain for September at Dunsany which makes it the wettest month since July 2020. Probably the poorest September we've had in a while with so much rain and that very chilly second half of the month. Despite the chill the month finished up average in terms of mean temperature being 0.1C above normal, due to the very mild to warm first week of September.

Artane2002

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119691487#Comment_119691487

This post reminds me that Dublin Airport also finished with a mean of 13.0C, which is 0.1C below average. This feels like a big feat considering what has been going on since June 2021.

mcburns07

Unreal day in East Cork, sunny and feeling warm in the sun 😍

Cluedo Monopoly

Lovely Autumn day in west Galway. Great day for getting garden jobs done.

Very wet week ahead for some and sunshine will be below average.

The past week has been drier than average for the east and south with rainfall totals between 39% and 79% of average there. However, rainfall was around average or higher to the west and north, with accumulations up to 160% of normal.

A predominantly southwesterly airflow over the coming week will steer Atlantic fronts across the country, with rainfall most frequent in the west and northwest. As a result, it will be wetter than normal across most of the country, with accumulations expected to be between 120% and 295% of average. However, rainfall along eastern and southeastern coasts will be close to average. 

Most places have been somewhat duller than average over the past week with the exception of the south coast, where sunshine amounts were around average. The north of the country saw the least sunshine, with 8.7 hours of sunshine recorded at Malin Head, Co. Donegal (50% of average). In contrast, 26.8 hours of sunshine was recorded at Cork Airport, Co. Cork (101% of average). In the week ahead, conditions will often be unsettled with any sunny spells quite limited. As a result, sunshine amounts are expected to be below average.