Autumn 2022 - General Discussion

A pleasant enough mid September day in West Dublin City. Crazy to think that we're already half way through the autumn....... I'm joking!

Is anyone else freezing tonight or am I coming down with a cold?

Heating on for the 1st time, just needed it for an hour to take chill out of the house.

Yes, it's 10c now but to drop to 4c and same with tomorrow night, it's defo a night to light the fire

Timber shed is bursting here from windfell and ash dieback. Might just put on the a small fire in the stove to take the small sting out of the drop in temps.

I think the calculation shows whiskey will be cheaper to keep warm this winter than oil or gas😉😉

Well the weather must have heard me complaining, finally a beautiful sunny morning although it is chilly.

From Met Eireann

On this day , September 16th 1961, Ireland was hit by winds gusting to 181 km/h as former hurricane Debbie passed close to the W coast.Debbie retained many hurricane characteristics when it arrived off the SW coast.Damage to property was extensive & 11 deaths were attributed to the storm.

Your hardy Bill! Couldn't survive that especially turning it off in March, sometimes it's still freezing in June in this country.

In fairness, an hour last night did the job and we were nice and toasty then.

I'd say I will be freezing tonight aswell.

I'm quite happy with the weather this week. No rain here in Kerry since Monday morning and that for us is celebration worthy. Chillier than I'd like and dull at times but gloriously DRY and a nice autumnal feel about. I'm still wearing fairly light clothes as things like boots and heavy jackets remain firmly in the attic until after Halloween. I'm lucky to live in a warm house and work in a warm building. But you'd need a brief shot of heat every night so in comparison with other Septembers which have been mild and quite summery, this one isn't so good. But as long as it stays dry here in Kerry, we're happy.😀

That said, today was a peach but chilly now again.

Worked on site at Ratheniska today, preparing for the NPC.

It was a beautiful autumn day, but the sun is at a noticeably lower angle now and it was quite cool early and late, with an edge to the light breeze. Max temp on the van was 17C, so probably a shade lower than that in reality.

I haven't conceded to anything other than polo shirts and light jackets for work yet, but I think a hooded fleece and body warmer will go into the van from Monday.

Put a fire down last night. Chilly enough. Cloudy this morning. 9C at the moment.

Co. Leitrim

A beautiful morning here in Castlebar with sunshine and just some high cloud. Little or no wind. A day to be out and about

This has to be one of the sunniest Septembers of my lifetime. It is just there, every single day.

😅 we will absolutely pay for it. Hopefully in the form of lots of snow instead of rain!

Where renting the sun from the Mediterranean

It's always the case that after a very cold night the birds will flock to known places where there is food. Natural instinct I'd say.

I had a Robin and blue tit fighting over a bird feeder that was empty.

got loads of washing dried yesterday.

Looks like the final figure was -0.5C. Here's a graph showing the date of the first observed air frost in the Republic of Ireland for every year since 1981. 2021 is an estimate as not all climate station is in for that year yet but I think it's a pretty safe assumption that September and October 2021 were frostless.

The 1991-2020 average indicated by the transparent red line is October 3rd. 2022 is a fortnight early with September 17th and was the earliest since 2010.

I specifically say Republic of Ireland as Northern Ireland has had earlier since 2010 - Katesbridge for example, an infamous frost hollow, had -1.9C on 24th August 2014.

EDIT: Mt Dillon had an apparent -0.6C on 30 August 2010 that was not mentioned in the bulletin so I've fixed 2010 now and 2022 is the earliest since 2010 instead of 1993.