Autumn 2022 - General Discussion

Very mild again today in Cork.

Coldest day here since April 12th with a max of 11.4C , currently 9.3C, felt pretty raw earlier when I was walking with the kids on Dun Laoghaire east pier.

So rainy here in Vancouver, continuous rain since yesterday morning, and strange, warning was till 10:58am not 11 lol

Yep I noticed it too. A lot of people put the amount of flooding down to climate change but it may have a small pat to play in it. If you look at the development in ireland since early 2000s. The roof, yard and road area that is gathering water and sending it into the rivers is massive. This usually would have been soaked through soil before slowly being released into the rivers. And without dredging the rivers it's just a disaster.

fab day here in Cork City - sun shining woo hoo..

I'm off out for a hike

Whats left of this ex-Hurricane does not look like much on the charts but will still have plenty of more rain anyway.. all the weather even the smallest wind storms and showers seem much more intense this year...it looks as if the wild atlantic weather we once had is returning..and when the real storms arrive this year they could be worse than ever

Very, very heavy rain in cork city. Going to cause flooding.

Is there any records for the number of double digit high temperatures for a location in a year. Just from my experience living and working close to Casement, I can't remember the last day we would have had sub 13C. Has this year been exceptional for this kind of thing. I know its not a very scientific thing but would be curious to know about longest double digit high streaks in years gone by or records in the form of "most days above x temperature" if anybody has this data.

This November so far is reminding me more and more of November 2009.

I'm so jelious of the weather back home, it's snowing here in Vancouver 1c

The forecast for the next 7 to 10 days looks like more of the same - this is an extraordinary spell, since the 21st of September in the West, there has only been the very occasional day or half a day without heavy rain and wind, the nice settled weather we often get in late September and October never happened.

We're used to phases in the weather and typically 3-4 weeks of heavy Atlantic energy is usually followed by a settled spell, maybe some east winds for a little while. But much like the anomalous May and June, this one just keeps going.

It feels like since about September 2021, we've had a non stop westerly flow, with a very brief reprieve at the end of March and a lovely reprieve in August. And nobody here can remember the last frosty day here, maybe March 2021? Last winter, not one day of frost or ice. Its been an unusual year!

Fairly sick of the rain now at this stage.