Colder this week, some wintry/snow showers, widespread frost and ice.

Bad night sleep going through posts and said to myself. What are you doing up at 5am in North Korea.

Anyways on to the next post to see can i read that one right.

Curious goings on with the temp profile around these here parts last night. At the nearest Met Eireann 'WoW' station, it got down to -7.5c; at another Davis station here in town it got down to -6.0c, Here, my Davis (which stands at a height of 12ft) recorded a min of only -4.3c, yet my La Cross sensor at 1.5m recorded a low of -5.4c and still showing -3.4c now while the Davis is -1.9c. I can only conclude from this that the cold air here is very, very shallow based.

Normal service resumed.

High pressure in all the wrong places and we’re stuck in no mans land nothingness. .... and it appears the cold is heading for Greece.

Didn’t see that coming.

A pal I work with has a week booked there over the Christmas. Talk about unlucky.

This was good while it lasted but it's probably been long enough. I'll be having beans on toast for Christmas dinner than to the heating bills !!

Indeed, if you could see cold air, it'd flow like water to seek out the lowest point. The odd thing here though is that both the other stations I mentioned are all within about 2 miles of me and all more or less on the same altitude (just under 40m) and no great hilly areas around. The Met Wow station is just a little outside of town so nearly always naturally cooler, but maybe the other Davis station in town was more sheltered from that light but constant breeze last night, which would have allowed for the air to settle and cool just that bit more than in my spot. I can only guess at this point.

The sun is coming up for another bluebird day in Galway. I haven't seen so many blue skies in winter for years.

I don't think so Danno. The whole town and surrounding area is located on reclaimed bog/marsh land, but I'm no expert on soil types at all.

Can you see this cold returning next week so?

Did anywhere actually hit the -11 that was being hammered home by Met Eireann and the media?

is sunday still on track to be mild? Trip from dublin to cork planned.

Thanks,

Mick

I never seen ME say balmy before

Sunday: The rain, preceded by some sleet, with snow on higher ground, will turn heavy at times as it pushes up across the country on Sunday morning. This will be followed by scattered showers from the south through the afternoon. While it will become milder everywhere, afternoon highs will range from 4 to 8 degrees in the north to 10 to 13 degrees further south as moderate to fresh southeasterly winds veer southerly and temperatures continue to rise in northern parts through the evening.

Sunday night: Remaining mild with showery outbreaks of rain on Sunday night while lowest temperatures will hold at a balmy 8 to 12 degrees in moderate to fresh southerly breezes.

10-13 degrees of wet, windy, $hite. You're bat $hit crazy imo to be wanting that over the current weather.

If it was 13 degrees, bright and dry id say fair enough. But to each their own I guess, takes all sorts to populate this blue space ball.