Spring 2023 - General Discussion

Misty start to the day but its burning off now and sun 🌞 peeping out more and more, sunny Southeast near Cahore. Just back from a spin on the bike, unexpectedly dry one based on yesterday's forecast 😀

I posted in the wrong thread last night (this one) by mistake to see if anyone else had heard a loud rumbling sound lasting 10 to 15 seconds. I thought it might have been an earthquake. Turns out it was. 2.5 a small but noticeable one.

Cheers. I was checking online after it happened but couldn’t see anything about it until this morning. I filled out a seismic report on the Irish site just after it happened, my first time doing that ha.

Its a time of year i like,took this just now (2159) looking northwest from Castlebar

21c here in Ashbourne, warmest so far this yr.

Horrible evening and horrible forecast there after the news. Today was dry that’s the best I’d say about it. Cloudy and of course windy. Yesterday afternoon was decent nice and mild and some sunny spells.

Heavy Showery Rain in Kildare

Interesting reading the comments this evening from Dublin, some crazy weather. Nothing here today only one light shower that barely dampened the ground. Could see the cloud tops from the showers in North Dublin and up the North from here this evening and clear blue skies overhead. Lucky there was no Bruce Springsteen concert on this evening.

It's shocking bad for May, shouldn't be still drying clothes indoors at this time of the year but the showers are mental.

If anything it's looking like it's getting colder over the next few days.

Cool cloudy breezy morning.

And wet,ground is saturated

I best keep quiet on how May is faring so far statistically in terms of temp going by the posts as it's not what some would agree with 😂

But yeah, there's been runs showing some notably "cold" weather occurring next week and it's not just a case of the GFS. Some have maxima of only 5-7C over parts of England & Wales. Ireland not quite that getting into low double digits but still cool and it's not far from here so could easily change to worse.

Awful pattern for May, cool north to northeasterly winds. The only saving grace is that if the high ridges far east enough and gets Ireland into those double digits, it will be relatively dry whilst parts of England could have a washout with mid single figures during the afternoon.

If only that high were to go even further east, we'd find ourselves in a much warmer setup.

I'll 2nd that!

Rainfall at Dublin Airport disgraceful for March & April and May not looking much better so far.

Today I had to dig out heavier coat again, I'm sick of needing clothes for bad weather in May!

Had 10mm of cold rain yesterday n we all got colds now. It was 10c at best most of yesterday. Drier weather in the offing but Met Eireann has max of 15 to 18c tomorrow so I said I'll go to Rosses Pt for a stroll. Looked at Rosses Pt weather and it says 11c is the max tomorrow. So whos fooling who. It'll prob be 13c so both wrong. Why can't Met Eireann write max temps 11c to 18c instead of writing as they do max 15c to 18c cooler on coasts. Are they afraid to write low numbers. The same at night they write 0 to minus 2c but then it's minus 5c in Mt Dillon so why don't they write 0 to minus 5c.

The only hope is that the reservoirs are full and we can look forward to a long hot dry summer without water restrictions.

Very heavy rain and hail showers in Kildare now

Hailstones, thunder and lightning here in D24

Wet overnight and this morning. Still overcast but glimmers of sunshine making an appearance every now and then.