Bray Air Display 2023 - 29th & 30th July 2023

Not there today but saw them on flight radar they flew over Baldonnell turned left and they would have been over Bray in a few minutes instead the went to the Airport.

Reds came up from southern Wales so could have easily passed over bray on route to baldonnel with no extra fuel burnt. The show was officially over by then but alot of people hung around with the knowledge of a fly past after 18:00.

I'm sure there was a valid reason but disappointing for kids/big kids not able to make tomorrow.

The Red Arrows are on at 1500 the Lancaster flew home after their flypast so I doubt they would fly back from the UK to Bray again especially looking at the weather for tomorrow

Beautiful pictures really love the 1st one has a real war look about it

You're entitled to your opinion but for those that did go along today there was a show with reasonable variety and no display gaps. Several of the pilots commented to the display ATC that the conditions were pretty turbulent but this wasn't really evident to the public and no act cancelled on account of the weather. You seem to have some detailed knowledge of the running of the show last year that the rest of us don't, but in any case that is history and it's now 2023.

Whatever about the low cloud, theres a chance the rain is arriving early and might clear in time for the show 4 hours from now at 3pm.

ie. Sat imagery shows no end to the clouds out into the Atlantic but the Met.ie rainfal radar which unlike other sites is using the temporary Shannon radar, seems to show the back end of the frontal rain band at Galway on the west coast and by the animation progression looks like it might clear the East coast in time. Another few frames covering an hour should show if thats just a gap in the band over Galway now with more behind or if it is indeed the back edge of the frontal rain band.

Even in terms of cloud, yeah in all likelihood its full cloud cover for the duration, but I've lived long enough in Bray (and even see it happen on airshow days) where the whole country is clouded over but the particular atmospheric perameters or interaction with maritime air on the day mean that a gap in the clouds forms in the lee of the Wicklow mountains over South County Dublin and the Wicklow Coast.

Wouldn't completely rule out things coming good in time.

Remember one year at Salthill it was lashing rain in the morning the Reds were to close the show at 5pm, they always played the Marine and Aircraft comms over the tannoy system , there was a Navy ship heading for Salthill for the show and they called him up and asked for the current weather and were told it was beautiful West of Aran heading in our direction, turned into a scorcher of a day, there is hope yet

Hopefully the current bands of rain move off before show time. Saw the RTE News report on yesterday's display, crowds looked very tin on the beach compared to previous years.

Dart virtually empty. Southbound from Connolly at 13:30. Loads of staff on. Croke Park seems to be a bigger generator of crowds today.

Was going to post something similar about light to no drizzle, high cloud deck and lack of crowds and traffic. No throngs coming off dart down the road from me yet.

Seems like the Dubs playing in croker today, last years transport debacle and the weather forecast put most people off coming out to Bray today.

For those that do make the trip its looking like they aren’t going to get wet, the Reds will likely display and it might not even be the flat display and getting to and from the show should be much less stressful than previous years due to much lower attendance today.

No sign of the Lancaster en route from UK. I'd say the weather will have put paid to it appearing today. It doesn't fly unless it's VFR weather.

Light drizzle just started in Bray.

Iarnród Éireann very well organised. They’ve moved the validators on the sea side platform away from the platform which is moving people off the platform and clearing things well.

Any time for the viggen? All I'm interested in after the red arrows really