Autumn 2023 - General Discussion

From what I can see online the Glenanne station recorded just shy of 80mm from 6am Sunday to 6am today. Nearly half of that fell yesterday so it's a fair drop of rain.

This might be the worst weather year I can ever remember. Complete shambles with the exception of May and some of June.

I know, some of us here do a monthly weather forecast and every month when I'm doing my predictions, I'm like the rain has to finally be close to normal this month, nope every month its way over average, shocking altogether.

Done get me wrong you would always have wettter than normal months but would usually balance out over the year, not this year.

ECM and GFS look to build some high pressure from the Azores around then but GFS shows a low coming from Greenland starts pushing it back at the end of the run.

So tonight looks likely to be a wet Halloween night. That would be 3 wet Halloween nights in a row. The first time i can remember that happening. There hasn't been many Wet Halloween nights that I can remember in my 50 yrs. In the 80s for example I think only 1980 and 87 were wet ( maybe 83).

You know it's been atrocious when even Slashermcguirk is not positive about it.

The sun holiday did you the world of good Gonzo,Can't remember the last time you were so positive about crap weather!!

I don't remember getting that spell here in Tipperary in early October but if we did it definitely didn't last as long as ye got it in Meath

It was a very noteworthy spell that primarily favoured the east as it was mostly cloudy and southerly with high pressure over the continent. Got to 24C in Dublin. Had only 13.4mm of rain up to the 16th, big changes since then after Storm Babet came.

Looks like Cork Airport has hit the 300mm mark as of 1600. Only 2 other months has done that before there, January 1974 and December 2015.

Belmullet meanwhile hasn't even hit 70% of its October average.

We got lucky here with trick & treating.

By the time the rain started we had it all done and dusted and it was very mild aswell so win win all around.

Raining heavy enough now.

Not in Sligo town. Rained a lot overnight and now a big heavy spell. Will probably be 20mm after 1 day of November. Currently 8.5mm

Not much more rain now but 10.5mm now for day1. 60mm over the weekend into next week for Sligo. Then a lot of wet days after. So 200mm for the month is certainly likely. That would even beat July.

Cork broke the 300mm mark for October. That's exceptional. Don't think theyl be as wet as the North and West in November though.

Torrential rain and very windy a while ago. Eased off now.

I'm finding your posts about Iceland very interesting. I was there once, but a very long time ago, I'd be more a southern, warm climate person and gravitate south these days

But I love the photos.😀 When you say good weather, what temps? You posted earlier in the year about good weather there in summer. Meant to ask about temps but forgot and the thread moved on. But what kind of temps would ye have up there in a good summer and autumn?