Spring 2024 - General Discussion

All the seasons today along with a biting arctic northerly. Hard to believe it is late March

West Limerick

200M ASL

Heavy hail shows rolling in from North West since afternoon

Stiff north westerly breeze

Temperature @21:30: 2.9C

Shocked by how cold it was at football training tonight.

When I came out of house this morning I was like wow its lovely, sunshine was glorious up until lunchtime, then the showers set in.

Tonight feels more like a Dec evening, took ages to warm up when I came home.

Horrible night and morning with frequent heavy showers and 8mm in the gauge since midnight. Top of Galtee Mor is white.

We had warmer weather in December!

I remember posting here at Christmas about how I felt cheated on Christmas day as it felt more like April and I felt more like being out gardening than cooking Xmas dinner. Now it's almost April and I want to be in the garden but we're getting the Xmas weather now. How fecked up is that!!😩

Still at your trolling spring begins in February crap. Why in nearly every post you make about spring you have to get in the little jab? Last month it was the last few weeks of spring. Now its the last 2 months. In a few weeks will you be saying the last 3 months of spring to continue your little jibe???? No doubt you will be calling May summer to continue it on.....

Status Yellow - Rain warning for Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick & Galway ⚠️

Heavy rain at times today for all of Kerry & for western parts of Cork, Limerick, Clare & Galway.

• Localised flooding 🌧️

• Difficult travelling conditions 🚗 🚴‍♀️

Terrible terrible March, there's no putting lipstick on this pig.

Only on 55.9 hrs of sun to 23rd March at Dublin Airport. Should be ~85 hrs by then.

If the current avg hrs per day were retained, it would give a final monthly total of 75 hrs. Only March 2013 will have been cloudier this century for March.

The very poor stats don't end there because it's also been very wet and set to be even wetter with a wet final week ahead.

GFS suggests another ~40-50mm here for the rest of March.

Dublin Apt is already on 90.8mm for March 2024. Another 40mm to this would give 130mm which would be wetter than last March and March 2023 was the wettest March here since 1947!!!

March 1947 had 147.5mm of rain. Could beat that if some slow-moving frontal boundaries were to set up shop here but at the moment somewhat unlikely.

Only "slight" saving grace is it hasn't been cold. Better get a decent summer for this shitshow.

Hasn't been cold relative to average. Of course it has FELT cold in that wind a lot of the time and March is rarely a very mild, never mind warm month. Daytime temps have been bang on average. Minima have been more than 2C above average under all the cloud and lack of frost. Aren't we getting used to well above average nights by now? We've had so many months of them... May 2022, August 2023 come to mind.

What about the summer of 1989, Eibhir? It wasn't as good as 1995,but not bad all the same .

With the talk/arguing 😄 about seasons mentioned there again, how would they fit if they started at the equinox & solstice?