Spring 2024 - General Discussion

We are due a dry month very soon. It has been relatively wet since July 2023 (9 months) but we had 3 incredibly dry months in the first half of 2023 (February, May and June) so I expect we will get a couple of very dry months soon. In fact Dublin also had a very dry January 2023. I think May and June will be dry again this year.

Mace Head is usually very wet but it highlights how dry Feb, May and June were last year. The Corrib lake levels were extremely low last June.

Feb 2023 = 35mm (98mm average)

May 2023 = 30mm (81mm average)

June 2023 = 56mm (82mm average)

Actually November 2023 was also very dry. 79mm against an LTA of 150mm.

Unfortunately I think you're right. I wouldn't be as into environmental issues as you appear to be, but I've been reading up on this whole marine heatwave in the north Atlantic phenomenon and it doesn't give much reason for optimism. In a normal weather environment you'd say the rain has to stop soon, we're due a dry spell, it's just been a very wet year etc etc, but we're not in a normal weather environment and if this really is the much dreaded climate change it's having a very adverse effect on our Irish weather which was never great. You'd have to be worried. Going by recent trends we probably will get a dry spell and probably a hot heat wave, no predicting when, and most likely followed by another period of deluges.

Like I say, I'm no expert in this area and I would dearly love to be wrong, but nobody can deny that our weather for the past 24 months or so has been abnormal, and that's allowing for our normally poor weather standards.

Almost a completely dry day here in Dublin..did get a few spits of rain but nothing compared to the last few weeks...feels very cold though. Only thing keeping me going is that Summer will be kicking in shortly...hopefully things improve dramatically

Bitterly cold??? 8c here in Meath wouldn't call that bitter. Milder air coming in shortly.

One rough morning in Meath.

Feels like for the last 12 months it’s been constant rain, didn’t even really enjoy summer 2023 that much because of it. It’s as if we’re permanently stuck in an El Niño cycle. I miss the La Niña weather during Lockdown period of 2020-2022, I remember I did a lot of outdoor hiking and dining outdoors was enjoyable because there was very little rain.

Opened the door this morning to take the dogs on their routine walk. The dogs took one look at the lashing rain, looked at me, and went 'Nah, not going to happen'

Horrid morning. Leitrim.

Its getting very depressing now,

Due for my first round of golf in a year on Saturday in Trim ,

What you reckon any luck of getting some dry weather Saturday or even leading into Saturday

RIght well at least it's warm out now in Dublin. Was able to use the bike with no gloves and just a hoodie. I'll take all the wins I can rn!

now it’s 16 degrees dry and no wind some change from this morning

great pics Artane love Greece will be back out in the summer. As you mention rubbish it always goes on longer in Ireland than anywhere else just look at Covid ffs! Full stadiums in Europe and we couldn’t leave our counties. Anyway way off topic. Sorry mods.

I saw a video recently of the Middle Eastern countries engaging in cloud seeding to help them generate rain. Is the opposite possible here? Could we please send out a few planes to get the rain to fall over the Atlantic and let the land dry out…

Unserious question…

Met Eireann pretty bullish on things improving next week

"Further outlook: There are indications that there'll be some much needed drier weather during next week, with high pressure expected to play a more dominant role."