Spring 2024 - General Discussion

Heavy sideways rain with an East breeze since about 7.30am this morning. Car reading 6c. What month have we again?

Warm in Sligo now 14c. Should tip 19c or 20c before the day's out. We always do better in May than other places.

Damp drizzly morning in Galway City, very calm however, still got out.

Next few days not looking particularly great at all.

Very dark drizzling rain in Galway not a breath of wind

Suns peeped out in Arklow,milky but sun nonetheless

Its 15.3c but with a north breeze

We've dodged a bullet here do far,with most of the rain just south of here overnight

North

South

19.1c in Sligo

8c in parts of Cork.

Country is upside down.

Easterly winds and low pressure, often the south is more vulnerable to rain in such a pattern whereas in a westerly (unless there's a southerly component), the opposite is often true.

Edit: Thanks to @pureza for a more relevant, in-depth explanation of the current case scenario.

Its a warm front stuck between two low pressures

The front is straddled in a NE to SW axis across the country with unusually the warm sector to the north behind the front

The air though north of it isn't a northerly obviously even though it's a northerly or Northeasterly or westerly

It actually returning continental air circulating in with the front that traveled up through France last night then into GB and pivoted westward to Ireland,sucking in all its warm sourced originally French air with it

It has some residual thundery activity on it thanks in the main to the source air

Thats whats going on

Met just said Finner hit 20c today 😥