Spring 2024 - General Discussion

It's always the same in Singapore. 30-35C and sticky. Too boring and hot for me!

The Beara penninsula is gorgeous even on a bad day, but I guess today was not the ideal day to cycle it. Same story in Tralee but for once it suited me as I needed a bit of indoor downtime.

Where?!

Yeah some stations in the East have seen very little rain apart from 2-3 heavy thunderstorm days.

Dunsany = 21.8mm (May Average = 65mm)

Dublin Airport = 20mm (May Average = 59mm)

Same pattern in the west

Valentia = 30mm (May Average = 93mm)

Mace Head = 38mm (May Average = 81mm)

At 90mm here in tipp after 17mm so far today. We have had some nice days but by and large it has been another wet month around these parts

South Tipp,wouldn't be that far from the Galtee mountain range

Its like a sauna but actually not sweaty,just hot,I think even @highdef Might even struggle

The regular thunderstorms are far from boring !

Miserable drizzle all morning in NCD.

Feels cool out there at 12c.

After a wet and grey start it's turned into a decent Summers afternoon in Dublin

Unfortunately still damp, grey and cold here in North Couny Dublin, no sign of summer.

I'd be of that thinking as well that May 1st is the start of the Summer...

And Met Eireann seems to disagree with Joanna. Below is taken from the Met Eireann website.

Does it really matter at the end of the day..people have different opinions I suppose

How are we supposed to keep records for statistical purposes if we have to have various versions depending on what certain groups decide what given month is in what season.

It's ludicrous to demand that a month belongs to a different season, just for your own personal opinion, rather than for the purpose of accurate record keeping. When you look up weather and climate statistics and records, they are all based on the seasons as per the Met Office so you're only confusing yourself by mixing things up in your head.

Miserable here in carrick , very chilly , rain keeps forming to the south west going by radar play back , temperatures to drop down to 3c before sunrise tomorrow morning

This is what charts looked like this time 4 years ago , I remember it well summer 2020 was so nice and just as well considering we were only 2 months into lockdown

35c at the moment in Singapore with 92% humidity,some cracking cb's rolling in now for the daily thunder and lightning and do ya know what you'd be looking forward to it for the cooling effect alone,never mind the excitement of it,zoom in to see the fantastic bubbling up behind and to the right of the clock tower

Cloudy in Trim, Meath. Had been a lovely late spring morning up until recently though.

It is cold!

Bear in mind that the figures shown on that map are forecasted temperatures as per a computer model with no human input, not the actual reported temperatures at official Met Eireann sites. For example, I am currently in Tallaght and the forecasted temperature for 14:00 is between 13° and 15°:

The actual reported temperatures (note that most readings below are not official Met Eireann sites) are a few degrees higher here and it's not even 14:00 yet, when it will likely be a degree or so warmer due to the prolonged sunshine here:

Very pleasent and feeling quite warm in the sun. 15c although feels a bit warmer than that, although this time of the year with the positioning of the sun it is bound to feel warmer