Ireland Regional Weather Chat

[stormforce 10]

a lovely sunny autumn day today, but its clouded over now, next few days dont look great with above average rainfall.

[Rocheydub]

Absolutely bucketing down here this morning, just got in the door from work off the bicycle when it started… Lucky boy!

[stormforce 10]

rain has stopped here , was raining all morning.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Great storms last night, set a load car alarms off near my apartment! Hoping for some more today, got the camera ready.

EDIT: Loud rumble just after I hit post

Edited October 8, 2014 by BornFromTheVoid

[BornFromTheVoid]

A little flooding in Cork this evening at high tide, partially due to all the rain here over the last 24 hours.

[gary1365]

We missed the storms up here on the North coast yesterday hoping for some today they were in the forecast yesterday but have disappeared again.

I'm hoping for a decent winter I just bought some winter tyres for the new car in anticipation lol

[stormforce 10]

sounds pretty bad down there void, some people without electricity too i hear.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Beautiful day out there, I can definitely live with this

[mountain shadow]

Ahh, another winter approaches and the early signs are good..

 

 - easterly qbo

- High latitude blocking already evident with the Polar Vortex fragmented

- Northern hemispheric volcanic eruptions

- low solar activity even though we are at peak in cycle

 

Still all to play for, but I'm feeling confident we will get a couple of stonking snowy spells this Winter.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Ahh, another winter approaches and the early signs are good..

 

 - easterly qbo

- High latitude blocking already evident with the Polar Vortex fragmented

- Northern hemispheric volcanic eruptions

- low solar activity even though we are at peak in cycle

 

Still all to play for, but I'm feeling confident we will get a couple of stonking snowy spells this Winter.

 

Whatever the reasons, I hope we get at least 1 decent snow spell.

Had plenty of days with sleet and snow falling last year, but never stuck for more than a few hours.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

You forgot to add that the daily express are also predicting a cold winter MS, it must be true then

Another stonking day folk's, who couldn't be happy with this weather

[stormforce 10]

very foggy overnight and cold low of 1.0c sun coming out now, gonna be another fine day.

[sundog]

Got down to 2.8c here last night,coldest so far. Lovely and clear atm.

Looks like becoming somewhat milder later in the coming week.

[stormforce 10]

Got down to 2.8c here last night,coldest so far. Lovely and clear atm.

Looks like becoming somewhat milder later in the coming week.

wont have to worry about the heating eh sundog?

[sundog]

wont have to worry about the heating eh sundog?

 Yes and trying to hold off putting the heating on until the end of the month. We usually start putting it on during the second half of October - around the last week.

 

Still prefer if it was to getter colder rather then milder though,anyway i hope the upcoming milder spell wont last too long.

Edited October 12, 2014 by sundog

[stormforce 10]

 Yes and trying to hold off putting the heating on until the end of the month. We usually start putting it on during the second half of October - around the last week.

 

Still prefer if it was to getter colder rather then milder though,anyway i hope the upcoming milder spell wont last too long.

best to get this milder spell out of the way, then hope fully we can shape up for a colder november.

have you heard from kippure/ havent talked to him in ages.

[sundog]

best to get this milder spell out of the way, then hope fully we can shape up for a colder november.

have you heard from kippure/ havent talked to him in ages.

Kippure is working out in Canada,in Alberta for over the last 2 years. He comes back for a few weeks usually around xmas. He says he does get sick of the cold and snow over there during the winter. Temps getting down to below -30c etc. He much prefers irish cold lol.

[stormforce 10]

Kippure is working out in Canada,in Alberta for over the last 2 years. He comes back for a few weeks usually around xmas. He says he does get sick of the cold and snow over there during the winter. Temps getting down to below -30c etc. He much prefers irish cold lol.

how ironic lol. irish cold.

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Interesting read from R J Smith in the seasonal forecast thread....

[sundog]

Got up to 17.2C here today with plenty of sunshine. A weird kind of day i thought,it felt kind of summer like but was very blustery with plenty of leaves falling and blowing about in the wind. It was like summer and autumn rolled into one.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Last year in Cork, October had more rainfall than the previous 3 months combined (113%)

We're only 10mm away from achieving that again this October. The drought and deluge pattern continues!

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Indeed Born, there does seem to be these extremes, looking a bit wet this week ahead for coast and north facing areas

[BornFromTheVoid]

That wind was quite something last night. Max gust of 54knots, strong enough, but nothing quite like last winter.

[Rocheydub]

That wind was quite something last night. Max gust of 54knots, strong enough, but nothing quite like last winter.

Max gust of only 44 knots here on the east coast. Still love a good storm!

[ForeverPomeroysnow]

Well folk's how do we feel about doing a little guess for the winter months for our wee island. Anyone want to start the ball rolling....