Dry Weather is continuing

The Dry weather is continuing and indeed the dry trend for 2011 has continued also. Ireland saw a little bit of heavy rain at the start of April and also in February but there has been an awful lot of dry weather this year.

As has been previously discussed here the past 3 or 4 years have followed a similar pattern to this one and have usually ended in May or June turning wetter and this has been followed by long periods of rain and thundery weather.

This year though long range predictions have weaker energy coming from the Atlantic and are just showing a short breakdown for May in the weather. After this June and July are looking like they will bring a recovery in temperatures and weather conditions but the weathergossip  2011 Summer weather forecast which will be published at the end of this week will confirm all.

Warmth continues

Sunny April 2011

The April 2011 warmth has continued and the month is on course to be near enough the record temperature on average ever experienced in Ireland for April. Every day since April 1st has seen quite high values to when the month is looked at as a whole it will be very hard to beat in the future.

Or so it would seem. It depends on many factors and the final week could go a long way to telling if April 2011 is going to be a record breaker. Finally a sneak preview of May suggests a cooler period of weather with quite a degree more wet weather on the horizon by then

Then if we look further ahead to the Summer of 2011 the weather still looks like it will be warm a lot of the time and there will be many periods of good weather overall.

April Dry Weather

Dry trends in the Long Range Models now for April with High becoming established for the rest of the month and in to May. Not certain if a cooler trend will establish then with Low Pressure. What is certain is that temperatures on average through April will be near record values.

April Record Average Temperature

It now looks highly likely that the average temperature for this month will be close to a record for the month for Ireland. Perhaps even above 11c. The normal is 8c. So a 3c deviation is quite a lot. more to follow...

Warm and Cool Spells

The weather doesnt seem to know what its at in Ireland these days does it. One day cold the next roasting. This next few days could see temperatures exceed 20c but then by this time next week we could be talking 10c with ground frosts and even tonight there may be a grass frost in the North.

It makes you wonder what is going on with the weather in Ireland in the past few weeks. Essentially it has been dry but the average temperature has been breached by day, however a lot of the time the nights have been frosty.

The temperatures for the coming few weeks are going to continue to vary it would seem but but April so far is running 2 to 3c ABOVE average. It is in essence giving Ireland temperatures that would be more reminiscent of June, or definitely May.