Believe it or not 2024 has been drier than normal. Apart from March and August all the other months have been drier than normal over the majority of Ireland.
Some parts of the country have seen around 60 percent of the normal rain they would expect up to now. Of course the Northwest is closer to normal (but still below) however there are parts of the midlands and East of the country that are just over half and some areas in the West of Ireland are even significantly below normal.
Certainly cold weather is becoming rarer and even though it was a cold Summer it was just the coldest in 9 years since 2015. 2011 even was much colder and all the other Summers in the past 13 years apart from these 3 have seen temperatures well above average and sometimes record breakingly so.
Snow days are on the decrease. There are now only about 1-3 each Winter and some parts of Ireland saw no snow at all last Winter. Will this Winter be a repeat? It remains to be seen.
Storms are on a downward turn it would seem but when they do arrive they tend to be more extreme than before with a lot more thundery activity incorporated into them also.
