April will be Cool and Showery

Just like any ordinary April it will be quite cool and showery for the month in 2012. Some dry days can be expected too especially in the South and East but with a Northerly wind source a lot of the time the temperatures will not respond very well to any sunshine. This could possibly be the first Month of 2012 that will have a mean temperature below Normal after 3 mild months in a row. A far cry from 22c in March.

Sunshine and Showers for April

For the Easter Weekend the weather wont start off too bad, just cloudy and dry with some light rain in the North and temperatures of 10 to 13c but as the weekend goes on the weather gets worse and by the end of the Easter Im afraid it will be quite wet. 


Currently there has been just 42mm of rain in Sligo since the start of April, it is very possible that be the end of next week that this figure will be above 50 or 60mm. The weather will be quite cool too especially in the first half of April resulting in the odd wintry outbreak and some snow over the high hills.

Showers will be caused at times by the convection of the heat of the sun during the day on cold land surfaces resulting in some thundery showers too and some areas could see a lot more in the way of rain than others. Around the middle of April it looks like it will get stormy for a time before a return to sunshine and blustery showers. At the end of the month then it looks like High Pressure will try and push in but there will still be some isolated showers at times.