Warming up as we head into June but for how long?

 The cold May weather should become a thing of the past in the coming days as we finally start to see some warmer than average conditions. How warm is a bit uncertain but surely 20c is on the cards for Ireland. The last day we had a temperature that high was April 1st!! Since we have had nearly 2 months of cold weather.

June will start off warm 18 to 22c but then get more thundery as we move into the month. As long as the thunder is from the South the weather will remain warm. After 2 months of cooling it needs to stay over us a long time for temperatures to respond. Its uncertain what happens after mid June at this stage.

Maybe we get dragged into a brief cooler regime before it heats up again at the end of the month.

New Year Cold Weather

 January 2021 has certainly started cold with wintry showers and some frost. This is how Januarys first 10 days will continue but after this it now looks mild and dry for Ireland.

Long Range Weather December update

Cold spell now looks likely this coming week and it will stay cold from December 1st to possibly December 10th. After that it does look milder but during this period Ireland will have showers of rain hail sleet and snow and temperatures of 3c to 7c. Frost is also likely at night. 

Long Range Weather Forecast for Ireland Dember 2020

 The month will still start on a cold note. How cold it goes is open to question. As we start off this week there is a low pressure to the Northwest of Ireland. During the week this is going to sink down over Ireland. How far South it goes will determine how cold it gets as we start December. At present temperatures of 4 to 7c look likely with wet sleety rain showers.

Long Range Forecast for Ireland December 2020 update

 December still looking cold but models have backed away from the severe cold I mentioned yesterday. More like mid single figures now. But there are attempts at the North pushing down during the month. Most of all there is the Southwesterly milds we have become used to but any push south of these will result in some very cold weather in the darkest days of the year. Not much wind showing either so nights will not be 11c like recent years. Updates will continue as the situation continues to evolve.

Flaming Thundery June

Thundery Showers for June 

After the warm end to May, June will begin on a warm note too but this will be a finely balanced act as High Pressure and Lows battle to see who will reside on our shores.


 A slack airflow could result in some very interesting thunderstorms and rainfall totals for the month could be very high even if there is going to be a lot of warm sunshine too. 


Toward mid-month it looks as if cooler fresher conditions will become established until the end of June but overall it will be a warmer month than normal for Ireland.

Mild March

Cloudy but mild March

March has turned out to be very mild hasnt it? In fact most of 2012 has been mild in Ireland apart from one or two very brief cold spells and you could count on two hands the number of severe frosts that we have experienced. The weather is set to get cool for the Saint Patricks Day festivities but after that the Southwesterlies will return again with their mild weather and this time temperatures could climb up to 17 or 18c. This all depends on the amounts of sunshine and as we have seen so far in 2012 this has been scarce.

October Ends Windy and November??

Previously on weathergossip blog... "a lot of strong winds in October". It did not really materialize did it. But as is oft the case with the weather in October it ends with a storm in a sandwich just like it is today, October 28th.

Back to the weather the gales and wind that are around at present look like they will continue until the end of the month and some steady rainfall totals look like falling especially in Munster and Leinster. Upward of 50mm could fall between Friday and Sunday in some parts of the East and Southeast. The Western half of the country and Sligo look like escaping for a change.

Whatever will November bring after all of this wind and rain. Well at the moment a lot more of the same looks to be the answer. Is it too early to say if the weather is going to be stuck in a mild windy and wet pattern for the Winter? Maybe this is going to be the case but the is Low confidence that a blocker of a High will try to push in around November 10th and should this intensify we could get frosty nights similar to last Winter for a while.

Credit must be given to some weather websites that I refer to and use namely http://www.met.ie/ and http://www.wetterzentrale.de/ These 2 sites provide us with a lot of the data we have on weathergossip.