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.

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.

Cool Weather in General

Although the weather in recent weeks has been very mild for the start of October both in Ireland and the UK, it is set to get cooler in the coming few weeks with a lot of rain and some wintry showers at times. Snow is not likely except on the highest peaks but it will be a good deal cooler.

What is the cause of this? Well for nearly all of 2011 the weather pattern has been coming from the Atlantic and in the last few months in particular it has been coming from the Northwest. This resulted in a very cool June and August.

Again we are looking at a continuation of this weather pattern in the coming few weeks with a lot of windy weather to go along with it so it will feel very seasonal though perhaps too early for any snow lovers to take out the skis.

Take it that temperatures are now going to be below normal or at average and rainfall will be above average especially along the already soaked Atlantic seaboard.

2011 Weather so far .....



Fine Winters Day, Dublin



 So far 2011 has seen almost every type of weather. This of course is quite normal for the season of Winter. Snow has been rare now this year in comparison to the virtual snowmageddon in 2010 but this is due to a return of Atlantic conditions over the past few weeks.





This type of weather looks set to continue for the rest of February and probably into March also with just short sharp cold bursts. At the moent also it looks like the worst of the frosts are over until next Winter though dont write off a  few minus 2 or 3 nights but nothing prolonged like before.

Overall it is weathergossip's belief that 2011 will be quite a warm year and trends worldwide point to one of the warmest years worldwide on record. Just because we mention this does not mean it will be a "barbeque" Summer but there should be warm days in more plentiful supply than recent years.


Back to the present and it is the end of February and March that we now focus our long term weather predictions on. February looks like ending on a mixed if rather mild note. This looks like following into March with possibly some drier weather and a slight decrease in temperature. It seems as if March will bring another month of above average temperatures and usually when this is the case the rainfall is also above normal .


For further information about what the weather holds in store long range for Ireland why not check out http://www.weathergossip.com/2011weather.html