Very Mild Weather this Spring

So far this Spring has started on a remarkably mild note with a temperature of 14.4c already recorded in Sligo and we are not even at the end of February yet. Nationwide a temperature of 15.5c has been recorded in North Cork although these temperatures are well below the February record of 18.3c.

Mild Weather with temperatures of 15.5c recorded

There will be a couple of more attempts of at least getting near to this record or setting a station record next Monday and Tuesday though the mild weather looks set to end on March 3rd.


There after it is too early to say whether March is going to bring cold weather but it will probably bring more seasonable temperatures of in or around 8 or 9c all the way up to Saint Patrick's Day.

Unsettled Times Ahead

Rather Mild weather has been dominating November so far with the temperature reaching the dizzy heights of 17.3c in Valentia Observatory and also getting above 16c in Belmullet on Sunday 13th November 2011. Just what is causing this unseasonably mild weather. Hell it is looking as if it is going to be the mildest November on record in a good number of locations around Ireland and this is even if we do get the expected cooler weather toward the end of the month.


1994 was indeed a very mild November in Ireland also with the mean temperature in the North of Ireland of near 9c while it got over 10c in parts of the South. But while a lot of that year saw mild wet and windy weather November 2011 has been quite different with a predominately Southeasterly flow steering up warm winds from the continent.


Now the weather is going to stay mild for the next 10 days but there will be some subtle changes. The first one is that it will be a lot wetter. Some stations like Claremorris and Finner Camp have only seen 10 to 20% of their normal rainfall for the month of November so far. This figure will bulk up so that by the end of the month it will be near normal again. As well as being wetter the weather is going to slowly get a little cooler from the North with temperatures dipping into high single figures by day around the end of the month.


How this is going to impact the Christmas weather is hard to say but what is certain is that by the time December comes we will be due a spell of cold weather so I wouldnt rule out some spells of frost at least if the Atlantic loosens its grip.