Storm Cometh

A seroius Atlantic storm is powering in from the Atlantic and it is going to bring Gale Force winds and heavy showers on Thursday to Ireland. If you look at the picture on the satellite you can see just how powerful this storm is off the coast of Iceland.

It is hoped that the worst of the storm stays off our own shores but this is looking less likely by the minute with some sites predicitingwind speed off the North Mayo coast of nearly 90mph.

Thanks to http://www.sat24.com/

Wet November

November has started off very wet again this year in Ireland with rainfall above 200% of the normal already. Fields and plains are already getting flooded. It looks like there will be a lot of rain or showers in the next 10 days too and it will get colder too so very miserable weather indeed.

There is also the risk of a storm this Sunday to throw into the mix so things will not be boring anyways. With the High tides on Sunday there could be a lot of coastal flooding but this is beared out hugely by the track of the depression and whether it slackens over Ireland as it is forecast to do or whether it pushes a few 100 km East of Wet of this path in which case there could be very strong and sometimes damaging winds.

Temperatures are going to start off in double figures but thereafter the will fall sharply to single figures and struggle to reach 10 degrees too often for the next 5 days. Some frost is likely on Saturday night so it can be seen that there is a total mixed bag of weather in store for Ireland.

Rainfall from Sundays storm could top 30mm but because of the speed in the movement of this system it could end up not dumpimg much rain in the North and West but it will slow slightly over the East and South.

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.

October Winds

Certainly it looks like this October is going to be bringing a lot of wind and rain for the first 10 days at least. Temperatures will be on the mild side of normal too as the wind will be from a more Southerly direction. Night time frosts will not be a problem at all. High wind gusts are a low to moderate risk at present.

There is a series of Low Pressure systems that are gathering energy over the Atlantic ocean and will be passing between Iceland and Ireland bringing a lot of strong winds to both countries. This is a normal scenario for the early days of October but expect a lot of debris and leaves on the road. The debris will be mainly in the form of broken branches from trees.

As the month goes on expect things to quiten down somewhat but it will still be on the unsettled side. A monthly temperature for October of about 1degree ABOVE normal is predicted this year for Ireland by weathergossip. Rainfall will also be ABOVE the norm and Sunshine slightly BELOW.

Warm September 2010

Its turned out to be a very warm September overall with temperatures of 1.5c above normal in most parts of the country so far. Again the nights continue to be very warm or mild with temperatures rarely going below 10c.


The Long Range Forecast is predicting a mild end to the month after a brief cold spell on the weekend of September 24th. It would seem that it will turn out  to be one of the warmer Septembers on record though a wet one too.

Unsettled Weather on Way

The Long Range Weather Forecast is predicting a LOT of rain for Ireland over the coming weeks and it will be quite windy at times also. After such a gloriously sunny start to the month of September things will rapidly go downhill weatherwise.

Rainfall for the next few weeks is going to be well above normal and though frost does not look like being a problem in the medium term the temperatures are going to drop back somewhat. Highs of 18c is the best that can be expected and Lows of 9c.

Late on in the month of September would be the next window of opportunity for any good weather but it appears that Summer is now a distant memory.