Weather gets cooler as we head into May

The warm weather of the past few days has made April very pleasant. Temperatures topped 18 degrees in Ireland over the Easter weekend and there was plenty of sunshine to boot. The weather is breaking down somewhat and it will be breezy and cooler over this coming weekend with some rain or showers.
In the next couple of weeks as we head into May Low pressure stays close by bringing a lot of showery weather and temperatures no higher than 12 to 15c.
However as we saw in 1995 and 2013, a cool May brings Summer heat.
Heres hoping....

Weather to settle down somewhat

So March is now upon us.

The mad storms and rain drops of Winter have not left us just yet with some heavy showers but we have all noticed quite a lot more in the way of sunshine than we had been used to and thats a good thing. Sunshine figures are actually going to increase as the month progresses and there is the potential for some very mild days before St Patricks Day.

Temperatures so far this year have been in single figures most of the time for Ireland but it does look like they will climb into double figures quite a lot of the time in March and they may even get to 15 or 16c.

As always St Patricks Day looks a bit dodgy with cooler air for a time and temperatures of 7 to 10c but after this it gets mild again and the temperature will be 13c.

Rainfall for March 2014 will continue the trend of recent years and be quite low though perhaps not quite as low as the cold March of 2013. 

March to get drier after Winter of discontent

A drier March is on the cards after Ireland was battered by gales and rain for most of the Winter. In fact there were only 6 days that it did not rain in parts of the West and in 2014 just 2!! So far parts of Cork have had nearly 40% of their annual rainfall in just 2 months.

SO are we owed some dry weather. The answer is YES YES YES. There are a lot of signals that March and April will bring a good deal of dry weather to balance the books so to speak. March looks like improving after a poor start with temperatures of up to 14 or 15c possible in the South and East. Follow more on twitter @weathergossipco

Stormy Winter to persist

In what can only described as one of the wettest Windiest winters with 10 storms and severe coastal damage it makes it look like a normal wet day ain't too bad.
Dry days are few and far between and everyone goes outside feeling really happy,
So far there are 37 days gone in 2014 and Sligo has recorded rainfall on 35 of them.
Next 2 storms Saturday south of Ireland and Tuesday everywhere with a sleety mix.
After this or at least after February 15 things get calmer but still showery.
Temperatures will be 6c

Mild October continues

October 2013 will be one of Ireland's milder ones of recent times. Despite a cool few days recently the weather is set to get mild again for 4 to 5 days with temperatures 2 degrees above normal.After that expect a lot of average temperatures but over the mercury will be 1 to 2c over the norm.

Otherwise the weather looks set to be wet and showers each day and gets breezier too so dry weather ends for a while on October 15

Balmy Autumn

So far this season there has been quite a variation in the weather in Ireland from some very cool conditions the second week of September to 23 and 24c on the weekend of the Football All Ireland. The weather is set to remain mild for some time yet but not up to those values. The best will be 20 or 21c but with night of 10 or 11c we are seeing temperatures of 3 to 4c above normal in some parts of Ireland at present.

The year has seen a lot of variations in the weather too with the really cold Spring and the hot July now followed by quite a mild end to September and sea temperatures around the coast of Ireland up to 20c last week. These are some of the highest sea temperatures that have ever been recorded off the Irish Coast.

Look out for some more mild weather in October before the heavy rain arives from the South around the 4th of the month resulting in a change of wind direction eventually and things moving to a more changeable and mobile Westerly.