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.

July 2013 hottest in 100 years

The warmest July in over 100 years has just been experienced in Ireland with stations in Dublin and the West recording the hottest values. The hottest temperature courtesy of Met Eireann is 30.3c in Co. Kerry. Ken Ring who is a forecaster from New Zealand who famously predicted this warm July (as well as most Long Range Forecasters) is still upbeat about August especially the second half of the month.

However at weathergossip we do not see the same heat occurring in August that was there during July and we may have to wait another year to experience anything like that or longer. The second half of August does look like it will have a few sunny days especially in the East while the West is always more showery. However this is the way it has always been apart from that rare spell in July and a few warm Easterlies in April and May that we have seen in Sligo in recent years.

Mixed August 2013 on the cards

August over the past few years has seen conditions cool down a little in the Northwest of Ireland first and in the South of the country usually into the last week. For the past 6 years the last 10 days of August usually signal a more Autumnal feel to the air with cooler nights and this looks to be the case again this year. However dry days of 18 to 20c should indeed make it feel pleasant for the second half of the month as Ken predicted.

We do not hold any more rights to Mr Rings forecasts so with respect to him try his own site to see what else he says. weathergossip usually crawls as many of the Long Range weather model to try and gain an educated guess for the year. So far this Summer we have predicted warm spells and we did predict a hot July but more of a warm one than a hot one with us just predicting a warm temperature of 26c when it got to 30.3c in actual terms. This happens a lot because if we were to predict extreme values like that we would look very foolish if the temperature got to only 22c for example. However weathergossip is confident that 24c at least will be reached in August 2013 and most of this thundery rain will be gone by August 10th.