Warmth continues

Sunny April 2011

The April 2011 warmth has continued and the month is on course to be near enough the record temperature on average ever experienced in Ireland for April. Every day since April 1st has seen quite high values to when the month is looked at as a whole it will be very hard to beat in the future.

Or so it would seem. It depends on many factors and the final week could go a long way to telling if April 2011 is going to be a record breaker. Finally a sneak preview of May suggests a cooler period of weather with quite a degree more wet weather on the horizon by then

Then if we look further ahead to the Summer of 2011 the weather still looks like it will be warm a lot of the time and there will be many periods of good weather overall.

April Dry Weather

Dry trends in the Long Range Models now for April with High becoming established for the rest of the month and in to May. Not certain if a cooler trend will establish then with Low Pressure. What is certain is that temperatures on average through April will be near record values.

April Record Average Temperature

It now looks highly likely that the average temperature for this month will be close to a record for the month for Ireland. Perhaps even above 11c. The normal is 8c. So a 3c deviation is quite a lot. more to follow...

Warm and Cool Spells

The weather doesnt seem to know what its at in Ireland these days does it. One day cold the next roasting. This next few days could see temperatures exceed 20c but then by this time next week we could be talking 10c with ground frosts and even tonight there may be a grass frost in the North.

It makes you wonder what is going on with the weather in Ireland in the past few weeks. Essentially it has been dry but the average temperature has been breached by day, however a lot of the time the nights have been frosty.

The temperatures for the coming few weeks are going to continue to vary it would seem but but April so far is running 2 to 3c ABOVE average. It is in essence giving Ireland temperatures that would be more reminiscent of June, or definitely May.

Warm weather at an end

Unfortunate to say the least as the Spring weather was very pleasant but it does look like we will see Southwesterlies become dominant as we head into April and though this will mean mild temperatures there will be more in the way of rain than we have seen recently. Get your brollies out but some parts of Ireland especially the South and East will get drier periods in early April and this could mean some warm temperatures in the High teens at times.

So far the Highest temperature of the year is 18.6c on March 24th 2011 in Valentia Co Kerry and our local station in Sligo recorded 17.2c on that same day.

March of Many Weathers

Sunshine at Fota Wildlife Park, Co Cork

This is what they usually say about March and 2011 will be no exception. So far Ireland has seen sun, rain, hail, wind, sleet and even snow at some levels. So for the rest of the month this will probably continue to be the case although the temperatures will be on a slightly more upward spiral than at present and the sun will be a lot stronger.

For March 12th there was some snow at low levels in Ulster and North Connaught but this should be all that there is now though there is still a slight risk of the white stuff for March 13th. The South and East have been considerably milder with temperatures of about 8 to 10c compared to the 2 to 4c in the North and West.

There is unlikely to be any more snow until the end of March when there is a risk of some more wintry showers as a High Pressure that was over Ireland shifts to the Southwest. Temperatures for the rest of the month will fluctuate also between mild in the midteens to colder single figures though nothing exceptional. It will probably end up as a month that was slightly milder than normal, slightly drier than normal and slightly sunnier than normal for Ireland.