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Despite the total lack of sunshine and lack of prolonged warm weather for the year 2011 it turned out to be one of the warmest years on record in Ireland. It makes you wonder just how cold the other ones were. Well from what we can gather the primary reason some of the years are turning out 1.5c above normal as 2011 was in Ireland is because the cloud cover is acting as a blanket at night and keeping the heat in. Cloud cover was well above normal in 2011 and there were very few cloudless days with even some of them having thin wispy cirrus cloud in place. As has become commonplace in the last few years the best weather was reserved for April once more and the start of June which for some reason seems to get a sunny day or two. After this weather in Sligo and the Northwest in particular was very cloudy and very wet. For weeks on end in the Northwest there was persistent rain and showers as the Northwesterly Atlantic Airstream was firmly established throughout the whole year. Rainfall in most of the West and North was over 150% of the normal whereas in the South and East the figure was 80 to 100%. Parts of Dublin saw 10% of their rain on one day of the year in October. Globally it was the second warmest year on record meaning that the rising trend in temperatures continues unabated. So what does 2012 hold. It too is looking like a warm year and it is likely that there will be some more in the way of sunshine than the dullness of 2011 when many of the months came in below normal at all Irelands weather stations. After the freezing weather of December 2010 there was very little severe cold in 2011 except for the first week in January and at the beginning of December and on both occasions most of the snow fell on hills and in the North and West. 2011 was also a very windy year and May was the windiest on record in Belmullet (courtesy Met Eireann). Trees lost their leaves in early Summer while other ones turned brown. In fact the Summer was generally a huge disappointment with the weekend of July 23rd and 24th possibly being the best weekend weatherwise throughout Ireland and some days in August brought some warm weather but a lot of mist to Northwestern margins. December also saw a lot of storm damage and power cuts due t a series of deep depressions crossing to the North of the country. Finally as I said before mild nights contributed to it being a very warm year and at the end of the year a daytime temperature of 13c and a nightime temperature of 10c were recorded in Sligo.
A very changeable week in store for Ireland with temperatures starting off mild or even warm in a few spots and then falling back as the week goes on. Monday and Tuesday will be dry except on the West coast. Wednesday and Thursday see up to 30mm of rain and Friday sees High Pressure move in from the Northwest Temperatures 19c at the start of the week down to 13c by Friday.
So far September has turned out to be a really wet month with rainfall up to 4 times the monthly average in many parts of the country and flooding becoming a problem once more after quite a dry year. Rainfall has passed the 100mm mark in many parts of Ireland already and the long term forecast has a continuation of this theme with wet and windy days and yet more showers. There may be some brief respites at times but overall September looks like it will be one of the wetter ones on record. Rainfall Latest
Despite all of the wet weather this month it still has been very mild or even warm for early September. Temperatures are running 1.5 to 2.5c above normal in all parts of Ireland after 2 weeks of the month. It now looks like we are in for a cooler period according to the medium range models and temperatures will drop back by several degrees as a Northerly blast comes in from Friday onwards especially. However this will be quite a shortlived cold spell and there should be a return to slightly milder conditions for the end of the month though it will still be wet. The cooler weather should bring some slightly drier weather for a few days but the weather will become wet with the onset of Westerly winds for the end of September Temperatures Latest
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JANUARY 2010 was the coldest January in Ireland for 25 years with widepread snow and ice. Temperatures of below MINUS 10C were experienced widely on 3 nights in a row around the 8th to 10th of January. Again rainfall was below normal continuing the dry Winter trend. Temperatures were up to 2c BELOW normal at most stations and an amateur weather station in Carlow recorded a minimum temperature of MINUS 17.7C. Winds were not a problem this January unlike previous years but snow and ice made roads hazardous and damaged surfaces widely.
FEBRUARY 2010 has so far been extremely quiet if a little cold at night. The Rainfall has remained below normal with a lot of dry periods. The 2nd half of the month promises more in the way of rain and showers and this pattern looks set to continue into MARCH
The forecast for 2010 is currently being worked on but it looks for all intents and purposes like being a wet Spring with cool weather and some high rainfall totals at times. There will be some dry and pleasant spells too but not as dry as the Winter has been at all
Summer 2010 early indications are for a mixed bag but not as wet as previous years and there should be at least one warm dry month if current patterns continue
Autumn 2010 will be dry at first then stormy later
Winter 2010 not as cold as this year but short cold spells
After some quiet and relatively dry days with just the odd spell of rain from time to time the pattern that would appear to be emmerging is for more cold weather from the 8th Feb. The 10 day Weather Forecast sees cold dry weather dominating. The Irish 30 Day Weather Forecast brings a significant drop in temperatures and sees an increased chance of Snow Showers and this will be further compounded by the Cold Weather that will be in evidence as Temperatures will be relatively low, at 3 to 6c by day, continuing on the cold Winter weather we have had this year. Wintry Showers will become more of a risk toward the end of the week as mild weather in polar regionssends cold arctic air down over Europe
The temperatures over the coming days will gradually drop into low single figures and a renewed big freeze is too early to say but most of the warm air will be in polar regions and not over Ireland just like during the cold spell of Dec/Jan. In saying that there is an area of High Pressure that is trying to make inroads over Ireland and if this is the case we would be left with a dry frosty outlook Winter Forecast considering the origins of the Pressure
The weather will remain quite mild for the first week of February but as the month goes on there is a slight chance that things will again turn more wintry mid-month. Quite wet and windy at times for the first week in Ireland but as the Low Pressure systems move South over the country this will bring colder air for next week. How cold it is too early to say but there may be some wintry showers so an odd flurry of snow will not be out of the question going on what we have seen nationwide so far this Winter
After the longest cold spell for 30 years it has now finished and a rapid thaw will take place starting monday. Night temperatures on Sunday are around zero much higher than previous nights and with outbreaks of rain making their way in from the Atlantic for Tuesday the cold spell is really about to come to a sudden end. Over 3 weeks of snow and ice have crippled Ireland leaving people housebound and also inconveniencing people during the Christmas period. Although it was one of the longest cold spells of recent times there was no big snow as there was in 1982 but it did snow on a number of occasions and the aver
Here in Ireland the mercury has dipped to minus 14c already in Balltinglass and minus 12c near Ebbyvale. Dublin will also see temperatures of near minus 10c while Sligo shivers in its coldest of the Winter temperatures of minus 7c.
The freezing weather looks set to continue well into January until midmonth at least in Ireland with the temperatures barely making it above freezing at all. This polar airmass is stretching down to the South of France, Northern Italy and Turkey and is going to be bringing a lot of snow to Britain too.
A lot of cold and snowy weather has been evident in Ireland since the start of January with all parts of the country reporting ice and snow. There have been several severe weather warnings in place too since the start of the month and these will continue until at least the weekend. The is the risk of some fresh snow in some Western areas on Thursday before the risk moves to the entire Northern half of the country of scattered wintry showers. There is no sign of a big thaw yet and it may be the end of January before the snow is all gone. In some parts of the West snow has been lying since just after mid December. Usually Ireland does not get one set weather pattern for longer than 2 weeks. But the last 12 months have seen a lot of extremes and these are set to become more of a common event in Ireland in the coming years Finally the weather for the weekend looks dry and frosty and very cold
Irelands long range forecast is seeing a lot of snow for the North and East in particular but harder frosts further South and West which will only make the Ice situation worse. There does not seem to be an end in this cold weather until at least the middle of January when the Atlantic weather fronts may at last bring in some slightly milder air. The average temperature for December was over 2 degrees below normal and it was the coldest December in many areas since 1995. 2009 was surely quite an extreme and eventful year weatherwise in all parts of Ireland as it was one of the wettest on record with Floods in July, August and November and cold months in February and December. The warmest weather occured during June especially in the Northwest where it was the sunniest June for over 50 years in Malin Head and the sunny theme was apparent in Sligo too until mid month. However this was the only real Summery weather of the season until September and October when there was below normal rainfall in nearly all parts of Ireland until the second half of October when the rainfall began. Temperatures for the whole year were slightly above average continuing the warming trend in Ireland of recent years. Howeever forecasts for Ireland say that this year may be one of the warmest yet!
The big day itself is promising more in the way of rain or showers coming just at the end of this settled spell and will signal the start of a renewed period of unsettled weather for January.
Rainfall totals for the month of November in Sligo reached a staggering 289mm. The normal rainfall expected for November is 130 to 150mm. Scientists have said that the rainfall totals for the Winter will increase in the West and North of Ireland and Indeed this seems to be the case. Especially in the 3rd quarter of the month totals seemed to accelerate though the SLigo Area also saw a lot of rain at the start of November with 32mm falling on the first day alone. There were 25wet days in Sligo during November much higher than the 19 day average. The only dry spell was in the last 2 days when there was a lot of frost and the min temp reached -2.4c in Collooney on 28th November. Overall the temperature was above normal by 1 degree celcius.
December will see rainfall of 150 to 160mm which is slightly above the average. Quite and Dry will generally be the weather in the Sligo area but a cold spell in mid month may bring some of the Wintry stuff for a day andagain at the end some frost and wintry showers are likely. Therefore the temperature for December will again be 1degree above normal much the same as November has been. The first day of the month has already been registered as a wet day with 6.3mm already on the rain gauge at 1430pm.
The next few days are promising to be mainly unsettled but there is less certainty now about the dry spell that was promised mid-month and this may not happen at all if the rain keeps swinging in from the West. The weekend will have rain at times but with temperatures of 9c it will be relatively mild for the time of year. Sunday is going to be quite windy as well.
Flooding in the Winter is something that causes a lot of misery as the people in the West and South of Ireland will testify. The drying conditions are very poor at this time of year so even places like Galway will find it very difficult to get rid of all the surface water due to the "bowl" nature of the landscape there. John Eagleton said on the weather forecast that there has been 9 weeks of rainfall in just 3weeks this november. And there is still a lot more to come before the month is out. One would hope that December will bring a drier story and less misery for people because although this is not climate change on a grand scale it is leaving people without a home which is what the worst results of global warming is forecast to do
NOVEMBER looks like it will be bringing high rainfall figures to all parts of Ireland and also some quite windy conditions especially to the North and West. Temperatures will be around the seasonal average but the unpleasant nature of the weather will make it seem a lot colder. Temperatures for November in Sligo are normally around 10c and countrywide in Ireland around 10 to 13c. Rainfall figures are normally 120mm.
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