April Weather Forecast for Ireland

April 2010 is predicted to be a month that will have a wet start and a dry middle and a wet end. The warmest weather will occur in the middle of the month when the temperatures could reach 17 or 18c in some places but overall for the whole month it will have been described as a showery month and a month that had quite a few wet days. Temperatures should recover somewhat from what they are now and growth should soon kick in good and proper. They will be near average or slightly above but rainfall will be above normal too due to the heavy nature of the rain or showers that do occur in the omnth. There is certainly no proplonged spell of dry weather on the horizon yet but by April 8th things will start to improve as the promised mid-month high tries to get a grip over Ireland. This will last a week to 10 days before a breakdown to showery conditions for the last part of the month.

March was cold

A colder than normal March in all parts of Ireland with temperatures just 1c below the average for the time of year. Rainfall was also below the expected amount for the month running at about 80per cent overall throughout the country. There was a lot of frost at the start of March and then there was snowfall at the end of the month. Tuesday 30th March turned out to be the windiest day of the month with one of the worst storms of perhaps the whole Winter bringing winds of up to 52knots to Malin Head, most of the North and West were battered by wind speeds in the variance of 45 to 50knots and this coupled with the heavy snow in the North and the Midlands brought power lines down and caused a loss of power for up to 50,000 homes in the North for up to 2 days. There was alos a lot of sunshine too in the month and the sunshine hours have been above average for the month overall in Ireland. Average temperatures ranged from 4.5c to 5.6c and the warmest temperature for the month was 15c which was reached in the Dublin area on St Patricks day.

Cold Winter 9/10

What a cold Winter it has been and we may not be out of the woods yet with Met Eireann promising more in the way of Wintry showers of Hail Sleet and Snow on the Mountains this week. The Spring has not sprung into action at all this year and we may well have to wait until well into March to see our first decent spell of Spring weather. Temperatures for 2010 are running well below normal. Around the Claremorris region the yearly average is 2.6c it should be nearly 5c and in Dublin it is 2.2c and it should be 4.4c

COLD TIMES INDEED