Find us on:

Winter 1739-40 is the second coldest on record within the CET series that goes back to 1659, behind only the Lorna Doone Winter of...

Summer 1990 started off quite terrible in June with the wettest June in places in 8 years at the time (since 1982) and for others since...

This post is on the late September/early October 2011 "heatwave" in Ireland and the UK. What happened was that an intense high pressure...

Following on from the coldest Winter since 1962-63 and the coldest Spring since 1962, Summer 1979 wasn't anything to write home about. It...

After pushing up from the south on the 7th June 2012, it continued to rain heavily for hours on end in much of the midlands and the east...

A deep area of low pressure with a centre of 973mb approached from the south of England and pushed northwards during the evening of the...

First, let me give some background information on hurricane Gert. Gert was a category 2 hurricane that brought heavy surf and rip...

The blizzard of February 1978 tends to get overshadowed by those of 1917, 1933 (which itself tends to not get much light nowadays), 1947,...

The last quarter (October to December) of 1954 was very wet with the east of Ireland getting particularly affected badly. In some parts...

A depression with a minimum pressure of 971mb, known as Storm Hector, pushed across the UK and Ireland on the evening of 13 June 2018 and...

Introduction The period February 26 to March 3 2018 was an event that brought widespread heavy snowfalls to the UK and Ireland including...

The provisional statistics for June 2018 would suggest that it has been indeed a "Flaming June". Contrary to belief, the phrase "Flaming...

Chart below shows mean maxima, high max and the No. of days with temps equal or greater to 22/25/27/30°C at the majority of reporting...

Met Éireann has now issued drought warnings for Ireland. Hosepipe bans have come into force for Northern Ireland and the Greater Dublin...

The magic number that Irish weather enthusiasts hope to achieve on a maximum temperature in Summer time is 30°C but this figure is quite...

It's needless to say that the UK and Ireland are widely known as having rainy temperate climates but are these general impressions...