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Continuation of the graph I posted yesterday but this one is now on number of days with 20°C or more at the Irish station, Carlow (Oak...

The graph below shows the total number of days with 25.0°C or more at the Irish station, Carlow (Oak Park) for every year since its...

Multiple factors will play a lot in how the temperatures will be like, record breaking or not. One such factor is thickness. It was the...

The beginning of February 1956 brought a brief but very extraordinary feed of cold air from Siberia over Europe including the UK and...

Up to 19th July, Cork Airport has recorded 15.4mm of rain for Summer 2018. Its driest overall Summer on record is 1995 which had 114.0mm...

Ok so this post is going to be looking at the general history of Ireland's thunderstorms since 1983, the ones that really stand out, with...

You already know of the big freeze of 1947 followed by the wettest March on record with severe floods. August 1947 was the fourth hottest...

2018 has been a phenomenal year for weather enthusiasts with numerous events taking place in a short period of time from the Beast from...

Doing Summer 1975 today which was quite an interesting Summer. It was also one of the best of the 20th century. However, a lot of people...

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...

Meteorologically, Spring comprises of March, April and May whilst Summer comprises of June, July and August. Many of us tend to associate...

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...