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MARCH WAS A month for getting out the umbrellas, with rainfall above average across most of the country, according to Met Éireann.
The national forecaster’s new monthly climate statement for March shows that rain was above average in most of the country, with the wettest conditions hitting the south and east, while temperatures were above average for the month across the whole country.
The weather station at Dublin Airport recorded 115.4mm of rain, which is 219% of its average rainfall for March. 2024 and 2023 are now two of the three wettest Marches on record at the station, along with 1947.
The highest daily rainfall total anywhere in the country was 45.3mm at Dublin Airport on Thursday, 1 March – its highest daily rainfall for March on record.
The number of rain days recorded at weather stations in March ranged from 20 days at Belmullet, Co Mayo to 29 days at both Shannon Airport, Co Clare and Ballyhaise, Co Cavan.
All mean air temperatures across the country were above their LTA for the month.
The wet weather brought tough conditions for farmers, who reported difficulties carrying out their normal activities due to the heavy rain saturating soils.
Met Éireann’s latest farming commentary, issued today at noon, is cautioning that the week ahead will be unsettled with frequent showers and rain, and some heavy downpours at times.
Rainfall amounts are expected to be two to rive times higher than normal, with the wettest conditions expected in the west and southwest.
Met Éireann has previously warned that farming is expected to face increasing challenges as global warming destabilises Ireland’s climate.
Climate change is set to bring more intense and more frequent weather extremes of all kinds, include periods of intense rainfall.
March also saw warmer than average temperatures for the month around the country, particularly in the southwest.
The month’s highest maximum air temperature (16.3 degrees Celsius) was reported on Sunday, 31 March.
Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed that 2023 was the hottest year of modern records.
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Have to say I have never experienced as much rain over this last year. It will be a very poor harvest and crop.
@Sean Money: Desperate times.
It was climate change that was meant to introduce the hosepipe ban at the end of the first COVID lockdown in June 2020
“There is every likelihood the extent of drought and water shortages is being exacerbated by climate disruption driven by CO2 emissions – though heatwaves can be a feature of natural weather patterns.”
irishtimes.com/news/environment/q-a-what-ireland-s-exceptional-drought-means-for-our-water-supply-1.4270154
The people who link everything to climate change modelling, drought or flood, heatwave or cold snap do not have discipline or integrity and speak with no authority.
Finding someone who can understand why the temperatures go up and down daily and seasonally would be more than satisfactory.
@Gerald Kelleher: this is a very detailed and technical response, you certainly know your science. Thanks for sharing.
@Sean Money: It’s not detailed or technical at all: just the usual old verbiage from Gerard (who himself speaks with no authority).
What you mean is that he appears to be on the same side as you (denialist), so you approve.
@Brendan O’Brien: Sorry, I mean Gerald.
@Brendan O’Brien: All scientific method modelling has its roots in Newton’s Rule III, where experimental predictions are meant to scale up to solar system and Earth science research.
“Rule III. The qualities of bodies, which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.” Newton
If a theorist wants to equate conditions in a garden greenhouse (experiment) with the Earth’s atmosphere ( universal qualities), draw dire conclusions and then dump the imperative on humanity to control the weather, then that is the scientific method subculture.
The term ‘denier’ follows Holocaust denial even though that human tragedy was caused by society following the directives of natural selection.
@Brendan O’Brien: amazing what ChatGPT can do for you when you have nothing else to do than spend all day trying to be relevant on The Journal comments section! (speaking about Gerard/Gerald/Gearoid/LoughC/etc.)
Same convoluted “scientific demonstrations” several times a day, proving nothing, never making any point of note, and generally not relevant to the articles commented on. But we all fall for it anyway and we keep feeding the troll day in, day out.
@Jerry LeFrog: How he isn’t muted by the majority is beyond me. The Journal’s mute function finally worked for me today.
I shrug, people who affirm the temperatures go up and down daily as the planet turns are unlikely to follow a subculture that asserts a mismatch between 24-hour days and rotations.
As long as the self-inflicted tragedy exists, these articles will keep popping up regardless of who sponsors them.
Let the Journal post a poll on what causes the Sun to rise and set every 24 hours. There is only one answer and no opinion involved
@Gerald Kelleher: Tell me about Darwin and the nazis again. I found that hilarious.
Very little stock out on grass still. Rare they would still be under a roof this late in the year. Could be a bad year for grain too.
@David Corrigan: a big impact to the cattle and herds now. Its no joke.
@David Corrigan: yup, we’ll soon be bailing out the farmers because of a fodder crisis caused by climate change even though farmers don’t believe in the threat of climate change. warmer oceans means endless rain for ireland. potato crops ruined too.
A bit of ☀️ would make my day.
‘Majorly’? What’s wrong with ‘very’ or ‘extremely’?
@Brendan O’Brien: I know!! Dreadful
@Brendan O’Brien: What causes the temperature to drop after sunset and warm up after sunrise?.
Some people deny it is the rotating planet relative to the central Sun as they assign more rotations than day/night cycles in a year.
I want you to do better, Brendan, and start with the basics.
@Gerald Kelleher: extra greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere prevents heat from escaping into space at night after the Sun goes down, this acts to warm the planet. Any primary school child can understand this.
@David Jordan: The Sun never went anywhere. Your location rotates into the dark hemisphere (night) and away from solar radiation. It rotates back into the light hemisphere (day) and into solar radiation, so the temperatures fall at night and rise during daylight because the planet turns once every day/night cycle.
Scientific method modellers insist the planet turns more often than day/night cycles in a year, and that is where the emergency is. A complete lack of perceptive abilities so that people can concentrate on pollution and waste rather than utterly stupid imperatives.
The dismaying spectacle is that nobody else comes to correct you.
@David Jordan: natural clouds do this also…any primary school child can understand this ; )
If only the green party had have been allowed install tow bridges entering the city and increase road tax,fuel tax on heating there wouldn’t be half as much rain.
David Jordan: as expected, you are attacking the people and not the work. Instead if the ad hominem attacked why don’t you give us, even if in layman’s terms, the reason you refute thier as legitimate scientific research? Remember, that they are not saying there is no climate change, they are proposing different reasoning ALL of the same available data (not truncated, extrapolated nor projected sets of same). Ad hominem attacks imply spurious science with the inevitable spurious results.
I feel so sorry for Dublin Airport. Going to have to ring Joe Duffy about this. Maybe he can sort it out.
@David O Brien: “Hello caller,Good afternoon to you. What are you ringing for?” “I’m ringin’ cos of the rain,Joe. I’m bleedin’ drowned,so I am. Ringin’ from head to toe,Joe”
Brendan OBrien: Ine man’s denialist is another man’s scientist. I just wish that you would critique the work of others, prove its errors, weaknesses, expose the slight of hand, if any. All you bring to the table is ad hominem attacks and Chatgpt spew. It is tiring and fooling no one except yourselves.
Here is a very detailed, scientific response. https://vimeo.com/924719370.
@Oh Mammy: Interesting, the documentary was made by Martin Durkin, who also made the documentary Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation (2006). He supposedly interviewed “scientists” who signed something called the Clintel World Climate Declaration.
However, looking at the list of signatories, of the 1,107 names on the list, including six people who were dead at the time they singed it, less than 1% of the names on the list call themselves climatologists or climate scientists.
Of the other signatories, 21% were engineers, a lot of them with links to the fossil fuel industry, while others were industry lobbyists. A good few were fishermen or airline pilots.
Well, I prefer to get my info from real climate scientists, not from they guy who made Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation.
So as an antidote to this nonsense, here’s the WMO’s State of the Global Climate 2023 report, published a few days ago…
https://www.unwater.org/news/wmo-report-state-global-climate-2023
@David Jordan: The people who make a living from scientific method modelling force themselves to believe that climate is long-term weather to suit their dire predictions and societal imperatives of controlling the weather.
The other Earth sciences, biology and geology, cover many research topics, as climate research once did. For example, Ireland has a maritime climate with an inter-disciplinary approach combining oceanic, atmospheric, and surface position of the island at our latitude.
It is not up to humanity to save the world but to save themselves from the indulgences of empirical modellers in the Earth science of climate and biology (natural selection).
The easy ride is over.
@Gerald Kelleher: So you are saying the gases in the atmosphere have no effect on the climate on land or that the acidity in the oceans don’t affect the currents?
Well done Lauren Trump, a bigly report!
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