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THE LAST FEW days have been something of a weather disaster.
It’s been cold, really cold. It’s also been wet and windy – with snow even falling in places.
This was the view in Dunshaughlin in Meath yesterday morning.
Let’s not forget that just last week we had highs of 17 degrees with the sun splitting the stones.
So, what’s happening?
Joanna Donnelly, a meteorologist with Met Éireann, told TheJournal.ie about why we’ve been having the weather we’ve been having.
Basically, it’s to do with the positions of the Atlantic weather systems – high pressure from the Atlantic has put us into a northerly flow.
The size of the weather system means that air is coming down to us from the Arctic. And air from the Arctic is, well, cold.
“That’s what’s happening in a nutshell,” said Donnelly.
It’s Arctic air that’s coming our way.
Ireland is currently under a band of low pressure, causing rain to fall.
The rain yesterday turned to hail or sleet or snow because of the cold Arctic air.
But when will it end?
Things are still quite cold today, with maximum temperatures ranging from just eight to 10 degrees.
However, Donnelly said that temperatures should start to creep up as the weekend progresses.
“It’s going to get minimally warmer,” said Donnelly.
We might even get a recovery for the bank holiday weekend with some warm slots.
Temperatures could get into the mid-teens for Sunday. But Donnelly said that low pressure meant that there would be more rain.
Into next week, and temperatures could rise again to the mid-teens, but it won’t be getting much warmer than that.
It’s just one of those things,” said Donnelly.
The way the pressure systems have lined up to give us this arctic blast.
So, will we have a warm summer?
“There’s no possibility of any indications of that yet,” said Donnelly.
And it’s not just Met Éireann who can’t predict, it’s just not possible to do.
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he’s still not really good at football though
@John Duggan: You must have played in the World Cup given your vast experience.
@John Duggan: you’re not very good at writing in English either. Not really good at football . Sweet jesus .
@John Killeen: He’s right…
@Oweke 68: taking it a bit to heart aren’t you…Hojlund a friend of yours!?
@damien leen: ha! Because Liverpool fans never lose their collective sh!t on here when someone dares criticise their team or players!
@John Duggan: A pro not good at football?….Nice 1 john
@John Killeen: ah John do you need a hug ?
You should be well used to your favourite club lashing out multiple of millions now on complete duds !
But fear not Mr Ratcliffe sacking of the tea lady is bound to be the turning point to kickstart the 90′s glory once again
Good end to a good week for united, hasn’t been too many of them this season. Big improvement in performance the last few games. Shame about heaven, let’s hope it’s not as bad as it looked.
@J B: shouldn’t you be off making jokes about people dying you melt?
He does have talent but has been dropped in as the main goal scoring hope in a dysfunctional club/team at a very young age. Hopefully getting on the score sheet will give him some confidence back and he can score a lot more. They do need another striker to act as yhe main goal scorer though.
Pity they don’t play teams like Leicester every week
3* Promoted Championship teams to be relegated for the second year in a row and seeing the standard in this year’s championship it’s going to be 3 in a row
Leicester muck nothing to see here
Yawn
@offside again: zzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!
@J B: half or hand????
They bet the second worst team in the league ha ha
@John Kenny: so who do you follow in the English league?
@Stephen Foster: Cornwall
“One step never climbed a mountain”… he needs to be consistent and to go out and do that again and again. 72M is nowhere near justified yet!!
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