With the current situation across Ireland and the world and the stay at home been echoed across the country due to the covid-19 virus it really hasn’t been to bad weather wise with mother nature be very kind to us.

The end of February and start of March started of very wet with low pressure dominating the weather but pressure across Ireland rose over the month with a record breaking area of high pressure for march settling close to the northwest of Ireland with the March recorded smashed at Malin head Donegal aswell as other weather stations across the northwest.

A new record was also set at sea of the northwest coast at the M4 buoy.

First of all we will look at the weather over the course of next week for Ireland below.

MONDAY, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

High pressure will build across Ireland again next week bringing another fine settled week of weather across Ireland making the current lockdown a little easier on people.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be nice sunny days across Ireland with nice warm weather. Temperatures will range between 12C to 17C and it will be warmest across the western half of Ireland. Across eastern parts of Ireland temperatures will range in the low teens to mid teens next week due to that onshore easterly breeze over the week which will keep things that bit cooler than other parts of the country.

Thursday and Friday next week look set to be a little warmer again in places with temperatures in the high teens in places and possibly as high as 20C.

Thursday will be a bright and sunny day with temperatures typically between 15C to 18C across Ireland but in some southwestern and western parts of Ireland these temperatures could rise to around 19C to 20C.

Friday again will be the same with nice sunny weather across Ireland with temperatures between 15C to 20C.

The coolest weather next week will be across the eastern half of Ireland especially along coastal counties with them easterly breezes.

Rain

Rainfall accumulations were below average everywhere over the past seven days. Only in the southern midlands and near the south coast rainfall was close to normal, everywhere else there was just little rain or none at all. Cork airport recorded the most rainfall with 25.1mm, 139% of its normal, whereas Oakpark Co. Carlow recorded just 1mm. With the exception of Ulster, where it will remain dry, isolated patchy rain or drizzle is forecast for today and tomorrow (Sunday), but rainfall accumulations will be small. The rest of the week will be largely or completely dry again. Rainfall totals for the next week will therefore only be between 4mm and 8mm at most for the south and east and just a few mm at most for the rest of the country.

Drying Conditions

With rain, mist and drizzle forecast, drying conditions will be poor for the south and east on Sunday, but good in the North. As there are mild temperatures and not further rain forecast, drying conditions should be good, at least up until next weekend.

Back to the high pressure record that was broken at the end of March across the northwest

On Wednesday the 25th March, as one high pressure system pulled away to the east, and a stalled weather front lying across the northwest of Ireland weakened, another high pressure system further developed in the mid-Atlantic and drifted towards Iceland. This pushed the Jetstream further north away from Ireland. This Atlantic high pressure system continued to intensify over the following days as it meandered around south of Iceland, reaching a high of 1055hPa on Sunday the 29th March while centred between Iceland and the Northwest of Ireland. Although the centre of the high pressure was not directly over Ireland, it was close enough for record high pressure to be recorded at the M4 buoy and in the northwest of the country on Sunday the 29th. This setup has led to mostly dry conditions across the country since Thursday the 26th, with a progressively cooler Arctic air mass steered in over the country from the northeast.

National Land Record (March)

On Sunday 29 March at around 11 UTC (12 noon local), a mean sea level atmospheric air pressure (MSLP) of 1051.2 hPa was observed at Malin Head in County Donegal. The station air pressure recorded was 1048.6 hPa with a dry bulb temperature of 5.0°C at the time. This new observation is under investigation as a new March National Record and is considered provisional until quality control is completed and further statistical analysis completed. The current highest March mean sea level air pressure (MSLP) at a land station is currently 1047.1 hPa which occurred on Tuesday 13 March 1900 at Valentia Observatory in County Kerry.

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Marine Record

The M4 62093 Donegal buoy recorded an atmospheric pressure of 1051.9 hPa at (12 UTC) 1 pm local on Sunday 29th March. This is the highest atmospheric pressure recorded by a buoy and also equals the synoptic land station record for Ireland which was logged at Valentia, Co Kerry on 28th January 1905. Buoy data is provisional until all quality control has been completed and buoy M4 has gaps in its data from time to time due to servicing, power issues and instrument failures.

The Irish Buoy Network was established in 2000 and we now have five buoys operating around the coast of Ireland. The project today is the result of a successful collaboration between Met Éireann, the Marine Institute, the UK Met Office and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.

The M4 Donegal buoy was launched on Tuesday 15 April 2003 at 54.7N 9.1W. The buoy was moved to 55.0N 10.0W on Thursday 3 May 2007 to expose it to the full force of the eastern Atlantic which was not previously recorded from its slightly sheltered position. Currently a Fugro buoy is being used at M4 station with dual sensors for wind and barometric pressure.