Weekly update

It has been another wet winter's week, with above average rainfall everywhere. The driest location compared to the climatological average was at Belmullet in...

The eastern counties saw plenty of wet weather last week, with some heavy showers bringing rainfall that was 175% of the average for the...

Since our last update, the country has been thrashed by two consecutive storms, Storm Isha and Storm Jocelyn. Hurricane force winds and heavy rain...

Brrr! It's been a very cold week, with temperatures dropping below -7C on Wednesday night, hard frosts all week and even snow in places. The...

After another wet and windy period, the past week has been much drier than average across the country, with less than 10mm of rain...

As we wind down to the Christmas break, it's fair to say that Santa might have a following wind on his Christmas Eve trip...

Christmas is said to be partly a 'Christianisation' of those ancient midwinter festivals that marked the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and today,...

After a pretty wet weekend, the past five days have seen a return to normality, a welcome break from some of the more severe...

E arlier this week, Storm Debi swept across Ireland, leaving a trail of destruction including many fallen trees and coastal flooding in places. Over 100,000...

Luckily, storm Ciarán seems to have skirted by the south of the country over the past couple of days without unleashing another weather onslaught...