Sryan Bruen

Also interestingly, the mildest first 6 days to Nov on record until 2025 for the CET.

4 years of waiting for the perfect opportunity to get this shot.

Heron with this morning's sunrise glowing in the back at Clontarf - can you spot Poolbeg Lighthouse?

Bright sunbeams over Poolbeg Lighthouse this morning from Clontarf.

The aurora borealis at Poolbeg Lighthouse last night. Didn't quite get the aurora in line with the lighthouse this time like October 2024 as the oval was turning over to North America by the time it arrived but it's nice to get hints of it again here.

10 years today, the UK & Ireland named a storm officially for the first time ever which would be Storm Abigail.

This system was made to clear up confusion in public perception from tracking severe weather following the St. Jude Day storm in Oct 2013 and the stormy winter after.

Amusingly, the first 5 days of November 2025 provisionally have the same running CET as the first 5 days of November 2010 with 12.2C.

Yesterday 5th Nov 2025 was the 2nd mildest Nov day on record for CET too, only 5th Nov 1938 was milder.

Malin Head set a new national October monthly low sun total record for Ireland with just 36.2 hrs in October 2025. The previous record was 39.2 hrs at Maam Valley in October 1989.

Magilligan in Northern Ireland had just 31.9 hrs (uncorrected).

Even for our standards, dismal.

Remarkably too that the record was nearly equaled the next day 2nd Nov too with 22.3C again at the notorious foehn spot Trawsgoed. It was 3 consecutive days where somewhere in the UK had at least 20C.

10 years since a record-breaking mild/warm November day for both the UK & Ireland. The high temps were primarily foehn induced including 20.1C at Dooks (Co. Kerry) and 22.4C at Trawsgoed (Ceredigion).

The old records were:
21.7C Prestatyn
20.0C Rathfarnham Castle
4th Nov 1946

The first time that I've had a top 5 cloudiest month since August 2020. In fact both July and August 2020 were in the top 5 cloudiest.

October 2025 ended with 69.4 hrs of sun at Dublin Apt making it the cloudiest October here since 1968 and the third cloudiest since records began in 1942.

It was rather mild and wet but non-exceptional in these areas.

Meteociel says 06-06 max on 24th Sep 2012 was 9.7C whilst 00-00 max was 10.4C. That was a horrendous day of persistent heavy rain under the remnants of Nadine.

70.5mm fell at Malahide Castle that day.

Had just noticed Thursday was the first single figure max of the season so far (just abouts) with 9.8C. This was the earliest single digit max here (Dublin Airport data) since 2012 which occurred on October 15th.

140 km/h+ gusts for the east and southeast. I've not seen winds that strong here since January 2007. Yeah right, I think the GFS is letting off some steam this morning 🥴

Possibly one of the craziest charts I've seen in a little bit. Mad temperature gradient fuelling a dartboard low over Ireland on November 1st/2nd on GFS 06z.

Long time away, nothing to be concerned over at this point. Just wanted to highlight it for posterity.

Shit, my cover's been blown.

On this day in 2003, Dublin had severe thunderstorms including flooding, large coverings of hail and Wicklow Mountains had rare deep October snow.

Scaled up avg hrs per day to month's end gives a value of 50.4 hours.

The Oct record is 56.8 hrs from October 1968.

How much of a jump will the coming cooler weather give?

This is how cloudy October 2025 has been so far. Numerous places in the north still with less than 10 hours for the month to date (atrocious 19 days in for any month of the year). Most less than 40% of their Oct average.

If this sustained, it'd be a record dull Oct for the UK.

Dublin Apt has had only 23.1 hrs of sun from the 1st-14th October 2025. This is likely to have been its second cloudiest first half to October on record with more gloom today.

The record being 1st-15th October 1949 with 21.0 hrs.

Mount Dillon reported the first air frost of the season in the Republic of Ireland this morning with an air temp of -0.6C.

This is earlier than average but is well within the expected timeframe considering natural variability whereas 2024 was the earliest since 2010.

A successful night for my first camera club talk with Rathcoole Camera Club. Was a great experience to share my knowledge and background in weather as a means of getting every landscape shot to be perfect and of high standard conditions wise.

📸 Finamaria

Epic sunrise this morning at Laytown, Meath.

The North Bank Lighthouse under a sky of noctilucent clouds.

We maybe well past NLC season but I'm still unloading and recovering from this epic June night.

Recent photos from Tuesday of the Peruvian Navy ship BAP Unión leaving Dublin.

Rather crazy how the Sep CET is tracking this much above average (1961–1990) yet it’s felt positively chilly to me. A sign of how much I’ve been acclimatised or getting too comfortable with the extraordinary persistence summer warmth.

Glad this was posted to emphasise more heavily just how much summer 2025 was elevated by the cloudy warm nights which the original summer statement did not do well in.

Good communication and messaging can do a lot to public perception but many sadly you will never convince.

The summer of 1976 is often regarded as the benchmark for extreme British summers.

However, the climate in which it occurred was fundamentally different from today’s.

Read all the details: www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/ho...

I used both Met.ie historical database and CSO to find the years of the warmest summers for the stations above.

Some stations such as Markree, Oak Park and Ballyhaise have been combined with their old manual counterparts.