In this publication, you can find out what the climate in Ireland is, as well as learn some interesting facts related to the weather conditions of the island.
General data and island geography
One of the largest islands in the BritishThe archipelago is Ireland. He is also the third largest in Europe after the islands of Great Britain and Iceland. The island is an independent state of Ireland or the Republic of Ireland (occupies 4/5 of the territory) and Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.
The island is washed by the Irish Sea, whichshares it with Great Britain, as well as the Northern Strait and the St George Strait. In the center is a lowland plain surrounded by mountains. The highest point is Mount Carrantoil, whose height is equal to 1041 meters. Also in Northern Ireland is Mount Slive-Donard with a height of 850 meters. The flat part due to the large amount of precipitation and the lack of developed runoff is characterized by the presence of swamps.
Climate characteristics
The climate in Ireland is mild, humid, oceanic.moderate. The winter is mild and warm enough, the summer is relatively cool. Warm westerly and southwesterly winds prevail, which are influenced by the powerful Gulf Stream. The weather is unstable and can be quite volatile for even one day. Rain can be short and repetitive several times or pouring. For the year falls about two thousand millimeters of precipitation.
Since the climate in Ireland is rather mild, the island is under green cover all year round. Because of this, he was called the Emerald Isle.
Temperature variations throughout the islandvirtually invisible, during the year it ranges from +9 to +20, the average temperature is +14 degrees. The division into seasons is conditional. Since in Ireland both summer and winter are warm, the year consists of two seasons.
Temperature conditions
Throughout the year, the temperature remains positive (that is, above zero). The following is the climate of Ireland for months.
In winter (December, January, February) temperaturerises no higher than eight degrees heat. Sometimes there may be frosts, but usually they are not lower than five degrees of frost, which are only at night. The coldest month is January. Snow falls extremely rarely.
In spring there are frequent showers that change quickly.the sun In March, the air warms up to ten degrees Celsius during the daytime and drops to three again at night. In April it becomes even warmer - +12, at night +4 degrees. May pleases the Irish, the temperature rises to sixteen degrees above zero during the day and four at night.
The climate of Ireland is such that summers are cool, alsovariable, the sun can abruptly be replaced by a cloud and rain. The warmest month is July. The temperature rises to twenty degrees Celsius, and sometimes to +25. At night it drops to +10 degrees. In June, daytime figures are seventeen degrees, in July - +20 ... + 22, in August - nineteen degrees.
By autumn, the figures are declining, in September theymake up seventeen degrees of heat, at night +10. In October, fourteen degrees above zero in the afternoon, eight at night. And by November they are reduced to +10 in the daytime, to +4 at night.
Northern Ireland
In addition to the Republic of Ireland on the island isregion of the United Kingdom. Below we consider the climate of Northern Ireland, which is only slightly different from the climate of the Republic. It is also moderate oceanic. But most of the days in the year it rains, the pressure is low, the sun rarely breaks through the low clouds. Most of the precipitation falls on this part of the island. Strong winds are blowing, storms are often on the coast.
The temperature regime is practically no different from the Republic. Only in winter, in January and the end of February, the temperature drops to almost zero. July is also considered the warmest month.
Interesting Facts
On the coast of the island strong winds blowHigh speed was recorded in the city of Kilkeel in Northern Ireland. It was 327 km / h. Also in 1995, a tornado passed near the capital of Ireland, Dublin, whose speed was 320 km / h. In the winter of 2014, strong wind was also recorded (150 km / h), on December 26, 1998, the wind speed varied from 110 km / h to 170 km / h.
There are frequent fogs in Ireland, especially in the mountains, as well as in the center of the island. They appear in the morning when atmospheric pressure is high.
The climate of Ireland is quite unpredictable.So, more than 150 years ago, the lowest temperatures in the winter of -19 degrees were recorded. This was in 1881 in Tyrone. And the heat itself was recorded in June 1887 in Kilkenny. She was +33 degrees. In 2010, the coldest weather in the last fifty years was recorded. The thermometer dropped to -10 degrees, in the coldest areas almost to -19.
Above it was said that in Ireland there are two seasons - winter and summer. So summer begins to be calculated from the first of May, and winter - from the first of November.
In winter, snow in these places is rare. However, a hundred years ago a record amount of snow fell, in some areas the snow cover reached a level of three meters.
