Motorhome Swap Travel Destination - Ireland - Climate
Ireland - Motorhome / RV / Campervan Swap International Travel Destination.
Overall, Ireland has a mild but changeable oceanic climate with few extremes.The warmest recorded air temperature was 33.3 °C at Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny, whereas the lowest recorded temperature was −19.1 °C at Markree Castle, County Sligo.
Other statistics show that the greatest recorded annual rainfall was 3,964.9 mm in the Ballaghbeena Gap in 1960. The driest year on record was 1887, with only 356.6 mm of rain recorded at Glasnevin, while the longest period of absolute drought was in Limerick where there was no recorded rainfall over 38 days during April and May 1938.
The climate is typically insular, and as a result of the moderating moist winds which ordinarily prevail from the South-Western Atlantic, it is temperate, avoiding the extremes in temperature of many other areas in the world at similar latitudes.
Precipitation falls throughout the year, but is light overall, particularly in the east. The west, however, tends to be wetter on average and prone to the full force of Atlantic storms, especially in the late autumn and winter months, which occasionally bring destructive winds and high rainfall totals to these areas, as well as snow and hail. The regions of North Galway and East Mayo have the highest incidents of recorded lightning annually (5 to 10 days per year). Munster in the south records the least snow with Ulster in the north more prone to snow. In 2009 temperatures went below −7 °C and caused up to 50 cm of snow in the mountains where as in Dublin there was 10 cm of snow in places.
Inland areas are warmer in summer and colder in winter – there are usually around 40 days of below freezing temperatures at inland weather stations, but only 10 days at coastal stations. Ireland is sometimes affected by heat waves, most recently in 1995, 2003 and 2006.
Ireland - Motorhome / RV / Campervan exchange international travel destination.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
