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Today This evening and tonight will be dry apart from a few scattered showers, these mainly over the northern half of the country. Cloud amounts will vary - the overcast skies will persist in many areas, but even during the evening and early night there will be some clear spells (mainly in the north and northwest, and along the southwest coast), and as the night goes on the breaks in cloud will develop a bit more widely. Patchy frost is possible over Munster and south Leinster if lengthy clear spells develop there, but otherwise it should be frost-free. Lowest temperatures will range 1 to 6 C. Weather News 12 March 2010 - UCD Earth Science Institute, Transforming Ireland Seminar Series (Seminars 1-3) UCD Earth Sciences Institute are running a series of seminars beginning Friday 19th March and running on Fridays until December (with a break in July and August). The title of the series is ‘Transforming Ireland - Mobilising Innovation and Enterprise to Become a Prosperous Low Carbon Society’. Below are details of the speakers for the first three ESI seminars.01 March 2010 - February Weather Summary - Coldest February Since 1986 and the Coldest Winter for Almost 50 Years The season began with relatively mild weather, but each of the winter months was colder than normal. The season’s lowest temperatures were measured in the periods December 24th to 25th and January 7th to 9th, when air temperatures fell below -10°C in places and several stations recorded their lowest winter values for more than 20 years. An air temperature of -16.3°C on January 7th at the climatological station of Mount Juliet, Co. Kilkenny, was the lowest such value measured in the country since23 February 2010 - Report on Rainfall of November 2009 November 2009 is notable for the high rainfall recorded and the consequent severe flooding experienced in many parts of the country. Atlantic depressions passing close to Ireland brought wet and windy conditions throughout almost all of November, continuing a pattern of very unsettled weather over Ireland which began in the middle of October. |
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