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Though extreme weather events in Ireland are comparatively rare when compared with other countries in the European continent, they do occur. Atlantic depressions, occurring mainly in the months of December, January and February, can occasionally bring winds of up to 160 km/h or 99 mph to Western coastal counties, with the winter of 2013/14 ...
Storm Darragh (known as Storm Xaveria in Germany) [1] was a powerful extratropical cyclone which severely impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom in December 2024. The fourth named (using the western group naming list) storm of the 2024–25 European windstorm season, Darragh was named by the UK Met Office on 5 December 2024.
Meteosat 26 December 1998 11:30 UTC. Hurricane Stephen (also called the (Great) Boxing Day Storm of 1998) was an Atlantic windstorm that made landfall in northwest Ireland.It peaked on 26 December 1998 where St. Stephen's Day is celebrated in Ireland, Isle of Man and Wales with Boxing Day celebrated in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Europe's largest private sector weather business, MeteoGroup, announced that the previous month was the coldest December on average since 1996. [33] Temperatures remained very cold on 3 January throughout Ireland and Britain, with some snow showers in Kent and north east England, although lighter than on previous days.
The storm began to move northwestwards, and started to rapidly intensify whilst nearing Ireland, with its pressure falling to 965 hPa (28.5 inHg) according to a weather map by the FUB on 6 December. [6] However, a 12:00 UTC weather map by the Met Office, the weather agency of the United Kingdom, indicated a much lower pressure of 957 hPa (28.3 ...
The winter of 2010–11 was a weather event that brought heavy snowfalls, record low temperatures, travel chaos and school disruption to the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It included the United Kingdom's coldest December since Met Office records began, with a mean temperature of −1 °C (30 °F), breaking the previous record of 0.1 °C ...
In its monthly summary Met Éireann, Ireland's weather service, said December was the coldest month for 28 years for most of the country and the coldest of any month since February 1986 at several stations. [47] Wintry conditions returned to Europe, as much of the northern hemisphere was gripped by intensely cold weather.