The 12 months of 2020 was hotter and wetter than common with a dry spring that coincided with the primary lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Met Éireann’s annual evaluate reveals that, after an exceptionally moist and windy February, excessive stress started to dominate in mid-March and stayed till the start of June.
April and Could have been very dry, sunny and heat months with drought circumstances in lots of locations.
June started equally and the very best temperature of the 12 months, 27.1 levels, was recorded at Newport, Co Mayo on June 1st.
Sadly, the beginning of summer time coincided with a change within the climate patterns. June and July have been wetter and cooler than regular. August was additionally moist, however heat. An energetic jet stream within the ultimate third of the month introduced two named storms, Storm Ellen on August nineteenth and twentieth, and Storm Francis on August twenty fourth and twenty fifth.
The primary two-thirds of September have been heat with excessive stress to the south in management.
The remainder of the 12 months noticed common climate patterns, though December was wetter than regular.
Climate stations
Apart from the climate stations at Dublin Airport and the Phoenix Park, all climate stations had a wetter 12 months than regular. Clairemorris in Co Mayo recorded 1,638mm of rain (136 per cent of the long-term common), its highest on report, albeit information return solely 15 years.
Annual rainfall totals have been as a lot as 2,051.7mm (128 per cent of the long-term common) at Newport, Co Mayo. The variety of very moist days ranged from 17 days at Phoenix Park in Dublin to 68 days at Newport, Co Mayo.
It was the wettest 12 months since 2009 at each Valentia Observatory, Co Kerry and Sherkin Island, Co Cork. It was the wettest 12 months of the previous 5 years at 18 different stations.
Almost all imply air temperatures have been above their long-term common (LTA). Deviations from imply air temperature for the 12 months ranged from -0.1 levels at Markree, Co Sligo and Dublin Airport respectively to 0.7 levels at Phoenix Park, Co Dublin.
The 12 months’s lowest temperatures have been recorded on January nineteenth. The bottom air minimal was reported at Mullingar, Co Westmeath with a temperature of -6.1 levels and the bottom grass minimal was reported at Oak Park, Co Carlow with -10.7 levels. Neither have been distinctive for annual minimal temperatures.