Afternoon conditions & temperatures at Kilkenny Monday Mar 9th:
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March many weathers this week. Cloudy on Monday with just a little light rain in the afternoon. More general rain then overnight. Becoming dry for a time on Tuesday but more rain will arrive later in the afternoon. Bright, dry and breezy then for Wednesday. There will be a spell of quite heavy rain around the middle of the day on Thursday but it will pass off steadily to give a colder drier evening. Later in the night there will be some showers and some of these could be wintry. Sunshine and one or two showers on Friday but unlikely to be wintry at this stage. A fair day on Saturday with a touch of frost in the early night but it will turn milder and cloudy then for Sunday. Next week sees a continuation of this changeable weather.
Current Conditions
How is this month shaping up?
• The mean temperature was a little below normal.
• Rainfall has been a little above normal for first week.
• Rainfall for the year so far is 34% above normal.
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Month Temperature and Rainfall Readings for Kilkenny |
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| March 2026 | 1st to 7th | 1st to 14th | 1st to 21st | 1st to End | Month Highest | Month Lowest |
| Mean Air Temp. (in ° C) |
5.8 |
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12.0 on Mar 2nd | -2.0 on Mar 6th |
| Departure from 1991-2020 |
-0.6 |
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Rainfall (in mm) |
19.2 |
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9.8 on Mar 5th | - |
| Percent of normal 1991-2020 |
136 |
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| Extremes of Air Temperature so far this year : | 14.3 on Feb 22nd |
-4.8 on Jan 6th | ||||
| Total Rainfall so far this year : | 216.0mm | 134% of normal | ||||
| Wettest day of the year so far : | 18.8mm | on Jan 26th | ||||
| 17.9mm | on Jan 29th | |||||
Note : The data shown in the table above is the official climate data submitted to Met Eireann (Climate Station No. 456). The temperatures are from calibrated liquid-in-glass thermometers and rainfall is from a standard 5" copper gauge. The temperatures are not calculated/based on a 00-24 hour day. For the minimum temperatures, the month begins at 9 UTC on the last day of the preceding month and ends at 9 UTC on the last day of the month. For the maximum temperatures and rainfall readings, the month is taken as beginning at 9 UTC on the 1st and ending at 9 UTC on the 1st of the next month.