January 2025
A snowy Black Abbey on Monday January 6th. Starting on Saturday evening and occluded front stalled over Ireland and sleet turned to snow. This got heavier from noon on Sunday and by late afternoon there was as much as 10cm of lying snow. As temperatures were a little above zero, this melted a little but later re-froze and became a hard-packed mass of snow 7cm deep that remained on the ground until the end of the week.January Weather Summary:
The first third of the month was very cold but then it turned mild before finishing with average temperatures. The mean temperature for the month was below normal but not as cold as last year's. The coldest night was -6.4° on the 10th and there were 14 days with air frost. On the 8th, the temperature failed to rise above zero. The warmest day was the 14th when it reached 12.5°.
Rainfall was a little above normal and it was our wettest January in 7 years. This was also the first month with above normal rainfall since May 2024. Storm Éowyn struck in the early hours of the 24th and registered a gust of 94 km/hr. But this was considerably lower than that recorded all points north and west of Kilkenny and we escaped lightly.