In Irland fielen 111 % des durchschnittlichen langjährigen Winterniederschlags

Me and Mrs Strand couldn’t take it any more so splashed out and fecked off to Costa Rica for 3 weeks. The joy of being DINKs. Just woke up in a place called La Fortuna. It’s raining here in the mountains tbf but it always rains here, before this we had a week on the Pacific surfing in beautiful sun with idyllic views. Pura Vida everyone, I really don’t want to come home, the weather had really been getting me down this year.

We’re also the only country where the temperature hasn’t risen

I bet we will beat that this spring….if not rain then lower temperature, mark my words…..

I think the lower than expected number is because:

While the east had double or more their long term average rainfall in January and February, the rest of the country had about average. And most of the rain falls in the rest of the country – Knock airport had an average amount of rain for January, which was the same amount as in Dublin airport in January. December is also bringing the average down.

Not to minimise the impact it had on the east – the same amount of rain has different impact in different places.

Dublin at 170% seems accurate. Its been brutal

Eleventy eleven percent?

Quick, you build the ark. I’ve got to find me a girlfriend!

So about one tenth more rain that the average winter then. I thought it would have been more. But lets not start exaggerating in the headlines for dramatic effect.

Soooo.. normal then?