It is a sunny final day of the meteorological winter, a season that brought us two named storms and a notable snow event for parts of the country.
Snow fell on January 4th and 5th bringing significant disruption to parts of the south Midlands, South, Southwest and West. The snow lingered on the ground for up to a week in places.
Storm Darragh on December 6/7th and Storm Éowywn on January 24th also led to extensive damage to utilities and property, particularly in the west of Ireland.
Darragh saw five stations, including Dublin Airport and Shannon Airport, reported their highest December gust since 2013, while Knock Airport reported its highest December gust since 1998
Éowyn produced the highest (sustained and gust) wind speeds in the digital climate record for Ireland at Mace Head in County Galway. Four stations broke their highest 10-minute mean wind speed record. These were Mace Head, Co Galway, Finner, Co Donegal with 115 km/h (62 knots), Dunsany, Co Meath with 76 km/h (41 knots) (length 19 years) and Athenry with 83 km/h (45 knots).
The opening week of spring looks largely dry as high pressure remains in charge of our weather up to and including March 6th.
Top image: A NASA Modis image of Ireland and Britain and 11am today.