Below is this morning’s 3 Day Outlook from Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service.
It will remain cold and unsettled for the rest of the Easter weekend. Good Friday night will be very cold, with a mixture of clear spells and scattered wintry showers. Frost and a risk of icy patches also. Holy Saturday will remain very cold, with sunny spells and occasional showers. Some of the showers may be heavy and of hail, with a risk of thunder. Some showers of sleet or even snow are possible on mountains. Breezy, with moderate northerly winds. Frosty for a time on Saturday night, but less cold conditions, with outbreaks of rain or sleet, will develop during the night and there is a slight risk of snow, mainly over high ground. Easter Sunday will be mostly cloudy at first, with outbreaks of rain and drizzle, clearing from the north to sunny spells and scattered showers. Some of the showers may turn wintry later. Frost on Easter Sunday night. Easter Monday may have a few sunny spells, especially in eastern areas at first. Cloudier in the west, with outbreaks of rain, tending to become more widespread.
Earlier in the week there were predictions for Holy Thursday.
Met Éireann is attached to the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. It is an official government service.
Whether we like it or not, the State it seems, wants us all to be Christians. Or she believes in a Christian climate. Weather - you like it or not, I don’t like the forecast for this country.
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Shur if they hadn’t had a bit of a pray before doing the forecast it probably would have been worse. As it is there’s only a slight risk of snow…
Do they still show the Angelus at 6 every day?
Caro ~ The mini-documentary about people looking bewildered? I would guess so, but I haven’t seen TV in so long that I can’t say for sure.
i am reliably informed, however, that Jesus would like us to party. he has this trick that he does with water…
(i’m hosting my annual
GoodGREAT Friday party tomorrow)Rosie ~ He had two water-tricks but I think I know the one you mean. Anyway. Enjoy. You go party like it’s €19.99.
i was, in fact, referring to both. the wine one is handy when the offy’s shut but after an “incident” at the fishpond last year, i’ve been perfecting my technique for the other.
They put all that stuff in for me!
What with the win, rain, snow and bitter cold I thought we were at Christmas again. Happy whatever.
Rosie ~ I’d love to walk on John Waters.
Grannymar ~ Look on the bright side - you’ll get a nice chocolate ovary come Sunday.
For the most part, here stateside we have Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Easter Monday? Holy Saturday? Not so much. But then again, I’m not Catholic.
Sugar ~ I’m not Catholic either.
Visitors from other blogs ~ In fact I’m not Christian. That wasn’t my point. Met Éireann’s work is to monitor, analyse and predict Ireland’s weather and climate. That is a scientific task that needs to be undertaken methodically and clinically i.e. to report the facts as they find them. That should not be tarnished by overly religious references.
I don’t see a problem with them referring to St. Patrick’s Day or Christmas Day for example. These are days known throughout the world by those with no Irish and/or Christian affiliations. Easter Sunday and Good Friday not quite as well known, but I can live with the usage of those terms. Because of the event that our nation grew from, Easter Monday is readily identifiable by Irish people.
But Holy Thursday? Holy Saturday? That is pushing it. I never heard of Holy Saturday until now.
I may seem to be PC in my view of Met Éireann’s reporting style, but I find it disappointing that an agency of the State is going to such lengths to pander to a religion - any religion. It would seem clear that it’s editorial policy demands that the guy sitting down to write the piece is under orders to refer to today as Holy Thursday and this Saturday as Holy Saturday. It is highly unlikely they would do so otherwise. This is a more dangerous type of PC - RC, religious correctness, and a particular religion’s to boot.
I’m all for keeping God out of the weather forecast except for on Godawful Thursday which you might know as Thanksgiving, America’s great get together with your inlaws day. On that day I used to pray for holy hail.
Sam ~ I don’t understand all the hoola-baloo about Thanksgiving - I know it wasn’t about starving immigrants discovering turkey dinners. Perhaps it was about invaders/missionaries celebrating the theft of foodstuffs and livelihood from the locals? The same American tradition survives today. Still, I don’t see it as a reason for a family get together. Maybe the weatherman can change my views.
The weathermen are in on it, Sneezy, don’t trust ‘em!
Primal - Hey, a spot of holying won’t do anyone any harm - those that wish to be holy shall be and the rest of us get a 4 day weekend which is fab so no complaints from me as I’ll be visiting no religious houses whatsoever - unless they’re having a sale on choccie Easter Eggs - then I’ll may be slightly tempted, but seeing as that’s certainly not going to happen, its just Happy Long Weekend and Happy Chocolate Day all round ….
Sam ~ And Huey Lewis. Or was it the Newsmen he played with?
White girl ~ It’s a 3-day weekend here. The Friday was never a public holiday, though in some businesses all employees are forced to take it as a personal day. Hence, every single year there is bitching and moaning about having to work on a bank holiday Friday while other people are off.
But hey, you’re right - a long weekend is the mutt’s marbles for any reason. I love this one in particular ’cause the Irish Grand National is always held on the Monday. A chance for me to give back to the bookies what I won off them during Cheltenham.