I think I captured my favourite shot of 2026 so far this morning. Awesome waves and light at High Rock between Malahide and Portmarnock looking towards Ireland's Eye.

The Voyager under a fiery sky.

When it rains, it now rains more. For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall. And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.

The last 10 days (16th-25th January 2026) MSLP anomaly versus the second half of January 2014. Not terribly different.

Several sites have provisionally set new January daily rainfall records, some are shown in the table below 👇 Katesbridge has provisionally recorded its wettest day on record, while Plymouth (Mountbatten) also saw a notable record at a site with over 100 years of observations

In March I will be hosting my first public talk and I will be discussing about auroras as part of Irish Astronomy Week. I hope to answer as many common questions as I can on the celestial dance in our night skies.

Dublin should have had a yellow rain warning for last night/early this morning, even disregarding the fact that flooding was down to a combination of heavy rain, pluvial and saturated ground which the warnings are not based on.

#StormChandra Firefighters are currently attending flooding incidents at Stocking Avenue Nutgrove Avenue M50 J13 Ballinteer Northbound Lambs Cross We've taken motorists to safety in Kilmacud and Rathfarnham after they became trapped in floods.

Dodder Road Dublin

On this horrendous morning in Dublin, here's a much better morning at the Malahide Estuary in February 2025 for some hope that it can only get better from here. Perfect reflections.

Sunbeams on Dublin Bay.

The final light of day at Sutton.

Oh the joys. GFS projecting another ~60mm of rain here for the week ahead. January right now is on 76.3mm (00-00) at Dublin Apt. Another 60mm would put it as one of the wettest on record. The wettest January is 1948 with 171.4mm but this is 53mm wetter than the second wettest!

What a terrible week. Dublin Apt 06-06 data below. 57mm of rain, 1.3 hrs of sun, around 7-9C every single day with one slight frost. Not an exceptional amount of rain but it feels like it's been non stop raining. There's not many weeks I've seen rain falling this consistently on a regular basis.

Time lapse of the nice aurora surprise display at Burrow Beach on Tuesday night when the clouds cleared at a perfect time.

30 x 22 inch framed print of fiery sunrise at Portmarnock. The dog walker in the photo spotted my image on a Facebook group and asked for this print 👌

Red lenticular clouds glowing after sunset over Farmleigh.

A little bit of "blobby" aurora over Bective Abbey last night.

A beautiful substorm at Burrow Beach last night. #aurora #dublin #ireland

The auroral oval peeking over the Poolbeg Lighthouse wall just after the peak had passed last night.

Look at those greens! The aurora didn't quite live up to it from the Great South Wall with the best of it had passed by the time the skies had properly cleared but it was the most intense greens I've seen from any aurora to date in Ireland.

The celestial dance over Ballynafagh Church from April 2025. Will it or won't it tonight? #aurora #northernlights #kildare #ireland

The one time you're not frustrated that your bus is late or cancelled. #portmarnock #sunrise

So… the @metoffice.gov.uk app redesign - is it just a bit worse or much much worse?

Misty Malahide

42 x 31 inch mounted print of my award-winning Balbriggan shot for a customer. Love it a lot, looks so good.

Sunrise on Balbriggan Strand on this day last year.

No slow down in the January sunshine here in Dublin, even after the very clear northerly winds had passed. The month is on 51.6 hrs after only the first 15 days. The whole Jan 1991-2020 monthly avg is only 59.9 hrs so have already seen 86% of the average.

An amazing sunrise at Clontarf around this time last year.

A gorgeous start to the day in Clontarf.

Lovely morning in Clontarf. Golden light and reflections.

What a great sky just after sunrise at Portmarnock this morning. If this had appeared 40 minutes prior to it showing, we would have had a serious red sky but alas this was the best it got.

Early hours of this morning in Portmarnock, crescent moon rising beside the kiosk.

That mental GFS 06z wasn't an outlier for Dublin in terms of 850s, probs was at the very upper echelon in terms of synoptics though. Fairly big spread but more cold perturbations are certainly gathering pace for the second half of January 2026.

Last Wednesday morning's crazy sunrise sky over Portmarnock Beach, look at those clouds!

Serengeti National… I mean Phoenix Park this morning 🌅

Deer steps into the light on a fine morning in the Phoenix Park.

A selection of wind gusts > 90 mph in the UK this century so far. No doubt there's more I'm missing. Sure half of them are Needles Old Battery 🥴

UK red weather warnings appendix updated to include #StormGoretti

It's one year today since I captured this unique perspective of Poolbeg Lighthouse aligned with the Great Sugar Loaf from Dollymount Strand using a telephoto lens. It gave Mount Fuji vibes with its snow cap from the cold spell.

A fiery sky, sun pillar and crepuscular rays over Ireland's Eye from Portmarnock this morning.

In the 2025 statement, Met Éireann noted a max of 32.2C at the climatological station Connemara National Park on 13th July 2025. This makes it the equal 5th highest max temp on record in Ireland.

Current UK January 2026 averages and totals (rain and sun scaled up to whole month based on avg per day for the first 5 days). Safe to say it's been cold, dry and very sunny so far.

Two UK stations have set January record low min temps with recording history of at least 30 years. These are pretty appalling tbh. Holbeach managed -15.6C in February 2012 showing it's clearly capable of much lower.

It's one year yesterday since I took this shot of Balbriggan Lighthouse, the one that made me officially an award-winning photographer. Wasn't even the first image I edited and posted after I came home. Was a few weeks later until I did!

Nice cooling of sea surface temperatures around the UK & Ireland in the past two weeks, especially in the North Sea and shallow waters as to be expected which are more vulnerable to sudden weather changes.

Poolbeg against a backdrop of frosty mountains on this day last year.

Finally had my first frost of the meteorological winter this morning with a low of -1.2C at Dublin Airport. Had 2 frosts in November. In 2018-19, I had a record-breaking -4.7C on 30th October but then had to wait until January 18th for my next frost after that!

Moonset over the Portrane water tower this morning.

Moonset this morning aligned with Howth Lighthouse.