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with a probability of 30% / 40% at least once and for up to half the time Airports used in verification ICAO Name Duration Region EGAC Belfast City 9 hr North EGAE Derry/Londonderry 9 hr North EGNV Durham Teesside 9 hr North EGPA Kirkwall 9 hr North EGPB Sumburgh 9 hr North EGPE Inverness 9 hr North
10 chicks) with two consecutive warm years from 2022, featuring a few heavy rainfall days in the January months. Donegal Londonderry Antrim Tyrone © The Wildlife Trusts Fermanagh Armagh Down About Barn Owls What does Ulster Wildlife do? Barn owls are one of the three species of owl found in Ireland
) April 24.5 26 April 1984 Boom Hall (County Londonderry) May 28.3 31 May 1922 Lisburn (County Antrim) June 30.8 30 June 1976 Knockarevan (County Fermanagh) July 31.3 21 July 2021 Castlederg (County Tyrone) August 30.6 2 August 1995 Tandragee Ballylisk (County Armagh) September 28.0 8 September 2023
at Kinlochewe, Highland, 16.0 °C at Edge, Shropshire and 15.0 °C at Magilligan, County Londonderry. Daily maximum temperatures on New Year’s Day included 16.3 °C at St James’s Park, Central London, 15.6 °C at Hawarden Airport, Flintshire, 15.9 °C at Achnagart, Highland and 14.0 °C at Killowen
for January. This beats the previous UK record of 13.1C set at Magilligan (Londonderry) in 2016 and the previous English record of 13.0C set at London St James Park in 2008. There is also a new Welsh January daily minimum temperature record with Trawsgoed (Dyfed) recording 12.8C beating the previous record
of the record values for June for Northern Ireland (67 Kt, 76 mph) at Ballykelly, County Londonderry on 23 June 1962, and Wales (63 Kt, 72 mph) at Capel Curig on 23 June 2004. The last time a June gust of 60 Kt was recorded in Northern Ireland was 12 June 1991. The analysis charts below show some
between the 2nd and 4th, but it was milder by the 5th. The 6th was milder again with some light rain and drizzle and a high of 12.6 °C at Murlough (County Down) and some mist and fog in places. The night of the 6th/7th was also very mild with Armagh and Magilligan (County Londonderry) falling no lower
(Cumbria – Lake District), 54.2mm at Treherbert (mid-Glamorgan – South Wales), and 52.2mm at Bethesda (Gwynedd – Eryri, formerly Snowdonia). The chart below shows hourly maximum gust speeds at Magilligan (County Londonderry), Drumalbin (Lanarkshire) and Inverbervie (Kincardineshire) as the storm moved
, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shetland, Staffordshire, County Antrim and County Londonderry. In line with World Meteorological Organization guidelines, climate is measured against 30-year ‘averaging’ periods. Known as ‘climate normal’ periods, these act as a benchmark against which the observational records
Northern Ireland: climate Northern Ireland consists of the six counties of Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. These encompass a variety of topographical features. The inland basin centred on Lough Neagh (the largest lake in the UK, with an area of 385 sq km) is surrounded
