{"id":606848,"date":"2025-12-02T06:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606848\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:43:16","slug":"ni-weather-third-wettest-autumn-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606848\/","title":{"rendered":"NI weather: Third wettest Autumn on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The return of frequent Atlantic weather systems brought repeated spells of rain, with total rainfall for autumn reaching around 449mm &#8211; well above the long-term average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside the rainfall, autumn temperatures in Northern Ireland were around 0.35C above the seasonal average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While not record-breaking, this continued the trend of milder conditions seen throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunshine was also in short supply during the autumn months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With just 80% of its average sunshine it was the fifth dullest autumn on record and the dullest since 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland was affected by several named storms during the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Storm Amy, which arrived at the start of October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce86jkg8dx4o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought the most significant impacts locally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Strong winds battered exposed coastal areas, with a weather station at Magilligan in County Londonderry recording gusts of 92mph (148km\/h) &#8211; a new Northern Ireland record for October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of frequent Atlantic weather systems brought repeated spells of rain, with total rainfall for autumn reaching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-606848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115648620491511811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}