January 2012

Sunset over the river Nore at Thomastown on New Year's Day. The first week of 2012 was mild with some pleasant weather. During the 2nd, however we had a brief cold snap with some sleet and snow and over 17mm of rain. These days were very windy too with a gust of 77 kph recorded on the 3rd.

Overall it was the warmest January in over 50 years at Kilkenny. The mean temperature was 7.1° and we have to back to 1898 to find a warmer mean, when 7.7° was recorded at Kilkenny Castle. The minimum temperature of -1.7° was recorded on the 28th and the maximum of 12.8° was recorded on the 24th. Rainfall ended up 78% of normal.