Four Seasons in One Day

Four seasons in one day--that's one they say about the weather in Dublin. Today I experienced something like that...
This morning, around 9am, as I walked to work, it was sunny and clear blue skies.
At noon as I walked to a meeting, it was cloudy and windy.
At 1pm, there was heavy sleet coming down.
At 1:30pm, as I walked back to my office, it was sunny and clear blue skies.
At 3pm when my boss walked from the other building to ours (15 min walk), it was thrashing rain and very cold--he appeared at our meeting completely drenched, from head to toe.
At 4pm during our rooftop tea break, it was sunny and clear blue skies.
At 6pm when I walked home, it was (dark, obviously, and) lightly sleeting.

Crazy!

First Cold Snap...

It is September 18. I woke up to the temperature outside being 37 degrees, with a wind chill making it feel like 30 degrees, according to the weather channel. Brrrr! Fortunately, it was sunny, which makes it a bit more bearable. Inside my room, the thermometer said it was 64 degrees. Time to try out these radiators they use for heat!

My inclination was to curl up in a blanket and brood about the paralyzing cold. To combat this, what I have learned to do is go outside for a run. So I donned my special hooded jacket made for running and my gloves and headed to the lovely park nearby. After 7 miles, I was hot and ready to strip down. Then for the rest of the day, whenever I got cold walking to work or such, I remembered running around in it this morning and being hot--thus I knew I'd be able to endure the walks while bundled in a jacket!

Weather Patterns

The temperatures have been in the 60's...well, actually I need to get used to using Celsius, not Fahrenheit...so it's been around 17 degrees. Point is, it's been very pleasant. What about the rain, you ask? Yes, it rains every day, but not in the way I feared. The mornings may offer sunshine, then a passing shower for 10 minutes, then the sun and blue skies, then suddenly dark ominous clouds and a 15 minute shower, then no rain, then...the cycle repeats. It's really quite astounding how fast and frequently it switches back and forth. In Texas, I'd feel like the whole day could be shot if there was rain in the forecast, but not so here!
Meanwhile, often the rain is such that a jacket/hood is sufficient, no need to pull out the umbrella (which one learns should always be with you), but at other times the wind picks up with a good force so there is blowing rain with substantial quantity. The good thing is that it doesn't last very long, max 20 minutes in my experience so far...
I had wondered if there would be much humidity because of the rain, but there doesn't seem to be. I'm no weather(wo)man, but I guess the cool temps and wind keep it out? Whatever the reason, I'm happy. Yes, I have no complaints about the weather yet, and I'm pleased to find I am greeted with some sun at some point each day. Another bit of info is that right now, the sun is rising around 6am and setting around 9pm.
Meanwhile, the sky is incredible. With such rapidly changing weather patterns, the clouds do quite a dance up there; it's in very localized places, so there are distinct differences in the visible spectrum, all in one single scope. The colors and textures create a beautiful canopy--I've enjoyed looking out my window as the sun sets, and over a span of 60 minutes getting a real variety of artistic wonder.