Rathdrum weather
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Met Office, the European and the American model agree on a high near 18° in Rathdrum today. Tomorrow: light drizzle, around 19°, with a 53% chance of rain.
Latest for Rathdrum: Met Office (UKMO model): 17° Overcast · European (ECMWF): 16° Overcast · American (NOAA GFS): 17° Overcast.
The weather map: all three models at once
Met Office, European, American side by side around Rathdrum and nearby towns.Live rain radar →Rathdrum hourly forecast: next 14 hours
consensus of the three modelsRain in the next 24 hours, model by model
each model's own hourly precipitation, side by sideLoading the three models…
Rathdrum 10-day forecast, out to 14 days
where the models agree, and where they splitRathdrum is a small town of about 1,586 people in Co. Wicklow, sitting at 52.9°N in a temperate climate zone. Met Office, European, American each forecast Rathdrum with their own physics, so we line all three up and flag where they disagree. Nearby towns include Rathnew, Wicklow, Arklow.
We grade every model against the weather that actually happened, so you can see which forecast model is most accurate in Ireland before you trust any single number.
How the weather around Rathdrum has changed since 1995
Rathdrum sits in the same roughly 50 km square of NASA's reanalysis as Bray. That square shows no clear change in temperature between 1995-2004 and 2015-2024. See the full 30-year picture on the Bray page.
Which forecast is most accurate in Ireland?
CheckWeather Score, graded against the weather that actually happenedThe CheckWeather Score blends temperature, wind and rain accuracy, each measured against ERA5 (the recorded weather) over the last 30 days across 60 cities. Lower error means a higher score. See which forecast model is most accurate in Ireland, how we measure forecast accuracy, or which model each weather app uses.
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Where the models disagree
temperature and rain, judged separatelyThe models often agree on temperature and still split on rain, and rain is usually what decides whether a plan survives. A wide rain range means the shower is genuinely uncertain, not that the forecast is wrong.