Interest in the Irish Skies

Hi all,

This is a new venture for me to provide you with informative forecasts on what’s happening in the Ireland skies. For a while I’ve been doing personalised forecasts directly to you or through my Instagram stories on auroras, sunrises, sunsets etc. I’ve been doing these out of pure passion and my background knowledge in meteorology built up over the years.

To make things easier, I am planning to update this blog post on any interest in our skies that I can see happening. These might be of use to you, or not, as a photographer or in general just a lover of the skies. It’s impossible for me to anticipate every single beautiful moment such as a colourful sunset but I will try my best to alert you on what’s happening. Please pin or bookmark this blog post as this is my one source I will be regularly using to update you. I will continue to post the occasional Instagram story.

If you would like to support this venture, you can make a donation via here. These donations will be used to fund camera gear so that I can get better photos and videos of these same moments that I share with you to go out and enjoy.

— Update Tuesday 12th May 2026 —

A showery day tomorrow Wednesday will give the chances for rainbows to occur across Ireland. Remember that the best time to catch a rainbow is at least 3 hours either side of noon because when the sun is highest in the sky, any rainbows will be very low on the horizon so unless you have elevation or a drone view, you will struggle to see them. Rainbows occurring at sunrise and sunset will also be more vivid and vibrant. Intensity of rainbows cannot be forecast, you just need to chance your luck by looking at the rainfall radar such as on Met.ie and spot a shower approaching the location then wait to see if the magic will happen after the sun comes out following the downpour. These showers can occur anywhere in the country but the highest chance will be for northern and northwestern counties. Showers coinciding with sunset can give a colourful sky with a clear western horizon.

Double rainbow during a sunset downpour in July 2020

There is the chance of a colourful sky for quite a wide region early on Saturday morning, 16th May.

Cloud coverage forecast for Ireland at 4am on Saturday 16th May 2026. Yellow = clear, grey = cloud. Cloud approaching from the west is often a teller for a colourful sunrise once the eastern horizon is clear-ish or the cloud type is favourable.