On This Day (29 March) in Irish Weather History
A chronological list of weather events and extremes that took place in Ireland on this day down through history.
1850: Having embarked from Cork, the SS Royal Adelaide sinks in a storm near Margate, Kent. 200 passengers die, including 150 Irish people.
1975: Bitterly cold northeast winds lead to snowfall in Ulster and Leinster.
1997: Met Éireann and University College Dublin (UCD) embark on a project to enable them to predict where floods will occur across the country.
2020: The March high air pressure record (1051.2 hPa) is set at Malin Head in Donegal as the first COVID lockdown dry spell takes hold.
