Ireland weather in February

We braced ourselves for the wettest year of our lives before leaving Northern California for Galway, Ireland, six months ago.

It hasn't been that bad. Seriously.

Maybe this is a mild year, but this Galway winter reminds us a lot of a Northern California winter - and one of my friends here who used to live in California agrees. Sure, there's been a little snow (which comes around every five years or so but disappears within a couple hours), and some mornings it hovers around freezing. There have been a few sideways rain storms and lots of wind. We haven't seen much rain in February though.

Here are a couple pictures taken on February 4 and 12. Today is just as sunny as either of these. Not too bad!