[arethuza]

"it rains"

Not that much - according to Wikipedia Dublin gets about 695mm of rain a year, from a Scottish perspective that's practically a desert ;-)

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> "it rains" ... Not that much

It depends if you're measuring quantity of "it rains" in mm of rainfall per year, or percentage of wet time per year.

Some places are very wet by the first metric, but mostly dry by the second. I haven't spent a lot of time in Ireland, but it seemed to be the other way around.

[hopeless]

yes, Scotland is definitely wetter though the rainfall in most of Ireland is much more like 750-1250mm [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Ireland#Rainfall]

And in general terms, Ireland has less extreme weather than the England: it's typically warmer and with less ice/snow in the winter but not as hot in the summer.

[stylishgnome]

The east coast is pretty dry in contrast to the rest of the country. Galway, for instance, gets 1156mm of rain per year.