Summer Weather 2014

The ECMWF is a summer weather lover's dream. Very warm throughout the week except for the odd incursion of fronts in to the far west at times. Could even turn hot at times.

Some differences in the model outlooks toward the weekend. Some going for a slow break down but one or two stopping the high pressure from toppling and keep the hot weather for a good bit longer.

This week looks every bit as good as last summer.

On the downside the nights will be very warm, humid and sticky. Not pleasant for sleeping. Tonight will be cool though.

The Weather Gods shone on Costa Del Bray once again today for the Bray Airshow. Hot and Sunny for the most part and 80-90,000 there to enjoy it.

It has been great but it will still take a string of days with temps in the high 20s for people to remember it. Im still hoping for a repeat of the temps last year so you can go snorkelling in luke warm sheltered bays without the need for a wetsuit!
Another better thing this year is that we are still getting rain inbetween the good spells, so the farmers cant be complaining.

Weather Advisory for Ireland

Very warm and humid this week with day time temperatures reaching the mid twenties in places. The nights will be very mild and close with lowest temperatures of around 15 or 16 degrees in many areas
Issued:
Monday 21 July 2014 10:00
Valid:
Tuesday 22 July 2014 00:01 to Saturday 26 July 2014 23:59

Third day in a row of cloudy weather. Temp barely scraping to 20c.

Super-Rush wrote: »

Third day in a row of cloudy weather. Temp barely scraping to 20c.

Yeah same here,cloud doesn't look like breaking soon either

a very average summer in my parts as far as I'm concerned - certainly nowhere near as good as last year's blue skies. I seem to be living under a permanent blanket of cloud and lots more out in the Atlantic to come too.
Very disappointing considering some of the weather forecasts I've been hearing lately.

I think the big difference between this summer and last from my point of view, has been the weather over the weekends, this year has been good over all but the best of the sun and temps have been on a on a Wednesday or a Thursday, the weekends have been so so..

whitebriar wrote: »

Lovely afternoon near Arklow,the Davis has 24.3c now.
That's after a warm sunny morning and a 20 min rain shower at noon.
I continue to think its a smashing summer in the sunny south east anyhow and it has been largely sunny down this way.

I agree. I can't remember the last time I felt "cold". Even last Friday's big event was nothing much, Saturday/Sunday were lovely for the most part. Sunshine most days, the evenings especially.

I think people who have been lucky enough to live in more coastal areas are forgetting others haven't seen half the sun they are (Bray for example, as we're told every hour how sunny it is there!! ). It's been miserably cloudy here the last few days till late in the evening when the sun is pretty much gone.

In the last hot weather spell there was maybe 3/4 days of 90% sun, the rest were very hit and miss.

Sorry, but heat with a full sky of cloud is not what I call great weather.

EDIT: also, how poor has some of the cloud extent forecasting been all Summer? A little bit of common sense would suggest to check the satellites, see the massive banks of clouds still to come, and NOT forecast sunny weather or sunny breaks if it really doesn't look like it. (Granted cloud can burn off and things can change, but how hard is ''cloudy across the country, with little or no sun. Cloud may burn off or break a little.''). I'm nearly positive ME had today has being relatively sunny for plenty of areas and now it's been adjusted today to an above scenario.

EDIT 2: God I sound awful grumpy! I will say this summer has been very good, but cloud in my area anyway has put a downer on many days which promised much more. The lack of cold too has kept the thicker clothes away.

So sick of this cloud cover, i wouldn't mind if we were being dominated by low pressure but the high pressure is not far off from us and there is no sign of clear skies, looking at britain right now and they have about 10% cloud cover in most places... will we ever see a clear sky again? Plus the high temps and humidity make it worse without the sunshine

Lovely evening here, warm humid and sunny. Difficult night for sleeping though as temperature may not fall below 17c. /Dublin.

I hear ye! It's getting to the point where it's hard to stay indoors.
This summer is different to last year HUMIDITY