Summer Weather 2014

27.7c in oak park the tops

26.9c sligo town
27.4c markree
26.7c finner

Was in Howth today,beautiful day with a very light sea breeze & not a bulmers drinking tug to be seen which was a surprise

There was a big temperature difference between Limerick City and kilkee co. Clare, a popular beach resort this Friday evening. I left Limerick around 4.15 pm. I was getting a reading in my car 28c and fair weather. Before I got to Kilrush I entered dull and misty weather and the reading started to drop quickly. By the time I arrived into kilkee around 5.45 pm the reading was giving 19 or 20c. The temperature report at Shannon Airport at 5 pm was 27c and fair. Apparently it was foggy in Kilkee all day and just started to clear just before I arrived.

Cloudy so far here today with the odd outbreak of light rain,still fairly warm here, temp 21.1c.

We finally have Rain here in the northeast, not a whole lot, but the grass is happy.

It's a great night to watch the stars. I'm just back from taking the dogs out and it was fabulous. Not a cloud to be seen and no moon.

As far as Bray is concerned, I'd say this year beats 2013. Even today there was a decent amount of sunshine and according to Trogdors weather station todays high was 24ºc.

Tried to explain it to a few customers today who commented that they heard the forecast say it would be quite a bit cooler than last week but it actually felt warmer to them and actually told a few people a few days ago to expect it to get warmer not cooler here despite what the forecasts said.

Just stuff I've picked up from here basically. That a national forecast talking about cooler temperatures was referencing the 26/27ºc of the midlands and west dropping to low twenty values, that the air temp Bray was getting beside the Irish sea was already 21-23ºc anyway and far from experiencing a relative drop in temps like other areas of the country we would in fact likely see an increase in temps when the wind swung around behind the Wicklow/Dublin mountains and introduced a 1-2ºc Fohn effect.

I'd love to see a day by day sunshine and temp stat for Bray (specifically) from Summer 1995 and compare it to Summers 2013/14.
I remember that year as wall to wall sunshine and blue-skies for June/July and August. However it could be a selective memory effect. Of course I know that its widely recognised all over as The Summer but was it really 90 days of uninterrupted Blue Skies like I remember?

We all know that even in this small country their can be vastly different weather on a county by county basis. That for many/most? this Summer hasn't been a patch on 2013 as far as blue skies is concerned putting aside temperatures and rainfall. And as for 1995, "Go way outta that will ye" However, maybe there was a bit of cloud around in Bray in 1995 that I selectively forgot. Maybe like my opening paragraph one shouldn't compare Brays Summer 2014 weather to the national recollection of the Summer of 1995 but to Brays own stats for that Summer. Maybe Summer 1995 actually had the same amount of cloud around on various days as Summer 2014 did for us. Maybe we didn't get the daily 25ºc+ like the rest of the country in 1995 but then again we never do with the moderating influence of the sea. Maybe in 1995 Brays temps hovered around the low 20's too.

Maybe........Summer 2014 in Bray was indeed better than 2013 and (Blasphemy) maybe it wasn't very far off Bray Summer 1995?!?!?

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Currently thinking it will be a somewhat cloudy and wet start to the summer season with generally an improving trend and a good chance of heat wave conditions developing at times in July and August, but also with more widespread heavy thunderstorms than last year (which still managed a few). There's a forecast contest thread, I am thinking of assembling a "boards consensus" forecast based on the entries, possibly weighted somewhat by experience making seasonal forecasts.

As you say, not anything like a fully developed science, but my strong hunch supported by some research is that two regimes will fight it out for supremacy, namely cloudy humid and showery vs hot and dry.

MTC's suggestions from earlier in this thread are certainly looking good so far. Quoted post was May 31st.

Did I miss a proper summer prediction from MTC?

whitebriar wrote: »

Costa del Arklow peaked at 24.8c today!

Still 22.1c now

What a summer of heat and sun this continues to be in east wicklow!

Ah will u stop rubbin it in??!!;) - My wee farm in North Mayo has been shrouded in Atlantic muck for the past month, and now an extented run of chilly North Westerlies

Cloudsta del Sligo misht n drizzle again

DARK AS FRIG:cool:

Whats going on with the radar. Looks like its drizzling in the south east but from reports it must surely not be!
Is it a swarm of locusts?!

Its drizzling/raining here in Galway city now actually. So maybe the radar positioning is off.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Well I'll conceed you've had a few extra bright days (and probably a degree or two more heat for what that's worth- not much really) but east Waterford has been basking this summer - my bleached lawns are proof of that.

Waterford city pretty parched as well, weather has been great since the supposed end of the good weather. Last drop of rain in the city was in the middle of the hot spell on the 21st but it missed the coast. Threatening a few drops today, garden has its tongue out!

As I may be on holiday for much of the intervening time, I thought it might be a good idea to post this today in this thread ... perhaps somebody will start a separate thread on this closer to the event.

On the morning of Monday, 18th August before sunrise, if skies are clear, you'll have a view of a close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter appearing about 1.5 hours before sunrise, so fairly low in the east at that time (estimated 0430-0600h for best viewing). The two brightest planets will be a mere 0.2 deg apart, little more than the size of the Moon in our skies.

And there's another, more easily viewed, planetary conjunction scheduled for the 27th of August, when Mars and Saturn pass at a more sedate 4 deg of separation, that should be easily spotted around 10 p.m. to midnight in the south to southwest. This conjunction won't look markedly different night to night and by the evening of the 31st the moon will brush past Saturn which will be 4 deg above Mars. Make a note on your calendar, and remember, put the note on the 17th because if you don't read it until daytime on the 18th, you've missed the closest apparition. I hope to see it here from dark rural skies but the time difference means that I won't be looking at the very closest phase and my view on the 17th will be about the same as on the 18th.

Then also, the fading crescent of the moon passes these bright planets, already somewhat separated, on the early mornings of 23rd and 24th -- 23rd is recommended with moon below Jupiter, as moon might be difficult to find just 30 hours before new moon by its conjunction with Venus.

One other note, sadly the Perseids won't be favoured by this month's lunar calendar but we do have a supermoon to view on the nights of 9th-10th, 10th-11th and 11th-12th, albeit not right at the actual event (perigeean full moon) which takes place during the evening daytime of the 10th. Those dates are normally the peak for the Perseids so spotting them will be tough with that big full moon shining.

alfa beta wrote: »

Bray and Waterford - definitely the places to be for summer 2014.

I'm on west waterford coast - ardmore to be precise - and the weather pretty much all summer has been incredible, holidays with the small fella flying by. Amazing how often this year you can look out to sea and see blue skies, turn around and look north and see darkish clouds (today was exactly like that).

Makes up for never ever ever ever getting snow in winter (not even that Christmas when everywhere else in the country was buried!!!)

Only 4mm of rain of that band in the early hours here in the city, barely enough to keep the dust down! Surely we'll get the deluge forecast this evening!!!