Summer Weather 2014

Cloudy but warm here in Waterford :-):-)

It was cloudy when arrived, the sun is out now :-):-)

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!!!