Any sign of good weather?

junkyard

Is there any sign of an improvment in the weather?:(

sunset

What about yesterday? If you read all the recent posts you will see that there is great enthusiasm for real weather drama -thunderstorms, lightning displays, torrential rain and swirling wind. That really gets the adrenalin going.

LoL sunset

lashing here in arklow again this morning at a rate of 14mm/hr

It seems like drizzle compared to yesterdays 110.7mm/hr during the thunder

Snowbie

Couldn agree more Sunset,one flash of lightning here in Dublin and this board went into meltdown from us Dublin folk,its great.A bit of excitment for a change.Wonder what would have happened if we had a storm here.

Ditto Tristrame nearly 80mm for the month here too while some parts of the UK have had over 200mm for the month and most of that fell last week to yesterday.

Dont mean to hijack the thread on you Junkyard but here's hoping for more potential storms.

mike65

Snowbie - feck off! I want sun sun sun! Some heafy showers this morning.

Mike.

Snowbie

mike65 wrote:

Snowbie - feck off! I want sun sun sun! Some heafy showers this morning.

Mike.

lol,a bit of variety now and again does'nt hurt,besides there is less chance being burnt from lightning than from the sun:eek:

ch750536

On hols from Sat.

10 day outlook for Tenby :
Today
Jun 20 Light Rain / Wind 16°/12°
Jun 21 Rain 15°/12°
Jun 22 Light Rain 16°/12°
Jun 23 Showers 15°/11°
Jun 24 Showers 14°/10°
Jun 25 Showers 14°/10°
Jun 26 Showers 14°/11°
Jun 27 Showers 16°/11°
Jun 28 Showers 16°/11°
Jun 29 Showers 17°/12°

Trogdor

Nothing very encouraging on the charts atm for good weather here
Some good weather here though;),
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/europe_forecast_7days.asp?locationID=1676
leaving on the long drive(no, you can't drive accross water i know, ferries aswell) down to corsica on the 27th:p. You can have overcast and cool conditions for the next month with absolutely no thundery activity:p. I'll be out in the sun in Corsica and the Alps with thunderstorms and maybe if i'm really lucky a few spouts. Enjoy your summer:p. Just one more exam and i'm free:D
EDIT: Just remembered, Tristrme can't reply to this post, i'd love to be goin to Florida:rolleyes:

junkyard

sunset wrote:

What about yesterday? If you read all the recent posts you will see that there is great enthusiasm for real weather drama -thunderstorms, lightning displays, torrential rain and swirling wind. That really gets the adrenalin going.

Not for me it doesn't, not at this time of year anyway. I'm sh*t sick of rain tbh, it's wrecking my head as well as everything else. I'm off to Malta in 2 weeks anyway so to hell with this climate I say.;)

Supercell

Heavy rain, thunder, lightening, warm(ish) temps, nature exploding with greenery..this is what summer is all about, I'm loving this summer so far

arctictree

Longfield wrote:

Heavy rain, thunder, lightening, warm(ish) temps, nature exploding with greenery..this is what summer is all about, I'm loving this summer so far

Would be nice to have a sunny day though!!

Gonzo

not very impressed with this summer so far! Way too wet and cool for my liking, nowhere nearly as good as last summer so far altho we did get a very nice April. Hoping things improve soon and that July, August and early September will bring warmer,sunnier fortunes:)

Snowbie

16.53hrs of maximum sunshine possible for today on the summer solstice and i recorded 23mins of sunshine.

Gonzo

thats 23 minutes more sunshine than i got today! The cloud didnt break once today, damp and rainy all day and even tho it was longest day of the year it started gettin dark at 10pm coz it was so grey and drizzely:(

lucernarian

On that note, where can I find out the light-up times for every day, without having to buy a paper? And the same for the dawn and dusk times.

sunset

Oh dear, Junkyard. So you're off to Malta. I am so sorry. Did you know that the June monthly rainfall record for Malta was broken this year - in the first three days of the mont!!! Floods, torrential downpours, thunderstorms... Malta is just the place. I went for a week a couple of years ago and it rained and rained. One of the problems there is that in many new developments they didn't put in any street drains. When thundery rain occurs boats are more usefulthan cars. I would expect the chances of sun in Ireland when you are away are pretty good!

LFCFan

Do any of you rain lovers ever go outside? Summer is supposed to be about getting out and getting some sun and getting rid of the milk bottle skin. I HATE this goddamn weather. It sucks. It's miserable, depressing and is NOT what summer is supposed to be about. It's no wonder this country has such a high rate of suicide and even higher rate of holiday goers. I blame Bertie!

Snowbie

So were getting our overdue April showers in June,temporary glich,it will turn nice again by next month and the humidity will rise and pollen levels will soar with people in bits needing days off work,headaches from sneezing snots and tears,complainig about sunburn, argument levels go through the roof,hose bans, praying for more rain and we get it and were back to square one.I blame Bush!:D

Gonzo

hope it changes soon, so far all of May and most of June has been a cool washout except for one decent week near the start of June. I want to have my barbecue weekend and so far no sign:(

just looked at http://www2.wetter3.de/ and the cool weather continues for at least another week taking hold of the northern half of Europe with the warm weather pushed far south even more than usuall.

Sully

Not to bad down here in Tramore, hasnt really rained. Bright and sunny and warm enough

junkyard

sunset wrote:

Oh dear, Junkyard. So you're off to Malta. I am so sorry. Did you know that the June monthly rainfall record for Malta was broken this year - in the first three days of the mont!!! Floods, torrential downpours, thunderstorms... Malta is just the place. I went for a week a couple of years ago and it rained and rained. One of the problems there is that in many new developments they didn't put in any street drains. When thundery rain occurs boats are more usefulthan cars. I would expect the chances of sun in Ireland when you are away are pretty good!

Thanks for that sunset but I'll take my chances, just spoke to someone who's just back from there and they said the weather was first class.:)

timmywex

please tell me, what are the predictions, is this going to be a nice summer when it stops raining, when is it going to stop, any predictions??

DaBreno

As the above poster asked, is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
The 10 day forecast last night predicts no change in current conditions. That takes us to almost the third week in July. Ffs!

darkman2

There is no sign of good weather for the forseeable future (at least for another week) and the signs are not good for July right now. Just going to have to grin and bare it I suppose.:(

pp_me129

okay simple as its FREEZING outside
when oh when will this weather stop!?????
comon please anybody i cant take it
like dont get me wrong i like interesting weather but its not interesting its drizzle wind and plain cold

comon anybody

mike65

The wind that shakes the barley was whistling through the closed front windows earlier. It about 10c out there I'd say.

Mike.

Supercell

Speak for yourself, I'm loving this summer so far, stuff is actually happening!!

Boring days of nowt happening = not interested and scratchy nether regions, this summer is my idea of a perfect summer!

Takeshi_Kovacs

Its not that cold out there, just windy, something a bit of hard manual labour will cure very quickly..;)

rc28

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote:

Its not that cold out there, just windy, something a bit of hard manual labour will cure very quickly..;)

I agree, when working outside this summer it's far more comfortable than last year.

Thrill

Yeah, it's nice weather for doing gardening and other manual labour and it's not really cold either. It's just those damn drizzles that come along that are a bleedin nuisance

nacho libre

LFCFan wrote:

Do any of you rain lovers ever go outside? Summer is supposed to be about getting out and getting some sun and getting rid of the milk bottle skin. I HATE this goddamn weather. It sucks. It's miserable, depressing and is NOT what summer is supposed to be about. It's no wonder this country has such a high rate of suicide and even higher rate of holiday goers. I blame Bertie!

Call me crazy but I find this weather great for taking an evening swim in the Atlantic ocean. Once you get past the initial brrrr factor and take the plunge it's great;)

CrowdedHouse

Folks - I predict the weather is going to take up very soon,it'll be dry warm and sunny for weeks.

My reason for this - I bought an expensive Goretex rain jacket today

mike65

I know I'm clutching at straws but the link below looks slightly promising for a warm dry day on July 15th! More seriously is that a proper Atlantic high pressure system I see drifting east? Please!

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/avnpanel1.html

Mike.

MisterAnarchy

This crap weather is really driving me nuts.
Its very nippy this evening almost like a night in october.

MisterAnarchy

rc28 wrote:

I agree, when working outside this summer it's far more comfortable than last year.

You cant get much done when its pissing rain every day.
I've been trying to paint my house for the last month !

delly

Managed to get the front garden cut yesterday after trying for the last month.

Heres a tip straight from your friendly Gardening/DIY forum; if cutting wet grass, give a healthy spray of WD40 to the underside and grass box of your lawnmower, it makes things a lot easier.

ch750536

ch750536 wrote:

On hols from Sat.

10 day outlook for Tenby :
Today
Jun 20 Light Rain / Wind 16°/12°
Jun 21 Rain 15°/12°
Jun 22 Light Rain 16°/12°
Jun 23 Showers 15°/11°
Jun 24 Showers 14°/10°
Jun 25 Showers 14°/10°
Jun 26 Showers 14°/11°
Jun 27 Showers 16°/11°
Jun 28 Showers 16°/11°
Jun 29 Showers 17°/12°

Unfortunately that forcast was not accurate, it was much worse.

gurramok

Read somewhere that if it rains today, it will be the 27th consecutive day that it has rained at least once, is this a record?

If so, it looks like there will be at least a week more of it to come from weather.com

timmywex

ok, theyre are plenty of people out there who like to predict the weather, using ol signs such as things todo with seaweed and so on. What are they predicting?? does anyone know??

Snowbie

Dunno,tides gone out.

fatherdougalmag

There was a chap on Newstalk last week, some morning, saying that things would be bad until at least 14th July. Can't remember what whacky notion he used but something to do with broken weather around the 14th of June? And, by all indications, we're in for some wet-and-wild stuff after that.

ninebeanrows

Looks like Friday is going to be a extremely poor day.

Certainly the possibility of flooding along southern and eastern coasts with torrential rain.

As for the further outlook it will be unsettled for at least the next 10 days, this mornings 0z does have a glimmer of hope in FI.

mike65

/me buys canoe!

Mike.

Gonzo

so it looks like being bad till at least the end of July:( This has to be the worst summer I have ever experienced with cool temperatures and what seems like non ending rain. Our garden is almost unwalkable in places its so soaked. There has been very little difference between the exceptionaly mild winter we had and this June/July so far except the temperatures are a few degree's higher and there is alot more rain. We got up to 11/12C regularly this winter and so far this summer we have struggled to 15C/16C during many days. All we can hope for now is that hopefully August will turn out dryer and warmer and that an Indian Summer will come about during September:)

lucernarian

I can remember some of the summers around 2000 were desperate. Then 2003 came along:d

Does anyone know why there are repeated zonal conditions at the moment?

Snowbie

Strong jet stream over us,kinda typical to Irish winter patterns.It should be futher north than where it is at this time of year alowing in the HP(azores high) to our south to come close to us but it cant with the strong jet over us.Untill that moves or shifts,well you can guess the rest.

Trogdor

Snowbie wrote:

Strong jet stream over us,kinda typical to Irish winter patterns.It should be futher north than where it is at this time of year alowing in the HP(azores high) to our south to come close to us but it cant with the strong jet over us.Untill that moves or shifts,well you can guess the rest.

Hopefully it shifts around December;)

Snowbie

trogdor wrote:

Hopefully it shifts around December;)

Yep,but shifts southwards. in winter;)

Marcus.Aurelius

I dunno about ye lads, but the weather at the moment is bloody depressing. I usually go off to Thailand in the winter, to escape the godawful weather here, maybe I should have booked two trips, one in Summer (It's their rainy season, but at least it's feckin warmer!) and the usual.

nice1franko

Is it good news for frogs though? If it is then I don't mind. The frogs have been having a hard time as of late.

DarkJager

Aw bad news... thank god I'm off to Spain for 2 weeks of proper summer!!!