Memorable and hot Irish summers

nlgbbbblth

Ones that stick in the memory.

1976 - hot hot hot
1983 - very sunny, lots of beach days and sunburn from strawberry picking
1984 - sunny throughout
1995 - dry, heatwave seemed to last forever. Very warm evenings and nights

any more memories?

mike65

Please God can we have another one?

2006 was actually very hot (but also humid) for about 5/6 weeks.

1973 was another good one.

Mike.

Shan75

Well the last two years seem to be the worst I ever remember.Thinking back to when I was young it seems the weather in the summer was always good.Of course maybe you only remember what you want to.I remember 1982our family went to Jersey in September(I remember my mother having to ask the school if it was Ok for us to miss two weeks) and it was the hottest two weeks on record for something like 50 years.Other times through the 80's our family holidays in Ireland were always had in great hot and sunny weather and we would spend all day on the beach.There was only one year I remember being very bad.We were in Wexford and it rained constantly for a couple of days.We were in a tent and got soaked so we had to go home.I guess that was either 1980 or 1981.
It seems there was a time when it would be great for nearly two months solid and now we are lucky if we get a decent couple of weeks.

carchaeologist

Why is the summer broken these days?:(:(

Max_Damage

I remember the summer of '95, I was only 8 back then! I remember going to see 'Batman Forever' in the cinema in Mullingar. No fúcking air con in it, we nearly melted!

Redpunto

yep 1995, remember in between leavin cert exams sweatin like a pig in my kilt:D

Max_Damage

It should also be noted that the summer of 2003 was also quite hot. There was a heatwave from late July right through 'till mid August. I remember footing turf on a bog in Westmeath and the temperature hitting 30 degrees Centigrade! Fun times!

Redpunto

Max_Damage wrote: »

It should also be noted that the summer of 2003 was also quite hot. There was a heatwave from late July right through 'till mid August. I remember footing turf on a bog in Westmeath and the temperature hitting 30 degrees Centigrade! Fun times!

indeed :D:D

Kojak

I remember the Summer of 1995, was only 10 then.

It was brilliant and well deserved as, if I'm not mistaken, the summer of 1994 was pure sh1te. A bit like now actually :rolleyes:

nialinho

Yep, will always remember '95 being a dry one. It was the only summer Ive witnessed our garden drying out and the grass turning brown.

Pigman II

Was 2001 good? For some reason I seem to remember it being hot and never raining that summer?

vektarman

Aaah 1976 and the drought......

Loopy

1995 was fabulous -

WTF is going on now???

Grey sky = Grey people

xanthor

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

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1995 - dry, heatwave seemed to last forever. Very warm evenings and nights

any more memories?

Lack of rain resulted in fires on Howth Head, you could easily spot them on Bull Island.

seamus

Yeah, I remember '95. I was in the Gaeltacht in Donegal, up in the boglands. It was sunny, with a real dead heat for about 10 days straight like southern Spain at one point.

Dero

I remember 1989 as having a particularly good summer. Am I alone? Other than that, I concur with and fondly remember 1983, 1984, & 1995.

nlgbbbblth

Dero wrote: »

I remember 1989 as having a particularly good summer. Am I alone? Other than that, I concur with and fondly remember 1983, 1984, & 1995.

I did my Leaving Cert in 1989 and remember a lot of sunshine in June.

I saw The Cure in the RDS on 15 July that year and the heat that whole weekend was very intense.

And again, I remember more heat around the time I got my results.

So - yeah, a good summer too.

mike65

Its always good for the exams! :pac:

Mike.

Sam Kade

Dero wrote: »

I remember 1989 as having a particularly good summer. Am I alone? Other than that, I concur with and fondly remember 1983, 1984, & 1995.

Yes you are right 89 was a long and hot summer I was milking cows at the time. The grass was completely burnt during august and sept.

dnme

yes I am old enuf to remember all the gud'uns

Aparently, the problem now is that the jet stream has moved south to the tune of about 200 miles. North of the jet stream is a continuous system of low pressure and south of it is more high pressure / good weather systems.

The jet stream remains south during our winter (infact its what usually dictates our winter weather) and moves north during our summer (placing Ireland in its high pressure belt). The problem is that it has stopped moving north for our summers - and here's the thing.....

There's evidence to suggest that the problem is a permanent one!

thejuggler

I think there is a 5-6 year cycle for hot summers. I recall one or two in the early 90s another in 1991 95 and 2003. So maybe next year we are due another.

I remember in june last year hearing advertisments on the radio about not wasting water during the summer time. Of course we all remember summer 07 - 80 days of continuous rain.
That advertising campaign was abruptly taken off air.......

kelle

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Ones that stick in the memory.

1976 - hot hot hot
1983 - very sunny, lots of beach days and sunburn from strawberry picking
1984 - sunny throughout
1995 - dry, heatwave seemed to last forever. Very warm evenings and nights

any more memories?

1989 was another hot Summer. I remember it because my Australian relations were over and the last time they had been here was 1976, they said it was just as hot. It's why I love Kid Rock's new song!

EDIT: Sorry, I see a few other posts mentioning that Summer! I did my Leaving Cert that year too.

Max_Damage wrote: »

It should also be noted that the summer of 2003 was also quite hot.

I remember that! But I couldn't enjoy it as my baby daughter was due to go for an operation on her Cleft Palate the following September and I spent every day worried sick she wasn't going to survive the anaesthetic! ll i could think was it was her first and last Summer. Now she's 5 and rules the roost!

BARTAK

Hot, and a baby kicking around inside. What is about having babies and doing exams. HOT

Jack Sheehan

To think i was only 4 in 1995

arybvtcw0eolkf

2003 was fantastic.

il gatto

'95 was lovely. Real dry med heat and a lovely hazy sunset every evening. It was also the first summer I was legally able to drink, so I have happy memories of sitting outside the pub with a bit of a breeze coming up from the shore and a frosty pint in hand. Good times.

DublinWriter

I can't believe no one has mentioned the summer of 1990.

Ole Ole Ole and all that, I remember it being really hot during that World Cup.

grenache

Max_Damage wrote: »

It should also be noted that the summer of 2003 was also quite hot. There was a heatwave from late July right through 'till mid August. I remember footing turf on a bog in Westmeath and the temperature hitting 30 degrees Centigrade! Fun times!

August of that year was a roaster alright. I was working in a meat abbatoir and remember how roasted outside i was in my dungarees during my lunch break

endplate

The heatwave we had in '89 such a scorcher weeks and weeks of dry weather rearly gets a mention

demanufactured

Remember 95 alright , was a scorcher

kelle

I remember a coversation I had during the heatwave in 1989 about Global Warming and we said how great it was, how we were going to continue using CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) - which was at the time being blamed for the hole in the ozone layer and our increasing temperatures. Now we realise it's contributing to much heavier rainfall. Will we ever see the like again??