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??

g5fd6ow0hseima

Ah sure wouldnt we all rather the fact that were up our own arses with the economy instead of a summer of possible enjoyment......

does april 2006 count?

Is that as good as it gets now ?

deleriumtremens

I was only 5 in 1995 but i can still vaguely remember it as a hot summer! Ive seen photographs from then aswel to back that up.
Also, I remember there was a good 2 or 3 weeks of unbroken sunshine in June 2006.
As for 2007 and 2008, easily the worst summers weatherwise that I can remember!! But maybe im wrong.
Also, were the summers of the 1980's really as sunny as my brother tells me they were?

Dudess

DublinWriter wrote: »

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.

Strangely enough I only remember a little bit of that summer being hot - actually I associate Italia '90 with dull but dry weather. Maybe the weather was better in Dublin though.

Yeah 1989 and 1995 are the hottest summers I remember - there were serious drought warnings in '89.

It appears a couple of people have already forgotten the scorcher that was just two years ago - horrendously hot!

I remember that short stretch but slightly longer than the usual token few warm days in 2003 - I got food poisoning from shellfish, possibly caused by insufficiently cold storage.

I was only 5 and 6 in '83 and '84 but I remember them being really warm and the unusual experience of sunny caravan holidays in Kerry

The summer of '76 is supposed to be the king of them all though...

Lizzykins

I remember 1976 as the best summer ever. I was 14. 1995 was fantastic too.

leprehaungirl

Yeah i remember 1995 aswell i was only five and me and all my cousins spent almost everyday on the beach in Portran.Good times

Goldfingers

Dudess wrote: »

Strangely enough I only remember a little bit of that summer being hot - actually I associate Italia '90 with dull but dry weather. Maybe the weather was better in Dublin though.

Yeah 1989 and 1995 are the hottest summers I remember - there were serious drought warnings in '89.

It appears a couple of people have already forgotten the scorcher that was just two years ago - horrendously hot!

Are you sure you've got the right year? 2009 ? Heres a piece of how Met Eireann records it.
I remember that short stretch but slightly longer than the usual token few warm days in 2003 - I got food poisoning from shellfish, possibly caused by insufficiently cold storage.

I was only 5 and 6 in '83 and '84 but I remember them being really warm and the unusual experience of sunny caravan holidays in Kerry

The summer of '76 is supposed to be the king of them all though...

Are you sure you've got the right summer? 2009 ? Heres how Met Eireann records it.
Rainfall totals were above normal everywhere for the third successive summer, It was also the
wettest summer on record at Mullingar, where observations started in 1950, There was rainfall recorded on almost every day during July and August. A total of between 43 and 52 wetdays (days with
1mm or more rainfall) was recorded at most stations for the 3-month period, compared with the normal range for
summer of between 32 and 38 wetdays; in parts of the south and west there were between 57 and 63 wetdays
measured. There were some heavy daily falls throughout the season, often associated with thunderstorms. Daily
falls of around 50mm were measured in both the east and west of the country on July 2nd, while there was severe
flooding locally in some parts of the north and west following heavy rain on both June 23rd and August 23rd.
The Poulter index is a method of rating the summer weather (June to August), using a formula based on mean
temperature, rainfall and sunshine for each station, i.e. the higher the index, the 'better' the summer weather. This
summer, the index at Valentia Observatory was well below normal (its lowest since summer 1985)

Niles

I was only seven but I remember the summer of 1995 being a good one too, dried grass, camping in the garden. I did my Leaving in 2006 and seem to remember good weather that summer, at least compared to what followed in 2007. Of course 2006 would be the summer my neighbourhood suffered a water shortage, you just can't win.

Dudess

Goldfingers wrote: »

Are you sure you've got the right summer? 2009 ?

My post is from 2008. I was referring to the summer of 2006.

Yeah, every summer since then (bar last year, which wasn't amazing but it wasn't the worst) has been sh1te. :-/

Thomas828

The earliest hot summer I remember was 1976. Belfast was baking! The pond in Alexandra Park dried up completely and the stench that came from it was indescribable.

Other great summers I remember were 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990 and 1995.

Summer 2011 has been mediocre at best.

vektarman

Summer 1976 the Royal and Grand canals evaporated and you could cross from one bank to another on dry canal beds.

jupiterjack

i remember it rained on 21st june 95 and my father saying thats it summer gone and its all down hill, well from then on it got warmer and warmer,was no rain until end of september with temps reaching 30degrees and blue skies for that summer oh to ave those daysback..

HavingCrack

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011...all rubbish :mad:.

Scanlas The 2nd

I thought 2010 was decent.

lividduck

old enough to remember 1976, and the music and the great fun in the sun!
Nothing has touched since except for perhaps 2005 and 2006 which was good but nothing matches 1995!

ruadhri44

Here how I remember it.

1981 Good summer
1982 Better
1983 Mighty
1984 Even Mightier.

1985 First wet summer I remember. Awfull
1986 Awfull
1987 not as bad as 85 or 86 but still bad.
1988 Awfull

1989 Wonderfull July, August was awfull but the end of August brightened up lovely.
1990 Very hot and sunny

1991 Awfull
1992 Bad beyond belief.
1993 Awfull
1994 Awfull

1995 Brilliant. Long hot and sunny

1996 Awfull
1997 Bad but not as bad as prevous bad summers.
1998 Bit better than 97 but still bad.
1999 Dry and sunny but unseasonally cold

2000 Wonderfull.

2001 Awfull
2002 Awfull

2003 Bad July but good August

2004 Awfull
2005 bad but better than previous bad summers
2006 better than 05 but still not great.

2007 Awfull
2008 Awfull
2009 Awfull
2010 Awfull
2011 Awfull.

stabeek

I won't give a link, because there's always google, but there's a good article on Bagatelle's "Summer in Dublin" ... was it 1980? But the article is not so much nostalgic as acerbic ...
Ok .. I lloked it up the article is ref. http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/i-remember-that-summer-in-dublin-and-it-was-bloody-awful-2262598.html

littleteapot

1995 is the only spectacular summer I remember. I was 10 and I used to rob money out of the Trocaire box to buy ice cream from the ice cream van. The fact we still had our Trocaire box in the summer doesn't make me feel any better about it!
I know 2006 was supposed to be really good too, but I was on my J1 that summer so I was scorched in Baltimore instead.
Does April 2007 count as summer?

chakotha

1983 and 1984 were great Summers. I was in Jersey in 1995 and it was a scorcher over there.

kelle

ruadhri44 wrote: »

Here how I remember it.

1981 Good summer
1982 Better
1983 Mighty
1984 Even Mightier.

1985 First wet summer I remember. Awfull
1986 Awfull
1987 not as bad as 85 or 86 but still bad.
1988 Awfull

1989 Wonderfull July, August was awfull but the end of August brightened up lovely.
1990 Very hot and sunny

1991 Awfull
1992 Bad beyond belief.
1993 Awfull
1994 Awfull

1995 Brilliant. Long hot and sunny

1996 Awfull
1997 Bad but not as bad as prevous bad summers.
1998 Bit better than 97 but still bad.
1999 Dry and sunny but unseasonally cold

2000 Wonderfull.

2001 Awfull
2002 Awfull

2003 Bad July but good August

2004 Awfull
2005 bad but better than previous bad summers
2006 better than 05 but still not great.

2007 Awfull
2008 Awfull
2009 Awfull
2010 Awfull
2011 Awfull.

OMG Ruaidhri you have an amazing memory - though I don't remember 1983 being mighty. There was a couple of lovely weeks in June, but my poor father lost fields of hay because there was about 6 weeks of wet weather!