Weather outlook for July

LJD10

Oh god this weather is just so depressing and miserable...what ever happened to the fantastic summer weather that was predicted. I heard July and August is set to be the hottest on record...anyone else hear this? Probably a load of rubbish!

mike65

Its looking quite promising (ie decent summer weather) but I hesitate to say even that having been disappointed a few times this summer. Even since this morning the GFS is not as hopeful as it was first thing.

dsmythy

LJD10 wrote: »

Oh god this weather is just so depressing and miserable...what ever happened to the fantastic summer weather that was predicted. I heard July and August is set to be the hottest on record...anyone else hear this? Probably a load of rubbish!

I don't think anyone but the tabloid media is predicting the 'hottest on record' type nonsense.

CardBordWindow

They can't accurately forecast what the weather will be like new week, never mind for the next 2 months!

Storm 10

Accu Weather looking very bad for the West if you can trust them its a s...e forecast.

http://www.accuweather.com/en-us/ie/galway/galway/forecast15.aspx

Elmer Blooker

I think this weekend was the last throw of the dice. The other night Evelyn C was hinting at a good weekend with temps getting into the low 20s but that's all changed. It's looking cloudy now with showers though warm.
The same happened for the June bank holiday weekend, it was looking good but all we got was the Saturday and it turned unsettled by Sunday.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

I think this weekend was the last throw of the dice. The other night Evelyn C was hinting at a good weekend with temps getting into the low 20s but that's all changed. It's looking cloudy now with showers though warm.
The same happened for the June bank holiday weekend, it was looking good but all we got was the Saturday and it turned unsettled by Sunday.

Friday and Saturday were savage! best weekend so far,

joe199

so depressing! summer me ear! bring back the snow i say:P

Plug

M.T. Cranium wrote:

OUTLOOK ... Slightly cooler again for a few days, but the models are beginning to show some very warm weather patterns in early July which, if they come to pass, could bring highs of 25 to 28 C well inland in southeast to south breezes.

Fingers crossed.

jimmynokia

LJD10 wrote: »

Oh god this weather is just so depressing and miserable...what ever happened to the fantastic summer weather that was predicted. I heard July and August is set to be the hottest on record...anyone else hear this? Probably a load of rubbish!

your a bit early LOL

piskins72

Horgan wrote: »

Friday and Saturday were savage! best weekend so far,

yip but that only happened down south I was in Kerry that weekend and it was ace weatherwise but I know people here in meath had loads of rain on that sunday!

Lunaarli

Does anyone know what the postman has predicted?!

This weather is crippling me & all my lovely veggies & flowers...

mike65

We will have a two/three day "warm wave" this weekend!

pauldry

July will be an improvement on June (not hard) with some short warm spells but also a lot of the normal craap too. Overall though the Mean Temperature should be near or above average. Sometimes the models are predicting really warm spells in a weeks time then they go back to this muck. So in that case Im going for mild but mixed July. As opposed to freezing and mixed May and June.

Birdnuts

I see tonights models have turned our warm weekend into a washout as the Atlantic muck barges in again before we get even one day of something resembling summer - as of now this for me has been one of the worst May/June combos ever:(

gbee

LJD10 wrote: »

O...what ever happened to the fantastic summer weather that was predicted.

Beg your pardon, but I've been 'shot down' a few times already, but BAD WEATHER and a WASH OUT summer was predicted when we were six inches to six feet in snow.

Have you watched the spring this year?

I was told that long range forecast are unreliable. TRUE. However, a long range forecast that says it will be bad weather, almost always, is bad weather. The difference is in degree.

A long range FC may say we get an EF5 tornado in Portlaoise, what we may get is a gale-force 9 miserable wet n windy day or two.

For a fact we are getting away with murder, we are escaping the worst of the weather and BTW God has nothing to do with it, but if one were to have followed the trends, one would have extrapolated a very dismal weather pattern for the summer of 2011 ~ add to that this year's Spring which just reinforced those predictions.

But yes, Oh God! It's awful being right, why can't I read the signs and watch the trees and flowers and animals and be wrong? Go on God surprise me!

To be fair, this year nature spoke very loudly, never mind the weathermen, and in Cork we have a legendary broadcaster who issues his own weather predictions and promises rosy weather no matter what the actual forecast is. I'd bet you may have fallen for one of these presenter's weather follies and then blame God!

Speedy44

WHERE THE HELL IS THE FRIGGIN SUN :mad:

johngalway

Speedy44 wrote: »

WHERE THE HELL IS THE FRIGGIN SUN :mad:

Migrated South for some decent weather

Birdnuts

Unfortunatly the pattern of last summer ie. another mediocre one for here coupled with heat surge further east into Russia/Eastern Europe, looks like being the case again as we go into July based on tonights models:(.

Persisitant Northern blocking over Greenland looks set to kill yet another Irish summer stone dead I'm afraid:(

pauldry

Still July will be better than June if not warm. I can handle a few cool sunny days. That 1995 Summer was a freak. However I do think that as the Arctic is warming it is dragging Highs up there that are funnelling cool weather down onto us. This sort of messed up Jet Stream has been in place for the last 5 Summers now.

Birdnuts

I see summer has been cancelled till the end of July now - we're running out of time(and hope for many!!) folks:(

Elmer Blooker

We can forget about summer until around the third week in August, we'll get the odd warm day or two like the weekend and next Friday. It's interesting to note how easily a not very active Atlantic brushed aside the continental heat over southern England without the expected fireworks!

pauldry

fireworks in london today with thunder n heavy rain

Elmer Blooker

I better wipe that egg off my face.
If it didn't happen yesterday I wasn't expecting it to happen today.
www.raintoday.co.uk

slowburner

Whatever about the absence of warmth - the salmon of the west coast are predicting a drought. You might well think I am doo-lally and you might be right, but these fish have a tendency to migrate upriver more rapidly than normal if a drought is coming, and this is just what they are doing now.

...Or maybe the poor fish are just too cold

boreduser

This is the best summer we've had in years!

20silkcut

It is better than the unrelenting misery of the summers of 2007/08 . The low temperatures make this the coolest summer I ever remember.

slowburner

It's a typical Irish summer.

John mac

boreduser wrote: »

This is the best summer we've had in years!

where do you live? Arizona?

johngalway

John mac wrote: »

where do you live? Arizona?

Be great if people put even a rough location in their profile, then the rest of us may have some notion of where "here" is

df1985

Any early indications for weather for oxegen next week?? i know the ground is soaked already regardless so wellies are a must but I dont mind mud once its not lashing down all weekend.

TouchingVirus

Accuweather says Rain/Periods of rain. The Oxegen facebook page quotes a UK site that says no rain. It's all a bit inaccurate this far out if you ask me

Birdnuts

df1985 wrote: »

Any early indications for weather for oxegen next week?? i know the ground is soaked already regardless so wellies are a must but I dont mind mud once its not lashing down all weekend.

Looks like plenty of heavy thundery showers based on tonights models

still no sign of any high pressures floating in to give us anymore than a day or two of settled weather

looks like a brief break around the 15th but its very brief

BEASTERLY

Deleted User wrote: »

still no sign of any high pressures floating in to give us anymore than a day or two of settled weather

looks like a brief break around the 15th but its very brief

Havnt seen the ECM over the last few days then no?

Aiel

BEASTERLY wrote: »

Havnt seen the ECM over the last few days then no?

Show us it please?:)

BEASTERLY

BEASTERLY wrote: »

Havnt seen the ECM over the last few days then no?

show pls!

Pangea

I heard IWO mention heatwave for after mid july, is it still heading our way?

Mayo Exile

GFS out to 8 days and ECMWF out to 10 days shows nothing really promising.

nacho libre

Am I the only one who isn't fussed if there is no heatwave?

duckysauce

nacho libre wrote: »

Am I the only one who isn't fussed if there is no heatwave?

don't want a ****ing heatwave just a summer ,

johngalway

A settled couple of weeks would be nice.

Birdnuts

duckysauce wrote: »

don't want a ****ing heatwave just a summer ,

Next week looking ok now, though it does go sharply downhill again for next weekend:(

fryup

johngalway wrote: »

A settled couple of weeks would be nice.

fat chance this is ireland, mate :cool:

pauldry

July looks like being Dry for next week then Wet next weekend and early the next week and then maybe dry again after the midweek of that week (if you follow)

traecy1

I like the good mix of weather we have in this country. Last weekend was fine in many areas. Then we had plenty of heavy downpours during the week. Now we enter a fine spell for the next 5/6 days before hopefully we get more heavy rain or showers for next weekend.

Mayo Exile

nacho libre wrote: »

Am I the only one who isn't fussed if there is no heatwave?

Surely not?! How about a Spanish plume and the breakdown marked with dramatic t-storms!

mike65

I just want settled dry sunny weather in the early 20s - nothing special.

nacho libre

Mayo Exile wrote: »

Surely not?! How about a Spanish plume and the breakdown marked with dramatic t-storms!

when you put it that way, bring on a heatwave!:)

It has been 10 years since I experienced proper thunderstorms like that.

Harps

I can remember one great thunderstorm around 10 years ago, still easily stands out as the best I've ever seen. Must have lasted at least 2 hours with proper torrential rain and hail, lots of fork lightning and strikes including one that hit a pier about 20 metres from me. I was only 12 or 13 at the time so didnt really appreciate it but would love to see something like that again.

Not overly bothered with a heatwave at this stage but a few proper sunny days wouldnt go amiss, I know its been a decent week in the east but here is been dull and grey all week

Pangea

nacho libre wrote: »

when you put it that way, bring on a heatwave!:)

It has been 10 years since I experienced proper thunderstorms like that.

Seen a tremendous thunderstorm in the East Coast of USA few years ago, Unreal! Don't think I'l ever see the like in Ireland.