Is this weather really normal?

Big Tone

THIS MIGHT seem like a dire summer without compare, delivering floods of rain and short rations of sun. Yet the weather statistics for summer 2012 are likely to show it was not out of the ordinary and was within the realms of “normal”.


The jet stream, high altitude winds that help dictate weather on the ground, has turned its face against us. Like a conveyor belt, it has dragged low pressure air over Ireland for months, with plenty of rain and wind.

Yet the reason the summer seems so bad is not only related to the weather and may have more to do with our great expectations of what an Irish summer should be.

“The expectations that people have are a little bit unrealistic,” says Séamus Walsh, senior climatologist at Met Éireann. “One or two times a decade you might get a dry, warm, sunny summer,” he says.

“People have an expectation of a Mediterranean summer every year but we don’t get them. We feel we should expect such weather but it doesn’t work like that. We never learn.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2012/0823/1224322752229.html?via=mr

Iancar29

Séamus couldnt of said it any better! , nearly every weekend i say similar to my friends !


And A great Explanation from Oul Peter Lynch too... He prefers this weather himself, always said he rather cooler but bright days , than hot and sunny...
Also he'd see more of his favourite clouds... Lenticular s ! ha