When is it going to rain?

Day Lewin

I'm getting hot and bothered, and my garden is as dry as an old newspaper, brown and flaking.

Reservoirs low, canals shrinking, rivers down to a trickle.

Can this be our own dear damp island in July?

Need some rain!

PS If anyone knows how to do a rain-dance, I'll join in.

Sonics2k

Hopefully not for another 3 months.

kneemos

Didn't know it could get this dry.

JupiterKid

kneemos wrote: »

Didn't know it could get this dry.

You mustn’t remember the summer of 1995 then so.

Franz Von Peppercorn

kneemos wrote: »

Didn't know it could get this dry.

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Franz Von Peppercorn

I like the sun but I feel we may be filling our toilets with San pellegrino pretty soon.

All of August, unfortunately.

SEPT 23 1989

I enjoy a chaos so hopefully October

Franz Von Peppercorn

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I enjoy a chaos so hopefully October

You’ll enjoy a chaos until the toilets don’t flush, sewerage bleeds out onto the streets, vermin take over and we decide its time to crack open each other’s skulls and feast on the goo within.

Beanntraigheach

When Zeus wills it!

rosmoke

Lidl should start taking precautions

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

AccuWeather are predicting (for where I am) no rain until at least 13th July, and even then only light showers.

OneEightSeven

Koda Green Ram wrote: »

AccuWeather are predicting (for where I am) no rain until at least 13th July, and even then only light showers.

AccuWeather is the meteorological version of Fox News.

odyssey06

odyssey06

Poor Uncle Tom

This is feckin gorgeous, yis are all just wingers.....

corner of hells

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

This is feckin gorgeous, yis are all just wingers.....

I like to think of myself as more a central midfielder.

Poor Uncle Tom

corner of hells wrote: »

I like to think of myself as more a central midfielder.

Naw, with or without the 'h' yis are wingers.....:D

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

OneEightSeven wrote: »

AccuWeather is the meteorological version of Fox News.

I agree but other sites say 14th July.

Impossible to be accurate over such a period.

Roger Hassenforder

JupiterKid wrote: »

You mustn’t remember the summer of 1995 then so.

Not a patch on this!

Wibbs

JupiterKid wrote: »

You mustn’t remember the summer of 1995 then so.

Or the summer of 1976. though in fairness...

corner of hells

Wibbs wrote: »

Or the summer of 1976. though in fairness...

Or the summer of 69 , I'm doing this right ?

Badly Drunk Boy

According to John Eagleton from Met Eireann, in his long career in meteorology, Ireland had never gone 10 days without any rain until now.

TPD

OneEightSeven wrote: »

AccuWeather is the meteorological version of Fox News.

Accuweather gave me a weeks pure sunshine for annual leave, two months in advance, a few years back. Even a sh!te clock is right once in a while.

Dr. Bre

When it rains it pours..

Franz Von Peppercorn

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

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:pac:

Gannicus

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

When Zeus wills it!

Go way with your feckin Zeus. Odin FTW

wexandproud

Koda Green Ram wrote: »

I agree but other sites say 14th July.

Impossible to be accurate over such a period.

xcweather giving the same and their usually good enough . Easy enough be accurate with all the high pressure everywhere .Even the ''low'' over spain at the weekend was over 1000 mb .
As im sure you know Some years the ''azores'' high develops in the winter or spring and can give a good spell of settled weather , cold and snow in winter dry and warm [ish] in spring. This year has been really of the chart with the amount of easterly wind since that btich ophelia paid a visit

gazzamc

I'm happy to wait until October

Mutant z

Its good to have a bit of sunshine but there's only so much of it you can take before you say enough is enough it needs to rain again which is essential for plants to grow. Grass needs to be green but its turned yellow because of this prolonged dry spell which is a huge worry.

Mutant z

I for one miss the temperate Irish weather i hate these extremes of hot and cold we now seem to getting that should be left to the Arctic and the Med but not in Ireland.

Greyfox

Mutant z wrote: »

Its good to have a bit of sunshine but there's only so much of it you can take before you say enough is enough it needs to rain again which is essential for plants to grow. Grass needs to be green but its turned yellow because of this prolonged dry spell which is a huge worry.

Nonsense, the poxy rain is always poxy, we get too much of it throughout the year, be happy that you can plan a day out in advance for a change. The plants and grass will eventually recover, long live the sunshine

Day Lewin

Greyfox wrote: »

Nonsense, the poxy rain is always poxy, we get too much of it throughout the year, be happy that you can plan a day out in advance for a change. The plants and grass will eventually recover, long live the sunshine

Well, but the water shortage?
Dublin is always pretty marginal anyway: our reservoirs were designed for the smaller city of twenty years ago and there isn't much of a reserve tank.

This kind of rainless summer pushes us right into the drought zone quite quickly.
And the grass burned brown, and the soil too dry to grow anything.
They'll be rationing water quite soon, in my opinion.

whisky_galore

Leaky infrastructure, some of it dating back to Queen Vic.

Of course the tax money that might have been allocated to replacing old pipes got funnelled into other things. Because "shur it'll be grand"

branie2

When Met Eireann tells us it will rain

dahat

Cattle will be jumping off cliffs to get water if this keeps up any longer.

Donald Trump

Spanish Eyes

I would just enjoy it as best you can.

In fairness it is a tad cooler and more bearable now in comparison to the 30d we had to deal with a few days ago. Kids are loving it, everyone is in good form.

Forget about the grass being dried up, it always recovers eventually. Use a bucket to catch the first gush out of the shower for your plants, you'd be amazed how much that is.

I did feel a bit overwhelmed in the very high temps, but honestly it is really gorgeous and much more bearable now. Humidity is fairly low aswell which really helps.

Graces7

Dr. Bre wrote: »

When it rains it pours..

What a blisssfullllll thought... A wonderful loud long DOWNPOUR ...

Graces7

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Naw, with or without the 'h' yis are wingers.....:D

Not us. Realists. need rain...

Graces7

Greyfox wrote: »

Nonsense, the poxy rain is always poxy, we get too much of it throughout the year, be happy that you can plan a day out in advance for a change. The plants and grass will eventually recover, long live the sunshine

Many are dead already..no winter berries for the wild life.. no blackberry jam if this carries on...

bodhrandude

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Not a patch on this!

Huh! I remember walking into Salthill from the town one day in the summer of 1995, there was a clock up on the wall that also gave the temperature it was 34 Degrees :eek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Great_Britain_and_Ireland_heat_wave

Kermit.de.frog

No need to panic OP (yet).

It will be cooler Thursday and Friday. There will be isolated showers today but not amounting to much. After that there will be at least 7 days of dry and hot weather with temperatures peaking in the the high twenties or low thirties.

This weekend temperatures will be highest in the east of the country - in the high twenties or could exceed 30c on Sunday in some spots there.

For meaningful rain it's possible in the 3rd week of July but that is far from certain.

Until then it is drought.

You can follow on the weather forum (we don't bite)

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=374

2 Scoops

Computer says no

TomOnBoard

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

I like the sun but I feel we may be filling our toilets with San pellegrino pretty soon.

That's OK. Just drink it first..

AllForIt

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

After that there will be at least 7 days of dry and hot weather with temperatures peaking in the the high twenties or low thirties.

This weekend temperatures will be highest in the east of the country - in the high twenties or could exceed 30c on Sunday in some spots there.

For meaningful rain it's possible in the 3rd week of July but that is far from certain.

Until then it is drought.

Really, oh dear. I just feel for all those hard working farmers struggling to make a living. You know, the ones that still wear their heaving clothing even in sweltering temperatures. I hear that lettuce production has been particularly hard hit this drought. This doesn't effect me personally as I never much cared for lettuce, I prefer cake and the supermarkets are fully stocked up with cake, but I still do feel bad for those affected. I do hope the rain returns soon - sometime in mid-September, after my birthday.

Graces7

A 12 th of never scenario...

an ancient Irish blessing..

An Old Irish Blessing
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.

topper75

bodhrandude wrote: »

Huh! I remember walking into Salthill from the town one day in the summer of 1995, there was a clock up on the wall that also gave the temperature it was 34 Degrees :eek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Great_Britain_and_Ireland_heat_wave

A clock on the wall? The path outside my house was over 50 degrees after a day baking in the sun last week. But that is not how we measure temperature.

I rem 1995 - it was indeed hot. This summer of 2018 blows 1995 away. In EVERY respect. And it is not finished.

Scientifically air temp is measured with a max and min thermometer in a Stevenson screen. Clocks on walls are gimmicks for tourists.

Thud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4flAZEgtjs

TomSweeney

JupiterKid wrote: »

You mustn’t remember the summer of 1995 then so.

Jeez that was unbelievable, I remember it was 32C one morning in Dublin at 8.30 AM !!!

Graces7

AllForIt wrote: »

Really, oh dear. I just feel for all those hard working farmers struggling to make a living. You know, the ones that still wear their heaving clothing even in sweltering temperatures. I hear that lettuce production has been particularly hard hit this drought. This doesn't effect me personally as I never much cared for lettuce, I prefer cake and the supermarkets are fully stocked up with cake, but I still do feel bad for those affected. I do hope the rain returns soon - sometime in mid-September, after my birthday.

You OK? Sound a bit.... odd..Too much sun maybe? Please take care..