Summer 2019 - General Discussion

Gonzo

A big improvement on yesterday in terms of sunshine. Very sunny this morning and temperature of 18C.

NIMAN

Cracking day in North Donegal today.

Nice heat too.

You wouldn't know the school year was approaching.

Graces7

Out here we have a total mist/drizzle out! No mountains, no ocean and to venture outside is to be drenched fast.

Wonderful!

Giving summer 10/10 anyways. each season is itself.

west mayo offshore

Slashermcguirk

Mobhi1 wrote: »

It rarely gets anywhere near 30 in Dublin.

Last summer it was up around 27 and 28 quite a bit. At least it felt that way.

sryanbruen

Two known dates that 30c was observed in Dublin at an official station was 2 August 1990 and 19 July 2006 so it’s possible but very very rare.

mattyff

Autumn in the air now!

iamwhoiam

Right now in my garden in Dublin its a warm glorious summer day

4Ad

Beautiful in East Clare, 21 degrees...

Mobhi1

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Last summer it was up around 27 and 28 quite a bit. At least it felt that way.

I just realised that I recorded 30 on the 28th June last year. But there weren't very many 27s or 28s over the summer.

NIMAN

NIMAN wrote: »

Cracking day in North Donegal today.

Nice heat too.

You wouldn't know the school year was approaching.

And within an hour it has clouded over.

Ferris_Bueller

Not a regular in the weather forum but is there any way to check weather of dates gone by this year or in years past, specifically rainfall? i.e if I wanted to check how much it rained on a specific date last year.

sryanbruen

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Not a regular in the weather forum but is there any way to check weather of dates gone by this year or in years past, specifically rainfall? i.e if I wanted to check how much it rained on a specific date last year.

https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/daily-data
https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/historical-data

compsys

highdef wrote: »

1/10 + 7/10 + 3/10 ÷ 3 = 3/10, rounded to the nearest whole number. How did you get 5/10 from your individual ratings for each month?

You could also argue that different weightings should apply to different months. With higher values attributed to the traditionally warmer months of July and August.

Ferris_Bueller

sryanbruen wrote: »

https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/daily-data
https://www.met.ie/climate/available-data/historical-data

Spot on, thanks a million!

Tigerandahalf

Athenry has had 227mm of rain thus far in August (average Aug is 107mm).

Dublin Airport 89mm thus far (average 73mm)

The rainfall difference between east and west is huge.

Funnily the washout day on saturday Aug 10th had only 27mm of rain there with the vast majority recorded over just 2 hours in the afternoon.

Thanks for that link syran.

Xenji

Dull and overcast in Castlebar, temperatures are struggling to break 15C here today.

Xenji

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Athenry has had 227mm of rain thus far in August (average Aug is 107mm).

Dublin Airport 89mm thus far (average 73mm)

The rainfall difference between east and west is huge.

Funnily the washout day on saturday Aug 10th had only 27mm of rain there with the vast majority recorded over just 2 hours in the afternoon.

Thanks for that link syran.

I have found in the last 10 year or so that outside of the winter months August has been our wettest month, 11 Augusts straight now of having 100mm of rain or more.

sideswipe

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Not a regular in the weather forum but is there any way to check weather of dates gone by this year or in years past, specifically rainfall? i.e if I wanted to check how much it rained on a specific date last year.

Was that date your day off by any chance?

John.Icy

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Last summer it was up around 27 and 28 quite a bit. At least it felt that way.

Phoenix got above 25 degrees 10 times last summer across June, July and August. Above 27 just the 4 times (max 27.7 at a quick glance). Closer to me in Glasnevin it was also 10 days but 5 of those came in August which was outside the really fine summer weather of June and July. Many of those days stayed below 25.

We definitely get it good in Dublin but we do struggle hitting those maxes further inland stations get. It's a consequence of our fine weather usually coming with sea breezes or easterlies.

Gonzo

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

The rainfall difference between east and west is huge.

Every mile west makes a difference. Even here at Dunshaughlin, only 20 minutes from the Airport and we've had 114mm of rain, a difference of about 26mm from the Airport.

Phoenix Park is lower still at only 66mm, close to half the amount of rainfall of places just down the road.

Gonzo

John.Icy wrote: »

Phoenix got above 25 degrees 10 times last summer across June, July and August. Above 27 just the 4 times (max 27.7 at a quick glance). Closer to me in Glasnevin it was also 10 days but 5 of those came in August which was outside the really fine summer weather of June and July. Many of those days stayed below 25.

We definitely get it good in Dublin but we do struggle hitting those maxes further inland stations get. It's a consequence of our fine weather usually coming with sea breezes or easterlies.

Dublin rarely exceeds 25C unless there is exceptional circumstances such as direct hit high pressure, high upper air temperatures, no Atlantic fronts trying to break through and light offshore winds usually from a ssw direction.

The easterly breezes usually keeps Dublin several degrees cooler in the summer and up to 5 or 6C cooler in May when there is high pressure with easterly breezes.

Oneiric 3

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

The rainfall difference between east and west is huge.

And the differences within the west is even huger. Only 71.4mm in Belmullet, making it the second driest station (and only marginally higher than PP) in the entire country this August so far.

Will be interesting to see if Athenry will break its August rainfall records this year, though personally, I think it will fall way short.

Clonmel1000

Beautiful afternoon here after a cloudy morning. Blue skies and sunshine and lovely and warm.

Xenji

Xenji wrote: »

Dull and overcast in Castlebar, temperatures are struggling to break 15C here today.

Yep. Apart from some sunny periods yesterday afternoon, its been dull & drizzly the last few days in contrast to the East.

Mortelaro

Another absolute cracker of a day
Drove from Kilkenny to Arklow in wall to wall Sun

iamwhoiam

Big line of bath towels dried in two hours ! Thats my measure of a good summers day

Rock Lesnar

Stunning day, was in Fort Lucan earlier with the kids for a few hours, stopped off in dunshauglin for dinner and now home and off out to football, great day and plenty of sun

Donegal Storm

Dark, grey and cool in Letterkenny all day after some brief sunshine this morning

lawred2

Left North Kerry this morning under blanket cloud and threat of rain.. and car saying 16 degrees

By Limerick it was 22 degrees doing motorway driving according to the car. And blue skies all the way from about Moneygall to Dublin.

I simply could not be doing with the weather down there. Crap all weekend.

road_high

Absolutely beautiful day in Kilkenny- probably the best of this little settled spell (so far).

sryanbruen

Marvelous evening after a good day in Dublin.

acequion

lawred2 wrote: »

Left North Kerry this morning under blanket cloud and threat of rain.. and car saying 16 degrees

By Limerick it was 22 degrees doing motorway driving according to the car. And blue skies all the way from about Moneygall to Dublin.

I simply could not be doing with the weather down there. Crap all weekend.

We have awful weather here in Kerry and that's a fact. Yet no doubt you'll get people saying it's not really that bad.

Just as in the east coast you have people raving about their marvelous climate, while the reports from others are much more balanced, and from my own experiences of frequent sojourns in Dublin, I tend to heed the latter.

Regardless, home is home, wherever in this island that might be. Not a bad evening here in Tralee, but overcast.

km79

Fell like I’ve been living on a diff planet the last month looking at majority of posts on here

Gonzo

today was easily the best day of this settled spell with mostly unbroken sunshine since daybreak. temperatures were down on the past few days but we still managed to scrape a respectable 20C. Temperature currently 17C.

iamwhoiam

I passed a playground at 7:45 this evening full of kids enjoying the last rays of sunshine . Gorgeous day here in Dublin

road_high

I sometimes notice a kind of chilly dampness in the air when I go west. Hard to explain but I feel it! Definitely slightly different climate to the south east

lawred2

acequion wrote: »

We have awful weather here in Kerry and that's a fact. Yet no doubt you'll get people saying it's not really that bad.

Just as in the east coast you have people raving about their marvelous climate, while the reports from others are much more balanced, and from my own experiences of frequent sojourns in Dublin, I tend to heed the latter.

Regardless, home is home, wherever in this island that might be. Not a bad evening here in Tralee, but overcast.

Having lived in Cork for twenty or so years and with my sister over in Tralee, I can objectively say that it's definitely drier and more benign up here.

Having said that this summer has been bang average. June and August were crap and July was just about grand.

Monkeynut

Bitterly cold in north county Dublin. I'm just walking through the freezer department of Tesco now, I've had to put my jumper on. :pac::pac::pac:
Nice evening outside. Very mild with no wind.

acequion

MidMan25 wrote: »

You'd want to be sojourning in Dublin at minimum weekly to be in any sort of position to comment on the validity of the weather reports of the people who live there :rolleyes:

As a matter of fact I've been in Dublin at least once a fortnight and sometimes weekly over the past three months so yes I'm very much in a position to comment on Dublin weather having experienced it closely first hand.

Carol25

I do think there are some posters here who greatly exaggerate the weather on the East as being akin to the South of France, which in my opinion it isn’t. Having been in the East while some of these posts appear on this thread, I do often wonder is the weather and actual conditions more subjective than we realise. A good day to one, is a bad day to another it seems.
Was in Mayo this morning, and it felt really chilly in the northerly wind. Back to Galway in the afternoon, much warmer and drier. The weeks outlook doesn’t look too great according to Rte just there...

acequion

MidMan25 wrote: »

You've been there approx. 7-8 days in the past 90? This definitely qualifies you to judge, I'd like to retract my previous statement.

Dublin does happen to be the main hub in and out of this country to far flung parts and I've travelled a lot this summer. Therefore mainly from Dublin airport and on each occasion staying a night or two other side of the trip to catch up with friends there. So no stranger at all to the big smoke! :pac:

acequion

Carol25 wrote: »

I do think there are some posters here who greatly exaggerate the weather on the East as being akin to the South of France, which in my opinion it isn’t. Having been in the East while some of these posts appear on this thread, I do often wonder is the weather and actual conditions more subjective than we realise. A good day to one, is a bad day to another it seems.
Was in Mayo this morning, and it felt really chilly in the northerly wind. Back to Galway in the afternoon, much warmer and drier. The weeks outlook doesn’t look too great according to Rte just there...

Absolutely Carol but dare we contradict the established narrative that the east coast is some weather haven.

As I've often said east coast weather is much better than Kerry weather. But imo it's nowhere near as good as posters here claim. I find their posts hyperbolic but good on them if they enjoy it. They just need to appreciate that not everybody agrees.

Like I said in my last post I've been up and down to Dublin constantly this summer and generally go often to Dublin anyway. I used to live there and have friends and family there so ya, even if people don't like it, I am actually there often enough to form an opinion.

An opinion, which though subjective, is valid like everybody else's.

Birdnuts

I split my time between my place in North Mayo and the day job in Dublin. For the West I would rate this summer as 3.5/10 - never really got going and we didn't even have our traditional easterly warm spell at the end of May/start of June this year:(

In contrast I would give the East(Dublin Summer) a 7/10 - most of June was poor but it really picked up in July and into August and the last few days have been great.

Donegal Storm

Really feeling the evenings closing in now, was already getting dark at 8pm this evening, only feels like a couple of weeks ago when it was still bright at 10 o'clock.

Rain here for the past 90 minutes and watching the forecast just now its not going to get much better for the rest of the week

mickger844posts

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igCorcaigh

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Really feeling the evenings closing in now, was already getting dark at 8pm this evening, only feels like a couple of weeks ago when it was still bright at 10 o'clock.

Rain here for the past 90 minutes and watching the forecast just now its not going to get much better for the rest of the week

Yes... I'm looking forward to the autumn season. Its my favourite. And I won't be sad to say goodbye to this sticky humid neither here nor there weather.

Not a bad summer, but I've found the nights too warm.

Bring on the crispy mornings and beautiful tree leaves. Time for foraging mushrooms.

OldRio

Overcast all day in Leitrim. At least it never rained. The ground is saturated.

Meteorite58

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acequion wrote: »

We have awful weather here in Kerry and that's a fact. Yet no doubt you'll get people saying it's not really that bad.

Just as in the east coast you have people raving about their marvelous climate, while the reports from others are much more balanced, and from my own experiences of frequent sojourns in Dublin, I tend to heed the latter.

Regardless, home is home, wherever in this island that might be. Not a bad evening here in Tralee, but overcast.

but dare we contradict the established narrative that the east coast is some weather haven.

But imo it's nowhere near as good as posters here claim. I find their posts hyperbolic but good on them if they enjoy it. They just need to appreciate that not everybody agrees.

compsys

acequion wrote: »

Absolutely Carol but dare we contradict the established narrative that the east coast is some weather haven.

As I've often said east coast weather is much better than Kerry weather. But imo it's nowhere near as good as posters here claim. I find their posts hyperbolic but good on them if they enjoy it. They just need to appreciate that not everybody agrees.

Like I said in my last post I've been up and down to Dublin constantly this summer and generally go often to Dublin anyway. I used to live there and have friends and family there so ya, even if people don't like it, I am actually there often enough to form an opinion.

An opinion, which though subjective, is valid like everybody else's.

Statistically the east is warmer, drier and sunnier than the west. That’s just a fact.

This summer has been OK in Dublin by Irish standards and I’m sure the stats will show the east and Dublin in particular had far better weather than the west.

I’ve lost count of the number of days in Dublin where it touched 20 degrees and stayed mostly dry, albeit cloudy, while those further west were drenched and only got to 17 degrees or so.

However I don’t think there are many posters in here claiming that Dublin is the new Costa del Sol.

Artane2002

Today has easily the best day since I returned on the 9th!