Summer 2021 General Discussion

zisdead

"You'd think we were living in some place at a fairly high latitude, an island beside a massive ocean"

Lytton BC is above 50 North is only approx 120 miles from the biggest ocean in the world and recently hit a slightly warm 49.6C matching 2 of your 3 criteria.

compsys

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117778681#Comment_117778681

It has an ocean to its West but thousands of KMs of land to its North, South and East. It’s not remotely similar.

Canada is a huge area of LAND about 150 times the size of Ireland.

You can’t compare it to our tiny island surrounded by SEA.

suspiciousMind

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117778041#Comment_117778041

Don't be saying a wash out on sat, im playing golf, no way will it rain !!

SleetAndSnow

Very heavy downpours in west cork, since around 6am or so. Won't surprise me if some roads are flooded.

Danno

Overcast with moderate drizzle which is adding to August's 37mm here in southern Laois, a bit below average for this time of the month. Mild night with lows holding above 15.0c.

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117778681#Comment_117778681

Air coming off a hot continent though, huge continental fetch we don't have. The island bit effects us and beside an island, it's a combination of the 3.

Just this thread is full of moaning and negativity. It's worse than a late late Show misery thread. One fella writing off a chance of anymore nice weather this summer with a lovely summery week forecast.

In winter we have posters complaining about not getting snow who live in flat land coastal regions where the odds are always very low of getting snow, regardless of the synoptics.

OldRio

Dull overcast and occasional showers. Although it is warmer than of late.

Leitrim.

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117778041#Comment_117778041

Right. 'The Summer is Over'. Today's forecast for next week suggests otherwise. And you're certain 2/3 days at the start of September and 'that will be that'. We've had numerous occasions of 23-25C being hit for spells of weather between 10-30 September.

lolie

Dull and overcast out now but at 20c it feels very muggy, looks like it'll be raining heavy here shortly.

Yesterday was mostly overcast except for a time in the afternoon when there was blue skies and warm sunshine, hopefully plenty of that warm sunny weather next week.

Miserable miserable all day rain in south Munster where I am visiting. Ugly sticky wet weather. Worst kind of weather. August continues to suck.

Shakey_jake

How do the "Summer is over" brigade live with themselves! Cant wait to catch some rays over the next week andstick it to them

Suns out, Cans out!

mcburns07

Shocking day in Cork. Torrential. More than 20mm recorded since 8am.

Gonzo

another wet and rubbish day in Meath. Once we get this weekend out of the way there should be some relief from the unsettled conditions for about a week with plenty of dry weather and hopefully more in the way of sunshine.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117779456#Comment_117779456

hope you and the forecasters are right

it's absolute buckets at the moment here

Oscar Bravo

A narrow band of very heavy rain currently in line from Mayo to Limerick moving east. Some may experience it in the next few hours

https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1428675168805834757?s=20

Rebelbrowser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117780735#Comment_117780735

Yeah, we must be in yellow warning territory at this stage in Cork city, raining all day with 5 min bursts of biblical rain every half hour. Currently bucketing it down...

sporina

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117781642#Comment_117781642

yep - had been pretty much non stop but has eased off now at least

Chris_5339762

Dreadful day in Cork, 24mm of rain in Cobh since midnight and my guage is up high so underestimates.

Tomorrow could see some showers but Sunday looks alright. TBH I'm happy we had a GOOD dose of rain - today was the wettest day in months and the ground needed it.

Tyrone212

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117781441#Comment_117781441

If Dale gets it I wonder how many Dale the Gale headlines we'll get ha.

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That's today, not good alright. But plenty of time for nice weather yet.

Of course one problem I find after mid September, you don't have the brightness up to 8pm. I knocks a chunk out of both sides of the day, even if it's 22c and warm.

Still a nice September and October can shorten the winter wind and rain somewhat.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117782349#Comment_117782349

I'm above in the attic room doing some work and it's the first time in months I've needed to put the main lights on

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That makes sense on two fronts. We're a month and a day from the autumn equinox. Same day length as 22 April, 4 months ago. And without meaning to sound smart, it's dark and wet 🙂

Tyrone212

It was sunny for 90 minutes yesterday. Was the main headline on the local news.

Dazler97

Just had about 25mm in omagh over the last hour that was seriously heavy rain

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Summer 2021 according to Danny Healy Rae..

'Yerra in the middle of July that year we were roshted out of it. And in August in most of Ireland the sun didn't shine at all at all... and in Cork they were drownded out of it. Sryan's records will prove that Eamon Ryan.'

'I believe that God above is in charge of the weather... but sometimes he makes a bollox of it'.

sporina

fab day in Cork - although there wer these massive black clouds in the sky about an hr ago - thought the heavens would open... but they just went away without raining - so weird - anyone else see this in Cork?

4Ad

A lovely sunny 18 degrees in East Clare.. anything would be better than yesterday's deluge !!

Glossy1

My back garden getting well flooded now!!! To yikes... Hate to see other parts, which all ways get flooded normally.

mcburns07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117784613#Comment_117784613

Yep same here, skirting to the north of us. Smashing day.