Ireland in the sun

completedit

Does anyone ever notice a nervous tension around the place? The happy faces and sunburned faces belie a sadness IMO. Ultimately while we can enjoy it we know it is short lived and so there always seems to be a bit of tension when we get a heat wave. The sun obviously makes everyone more extroverted but we're not psychologically prepped to deal with it. We haven't evolved for good weather at all, whatever about physiologically,mentally it just isn't what we are adapted to.

4Ad

Nope.I notice lots of happy people !!

pajor

This is the sort of melancholy that can only be thought up of on a Sunday evening.

BrianD3

The heat makes people hornier, they are also drinking and congregating on beaches and in airports. Macho arseholes, Travellers etc. are congregating anywhere there is water and are walking the streets stripped to the waist, drunk and horny. People are in holiday mode and spending time with their families which can result in tension. The schools are off so there's no free child minding service.

Add to that the boom bust mentality that applies to several aspects of life in Ireland including the weather and the day length - we panic about making the most of the good times. Yeah I'd say there is tension in the air. IIRC the June and August bank holiday weekends are historically the worst BH weekends for deaths on the roads. There's also the usual drownings anytime there is good weather

completedit

That's so true. Making the most of the good times. Again it's just not something I've noticed in other parts of Europe, especially parts which get good weather and aren't full of Northern Europeans.

Irish_rat

A lot of idiots appear in this weather that is for sure. Just stay clear of the madness

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^

yep, its scumbag central down my way...load of idiots blasting out American Gantsa Rap 🙄 i mean where do they think they are?? downtown LA?

Aglomerado

Youngfellas with pigeon chests out everywhere. Stink of badly cooked barbecues and shite music in every second garden.

chrissb8

All I saw were throngs of people enjoying themselves. People laying on the grass with friends, sunbathing on the beaches, kids eating ice cream, and laughter emanating from all around wherever I went.

You haven't picked up on anything special here with the angle you're taking. We live in a mild temperate oceanic climate. Where there is no extreme weather, more rain than not and some high pressures over summer. We are suited for our sunshine and our climate.

Yes, we do get sun and yes we do know what to do with it "mentally" when we have it. Just go out and enjoy it because we all know it won't be here tomorrow. But we're also mentally prepared for that as well.

Try live in the moment OP and go out and touch some grass. It is pretty sunny after all.

WJL

Seems to be a lot of over thinking.

Just get out and enjoy. Good forecast for the week. Not wall to wall sunshine but warm and plenty of sunny spells.

If the weather makes you anxious there's possibly a deeper cause of your anxiety that needs to be sorted. Fairly normal Irish summer weather (a few days around 25c) shouldn't make you anxious if mentally and physically well.

silliussoddius

Grander stretch in the evening.

WJL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319931#Comment_119319931

The evening is 8 min shorter on 10 July than 21 June. The morning sunrise is 14 min later.

dePeatrick

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319934#Comment_119319934

Yes, I’ve heard of this before, can’t say I understand it. So when do the evenings begin to close in?

holliehobbie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319940#Comment_119319940

The 22nd of June?! It just feels like the evenings are shorter already because we’ve had so much cloud cover and rain in the evenings of late.

WJL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319940#Comment_119319940

They've started. By 15 August the sun will set on the Eastern side of Ireland around 9pm. Roughly 10 pm in mid June. An hour and 5 min will be gone off the mornings. Sunrise at 6.05am as opposed to 5am.

WJL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319949#Comment_119319949

Here's Dublin sunset and sunrise you can check every day of the year plus sun angle.

We've lost a degree in angle height already. 60 to 59 degrees. Winter solstice is 14 degrees. Low winter sun.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ireland/dublin

dorothylives

The stench of BO is getting more common. There's no excuse for it at all and it's disgusting. I was in Lidl yesterday and it was lingering in the air in the hygiene aisle ironically enough.

MarkR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058253907/ireland-in-the-sun

Absolute riot at parties. You could do with some sun. :-D

Larbre34

Whats everyone doing for Christmas this year?

The One Doctor

I hate hot weather. Given me a cool bright day.

On the other hand, I love thunderstorms.

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319482#Comment_119319482

Not really an issue here in West Mayo.

McGinniesta

Sun has a similar effect on Irish people then other phenomena.

Snow and air travel being the two chief examples.

A total loss of brian power after the onset of above average temperatures. This will have the inevitable effect on road deaths, drink driving arrests and other anti social behaviours.

nigeldaniel

So, it's 'shiny happy people' time. To be honest, I stay clear of people as much as possible including those on my road. The weather tends to have an effect on the banalest of kinds. Dress code especially goes out the door! I have seen things I could tell you... things no one should ever see!!!

j2

I'm this weird Irish type who gets very tanned! I have had a nice time telling people I'm not a Spanish student. I really should look up my family history because I don't know anyone among my family who will actually get a bit of sun burn. It is annoying when the Spanish students ask me questions in Spanish and I can't answer! Maybe I need to get on some duolingo if I'm going to be so tanned.

riclad

I look forward to the rain or cold weather , its way too hot . Give me the old Irish summer, maybe 2 or weeks of good weather. Then cold windy or rainy weather

Ouch Chinese Byrne

The warm weather brings out the worse drivers

completedit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119329331#Comment_119329331

I don't know, quite a few Irish tan to be fair, you see a lot of tanned people around once it stays sunny for a bit longer. Europeans don't really have much stereotypes of the Irish look the way the Americans do so it's a bit unusual that Spanish people are just randomly talking to you in Spanish but maybe you do look very Iberian.

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058253907/ireland-in-the-sun

People are more drunk if it's sunny

Strumms

Going by the forecast here next week Id start getting shopping for fans / cooling towers.

mid to late 30’s in some or most places….

SEPT 23 1989

It will probably be too dangerous to work in such temperatures

government should probably step in here and make a speech Sunday night closing the place for a couple of days

TooTired123

Does anyone else over, I suppose 50, remember listening to the radio during the summer holidays and hearing, quite regularly announcements which were typically “ Could Martin and Kathleen O’Meara,currently on holidays in Ireland, please contact home urgently”.

It used to fill me with dread! My own father died suddenly in the summer holidays when I was 15 in 1980 and one of my mothers sisters was informed by the Gardai in a caravan park where she was on holidays in Donegal.

Dreadful way to get bad news, but is the mobile phone any better?

FlubberJones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335738#Comment_119335738

With Mon / Tue forecasted to be the hottest days, the amount of sick calls Monday morning will be off the scale, it may as well close down as it will look that way.

The Dart will be at bursting levels heading to North side, Malahide & Portmarnock will be ground zero for feral cider drinking clowns in white vests.

BrianD3

With the very hot (by Irish standards) weather starting at the weekend we are primed for several drownings. Apparently, alcohol is a factor in about 30% of drownings, I'm surprised it isn't higher that that. Beaches, lakes, canals etc. are going to be jammed with drunk idiots.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119329331#Comment_119329331

You ancestor might have been a Spanish sailor.................or a Pakistani postman...........

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119336338#Comment_119336338

He might want to stop stalking Spanish students too.

whisky_galore

Attracts all the worst clueless sorts of people to beaches, causing traffic jams, having to be rescued from Lidl-bought floaties, asshole drinking behaviour, dog sh1t, driving on beaches and getting stuck.

Grrr why is everyone else going to the same place we're going?

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119334338#Comment_119334338

Mid 30s is my normal summer… a cool night is around 20 and winter is -10 to -20 for a couple of weeks, I like the seasons well defined.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335813#Comment_119335813

Yep, no mobiles and many places didn’t even have a land line. Coupled with that was the strange idea people had that not telling people where you were every minute of the day was acceptable.

I do remember one notice from a plonker who could not remember where his B&B was. If I remember correctly, the couple checked in, dumped the luggage and decided to go for a drive… several hours later they had no idea of where the B&B was!

Floppybits

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319482#Comment_119319482

Am just back from downtown LA and they don't blast that sh1te there either, just here. :)

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319902#Comment_119319902

Excellent advice

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319908#Comment_119319908

Excellent advice

a lot of oddballs here enjoy yourself go camping and have a bit of fun, camping seems to be becoming popular again its great fun but pick a place with a campers kitchen. For It would be a place that was not too comodfied by tourism, so an hour or so from the coast, then spend a day on the beach and drive back to somewhere less hectic.

dorothylives

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119334338#Comment_119334338

I got a couple in Lidl recently. They've mini tower fans this week that would be great for a bedside table. Last 2 years when it got hot fans couldn't be got anywhere.

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335813#Comment_119335813

Ah yes, I remember those. They were common all through the 80s and early 90s. I often wondered what the "urgent message" was - had to have been bad news.

BrianD3

There's going to be sh*te everywhere - and I'm not just talking about dog sh*te. I well remember when I was a kid exploring a wooded area beside a coastal car park in Donegal. Place was caked in toilet paper and sh*te. A few "jam rags" too if I recall. Also lots of johnnies strewn about the car park.

Wibbs

While I do understand the concern over wider climate change bringing ever higher temps than is normal across Europe and the world and I can understand such things in places like France and Spain etc where the sun can beat down like a hammer and kills people every summer, the "weather alerts!!" ballsology here I don't get at all. So the mercury might hit 32 degrees somewhere in Ireland for a day, maybe two. OK and big deal. It's hardly the apocalypse is it? We see similar with a day of high winds in winter.

I don't know if it's our newly obsessive constant need for social media "information" and "updates" or what, but it seems to drive this sort of background panic and concern and we've become like a bunch of fierce panicky oulwans of late.

Count Dracula

I love eating Loop De Loops on a warm Irish day. I could eat two in a row. We get long enough winters so I have no objection to anyone enjoying a good spell of weather for a few days. It is good for the soul.

I must admit I feel slightly disorientated with the All Ireland finals in July? I am not fully convinced just yet. I kind of liked listening to a match on the radio whilst nodding around the backyard faffing around with nothing and fixing stuff. Drinking cold bottles of stout and smoking fags. I don't know how I am going to fill the Sundays over the rest of the summer. I might go and get myself a woman to look after. Bring her to the park for a picnic, throw a rug on the ground and drink tea out of a flask with hang sangers. Maybe open a can of drink.

Don't forget to look around this evening at wild Ireland in full summer bloom. The smells and sights of wild shrub peaking out from behind a rusty gallon drum sitting in the corner of some supermarket carpark. Enjoy the chirping birdies and the Saturday night anticipation of bright moonlight forming over the horizon and floating like a lantern across the night sky.

Go out tonight for sure. It is Saturday night. Get out there, meet people, embrace, be a nice reflection of the warmth given to you this summer. Dance in the evening, dance in the moonlight , feel free and easy in the mercy of your means.

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119344267#Comment_119344267

The medja love calling attention to themselves and how they can save people from their vices like enjoying themselves in this so called summer.As stated temp will reach 32c(maybe)somewhere in the country in the next few days.Covid has disappeared from the headlines more or less.So,let's play the dangerous heat coming to kill 100's in one day,maybe two.

fryup

♫ Ireland in the Sun

That is what we are

No one in between

How can we be wrong?

Sail away with me

To another world

And we rely on each other, ah ha

From one lover to another, ah ha ♫ 😎

irishguitarlad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119344267#Comment_119344267

Yeah over in Spain we're fucked. Temperatures of plus 40 starting earlier and lasting longer. Like yes here in Seville we always get a few days over forty every year but this year and the last two years have been crazy hot summers. I was talking to the head of a well-known tractor company here in Seville and he told me the south will be a desert in a few years time as the reservoirs are nearly empty. He's already looking for a new job as he said to me that agriculture will be finished here. I'm thinking of investing in camels myself haha.

Strumms

And meanwhile anyone…any qualified person or otherwise who had a concern and wanted to tackle the primary causes of climate change head on were met by a wall of politicians, businesses and other assorted fûckwits who maintain that, no, people making obscene amounts of money is more important.

now the hilarious thing is a lot of businesses and industry whose operations were detrimental to the environment and directly catalysed on the climate change situation will feel it’s impacts …to fairly extreme degrees.