Summer 2023 - General Discussion

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120679291#Comment_120679291

Thanks Sryanbruen, I knew we must be close to breaking records. It's a remarkable period of sunny weather.

Packrat

I've never seen drought like this in the extreme SW. Every small river and stream is dry.

I think there was a moisture deficit compared to normal even before the last few weeks.

Last appreciable rain here was around 13th or 14th which wax only a couple of mm and did nothing to replenish levels.

I'm in big trouble with water for cattle (if not my own house) in about a week.

Very worried.

pauldry

Cloudy most of 2nd half of day in Sligo. Didn't rain but went very black. Went to Rosses Pt and it was mostly sunny there. Notice in a SE airflow Sligo sees more cloud than East or Northeast situation. Clouds must build over the hills.

Got to 24c though so no one really cares.

Grass yellow and even brown under some trees now. Hear less and less lawnmowers whereas on day one of this last Monday it was constant lawnmowers. Everything's dying.

Oscar Bravo

Some great temperatures out West today. Even Knock Airport doing well,a location which is often cool and dull

Oscar Bravo

Mulranny Co.Mayo this evening looking across at Croagh Patrick

pauldry

Warm sunny morning. Dawn Chorus woke me at 5am!! Robin and blackbird going crazy fighting over my front hedge territory.

Gonzo

A nice sunny morning here in Meath however it is a bit cooler again compared to recent days but nowhere near the chill of last week.

DOCARCH

A little bit of cloud now in Greystones drifting off the Irish Sea....left over UK muck!

nacho libre

Well it looks increasingly likely the drought will be broken in many areas by Saturday. Will it be a short breakdown or prove to be something more sustained? I am not looking forward to an increase in humidity and sticky nights.

Thelonious Monk

Nippy on bike this morning, feeling cooler in Dublin especially when sun goes behind clouds. Yesterday was glorious.

Gonzo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120681499#Comment_120681499

Next week is looking like a flip around. More unsettled, cooler perhaps in western areas compared to recent values but considerably warmer in southern and eastern areas and a major increase in humidity and night time temperatures. Next week is looking like generally 18 to 24C but temperatures up to 26 or 27C are possible at times in some eastern and southern areas. Night time temperatures could get as mild as 15 or 16C at times. Will have a better idea by the weekend how next week is looking.

pauldry

A long time now since a completely crap Summer. 2012 was our last one here. Even if this one goes belly up already Sligo has had 10 percent of the Summer roasting hot and sunny if ya count the last days of May. Today is day 9. We had a sunny day on the Sunday but it was only 16c that day so that hardly counts.

It doesn't look much below 20c until next Monday at least and then 16c by day and night here. Could be warmest June on record for the West.

Thelonious Monk

Pretty sure 2020 was an awful summer no?

pauldry

It was in most places but in Sligo we had some nice weather and a freakish 10 day spell in August when it was cold everywhere else. I'm only going on Summers I've experienced in Sligo. 2011 and 2012 were terrible.

esposito

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120681895#Comment_120681895

After 2012 - 2015 rubbish, 2016 rubbish, 2020 rubbish.

SNNUS

Looks like it may heat up even further for next week, minus the nice cool evenings though.

TheStonecutter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120682017#Comment_120682017

2016 was fairly average. 2017 was rubbish though.

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120682141#Comment_120682141

That would be great. Nothing more annoying than planning to have a late evening outside but then it turns out to be far too cold. Mild June evenings are quite unusual in Ireland although the unusually dry land may well help things for us this year.

pauldry

The cool crap Summers will become rarer id say. Even if its cool and crap it will probably last only a few weeks like last June here while much of the rest of ye had heat we had 13c

esposito

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120682146#Comment_120682146

June 2016 was pretty good if I recall. Then it all went downhill similar to 2015

spoonerhead

Feeling a lot cooler now under the clouds on the East….

odyboody

Wore shorts up to work today in Dublin.

Burr, big boy trousers tomorrow

TheStonecutter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120682432#Comment_120682432

2016 was a bit unusual in that it actually got above 30c in a couple of places in mid July but was otherwise dull with average rainfall. Normally the temperature getting above 30 is the hallmark of summer with extended good weather.

pauldry

Looked at Dublin City Centre webcam and people have jackets on. Looks quite miserable there but at least ye don't have the mist we get here and ye can always have a scrap on the beach if yer too cold.

Dazler97

Finally found this thread at last , it's been warm if not hot at times here in carrick , mid 20s the last few days but we do need some rain ,the grass is all burnt

pauldry

There'll be plenty of rain by the end of the month. Showers every day will become the order of the day. As the heat builds and instability increases with waning high showers will be thundery in nature so midland locations will see plenty.

Cluedo Monopoly

Quite hot in Galway this afternoon. There are clouds and a nice breeze but it's still hot.

Gonzo

cool and cloudy here in Meath, didn't think it would cloud up like this, was nice and sunny this morning but looks like the clouds are around for the rest of today. Currently only 14C.

Looking forward now to the end of this easterly as it should turn significantly warmer next week although it may be more unsettled.

John.Icy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120682739#Comment_120682739

14c, breezy, and completely overcast for hours now. Brutal out there compared to recent days.

Totally unexpected too. Whether the Irish Sea covers the coastal areas in cloud is a complete mystery to forecasters and even the hi-res models are struggling. The synoptics are largely static so the changes have been odd. Wed-Fri last week we had cloudy afternoons. Sat-Mon, not a single cloud. Today back to muck.

It's making me think all parts of the ME website are automated. I know the banner icons are awful. But I thought the text updates were manually done. So either they're trolling 30% (or more) of the population today or they need to have a sit down with their website staff and ask why they are not checking satellites...or if they are based in HQ in Glasnevin...looking out the window and actually providing their website with accurate summaries. The 1pm text update for Dublin still had sunny spells as the headline. It was overcast and dull by then. The national update at 3:17pm finally mentions persistent cloud on the east coast keeping it between 17-20c, which is miles off it and their x3 Dublin stations are reading 14, 14 and 15 degrees at 3pm.

Doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things in one way, once that cloud blanket came ashore the forecast for the day fell apart, and the majority of people probably get their one snapshot of a forecast either first thing in the morning or the night before. So accurate updates on the website during the day probably mean sod all, but would be nice to see. Anyway, hopefully tomorrow the Irish sea forgets to wake up.

DOCARCH

Looks like the cloud on the east coast is thinning/clearing. Should be a fine evening. Sunny again in Greystones.