Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Dazler97

As I said before I think warnings ⚠️ should be covered by area not counties, it would make so much sense

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122413503#Comment_122413503

Should met Éireann be renamed as a weather reporting as opposed to a weather forecasting service ,given the frequent late arrival of their warnings on thunder ?

Still a fine evening here in south Wicklow btw

High of 22.9 today

wazzzledazzle

Hammering down, few claps of thunder. N Kildare

Robwindstorm

Pointless yellow warnings given in a Nowcast situation leads to Weather warning fatigue. Joanna predicted the heavier spell of rain in the central eastern area just fine in last night's forecast. No need for these yellow warnings in my opinion.

Dazler97

High was 19c here in carrick today but still feels warm now

tom1ie

anyone know what the forecast is for this Saturday around the NASS area by any chance?
Also can anyone recommend a good weather forecasting app.

Elmer Blooker

unbelievable! what was looking like torrential rain heading for Dublin I end up with a pathetic 2mm!
out with the hose tomorrow.

Hippodrome Song Owl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122413874#Comment_122413874

Well, it reached Lucan - absolutely lashed! Big puddles, water pooling on the roads temporarily. It's amazing the effect the few wet spells have had on the garden in only a week. Flowers finally blooming - so late in the summer, but finally.

Kutebride

Incèsaant rain Meath since 630pm

Help..

Robwindstorm

Decent spill of rain here in Meath. There will be some flush of growth with tomorrow's sun.

DOCARCH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122413954#Comment_122413954

Ditto in Greystones. 11.8mm so far. Rain started just after 8pm.

smax71

Long time lurker on this forum and a great fan of MTs forecasts which I check out at least 3-4 times a week and everytime I heading off on a journey or planning outdoor activities. So just wondering why they have been seemingly less accurate of late, is it due to greater weather instability which is difficult to model?

Take for instance today. I checked MTs forecast earlier because I was going on a long journey this evening from Cork to Louth. Happy that forecast was good but by the time I was heading through Laois the rain was torrential with serious flooding on some roads and extremely poor visibility. It remained very wet for remainder of journey and was very glad to make it home. Out of interest I checked on here and I'm seeing reference to yellow warnings as for the 1st time. I blame spotify for not hearing forecast on radio while on road😁

.Donegal.

My least favourite weather tonight. Overcast, murky, mild, humid and manky. Just a horrible combination.

Hurrache

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122413874#Comment_122413874

Not sure if sarcasm or not but it's being pissing rain in my part of Dublin since just after 7pm.

highdef

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122414295#Comment_122414295

I walked about 10 minutes through D13 about 20 minutes ago and the ground was damp but no suggestion that it had been raining heavily. Was a nice walk..... Mild, humid and calm.

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122413978#Comment_122413978

Not a drop in Arklow,bright untill dark,lovely evening

tom1ie

It absolutely hammered rain in rathfarnham last night- torrential.
It’s warming today and calm enough but grey grey grey.

OldRio

Dreadful evening in Leitrim last night. Rain and more rain.

On the upside stunning morning. Sunshine and Blue skies. 14C.

Oscar Bravo

On this day back in 2005, the wettest day for the month of July was recorded. 112.9mm fell in Macroom, Co. Cork

Nice morning and a rare nice day ahead today

wazzzledazzle

Not too bad a morning, high clouds, warmish, 16c, . Expected to remain cliudy throughout. Still some potential from weekend onwards, however, it remains to be seen how much sunshine we get.

Thunder87

Endless gloom continues in North Dublin, looking at stats for DUB we've had a combined 1 hour of sunshine since last Friday.

The completely useless Met Eireann graphical forecast reckons it's fully sunny right now and will be for much of the day so maybe it'll clear up eventually

KanyeSouthEast

gloomy here also. No sun almost total cloud cover. But at least is not raining and it’s not cold.

Storm 10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122414943#Comment_122414943

The graphical forecast is never right even the ones after the news, they say it will rain but it will more than likely show cloud and sun.

squarecircles

all reference to next weeks potential warmth and high presure, starting next monday, now removed from the forecast, as its all imploded again on the latest ECM. poor old MT , He will have to change that detail about low to mid 20s , the resumption of pig muck in a westerly flow continues next week.

i think this ,more than the actual crap weather, has been the most head wrecking aspect of this summer, the chopping and changing, outlooks completly different at the end of the day compared to the forecast in the morning, the contionous inability to correctly forecast any detail beyond 3 days. chrisssssssst on a bike, when will it f'ing end.

gas looking at the satelite picture, the one decent day, and the cloud wont shift, rotating on itself and expanding to provide perma gloom yet crystal clear skies exclusively out at sea all around the perimeter of the country. Heaven forbid the sun would be aloud to shine for an hour.

pad199207

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122414943#Comment_122414943

I can’t remember the last time I checked those graphics forecast

sryanbruen

Funnily enough I was reading old posts from the summer of 2011 at this exact same time - the final 10 days of July. There was an unforeseen period of rain that occurred over Dublin and Wicklow on 21st July which the Met did not forecast and Cusack apologised for it then MT forecast a week of rising temperatures up to 27C using Dublin as an example.

Monday 25th July 23C (actual 20.2C)

Tuesday 26th July 24C (actual 20.9C)

Wednesday 27th July 26C (actual 22.3C)

Thursday 28th July 22C (actual 16.9C)

Friday 29th July 24C (actual 16.7C)

Saturday 30th July 27C (actual 19.5C)

This was supposedly based on the GFS and it was hardly the depths of fantasy land, it was within 7 days. Good to know some things never change if the models did this disastrous then.

sparrowcar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122415325#Comment_122415325

Yesterday in NCD was a perfect example of that. Forecast for days/evening leading up was overcast morning followed by rain early afternoon. The reality was sunny warm spells and rain didn't start until 8pm. I didn't waste the day but i put off some garden jobs on the back of the forecast. It's been a very poor summer for forecasting in general.

adocholiday

The jet stream looks to be taking a northwards turn from the 30th (based on this forecast, obviously subject to change). If that were to happen then maybe we can finally start tapping into some of that high pressure that's south of us all summer. If we could get some ridging there then it might help to settle things down. Unfortunately the jet seems to be particularly strong so any ridging might be short lived but at least the signs are there for some improvement. This is the first time in weeks that I've noticed the jet showing signs of northward movement.

DellyBelly

Turning into a very nice day in Dublin..nice warmth the sun is breaking out

Kutebride

Wow Blue skies Dublin 2. The excitement (if wasn't in the office lol)