Summer 2025 - General Discussion

ClimateObserver

Some of those are PWS totals - so a few errors are in the mix, like the very north coast. What is striking is the contrast between the 10+mm stations and those just west of them - it was quite a well defined rain train.

ClimateObserver

Here are the official stations:

Mullingar to Dunsany isn't a massive distance yet 1mm V 50mm. Crazy!

Gonzo

I wouldn't be surprised if Dunsany ends up with 60mm by the time we're done later on today, still several more hours of rainfall to come.

Hippodrome Song Owl

Persistent very heavy rain in Lucan and Celbridge all night, still moderate rain now in Celbridge. Flooding in Lucan but no different than last Tuesday 15th, which happened over a shorter period of time. Also doesn’t seem as heavy as Sat 14th June which also caused many roof leaks (Inc my own house), but lasting longer.

Gonzo

just checked the stats for Dunsany and it's currently sitting at 48mm of rainfall up to Saturday, when it updates tomorrow and adds in the rainfall from Sunday evening to whenever it stops raining today, the total will be above 100mm of rainfall which will make July the wettest month of 2025 with June being the second wettest. We're going to need a relatively dry August to save this summer from looking like a statistical washout.

I know there's been some half decent weeks this summer but the stats are pointing towards a very wet summer just looking at the rainfall totals. Having said all that i'm enjoying this summer more than last summer which was significantly dryer but much chillier with drizzle almost every single day and barely any sunshine. We've had a much better mix this summer despite the rain.

Elmer Blooker

there was nothing special about yesterday, dull and overcast with sunny spells few and far between yet twenty Met E startions reported temps of 20 or over. The story of the summer so far - warm.

Ros4Sam24

Constant heavy drizzle and a feel like temp of 14c because of the northwesterly breeze. Shocking July day nationwide

mykrodot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655818#Comment_123655818

for once Kerry isn't bad at all this morning, even got a few glimpses of sun and barely any rain. Having said that the weekend was non stop rain and wind so today is welcome.

DellyBelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123628907#Comment_123628907

Meant to say thanks for the mention on this but totally forgot. I'm far from an expert compared to the others you mentioned but do enjoy the ups and downs of the Irish weather. Also love the golf myself and yes I agree that summer golf is a little different with the harder ground (although not so hard in the last week I reckon) We will soon be coming in to the best time for Golf in Ireland. Autumn is when Irish golf courses are in their best condition in my opinion (except for the falling laves). Mid August to Mid October is prime golf in this country

.Donegal.

Farming commentary updated 3pm today.

Rain

The past week has been wetter than normal for all areas. Rainfall amounts generally ranged between 169% and 523% of average. It was wettest in the west with 78.7mm of rain recorded at Shannon Airport, Co. Clare, while the driest station was Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan which recorded 27mm of rain. The coming week will likely be drier than average for most of the country with more in the way of settled weather developing, with only light falls of rain at times.

batistuta9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655553#Comment_123655553

it makes perfect sense. you need to put when the rain fell into context, which i don't think the raw stats/statements do, you automatically assume it was raining all the time. a lot of rain over 4,5,6 days is better than it raining for 20+ days not reaching the same amount

Calibos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123656947#Comment_123656947

Agreed.

If we dont get a total August washout, I’ll mark 2025 in my diary as a very good Spring and Summer no matter what the stats end up saying. Like you say, ‘Gimme a Week of lashing rain and 3 weeks of good dry weather any month of the year over 4 weeks of dull damp, drizzley sh1te which statistically might have a quarter of the rainfall of the 1+3 kind of month.

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123657007#Comment_123657007

And you don't have to "bow down" to the stats regardless as whether it was very good or not is completely subjective 😉

My own opinion is not too fond of the summer but it could be worse. It hasn't deteriorated into a total disaster like how 2020 did after the spring, it's had plenty of warmth. Just not a standout, minus those few days in July which my God were something else, and significantly better than what the west has had. Maybe August will make it stand out more if GFS fantasy land is to be believed. As of now it's very middle of the road for me with a slight lean to the good direction.

If we include spring well then it's probably one of the best extended seasons of all-time on this side of the country.

Hippodrome Song Owl

I'd agree that there has been lots of enjoyable dry weather this summer despite the high rainfall totals. However I find some posters use the stats to suit their own narrative regardless, and often try to use them to invalidate other's experiences. If it goes the other way, as it often does, with average or slightly below rainfall totals but most days being wet days, they will dismiss people looking for a dry spell by quoting the nearest met station totals. Not to even mention the local discrepancies that can easily occur over relatively short distances (see Mullingar v Dunsany today for an extreme example) which means the quoted stats may not even represent the relevant area properly at all.

pauldry

This is a cok of a couple of days in Sligo. Not much sun bar a few glimpses last 7 days. Very little in the coming days maybe cloudy and drizzly. When it says mainly dry with just light outbreaks of rain you're clutching at straws. Bar that couple of good days over a week ago it's been so dark in Sligo but today takes the biscuit. Windy cold misty . If you asked a visitor to name the month lots would say December? It's as dark as December here. Had car lights on and could see the glow on the road. At least yesterday's constant drizzle after midday was warm. But the weather here fools Met Eireann coz their radar just shows biteens of rain here and there so they have mainly dry with a few light showers. I can't even watch the forecast today coz we have a secret weather that no weather service recognises.. I don't see constant light mist and wind on any forecast for today. Somehow it's 15c but feels like 8c. Most of the country is 17c or 18c. Sligo and Knock the coldest.

I'd say Summers gone here even the dry will only be partly dry here and then on August itl be dark 8 to 9. Anyways Summer in Sligo is always April May and June then most July's are crap and virtually all August's. Hopefully September redeems it.

sryanbruen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123657362#Comment_123657362

I find it amusing to think how much hatred August gets because it's more often than not a westerly atmospheric river but at the same time, August 1995 as mentioned is objectively the greatest Irish summer month of all-time and 48 years before that, August 1947 is also remembered as legendary, especially in the north where it was sunnier than any July in Northern Ireland despite having 10% less potential daylight. These months have some of the highest % of possible sunshine for any month on record too on the island.

Somebody said August 2022 was one of their favourite months of all-time recently and I hold the same opinion. It's not quite on the level of those named above but that heatwave was the most pleasant spell of its kind I can recall.

To put simply, August when it stops steaming in an angry jet stream can be bloody amazing. It's so rare but very special when it does happen.

joebloggs32

August 95....chefs kiss

Goldengirl

August 22 was ...

🤩

OldRio

Another day of dark miserable drizzle and rain. 14C. Muck.

Leitrim

CruelSummer

Back from my hols and enjoying the cooler temps here todag. Glad I missed all that rain, hopefully it’ll improve soon 🙏

pauldry

Looking forward to August 2049.

pauldry

I do rem August 1995. It was clear blue skies day in day out everywhere on the island. Too much convection nowadays for anything like that. A thunderstorm outbreak would happen more often in the heat nowadays.

Artane2002

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123656080#Comment_123656080

I don't think that's particularly unusual to be fair, southwesterlies are warm and cloudy. Here you can get mid twenties from southwesterlies but barely any sun.

On an unrelated note, I'm not bothered to find the original post but to go back to the point about how this month's sunshine stats will be skewed, yesterday had no sun at all here. The average sunshine per day is 5 hours, so that's a 5 hour deficit. Some of the sunny days this month had over 15 hours of sun, so a 10 hour surplus. Clearly, it becomes harder to undo days with more than ten hours of sun because the upper limit for sun relative to average is more extreme than the lower limit.

Gonzo

certainly a cooler feel to this week compared to recent weeks, yesterday we only got 16C here in Meath with all teh rain and today is struggling to reach 18C

pauldry

Cool today here 15c but don't mind as it's bright. 3 days of dark over. This seems like a heatwave. High Summer long gone now after that July spike so now any pleasant day is appreciated. Just be dry.

Cluedo Monopoly

I always feel Autumn is approaching fast when race week ends. I have noticed what looks like a bumper Autumn harvest this year in terms of apples, blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes. I think the warm sunny Spring helped a lot there. I have already seen black/ripe blackberries in the past week which seems early to me.

BagofWeed

That was one strange downpour that fell on the north east of Cork City a half an hour ago, biblical, I seen pooled water on hills where I've never seen floods before. I just gotten into my car and actually thought that type of rain might clean some of the seagull crow **** from my walls but as I drove along the North Ring in torrential rain, wipers on fast, water pooled road, suddenly just by Riverview there was no rain, damp only roads & walls like no rain had fell !! Only time I ever experienced that was in Florida.

Goldengirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123660642#Comment_123660642

Good . They have had their fill of floods around there .

Always worry for relations there when I hear of monsoon weather over Cork and Glanmire .

pauldry

There'll be plenty of floods in Autumn probably

Gonzo

This evening is the first evening I have noticed the daytime getting slightly shorter. I usually go for a small walk around 9 and this evening most of the cars had their lights on at that time for the first time in over 2 months and it does appear to be slightly darker. It's not until the end of August when we really will begin to notice the difference getting dark around 8 or 8.30.