It's official:Irish weather is far worse than it used to be

azezil

Headline on the back page of the Sunday Times.

Rsearchers at Armagh Observatory have found that cloud cover in Ireland has increased by up to 20% in the last century. Our ancestors at the beginning of the 20th century enjoyed about five times more cloudless days each year than we do.

The study revealed that parts of Ireland are now getting one-fifth less sunshines than they were around 1900. Coupled with a gradual increase in rainfall, the findings represent bad news for the farming and tourism industries.

the article goes on to compare how many days with cloudless sky's the people of 1900 enjoyed compared to today...

mike65

Like we needed to be told...!

Mike.

The Gopher

It may be pissing down today but am i the only one to admit that the weather is as bad or even slightly better than usual?Its raining alot in the mornings but nearly every afternoon/evening lately has turned bright and sunny.Most summers we get about 10 weeks of rain and 2 of sunshine-this year it goes by days,with 60% of the day being great and the remainder being ****e.Just my opinion anyway.;)

azezil

this summer has been the wetest in 50 years!! lol

Winters

After spending two weeks in spain I can tell you that Ireland is **** cold. There is no doubting that. Ireland gets colder while the rest of the world gets warmer...... why?

pauldeehan

Well I don't think we need to worry about Global warming then...

mayhem#

Will you ever stop!
I spend three hours today standing in the pissing rain because I promised my daughter we would have a barbecue on her birthday...
****in' ****e country!

ccindex

I think I saw some documentary once which claimed that:
Global warming is cutting off the gulf stream. Ireland is going to continue to get colder.

daveirl

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bozzie

what that means is that things are going to get a lot worse if the currents of the world are disrupted then the weather is going to geta lot more extremely cold after all if ireland goes into a cold current then wont ireland be a block of ice most the year round

although it doesmean less rain since the oceans wont be warm enough to supply it

Victor

Originally posted by daveirl
but doesn't that mean colder winters and warmer summers???

I understand the opinion is "more extreme weather".

Enygma

No basically were fu*kered if we lose the Gulf Stream, trace a line across from Ireland to America and you end up in Newfoundland! New York is almost parallel with Spain and it's freezing there.
Wouldn't worry about it anyways, not much we can do about it.

mike65

Wouldn't worry about it anyways, not much we can do about it.

Thats what we need, a good honest shoulder shrug!

If the gulf stream does fail then we're going to have much nicer winters I'd say, crisp and cold rather than just miserable damp and dreary, the summers will be drier to. Yep a drowt!

Mike.