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When is it going to rain?

  • 03-07-2018 06:49PM
    #1
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭


    I'm getting hot and bothered, and my garden is as dry as an old newspaper, brown and flaking.

    Reservoirs low, canals shrinking, rivers down to a trickle.

    Can this be our own dear damp island in July?

    Need some rain!

    PS If anyone knows how to do a rain-dance, I'll join in.


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Comments

  • #2
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Hopefully not for another 3 months.


  • #3
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Didn't know it could get this dry.


  • #4
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    kneemos wrote: »
    Didn't know it could get this dry.

    You mustn’t remember the summer of 1995 then so.


  • #5
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    kneemos wrote: »
    Didn't know it could get this dry.

    -1


  • #6
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    I like the sun but I feel we may be filling our toilets with San pellegrino pretty soon.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,735 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All of August, unfortunately.


  • #8
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I enjoy a chaos so hopefully October


  • #9
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    I enjoy a chaos so hopefully October

    You’ll enjoy a chaos until the toilets don’t flush, sewerage bleeds out onto the streets, vermin take over and we decide its time to crack open each other’s skulls and feast on the goo within.


  • #10
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    When Zeus wills it!


  • #11
    rosmoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭rosmoke


    Lidl should start taking precautions :D


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    AccuWeather are predicting (for where I am) no rain until at least 13th July, and even then only light showers.


  • #13
    OneEightSeven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven
    MEGA - Make Éire Great Again


    Koda Green Ram wrote: »
    AccuWeather are predicting (for where I am) no rain until at least 13th July, and even then only light showers.


    AccuWeather is the meteorological version of Fox News.


  • #14
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,641 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #15
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,641 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #16
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    This is feckin gorgeous, yis are all just wingers.....


  • #17
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    This is feckin gorgeous, yis are all just wingers.....

    I like to think of myself as more a central midfielder.


  • #18
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    corner of hells wrote: »
    I like to think of myself as more a central midfielder.

    Naw, with or without the 'h' yis are wingers.....:D


  • #19
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OneEightSeven wrote: »
    AccuWeather is the meteorological version of Fox News.

    I agree but other sites say 14th July.

    Impossible to be accurate over such a period.


  • #20
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    You mustn’t remember the summer of 1995 then so.

    Not a patch on this!


  • #21
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    You mustn’t remember the summer of 1995 then so.
    Or the summer of 1976. though in fairness...

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • #22
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Or the summer of 1976. though in fairness...

    Or the summer of 69 , I'm doing this right ?


  • #23
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    According to John Eagleton from Met Eireann, in his long career in meteorology, Ireland had never gone 10 days without any rain until now.


  • #24
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    OneEightSeven wrote: »
    AccuWeather is the meteorological version of Fox News.

    Accuweather gave me a weeks pure sunshine for annual leave, two months in advance, a few years back. Even a sh!te clock is right once in a while.


  • #25
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,917 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    When it rains it pours..


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    -1

    :pac:


  • #27
    Gannicus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,736 ✭✭✭Gannicus


    Beanntraigheach wrote: »
    When Zeus wills it!

    Go way with your feckin Zeus. Odin FTW


  • #28
    wexandproud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    Koda Green Ram wrote: »
    I agree but other sites say 14th July.

    Impossible to be accurate over such a period.

    xcweather giving the same and their usually good enough . Easy enough be accurate with all the high pressure everywhere .Even the ''low'' over spain at the weekend was over 1000 mb .
    As im sure you know Some years the ''azores'' high develops in the winter or spring and can give a good spell of settled weather , cold and snow in winter dry and warm [ish] in spring. This year has been really of the chart with the amount of easterly wind since that btich ophelia paid a visit


  • #29
    gazzamc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭gazzamc


    I'm happy to wait until October :)


  • #30
    Mutant z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    Its good to have a bit of sunshine but there's only so much of it you can take before you say enough is enough it needs to rain again which is essential for plants to grow. Grass needs to be green but its turned yellow because of this prolonged dry spell which is a huge worry.


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  • #31
    Mutant z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    I for one miss the temperate Irish weather i hate these extremes of hot and cold we now seem to getting that should be left to the Arctic and the Med but not in Ireland.


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