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Mullaghteelin wrote: »

You're spoiled when youre disappointed with temperatures in the low twenties!
Im right on the east coast, and there hasnt been a temperature higher than 26C in nearly 30years!
We were mostly in the low twenties for the last 2 weeks, occasionally high teens, when the rest of country was baking.
The heatwave has eased, but it has eased back to what would be considered decent weather in a bad summer. We shouldn't forget how cool and wet it can be at this time of year.

I’m sorry but low 20s temperatures are very normal in summer. 20 or 21 is nothing notable. Or 22.

I think you have to wrong about that 26c stat. I very much doubt that. I see you’re in Dublin. Yeah, that stat has to be wrong. I’ve lives in Dublin on and off for 15 years and have experienced high 20s temperatures a fair bit.

In Dublin, during the hot spell it was hitting the mid-20s every day with blue skies apart from the first day when it took until the afternoon for the clouds to clear.

The weather I experienced in the west this weekend was not particularly nice and wouldn’t be classed as decent. And like I said, some stations’ highest temperatures skirted around the 20 degree mark which is bang average. In bed on Friday night, I actually felt a bit chilly!

_Dara_ wrote: »

I’m sorry but low 20s temperatures are very normal in summer. 20 or 21 is nothing notable. Or 22.

I think you have to wrong about that 26c stat. I very much doubt that. I see you’re in Dublin. Yeah, that stat has to be wrong. I’ve lives in Dublin on and off for 15 years and have experienced high 20s temperatures a fair bit.

In Dublin, during the hot spell it was hitting the mid-20s every day with blue skies apart from the first day when it took until the afternoon for the clouds to clear.

The weather I experienced in the west this weekend was not particularly nice and wouldn’t be classed as decent. And like I said, some stations’ highest temperatures skirted around the 20 degree mark which is bang average. In bed on Friday night, I actually felt a bit chilly!

The average July high in mayo is 18C.

Anyway as most reports show here the rest of the country did well.

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

The average July high in mayo is 18C.

Anyway as most reports show here the rest of the country did well.

I grew up in Mayo. 20, 21, 22 are really common. It’s not going to be every day but those numbers would be hit regularly. Claremorris and Newport Furnace frequently register those temperatures and higher

Humidity is a bit of a killer thankfully will be fresher here over the next few days. Fairly dull with the odd bright spell here today, thats the way its been for awhile now. Sligo.

Xenji wrote: »

Your memory must be a bit fuzzy if you think those tempratures are really common and come with regularity, since 2010 and with the exception of this year and 2013 mean summer tempratures in Mayo average between 17C-18C.

Not at all. Nothing wrong with my memory. I said it wasn’t all the time but those temperatures are hit regularly enough as to be unremarkable. If you get 20 days in the summer hitting those temperatures, you won’t bat an eyelid at them. Hell, even fifteen days.

One thing I’ve noted on the weather forum is that many here are married to stats without thinking about how they slot into the human experience. Very ‘computer says this’. It’s interesting to observe.

Which why the hot, gloomy shite that was 2003 is frequently brought up as a great summer because the gloom was technically classed as hazy sunshine but was much more like cloud.