Summer 2019 - General Discussion

Jesus some seriously heavy rain and the loudest thunder and lightning I think I've ever heard in Dublin here in Citywest! There's a few alarms gone off in the street.

Nothing happening on the northside other than distant rumbles, 1mm today and 2mm yesterday evening so the ground remains as parched as ever.
It will interesting comparing rainfall totals for today at Casement, Phoenix Park and Dublin Airport.

After a nice bit of sunshine it started lashing again, but only for about a minute. It's 18.2C now.

km79 wrote: »

Not often the Galway Races doesn't curse us!!!!!

To hell with the Galway Races. Nothing but a big money making farce.

Rain and sun here now in Glasnevin. It's 16.0C now. The earlier high was 18.7C. There's been 4.6mm recorded so far.

The_Brood wrote: »

Europe gets all the sun and t-shirt weather, then all the evaporation builds up, moves away, and gets dumped over Ireland lukewarm cool spring for a summer, even in July and likely August.

Probably not how it technically works, but sure feels like it.

Couldn't agree more! For the second evening in a row I'm frozen and have the heating on. Temp of 15C, real feel 13C. Whatever that is it sure ain't summer!

Now I fully expect a lambasting from those of cooler blood for "wasting" heating oil in July and maybe even a sit down techie style lecture on weather systems and Irish meteorology and how it works etc etc and looks grand lads,whatever! But all I can say in my defence, is what I said last night, anything under 20C isn't summer, in any part of the globe. And these past 3 days have been downright chilly here in Tralee.

acequion wrote: »

Couldn't agree more! For the second evening in a row I'm frozen and have the heating on. Temp of 15C, real feel 13C. Whatever that is it sure ain't summer!

I have an outside temperature of 14.3c at the moment but 22.9c inside. Heating is off for a few months now. If your outside temp is 15c at this stage of the evening and also taking into account the amount of solar heating at this time of year, I can't picture any house needing heating on this evening. Do you know what the interior temp is in your house?

acequion wrote: »

Timber framed house east/ west facing,some rooms upstairs also facing south and very warm and in fairness it's an easy enough house to heat in winter, only built in 2008.

But my kitchen [east facing and doesn't get much sun] is fairly cold which is where I am right now and sorry but heat still on.:eek: I need an indoor temp of at least 24C to be without heating and no way do I have anywhere near that in my kitchen these evenings, 18-20C at best maybe!

In summer I like to be able to go around outside and inside in summer clothes.Mostly, in Ireland, that's not possible.

Both our homes are of similar vintage. Mine is brick built. My kitchen is northeast facing but it's part of a fairly large open space and other parts of the space face southwest and get sun in the afternoon and evening.

I, like you, like my house to be warm although oddly enough I prefer it a bit cooler in summer than winter. Kitchen is 22.4c right now and upstairs would be about 1c warmer as there was not much sun today.

However in the winter time, I like the house to be warmer and 23/24c is a very comfortable temperature during cold/wet/windy spells in winter. Will often have the stove roaring and have it well in the mid 20's in the living area when it's below 0c outside. In winter, I like to be able to wear light clothes when in the house as it's not an option outside.

highdef wrote: »

Both our homes are of similar vintage. Mine is brick built. My kitchen is northeast facing but it's part of a fairly large open space and other parts of the space face southwest and get sun in the afternoon and evening.

I, like you, like my house to be warm although oddly enough I prefer it a bit cooler in summer than winter. Kitchen is 22.4c right now and upstairs would be about 1c warmer as there was not much sun today.

However in the winter time, I like the house to be warmer and 23/24c is a very comfortable temperature during cold/wet/windy spells in winter. Will often have the stove roaring and have it well in the mid 20's in the living area when it's below 0c outside. In winter, I like to be able to wear light clothes when in the house as it's not an option outside.

My kitchen is small and only gets the sun in the morning. It's also surrounded by high walls, so is very cold in a cold winter.

Me and you crossed spades before re clothing highdef I'm just a lunatic for seasons as well as loving seasonal fashion.So in summer I want to be dressed in summer clothes and vice versa in winter. But the problem in Kerry is that you're rarely comfortable in either. So I generally find the bland Atlantic winters too warm and most of my house is also a bit too warm in winter. I just love hot summers and cold winters and unfortunately live in the wrong part of the world for that.

But my house is really warm now after one hour of heating and it's also given me plenty hot water. So win win.:)

A good day meteorological speaking, people I know holidaying in the west got great weather today and us rain starved gardeners in the east got a decent soaking!;)