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Summer 2019 - General Discussion

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    12 degrees and raining. There’s not much to say about how utterly average and at times rubbish this summer has been here.

    If your area of the country gets the warm weather that is forecast for later in the week and for next weekend, will you be posting some positive comments for a change?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    If your area of the country gets the warm weather that is forecast for later in the week and for next weekend, will you be posting some positive comments for a change?

    I always post when we get nice weather. Not sure what your point is. Typical of this place and the passive aggressive stuff that goes on here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    I always post when we get nice weather. Not sure what your point is. Typical of this place and the passive aggressive stuff that goes on here.

    :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Between 35-45mm of rain was recorded at a number of stations in Naas this afternoon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Yes the last 10 days have been disappointing in south Dublin but we enjoyed a good July and looks like next week will be something to look forward to
    Very few days this year where we didn’t get at least a dry morning or dry evening

    The key is to watch the forecast and plan accordingly .


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Lucreto


    pad199207 wrote: »
    Between 35-45mm of rain was recorded at a number of stations in Naas this afternoon

    There was flooding at Woodies in Naas. The water was over the curb.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    I always post when we get nice weather. Not sure what your point is. Typical of this place and the passive aggressive stuff that goes on here.

    I don't really care what you call it. The fact is that I can count on one hand (and still have fingers left over) the number of weather related positive comments you have made since the start of summer. Contrast that with all the negative posts. Granted this year has not been in any way comparable with what we had in Summer 2018 but it has not been anywhere near as bad as what you have made it out to be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Lucreto wrote: »
    There was flooding at Woodies in Naas. The water was over the curb.

    Yeah the road was closed for a good while. Cars couldn’t get through


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Zipppy


    Tomorrow to be a washout apparently with summer mark 2 starting thurs or Fri for a day or so....
    Hey Ho...
    Been looking at property in Spain....I think it's time...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    I don't really care what you call it. The fact is that I can count on one hand (and still have fingers left over) the number of weather related positive comments you have made since the start of summer. Contrast that with all the negative posts. Granted this year has not been in any way comparable with what we had in Summer 2018 but it has not been anywhere near as bad as what you have made it out to be.

    I’m the only one who’s making out it’s a bad summer am I? I’ve said countless times what I’ve thought about this summer. June bad save an ok last week an average July and a bad August. What do you want me to say exactly? That its been a beautiful summer with great weather and endless balmy nights? If you don’t like the posts stick me on ignore or skip past them but quit the personal stuff.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Zipppy wrote: »
    Tomorrow to be a washout apparently with summer mark 2 starting thurs or Fri for a day or so....
    Hey Ho...
    Been looking at property in Spain....I think it's time...

    You’d miss the rain though. Constant sunshine gets boring too. It’s some weird thing built into Irish dna. We have to have variation and both extremes. Otherwise we’d have nothing to chit chat about.


    *quick aside. What do people in constantly sunny climes talk about? On these islands default setting is grumbling about the weather! Do they do that in Phoenix or Adelaide?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭MidMan25


    You’d miss the rain though. Constant sunshine gets boring too. It’s some weird thing built into Irish dna. We have to have variation and both extremes. Otherwise we’d have nothing to chit chat about.


    *quick aside. What do people in constantly sunny climes talk about? On these islands default setting is grumbling about the weather! Do they do that in Phoenix or Adelaide?

    Spain? Unemployment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Raining since about 7.30 here in Meath, seems to be just 1 slow moving blob sitting over us, by looking at the radar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    You’d miss the rain though. Constant sunshine gets boring too. It’s some weird thing built into Irish dna. We have to have variation and both extremes. Otherwise we’d have nothing to chit chat about.


    *quick aside. What do people in constantly sunny climes talk about? On these islands default setting is grumbling about the weather! Do they do that in Phoenix or Adelaide?

    Was in Austria in a blistering heat wave , they moaned about the heat , the wasps , the ants , the flowers dying , the elderly suffering from the heat .etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,346 ✭✭✭highdef


    I’m the only one who’s making out it’s a bad summer am I? I’ve said countless times what I’ve thought about this summer. June bad save an ok last week an average July and a bad August. What do you want me to say exactly? That its been a beautiful summer with great weather and endless balmy nights? If you don’t like the posts stick me on ignore or skip past them but quit the personal stuff.

    I'm with you on this. Overall, summer has been pretty poor. Definitely on lower end of the scale in terms of summers. Not horrific/terrible but nothing great.


  • Posts: 3,656 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    highdef wrote: »
    I'm with you on this. Overall, summer has been pretty poor. Definitely on lower end of the scale in terms of summers. Not horrific/terrible but nothing great.

    Where are you based ? And Clonmel1000 I assume is in Clonmel :D?
    Cos the North East had a really good Summer. I live a few miles from Bettystown and it’s been a really lovely Summer, lots of sunshine, heat, swimming in the sea the last 6 weeks, plants did really well, never got caught out in showers, was up in Mournes hiking lots and it was all dry weather there too. Summer 2019 was all about location location location


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,346 ✭✭✭highdef


    Where are you based ? And Clonmel1000 I assume is in Clonmel :D?
    Cos the North East had a really good Summer. I live a few miles from Bettystown and it’s been a really lovely Summer, lots of sunshine, heat, swimming in the sea the last 6 weeks, plants did really well, never got caught out in showers, was up in Mournes hiking lots and it was all dry weather there too. Summer 2019 was all about location location location
    North Kildare, 40km west of the Dublin coastline. Do you live a few km north or south of Bettystown or are you further inland?

    I'm originally from coastal Dublin and it's almost always sunnier there than further inland albeit a fair colder when the wind is off the sea.

    I do miss the decent amounts of sunshine where I live now compared to my hometown (when there's an onshore breeze) but the warmer weather inland, away from the sea breeze, is a whole better as I detest cool breezes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭acequion


    Arrived back this morning into Shannon to the most utterly crap weather imaginable and everywhere totally waterlogged. :eek:

    Yet I log on here and the denial brigade and the "Shur Ireland has grand weather" brigade are still singing off the same hymn sheet :rolleyes:

    Yet while in Spain I spoke to many from Britain, northern France and Belgium who all had one thing in common, dire August weather back in their neck of the woods. Yet our east coasters further over via Atlantic would have us believing in the micro climate of costa del arklow or costa del bray or costa del south dublin or wherever. Ya right :rolleyes: Maybe they have a vastly different notion of good weather.

    And tonight have the heating belting here in Tralee!

    Now for all that am actually delighted to be back home. Never anywhere like home. And guess I'll rub a few people up the wrong way with my remarks about all this supposed great weather over east. But sorry guys, am a bit skeptical!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Mobhi1


    That was the coldest day of the month so far - the high was only 16.7C at midday. It wasn't actually the coldest of the summer - there were some considerably colder days in June!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭sideswipe


    acequion wrote: »
    Arrived back this morning into Shannon to the most utterly crap weather imaginable and everywhere totally waterlogged. :eek:

    Yet I log on here and the denial brigade and the "Shur Ireland has grand weather" brigade are still singing off the same hymn sheet :rolleyes:

    Yet while in Spain I spoke to many from Britain, northern France and Belgium who all had one thing in common, dire August weather back in their neck of the woods. Yet our east coasters further over via Atlantic would have us believing in the micro climate of costa del arklow or costa del bray or costa del south dublin or wherever. Ya right :rolleyes: Maybe they have a vastly different notion of good weather.

    And tonight have the heating belting here in Tralee!

    Now for all that am actually delighted to be back home. Never anywhere like home. And guess I'll rub a few people up the wrong way with my remarks about all this supposed great weather over east. But sorry guys, am a bit skeptical!

    ‘Denial brigade’ seriously?
    Nobody has said August has been great- first week decent on the east coast, after that it’s been poor. Why do people feel the need to question if people are lying if they give a positive synopsis of the summer thus far in their area? We had somebody else on here on Sunday saying they experienced the famous ‘east coast’ summer when they visited on Sunday.... they were basically claiming that because the weather wasn’t great on Sunday that was how it had been all summer and anybody with something positive to say about their experiences on this summers weather were lying!
    It’s a small country with big variances in weather. If it makes you better to think people are bull ****ing you fair enough- whatever gets you through.
    Welcome home:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    acequion wrote: »
    Arrived back this morning into Shannon to the most utterly crap weather imaginable and everywhere totally waterlogged. :eek:

    Yet I log on here and the denial brigade and the "Shur Ireland has grand weather" brigade are still singing off the same hymn sheet :rolleyes:

    Yet while in Spain I spoke to many from Britain, northern France and Belgium who all had one thing in common, dire August weather back in their neck of the woods. Yet our east coasters further over via Atlantic would have us believing in the micro climate of costa del arklow or costa del bray or costa del south dublin or wherever. Ya right :rolleyes: Maybe they have a vastly different notion of good weather.

    And tonight have the heating belting here in Tralee!

    Now for all that am actually delighted to be back home. Never anywhere like home. And guess I'll rub a few people up the wrong way with my remarks about all this supposed great weather over east. But sorry guys, am a bit skeptical!

    Suit yourself , we enjoyed this summer in south Dublin with lots of good days and some bad . We had many days in lovely sunshine in the garden with the pool out for grandkids . A huge crop of strawberries and many evenings sitting out to enjoy the warmth and light
    You being skeptical really doesn’t change that .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭limnam


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Suit yourself , we enjoyed this summer in south Dublin with lots of good days and some bad . We had many days in lovely sunshine in the garden with the pool out for grandkids . A huge crop of strawberries and many evenings sitting out to enjoy the warmth and light
    You being skeptical really doesn’t change that .

    Definitely.

    Hasn't been a summer to "write home about" but far from miserable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭acequion


    Wow wow wow but some people are so touchy when challenged about their great weather!

    And yes I saw that post questioning the so called great east coast weather. From a poster who I'd heed, as this poster also loves proper summer weather. In fact I, myself experienced poor weather in Dublin airport in early August, yet this thread was full of gushing enthusiasts same day.

    So not accusing you guys of lying but maybe we don't all concur on what defines decent weather! And yes I know ye get it much better than we do in the west but I still wouldn't be spending the hols on yer costas, sorry.

    And like many people, my overall view of summer 2019 wouldn't be that positive, though with a decent July,it wasn't that bad either. Around a 5/10.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Wild and wondrously wet out here, and another gale warning out for today. already howling; west mayo offshore island.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Tom Cruises Left Nut


    acequion wrote: »
    Wow wow wow but some people are so touchy when challenged about their great weather!

    And yes I saw that post questioning the so called great east coast weather. From a poster who I'd heed, as this poster also loves proper summer weather. In fact I, myself experienced poor weather in Dublin airport in early August, yet this thread was full of gushing enthusiasts same day.

    So not accusing you guys of lying but maybe we don't all concur on what defines decent weather! And yes I know ye get it much better than we do in the west but I still wouldn't be spending the hols on yer costas, sorry.

    And like many people, my overall view of summer 2019 wouldn't be that positive, though with a decent July,it wasn't that bad either. Around a 5/10.

    I suppose it's down to personal preference

    For me this summer has been perfect, not a fan of the heat so it's been good. Also like the rain in summer. I know I might be mad

    I do wonder is there any point giving out about it though, it can't be changed !

    Well, unless people move to a hotter country

    Looking forward now to cold and dark mornings and evenings


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Mobhi1


    Another nice and sunny morning here with clear almost blue skies. It's 13.8C.


  • Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Carol25


    Rained all day yesterday in Galway, over in Cardiff this morning and nice bright morning. Not looking forward to the ferry crossing later looking at the wind forecast on the Irish Sea...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Carol25 wrote: »
    Rained all day yesterday in Galway, over in Cardiff this morning and nice bright morning. Not looking forward to the ferry crossing later looking at the wind forecast on the Irish Sea...

    Ouch! Maybe they will cancel..

    Wild here. Managed a short walk before the gale etc hit. Rain battering the windows now so snugged in. No way am lighting the stove in August..


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭sideswipe


    acequion wrote: »
    Wow wow wow but some people are so touchy when challenged about their great weather!

    And yes I saw that post questioning the so called great east coast weather. From a poster who I'd heed, as this poster also loves proper summer weather. In fact I, myself experienced poor weather in Dublin airport in early August, yet this thread was full of gushing enthusiasts same day.

    So not accusing you guys of lying but maybe we don't all concur on what defines decent weather! And yes I know ye get it much better than we do in the west but I still wouldn't be spending the hols on yer costas, sorry.

    And like many people, my overall view of summer 2019 wouldn't be that positive, though with a decent July,it wasn't that bad either. Around a 5/10.

    Nobody has ever suggested people could holiday on the east coast of Ireland as an alternative to Spain- I don’t expect Spanish weather to equate to ‘good’ weather. I live in Ireland! However, low rain fall and warm temps with a decent amount of sunshine is a decent Irish summer. You live over 300 k from me on the door step of the Atlantic, I don’t doubt you have had a bad summer. I have had them in the past luckily this one wasn’t too bad at all. As you have rightly said maybe it’s perceptions of what good weather entails. I just cannot understand why it annoys you and a few others so much that other have had some decent weather this year that you resort to calling them out on it- weird?

    Ps if it makes you feel better I can report that the weather here in Wicklow was awful yesterday- heavy showers and cool. If that is what you’ve experienced all summer I’m not surprised you’re touchy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,346 ✭✭✭highdef


    Cloudy and breezy but mild enough (not warm by any stretch of the imagination) in Dublin 8. The clear skies being reported about 45 minutes ago in east Dublin city must have been only viewing out in an easterly direction as the skies in Dublin 8 were mostly cloudy 30 minutes ago with just some blue in the fairly distant east, over the Irish Sea and perhaps right along the coast......cloudy throughout Dublin now, in any case with extreme haze being the best in any part of the city at this point and it's downhill from now on.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Mobhi1


    The sun is still shining here in Glasnevin although the sky has gone hazy. It's not warm but it's not particularly cool either. It's 15.2C here now. It's not partiucularly breezy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Rain just starting in Galway city, with plenty more to come by the looks of the radar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Hazy sunshine quickly disappearing here in Kildare


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Mobhi1


    Mobhi1 wrote: »
    The sun is still shining here in Glasnevin although the sky has gone hazy. It's not warm but it's not particularly cool either. It's 15.2C here now. It's not partiucularly breezy.

    I have to correct that - there is a bit of a stiff southerly breeze. The sunshine's hazy now. It's 15.6C and doesn't feel particularly cool. I was out in a tee-shirt but not shorts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Cloudy and breezy in meath this morning, around 10mm of rain since lunchtime yesterday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    acequion wrote: »
    Wow wow wow but some people are so touchy when challenged about their great weather!

    And yes I saw that post questioning the so called great east coast weather. From a poster who I'd heed, as this poster also loves proper summer weather. In fact I, myself experienced poor weather in Dublin airport in early August, yet this thread was full of gushing enthusiasts same day.

    So not accusing you guys of lying but maybe we don't all concur on what defines decent weather! And yes I know ye get it much better than we do in the west but I still wouldn't be spending the hols on yer costas, sorry.

    10.

    Nobody claimed it was like the costas here . But posting that you are skeptical of our description of our summer is bound to irritate .
    I have a sister in West Cork , not far from the Kerry border and we chat often , the weather there this year has not been like ours on the east coast .One day she rang me and we were putting suncream on the grandkids in the National Stud in beautiful sunshine , she could not get as far as her shed to get potatoes in was so wet and wild . Another day we chatted and we were on the beach with kids paddling and playing on a warm and slightly cloudy day while they had mist and hair curling drizzle all day .This happened a few times but neither of us were skeptical of the others description as we understood Irelands weather can vary so much .
    On the other hand we spent a lovely few days in Mayo and the weather was grey in the mornings and then beautiful sunshine in the afternoon and evening for three days, the same three days were wet in Dublin .
    Personally I am happy with this summer , we got out most day , we sat out with family a lot of evenings , we had cloud sometimes but it was warm and pleasant . That for me is enough , of I want 30 odd degrees I know where to find it on the Med , but i am happier in our gentler warmth anyway

    PS , I remember your post about the airport and read it sitting out my back garden in pleasant warm breeze .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    As wild a day as.... just wild gale wind and constant deluge. I guess we are splendidly cut off! Love it!
    Hay is all in, all safe so "let loose the hounds of war".

    west mayo offshore island


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    Persistent heavy rain in Castlebar this morning with a max gust of 71 km/hr.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    A miserable 12 degrees and heavy rain. Horrible morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭acequion


    Absolutely dire in Tralee. My idea of a summer's day from hell.:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    The lights are flickering... nothing is battened down out there so there will be fun. And plenty of cut flowers for the house as this is a southerly.

    Fascinating. Always something new and dramatic. New horizons; not that there are any horizons just now; water in every direction! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Its been raining in Galway for most of August, August 2nd was a great day at the opening of All Together Now Festival but since the 3rd I've seen rain every day, maybe one or two dry days in Galway at most, but a pretty brutal August it has to be said. Crossing my fingers that it clears up a bit when I hit Stradbally next week to work Electric Picnic.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    I repeat

    More rain in Galway this month than the previous nine combined


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Its been raining in Galway for most of August, August 2nd was a great day at the opening of All Together Now Festival but since the 3rd I've seen rain every day, maybe one or two dry days in Galway at most, but a pretty brutal August it has to be said. Crossing my fingers that it clears up a bit when I hit Stradbally next week to work Electric Picnic.

    It's not just that it rained every day, we've had several deluges each day


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    I repeat

    More rain in Galway this month than the previous nine combined

    I do not think you have had over 700mm of rain this month, easily over 200mm of rain has fallen in some parts of Galway though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,679 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    March was wetter for most than August up to 20th (Athenry and Casement Aerodrome being some exceptions) but many totals are getting close to equaling or beating March rainfalls. With an Irish rainfall of 105.1mm, it is currently the wettest August since 2014 (107.2mm) and wettest month since March (141.4mm). Provisional summer rainfall total up to August 20th is 253.1mm which is only the wettest since 2017 but time to change.

    Data from Met Éireann.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Zipppy


    acequion wrote: »
    Absolutely dire in Tralee. My idea of a summer's day from hell.:(

    Dry so far in Dublin....I gather ye country folk are sending up a biblical flood later?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,281 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Not a nice day here in West Clare, been a very wet month, however it's certainly not the worst day we've had, not even close. Windless and not particularly cold.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Breezy and starting to rain now. Overcast all day. Sorry if this offends people.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,350 ✭✭✭Ardent


    Pissing rain yet again in North Kildare. It's official for me - one of the worst summers in recent memory. Feels like a winter's day.


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