Summer 2020 - General Discussion

Deleted User wrote: »

I think you're buying into the melancholy a bit too much on this thread! Or else you slept through all the nice weather!!!

It was actually a very dry month up until the 27th of July. We were running at less than half the mean to that point.

Then we got 18mm on the 27th, 26mm on the 29th and 13mm yesterday to totally skew the rainfall total for the month and give a very distorted picture of the weather we had.

Very similar to some of the months we had during the lockdown when we had long dry periods and then some very wet days.

Overall, July wasn't bad at all and relative to the rest of the country we got away with murder.

Aye but the first day of July was wet, and the last day of July was wet is what I meant

This morning's ECM going for another 'heat spike' towards the end of next week:



Focus seems primarily on the UK again but who knows, maybe we'll get a scrape closer the time. Either way, looks potentially more thundery for both the UK and us than yesterday's one which might be more of an interest (if this does come to pass)

Walked to shop. 1k. There was 5 showers. And the main showers havent arrived yet. Bar a few hours on Monday it will rain until next Thursday with showers or rain.

Still less than 1mm for August but wait until Tuesday evening I'd say 40mm by then

Another dry and quite warm day in Dublin. Last week or two been out a lot for walks etc and much more pleasant. Yesterday was beautiful

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Yes but the beauty of Nice in winter is you just drive for an hour and you are in the alps skiing. It’s a superb spot. I have been to Poland twice for New Years and Christmas markets in krakow and both times there was zero snow and it was like +8 degrees. I thought it would be much colder but never saw a snow flake either trip, just rain.

Nice would definitely be high on the list for me, great weather year round, extreme winters up the road and if you fancy a bit of weekend storm chasing it's just a short drive from the most thundery place in Europe in the plains of Northern Italy. Not to mention it's a stunningly beautiful part of the world

Well rain has arrived here.


Today was better than I expected here in NCD in the sense that it stayed dry + not cold.


Still very little sunshine though.

Rain hasn't arrived so far in Naas. Nice day in fairness, rain due though.

Lovely day Wicklow hills. Cool at intervals. Warm other intervals. Still dry.

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Met eireann still saying showers yet most of the country is under a band of rain. Its not often i give out about met eireann but their forecasts are often way off the mark lately.

Looking at the radar I could not believe what they said that is one big band of rain certainly not showers, as a matter of interest the Air Corps Air Ambulance is flying through it from Co Longford to UHG Galway great service

If it clears up a bit later on, have a look for moon near Jupiter. It's not quite a full moon but will look almost full.

I think the summer has been roughly what I was expecting although July a bit on the cooler side especially first half.

Not that far from normal in most ways, but a bias towards more cloud and rain recently after quite a dry start in some places.

August may be just a bit warmer than average although that trend may fade quickly enough to leave the result very close to normal.

We were having a cool, wet summer, then suddenly it turned hot and dry about a week ago. That trend seems to be locked in for a while, with a slow drift back to more normal conditions (although normally it is rather hot and dry here in August anyway). We have had five days now of 35-37 C heat, with the average closer to 25 for the rest of the month of July before that, and June slightly below normal here.

Absolutely pissing in Athlone right now. Torrential