Summer 2020 - General Discussion

Calibos wrote: »

Blue Skies is only one of three metrics I use to judge my Summers here in Bray. Temperature wise I have to imagine that the prevailing South Westerlies, Westerlies and North Westerlies bringing us all the cloud are also adding a degree or two to my temps from the Foehn Effect as we are wrapped in the Wicklow/Dublin Mountains. My small Shops Double Door faces the South and this Summer the whole Double Door is open every day, the side window is open every day to create a through draught and I've needed to strip my top off down to a T-Shirt every day in work from 8am to 8pm. High teens or 20ºc+ every day according to the phone which I assume isn't an actual official Bray reading and thus probably doesn't take into account the Foehn Effect. I sleep in an Attic Master Suite with 2 Velux and I've had them open every night this Summer and also had my Bedside Fan on every night this Summer. In other words, Temperature wise I have zero complaints about this Summer. Even wrt to rain, like others have mentioned, I think a lot of it has come overnight thankfully. Certainly its been cloudy every night for the last 2 months as I never did get to see Comet Neowise and thus was paying attention to the night skies. It was notable during lockdown that the 3 month drought was lucky for all the folks in Q's outside shops including ours. In those 3 months I only remember one or two days where some poor sod was having to stand outside in the rain outside the main shop window waiting for the previous customer to leave. However I could also count on one hand the amount of times I've noted another poor sod getting drowned outside waiting during our 'Terrible' June and July. In other words despite June and July demolishing the drought and soil moisture deficits, it does indeed look like most of it must have come overnight as I haven't taken note of many customers getting drowned outside in the Q's. Even in terms of clear skies during the day, I think we've probably faired better than many with the Mountains and/or a maritime layer breaking up wall to wall cloud coming from the SW/W/NW more often for us in Bray letting at least a little sunlight through to brighten up things somewhat. The dullest Summer in Bray in manys a year absolutely, but not strictly a 60+ day streak of total grey depression inducing dankness either. I count my blessings every day that I'm lucky enough to live here.