Summer 2021 General Discussion

In D.16 the house is still hot sweaty balls, or hot sweaty underboobs for the ladies, but walking outside is pure bliss.

I don't live where the cooling breezes from the Donegal hills offer relief. I am in one of the regions of the country that is bearing the brunt of this... yet again.

Is there any chance that the all time temperature record for Ireland could be broken tomorrow?

But anyway, when you have a tunes like this in your ears, you are already up there with those voices in the cooling sky. Perfect tune for a summer evening.

Not a tropical night in North kildare anyway. Currently 17.5° after a beautiful afternoon with a high of 29.5°. Got home from the office in Dublin around 14:00 and it was more or less calm. The east coast sea breeze finally arrived around 16:30 but thankfully it was a really warm breeze but none of that horrible coolness you get when near the coast. It was more akin to that feeling you get when in meditarranean latitudes.

Heading to the office in Dublin for a few hours. Will be interesting to see what the temperatures are just west of the city centre.

Still 22°c in Shannon Airport at 2am, incredible.

Equally as hot here in West Clare, crazy to be outside in these temperatures at night in Ireland, it's unheard of.

Valentia went up to 22*C at 3:00.

Well with the forecast small temperature drop that is forecast over the weekend, the temperatures at your home may well up being similar or even higher than those that you experienced at the beach yesterday so you may well end up being able to have the luxury of staying at home whilst also experiencing what seems to be perfect temperatures for you so it can't really get any better for you, weather wise!

It's a bit ironic but I've found myself more house-bound since last Saturday trying to avoid the extreme heat than I would have been if it was a prolonged wet spell. 🏝️🌡️🏖️

Belfast Aldergrove at a ridiculous 26c at 09:50 this morning. Could be the first time that Belfast Aldergrove tops 30c.

Only regarding the national mean maxima but yesterday's value of 26.6c beat the of high 26.3c we saw on July 19th 2013, which itself beat the 26.0c that occurred on the 9th of that month. The heatwave of July 2013 had begun to wane by now though but this one looks like going on for another few days at least, though maybe in not so intense a fashion over the weekend. It won't be until Monday or Tuesday that we will be shut of it and I can't f*cking wait.

Looks like Valentia may have had Ireland's first tropical night since August 2001 with the air minimum temperature dropping to only 20.5C. This is also the highest out of the few tropical nights since the record in July 1989.

It is also the first time that a synoptic station has achieved a tropical night if this is the case. The rest have been from climate stations.

Dublin Airport got down to a fairly cool 10.3 this morning. This is actually below average for July and was one of the coldest stations in the UK and Ireland.

The station usually posts some very cool overnight lows in calm and settled weather so I was wondering when it would happen!

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shush! one week scorcher is enough for any mick

we're not made for this heat😐️ with our pasty white skin

It cracks me up how people are already moaning about August. Put away the phone and go outside and enjoy the weather that's here now ffs! No point complaining about a possibly shite august when it's sunny and high twenties out currently.

The main issue today is the cirrus shield. It's difficult to see on Sat24 if it's thinning to the south or not. I guess people in Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin could maybe say if it has been thinning there. It seems to be thinning slightly on the sat animation. Could take another two hours before anything clearer comes north though which might hold us back this afternoon