Summer 2021 General Discussion

RTÉ - "Heatwave over" - AKA it's not hot on the east coast anymore.

Max or 27.2°c in West Clare today, fabulous day, actually feels cooler today thanks to the lower humidity. Heatwave certainly not over herem

RTE really is Dublin centric.

Im sitting out here in my back garden in the Midlands and it is still 22c here at 8.00 pm

It was a smashing day with the kids able to enjoy it more as the temps were a just couple of degrees cooler than during the week.

Tomorrow my Met Eireann app is giving me 28c in the afternoon so another day to look forward to, and heading out tomorrow evening with a few friends for drinks in what should be still balmy weather going by the app.

Always has been crazily Dublin-centric. Sorry to bring up such an awful tragedy but the Berkeley balcony collapse accident in 2015 really highlighted this to me. I’ve never seen a TV station lose the run of itself like RTÉ did and some of the Dublin publications too. The Irish Independent still had a subheading for it THREE weeks after the accident - like “World | Home News | Sports | Berkeley Accident”. Crazy stuff. And it was such a tragedy that I felt like the media attention was really invasive and insensitive to the victims’ families too. Cameras set up at Dublin Airport to capture the hearses leaving the morgue, that kind of thing. No way in hell would you see that for any people outside of South County Dubliners. Nor should you but it just was eye-opening.

I'm with all the western and southern folk affirming that the heat rocks on over here.😎 I'm in Tralee and it was another stunning day. Roasting in town this morning, lying out weather this afternoon which I did in my garden and wow was it hot! And another dinner out on the patio this evening. So no the heatwave isn't over here yet. I'm revelling in every minute of it, it's so rare.

My interpretation of what is 'good' is not yours obviously. There is nothing good about this weather and this shows when people who always claim to enjoy it are the very people who will run to the beaches or turn the fans on the cool down. If this heat is so good and enjoyable, then why?

I hope it pisses flooding rains for the rest of the summer. This will be good.

It is done.

Included Castlederg's value along with my own local met station readings. I'll try and include more of these Met Eireann ASW's readings in tomorrow's updated table. I'll include the likes of Arklow, Terryland and one or two midland or northern stations.

Is your max reading today bang on 24c?

Even if RTE are Dublin centric, the heat wave was hardly over here either, it was a beautiful sunny day in Dublin again yesterday, cooler than past week but was still low 20. Today in Dublin is to be sunny and 24 degrees and tomorrow sunny and 23 degrees.

cant even remember the last day we have had rain, grass in garden is gone brown in many parts.

looks like everywhere to get some rain this week, badly needed to be fair. Hopefully good weather again from following week, anything beyond 4-5 days forecasts is always lottery balls

Great, thanks 😊

⚠️ Looks like today is the last day of 'Scorchio' folks,

so make the most of it 😎

Amazing how you become acclimitised, first few days of high 20s is hard to take but few days later I'm out basking in it.

Can maybe understand the Spanish/Italian tourists coming over here to normal Irish summer weather of 22/23C and wearing a heavyish jacket 😊

Used to think the were nuts but i suppose being acclimitised to mid 30s weather 22/23C would feel cool.

Table showing 7 day and 10 day mean maxima (up to yesterday) for the well known Met Eireann stations and also a couple of the Met ran ACS's on the wow site. Notably, Ballinamore is S. Co. Leitrim (one of Ireland's most beautiful counties). Thurles, Arklow, Belfast Apt, and a couple of others. Table is ordered high to low in the 7 day average column.

Regarding these ACS's, the daily max is based on top and bottom of the hour readings which are unlikely to be the highest max of the day. Realistically, anything from an extra 0.1 to 0.3c or possibly even 0.4c should be added on to these particular station values shown in this chart as annoyingly, Both Met Eireann and the UK Met do not make available the true max or min values from these stations.

Data from Met Eireann & the UK Met Office and a big thanks to Danno for sharing his own Durrow data with me.