Best summer in memory

Sorry again Syran, I misread your post and that particular line.. how I did I'm not quite sure. The heat has finally beaten and wore me down it seems, so much so that I can now physically see it as it manifests itself into strange, dark forms.

Would this be the now considered Dutch swimmer?

I remember them all, 1976: Was eleven years old, we lived in Glasgow in a semidetached house with a first floor, I remember having water fights with my friends and neighbours, we had the vantage point of the first floor, great memories. 1995: Was a fully fledged bodhran player by then, playing loads of sessions in Galway, doing all the fleadhs and I remember the heat wave particularly at the Fleadh Cheoil at Listowel and at the start of August with the Ballyshannon Folk Festival. 2006: Remember it absolutely hot when I went to visit the sister in Bandon, Cork in August and September. 2013: Worked loads of festivals, Life, Body&Soul and Electric Picnic, weather brilliant for each of them. 2018: Posters mentioning Body&Soul festival, I was at that one too and got burnt to a crisp, I found Chronnix's style of Jamaican fried reggae was perfectly apt as a headliner closer and it did feel like we were in Jamaica with gorgeous weather. One of my worst summers, it seems no one has noted here was 2016, I was working at 8 different festivals in Ireland that year and each one was a downpour.

Big frost on Stephens night, minus 10-15, lots of places shut for Christmas, big mess

1976, 1995, 2018

1995.

2006 was a pretty good one too but, as I was working age by then, I didn't get to soak it up the way I did as a 10 year old in 1995. It was a full summer of almost exclusively long, sunny days where we spent hours playing football on the neighbourhood lawns. My mother bought me a tent that summer and we slept outside pretty much every night. I'll never forget my mother telling me when it was just starting that the next day was to be 27 degrees. I had never even contemplated that we could have temperatures like that, but it was only the beginning!

I remember a few good spells in the northwest several years running from about 92-95 with 94/95 having extended hot sunny weather.

2018 another mention, especially after the epic snowstorm that came a mere few weeks beforehand.

I seem to remember summer 1993 being nice, especially around June, but my memory has gone for the rest of it.

1995 was great.

2006 I can remember driving through the midlands and getting to Athlone and seeing 30 degrees on the car. I had to stop and get out to see what that felt like in Ireland.

The last two weeks were fantastic. As I type this the rain is pulverising the attic windows, such a contrast.

So is there any hope for another heatwave, or is that our lot??