Summer 2021 General Discussion

Your 'carbon footprint' must be through the roof!

Despite the relatively cool morning here (still way higher than normal) I still can't get the house to cool down properly at all even with the windows open all night.

I doubt it's that high. Heating has been off bar a few hours for about 3 months. Have had air conditioning running in a single room for 6 nights. Didn't need it last night as temperatures are way down and bedroom was much cooler at about 23/24° which is very doable with just a bedsheet and the duvet removed. House is very well insulated and every bulb in the house is LED. All garden lighting is solar powered by way of solar panels on the shed roof with power stored during the day in batteries. Have two cars and one is an EV. Other car will be an EV too, probably from next year.

So I'd say that in general, my carbon footprint is doing well, for this country anyway.

I also can't believe we didn't get a drop of rain last night here in Firhouse D24! Garden is wilting at this stage.

But I do miss the heat .....not the almost 29c but the lovely 24/25c which for me is pure bliss!

I hope you have a lovely holiday acquieon but as you say, the noise hustle and bustle of tourist resorts is never as relaxing as good weather back home!

I thought you could do that on met eireann site. I may be wrong.

Anyways the sometimes right yr.no has 40mm of rain for Sligo in the coming 3 days. Ugh

Then 1.4mm!! in total over the Bank Holiday. That would be good.

Then 23mm in total Tuesday and Wednesday.

So Summer 2021 in Sligo will probably be remembered as freezing with an exceptional heatwave from July 15th to 25th.

Lashing in Dublin 13 for past 10 minutes or so. Still managed 15 consecutive days <0.2mm which constitutes as absolute drought (just abouts!), the second time that has happened this year.

Would love some rain, none in a good while here in my part of Kilkenny, all the plant life is crying out for it.

Wet evening coming for the east with some thundery bursts embedded.

Same here, haven't seen meaningful rainfall in quite a while.

Dunsany reported 21.2 mm in the hour to 4 pm.

Actually somewhat nice today in West Clare, the afternoon has brought a sunny/cloudy mix with 18°c and a light breeze. However it still feels colder than 18°c should because of the hot weather last week!

Jaysus another unreal thunderstorm + this time the heavens opened with the amount of rain we got!

I thought everything would be washed away⛈

That would be 18C coming down from much higher temperatures earlier on, and there would be heat absorbed by the house which would be releasing during the night so it would be warmer in the house than the outside temperature even with a window open.

Still torrential rain here, there could be local flooding if this continues.

North County Dublin, just seen video there of streets flooded in Malahide village due to downpours.