Best summer in memory

Jpmarn · 27-07-2021 5:51pm

My flagship summer was 1995. It is hard to beat it. Barely remember 1976, I was only 5. 2013 gets a special mention. It broke a string of poor if not downright bad summers. 2012 was the worst of the series.

My least favourite summer was 1985 closely followed by 1986. 1983 and 84 were pretty good summers.

eviltimeban · 27-07-2021 6:11pm

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??

Tilden Katz · 27-07-2021 11:21pm

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Yes, 2013 really was important in breaking that dreadful spell of summers from 2007-2012. It marked a sea change. I genuinely thought we were stuck with those summers forever. 😳

28-07-2021 10:23am

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Yes I remember the week that Katie Taylor was boxing in the London Olympics was nice and sunny but in general 2012 was another one of the 6 "bad" summers in a row from 2007 to 2012, 2010 was the best of the bad lot.

Tilden Katz · 28-07-2021 12:07pm

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The week I'm talking about was actually late May 2012! What a tease of a week. I do think 2012 is the worst summer I can remember. I was walking to and from that summer. I lived in a city with terrible public transport. Walking was quicker. I came into and home from work SO many times with my jeans completely soaked and stuck to me from the heavy rain. Usually in Ireland, the rain is actually pretty light and you'll be grand but I was peeling my jeans off myself with regularly. I had a lot of visitors to me that summer. All rain, all the time. Took a few weekend trips - all rain, all the time.

Weirdly, the winter was much drier. I got a bike around September and didn't miss one day of cycling to work that winter.

28-07-2021 3:36pm

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There was also a very nice sunny week in late March 2012 iirc. Most of those 2007 to 2012 summers have kind of blurred into one but in my mind 2008 was the worst that might be just my imagination because it was also the start of austerity

sergioaguero · 28-07-2021 3:44pm

1995, classic

28-07-2021 5:19pm

One thing about the recent good hot summers is that August is always a complete write off, 95 has never been beaten because it lasted right through August and beyond.

completedit · 28-07-2021 10:50pm

2018 was amazing. I remember even in August we got some balmy nights, one of which might be the nicest evenings ever. I remember driving with the roof down feeling like I was in Miami Vice. It actually started raining though just after

Tilden Katz · 29-07-2021 4:58pm

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Absolutely, that string of summers WAS the recession in weather form. It felt like a cruel joke from nature. If we were going to be fooked, couldn't it at least have been in good weather? My mother said the '80s were the same - recession and some absolute howlers of summers.

Best summer in memory

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