Summer 2021 General Discussion

Let's hope for a better day tomorrow but today was muck

So it lashed rain Friday + all day yesterday with heavy thunder showers here in Dublin.

Today was meant to be 'nice day' i.e at least it would be dry.

Instead it's raining again. FFS.

Yeah grey and damp again

Hopefully it'll clear off this morning.

I don't believe Arklow actually exists

It's just a hoax

Roll on cooler and wetter humid muck? No thanks 😂

Yes. It's hasn't been a cold August at all, though I imagine many will disagree. But you can only look at the stats.

The issue is that it's very easy to get used to temps of 18 to 22º, which is what temps are on most summer days in Ireland - particularly this August.

18 to 22º feels warmer earlier in the summer but by the time August comes we're well used to it so start complaining of 'the cold' unless temps are over 25º. But in reality temps may have been trending above average.

Either way, next week should give a nice blast of summer warmth to most parts.

Cooler yes . Don't like the wet either.......

"Weather to return this autumn" promise weather experts

MT literally posts the forecast every day in another thread 😂

23/24c is a lot more bearable than the 30/31c we had in July. I’m sure you’ll be grand Oneiric 😆

A North Sea Breeze would never bring this amount of heat and high humidity, even here in the sheltered west. Something more is going on here. And yes, it will be a glorious week in the east once again because like the last time, you'll not experience the same level of constant high heat and coupled with constant high humidity / dew points as we endured on side of the island.

Summer 2021 in a nutshell:

First half: Dull, windless and yet, dry.

2nd half of July: Sun and unbearable heat with not even a flutter of a breeze.

August up to now: Very dull, eternally humid with the odd downpour that did nothing to ease it.

August from here on in. Sun with constant high heat and humidity with no cooling breeze yet again.

I've seen some beauts of summers in my time, but this one just takes the cake, and has easily become the worst that I've have ever lived through, not so much for the dull first half, which was not all the unpleasant 'feel' wise, but more the abominations that followed it.

Absolutely stunning now. Very pleasant. Forecast looks good. It'll make a nice change to have a dry week with warmish temps.

Took a look at the temp anom maps for the next few days, and it becomes clear that the air mass that will bring this coming heat is the same as that which brought us the heatwave conditions in July... at that is, a returning tropical maritime:

National average mean maxima for the 9 day period from Aug 23rd to Aug 31st since the mid 70s and that reached 20c or more.

With temps into the low to mid 20s for much of this coming week across the country and possibly well into next weekend as well, it looks pretty likely that the end of this August will be a record breaker (for the period mentioned) in terms of heat.

We'll see.