Autumn 2021 - General Discussion

Cloudy dry and calm here in Castlebar. Nice afternoon

Dull grey and overcast here today, yesterday was similar but it cleared up after 7pm and stayed like that all night but clouded over again first thing this morning.

Looking at Sat24 it's gonna do the same again this evening.

It got down to 4c at 6am so it felt cold and very autumnal.

Another cloudy day. We've not seen the Sun in over a week. Slight drizzle yesterday afternoon.

Leitrim.

Lovely sunny morning in the Midlands, has clouded over now though

Tis fierce close, fierce.

Cloudy and very warm since the start of the month here, and still no rain.

Trying to rain here in the east of the country but failing miserably.

29.1C in 1906 at Clongowes Wood College (Kildare).

The highest in recent Septembers has been 26.6C on 6 Sep 2016 at Glasnevin (Dublin).

Must have got relatively close to the record in early sept 91. Think it got up to around 28c in places during that spell.

I think that was the same spell(1906) that saw 36c recorded in England - which is obviously also an all time Sep max for them

Long May it last. Sun doesn’t feel as strong now this time of the year which is an added bonus. It’s beautiful.

Seconded. An unwelcome endless extension of that endless, stagnant hell summer of 2021. Not even the faintest hint of a breeze to keep one cooled.

We may as well have. But hopefully the next 8 months will have nothing but constant tropical rains. Just like the wind, the rains seem to have abandoned us this year.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. The amount of stagnant warmth over the N. Hemisphere suggests very week atmospheric circulation over the entirety of mid latitudes for the time of year. That hemispheric heat is just building and building with nothing to stir it out of place at all.

Temperatures are running 2 degrees or more above average in this part of the country.

I feel grand thanks.

The summer mean temp was only brought down by the coolish June. Nights during July and August ran pretty much consistently way above normal, as they are continuing to do so in this September.

There is nothing 'normal' about this summer. Temps are one thing, but the dewpoints are have been running excessively high for the last 2 months. Wind speeds are way down too and rainy days have been abnormally scant. This scenario might be more 'normal' in the south midlands, but its just bizarre for Galway. It shouldn't be this much of a Herculean effort to get some cooling rains and a breeze.

I have to question your claim that temps last week were '2 to 4' degrees below normal. Perhaps day time temps were down on a couple of days (but humidity levels remained high, so it no way would it have felt cold) but even in the south midlands, mean temps still came in above.

(ag report for end of August from Met Eireann)

Well for the first time in a couple of weeks we have a cloudless sky. Not sure how long this will last but we'll take it.

Hopefully we might see some warmth today after the dissapointing temps last week.

Leitrim.