A new general discussion thread for the new season that is upon us.
There is nothing unusual about getting summer style temperatures and a warm spell during first half of September, we get one nearly every September. We will be back into autumnal conditions very soon and have about 8 months of cool, chilly and cold weather ahead of us. I would love another 3 weeks of summer warmth and sunshine and then the switch to autumn proper in October. We don't get enough dry, warm and sunny weather in this country so have made the most of the lovely weather over the past week. It will probably be mid May before we see 20C again.
Will summer ever end?
Another day where I have the feeling that summer will last 6 months once again. Coastal Wicklow location where any prospect of rain has consistently fallen away as the sun constantly breaks up the clouds. There has been approximately one day in the past few months where it rained all day and I can only recall a handful of times we even had some showers.
I'm sick of this two season climate we have!
This would have been an Epic Summer to rival or even surpass the greats and even I would have put up with the humidity.............if we had gotten more blue skies with the persistent High Pressure all Summer, instead for most of it the High has actually capped/trapped persistent cloud rendering what could have been an Epic Summer into a muggy humid dull Summer for the most part except for a couple of weeks here and there. The only consolation is that the UK fared the same and didn't even get the great 10 days in July like us. Nothing worse than us enduring a 'Meh' Summer, yet only 90km across the Irish Sea, see them enjoy an Epic Summer.
Yep. Same. Probably my least favourite weather is grey and humid weather. Awful. Would prefer almost anything over this.
Hate this warm humid weather with a passion. I can accept it more to an extent when its summer because its summer but not in September when I'm getting into autumn mode. The mild humid nights of late are getting on my nerves .
Its feels like we are in the middle of summer temperature wise. Looking forward to it being fresher over the weekend.
Warm Septembers don't seem to bode well in recent times for those wanting a cold winter ,that's another thing I don't like about this current warmth. I know we are only 10 days into the month but I'd be surprised if the tone for the month overall has not been set ,so I think it is likely September will come in well above average . Just hope that doesn't set the tone for the following coming months.......
While it seems average (thereabouts) north of the 80th, it isn't so much so south of it Danno.
Edit, and this is the 30 day 'hindcast'.
Excessive warmth, for whatever reason, became lodged between France and Iceland during the 2nd half of July and has not budged at all really, and even when it did, it returned almost instantly. I just don't know what is going on with that to be honest and can only speculate.
Not sure that the Arctic temperatures are "way above normal". In fact, the majority of summer Arctic temperatures have been slightly below normal and it has been cooling off on par with average there with the exception of the last day or two...
As for 8c and 9c overnight minimas - around these parts, these are the ~10c or lower overnight minima recorded recently:
Sept 7th: 10.2c
Sept 5th: 10.4c
Sept 2nd: 10.8c
Aug 30th: 9.3c
Aug 29th: 8.1c
Aug 28th: 7.8c
Aug 27th: 10.4c
Aug 26th: 9.6c
Aug 25th: 9.5c
Aug 24th: 9.8c
So over the seventeen nights, we've had six nights of 11c or more. Not that bad I'd say.
ECMWF 15 day temp average outlook:
No shift in the temp profile that we have seen since the 2nd half of summer at all. Wave after wave of excessive heat and humidity while only the eastern half of Europe gets to see anything remotely seasonal. Too early to say at this stage, but it wouldn't surprise me at all looking this forecast that this September could end up being one of the warmest on record. Not sure what is happening to the north Atlantic circulation, but the lack of any real circulation over the ocean that we have witnessed these last two months is totally abnormal. What is the cause? I don't know but the fact that temperatures in the Arctic region are running way above normal suggests that this could be one of possibly many drivers of this ongoing hell pattern.
Torrential downpours with flash flooding on and off all day here in South West Dublin, I could see other parts of the city doing well with sunshine while we were getting one monsoon after another
I might take a look later on but it wouldn't surprise me if this was the longest run of excessively warm nights at this time of year on record. Long term average minima for here at least is between 8c and 9c for this time of year and these values just seem so unachievable this year.
From a subjective perspective, I've noticed how warm the nights have been.
National daily temp anomaly since April. Up and up and up.
Green line = 28 day running. Looking at the longer term trends, I think we are just at the start of renewed warming period after that relatively prolonged cool period that peaked during the Spring and a warming which I reckon will peak during the Winter and the first half of next year.
Data from Met Eireann.
Crazy shower of rain in Cork City; a torrent, but sunny.
Very heavy showers around Carrick on Shannon.
Shopping was a rather damp affair.
Lovely warm afternoon in Galway, dry since early morning, mostly sunny for the last few hours.
Just 1.7mm from side swipes of showers over this part of Laois yesterday. Overcast after some drizzle and mist, though some patchy blue sky bits are appearing. Mild and almost calm. Over 18c. Overnight low was 16.2c.
Danno got a mention in the latest Meteorologist's Commentary yesterday.
Meteorologist's Commentary - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service
The first half of this week brought warm and dry weather across Ireland, however the second half of the week will turn more unsettled and less warm along with the chance of thunderstorms.
Temperatures this week peaked at 28.3°C in Durrow, Co. Laois on Tuesday – this is provisionally the first time a temperature above 28°C has been recorded in Ireland on a September day in 30 years. The last time temperatures reached 28°C was on 5th September 1991, with 28.4°C at Valentia, Co. Kerry. Temperatures of 28°C or higher have only occurred three times in September since Met Éireann’s digital records began in the 1960’s.
The average maximum temperature for Ireland during September is around 17°C, while the average minimum temperature is 9°C. The highest September maximum temperature on record in Ireland is 29.1°C, recorded on 1st September in Kildare on Saturday 1 September 1906.
Around 10 weather stations across Ireland provisionally recorded new September maximum temperature records on Tuesday, including Sherkin Island, Claremorris and Shannon Airport.
Fine drop of rain , 29mm here near Tralee since late last night with some heavy bursts, filled up the ponds.
5am 9th September 2021. How many times would such uniformity of temperature have occurred in Ireland?! 20 stations at 17c, 4 stations at 16c, and the outlier, Malin Head (what's new!) at 15c just 1-2c off all the others.
Oh.
In the space of 15 minutes flash flooding in Castlebar. Its been a while
Time to get the brushes out and give the chiminey a sweep.
There was a minimum of 17.7 C on 2 September, 1932, according to this.
EDIT: Actually, they have it as 17.9 C in the 1971-2000 climate averages table here.
Another beautiful day here in Meath, sunny for the past 2 hours and very warm, warmer than yesterday and no wind, not even a breeze.
Agreed I hate winter the dark evenings are depressing mood ugh, I'm clinging on to the heat
Pleasant enough day in Dublin again, cloudy and dry, 20 degrees. Last few days were lovely
Look why don't you get a hobby and stop trying to wind people up.
To the vast majority of people this weather is a very welcome bonus. The trash as you call it will be with us soon enough. We will probably have cold wet weather for coming 7 months so please let us enjoy this beautiful last day of summer
Cloudy all day so far here in Meath but feeling very warm considering the lack of sunshine. Feels warmer than yesterday with no onshore east wind taking the edge off temperatures.
Sun is shining now. Wonderful.
When I left omagh it was sunny now in Enniskillen and its cloudy, heading back home to Carrick on Shannon and apparently it's raining there, as long as I get my thunderstorms I don't care ⛈️🌩️ ⚡
