Ireland in the sun

completedit · 10-07-2022 08:11PM #1

Does anyone ever notice a nervous tension around the place? The happy faces and sunburned faces belie a sadness IMO. Ultimately while we can enjoy it we know it is short lived and so there always seems to be a bit of tension when we get a heat wave. The sun obviously makes everyone more extroverted but we're not psychologically prepped to deal with it. We haven't evolved for good weather at all, whatever about physiologically,mentally it just isn't what we are adapted to.

4Ad · 10-07-2022 08:24PM

Nope.I notice lots of happy people !!

pajor · 10-07-2022 08:50PM

This is the sort of melancholy that can only be thought up of on a Sunday evening.

BrianD3 · 10-07-2022 09:20PM

The heat makes people hornier, they are also drinking and congregating on beaches and in airports. Macho arseholes, Travellers etc. are congregating anywhere there is water and are walking the streets stripped to the waist, drunk and horny. People are in holiday mode and spending time with their families which can result in tension. The schools are off so there's no free child minding service.

Add to that the boom bust mentality that applies to several aspects of life in Ireland including the weather and the day length - we panic about making the most of the good times. Yeah I'd say there is tension in the air. IIRC the June and August bank holiday weekends are historically the worst BH weekends for deaths on the roads. There's also the usual drownings anytime there is good weather

completedit · 10-07-2022 09:41PM

That's so true. Making the most of the good times. Again it's just not something I've noticed in other parts of Europe, especially parts which get good weather and aren't full of Northern Europeans.

Irish_rat · 10-07-2022 09:48PM

A lot of idiots appear in this weather that is for sure. Just stay clear of the madness

fryup · 10-07-2022 10:41PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^

yep, its scumbag central down my way...load of idiots blasting out American Gantsa Rap 🙄 i mean where do they think they are?? downtown LA?

Aglomerado · 11-07-2022 12:02AM

Youngfellas with pigeon chests out everywhere. Stink of badly cooked barbecues and shite music in every second garden.

chrissb8 · 11-07-2022 01:28AM

All I saw were throngs of people enjoying themselves. People laying on the grass with friends, sunbathing on the beaches, kids eating ice cream, and laughter emanating from all around wherever I went.

You haven't picked up on anything special here with the angle you're taking. We live in a mild temperate oceanic climate. Where there is no extreme weather, more rain than not and some high pressures over summer. We are suited for our sunshine and our climate.

Yes, we do get sun and yes we do know what to do with it "mentally" when we have it. Just go out and enjoy it because we all know it won't be here tomorrow. But we're also mentally prepared for that as well.

Try live in the moment OP and go out and touch some grass. It is pretty sunny after all.

WJL · 11-07-2022 01:34AM

Seems to be a lot of over thinking.

Just get out and enjoy. Good forecast for the week. Not wall to wall sunshine but warm and plenty of sunny spells.

If the weather makes you anxious there's possibly a deeper cause of your anxiety that needs to be sorted. Fairly normal Irish summer weather (a few days around 25c) shouldn't make you anxious if mentally and physically well.

silliussoddius · 11-07-2022 02:04AM

Grander stretch in the evening.

WJL · 11-07-2022 02:06AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319931#Comment_119319931

The evening is 8 min shorter on 10 July than 21 June. The morning sunrise is 14 min later.

dePeatrick · 11-07-2022 02:12AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319934#Comment_119319934

Yes, I’ve heard of this before, can’t say I understand it. So when do the evenings begin to close in?

holliehobbie · 11-07-2022 02:21AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319940#Comment_119319940

The 22nd of June?! It just feels like the evenings are shorter already because we’ve had so much cloud cover and rain in the evenings of late.

WJL · 11-07-2022 02:27AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319940#Comment_119319940

They've started. By 15 August the sun will set on the Eastern side of Ireland around 9pm. Roughly 10 pm in mid June. An hour and 5 min will be gone off the mornings. Sunrise at 6.05am as opposed to 5am.

WJL · 11-07-2022 02:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319949#Comment_119319949

Here's Dublin sunset and sunrise you can check every day of the year plus sun angle.

We've lost a degree in angle height already. 60 to 59 degrees. Winter solstice is 14 degrees. Low winter sun.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ireland/dublin

dorothylives · 12-07-2022 04:45PM

The stench of BO is getting more common. There's no excuse for it at all and it's disgusting. I was in Lidl yesterday and it was lingering in the air in the hygiene aisle ironically enough.

MarkR · 12-07-2022 04:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058253907/ireland-in-the-sun

Absolute riot at parties. You could do with some sun. :-D

Larbre34 · 12-07-2022 05:22PM

Whats everyone doing for Christmas this year?

The One Doctor · 12-07-2022 07:50PM

I hate hot weather. Given me a cool bright day.

On the other hand, I love thunderstorms.

HBC08 · 12-07-2022 07:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319482#Comment_119319482

Not really an issue here in West Mayo.

McGinniesta · 12-07-2022 08:10PM

Sun has a similar effect on Irish people then other phenomena.

Snow and air travel being the two chief examples.

A total loss of brian power after the onset of above average temperatures. This will have the inevitable effect on road deaths, drink driving arrests and other anti social behaviours.

nigeldaniel · 12-07-2022 08:18PM

So, it's 'shiny happy people' time. To be honest, I stay clear of people as much as possible including those on my road. The weather tends to have an effect on the banalest of kinds. Dress code especially goes out the door! I have seen things I could tell you... things no one should ever see!!!

j2 · 12-07-2022 10:51PM

I'm this weird Irish type who gets very tanned! I have had a nice time telling people I'm not a Spanish student. I really should look up my family history because I don't know anyone among my family who will actually get a bit of sun burn. It is annoying when the Spanish students ask me questions in Spanish and I can't answer! Maybe I need to get on some duolingo if I'm going to be so tanned.

riclad · 13-07-2022 04:26AM

I look forward to the rain or cold weather , its way too hot . Give me the old Irish summer, maybe 2 or weeks of good weather. Then cold windy or rainy weather

Ouch Chinese Byrne · 13-07-2022 07:25AM

The warm weather brings out the worse drivers

completedit · 13-07-2022 10:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119329331#Comment_119329331

I don't know, quite a few Irish tan to be fair, you see a lot of tanned people around once it stays sunny for a bit longer. Europeans don't really have much stereotypes of the Irish look the way the Americans do so it's a bit unusual that Spanish people are just randomly talking to you in Spanish but maybe you do look very Iberian.

gmisk · 13-07-2022 10:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058253907/ireland-in-the-sun

People are more drunk if it's sunny

Strumms · 13-07-2022 11:13PM

Going by the forecast here next week Id start getting shopping for fans / cooling towers.

mid to late 30’s in some or most places….

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-07-2022 11:08AM

It will probably be too dangerous to work in such temperatures

government should probably step in here and make a speech Sunday night closing the place for a couple of days

TooTired123 · 14-07-2022 11:21AM

Does anyone else over, I suppose 50, remember listening to the radio during the summer holidays and hearing, quite regularly announcements which were typically “ Could Martin and Kathleen O’Meara,currently on holidays in Ireland, please contact home urgently”.

It used to fill me with dread! My own father died suddenly in the summer holidays when I was 15 in 1980 and one of my mothers sisters was informed by the Gardai in a caravan park where she was on holidays in Donegal.

Dreadful way to get bad news, but is the mobile phone any better?

Ireland in the sun

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