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Ireland in the sun

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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.

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FlubberJones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335738#Comment_119335738

With Mon / Tue forecasted to be the hottest days, the amount of sick calls Monday morning will be off the scale, it may as well close down as it will look that way.

The Dart will be at bursting levels heading to North side, Malahide & Portmarnock will be ground zero for feral cider drinking clowns in white vests.

BrianD3

With the very hot (by Irish standards) weather starting at the weekend we are primed for several drownings. Apparently, alcohol is a factor in about 30% of drownings, I'm surprised it isn't higher that that. Beaches, lakes, canals etc. are going to be jammed with drunk idiots.

[Deleted User]

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

You ancestor might have been a Spanish sailor.................or a Pakistani postman...........

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119336338#Comment_119336338

He might want to stop stalking Spanish students too.

whisky_galore

Attracts all the worst clueless sorts of people to beaches, causing traffic jams, having to be rescued from Lidl-bought floaties, asshole drinking behaviour, dog sh1t, driving on beaches and getting stuck.

Grrr why is everyone else going to the same place we're going?

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119334338#Comment_119334338

Mid 30s is my normal summer… a cool night is around 20 and winter is -10 to -20 for a couple of weeks, I like the seasons well defined.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335813#Comment_119335813

Yep, no mobiles and many places didn’t even have a land line. Coupled with that was the strange idea people had that not telling people where you were every minute of the day was acceptable.

I do remember one notice from a plonker who could not remember where his B&B was. If I remember correctly, the couple checked in, dumped the luggage and decided to go for a drive… several hours later they had no idea of where the B&B was!

Floppybits

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

Am just back from downtown LA and they don't blast that sh1te there either, just here. :)

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319902#Comment_119319902

Excellent advice

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319908#Comment_119319908

Excellent advice

[Deleted User]

a lot of oddballs here enjoy yourself go camping and have a bit of fun, camping seems to be becoming popular again its great fun but pick a place with a campers kitchen. For It would be a place that was not too comodfied by tourism, so an hour or so from the coast, then spend a day on the beach and drive back to somewhere less hectic.

dorothylives

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119334338#Comment_119334338

I got a couple in Lidl recently. They've mini tower fans this week that would be great for a bedside table. Last 2 years when it got hot fans couldn't be got anywhere.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335813#Comment_119335813

Ah yes, I remember those. They were common all through the 80s and early 90s. I often wondered what the "urgent message" was - had to have been bad news.

BrianD3

There's going to be sh*te everywhere - and I'm not just talking about dog sh*te. I well remember when I was a kid exploring a wooded area beside a coastal car park in Donegal. Place was caked in toilet paper and sh*te. A few "jam rags" too if I recall. Also lots of johnnies strewn about the car park.

Wibbs

While I do understand the concern over wider climate change bringing ever higher temps than is normal across Europe and the world and I can understand such things in places like France and Spain etc where the sun can beat down like a hammer and kills people every summer, the "weather alerts!!" ballsology here I don't get at all. So the mercury might hit 32 degrees somewhere in Ireland for a day, maybe two. OK and big deal. It's hardly the apocalypse is it? We see similar with a day of high winds in winter.

I don't know if it's our newly obsessive constant need for social media "information" and "updates" or what, but it seems to drive this sort of background panic and concern and we've become like a bunch of fierce panicky oulwans of late.

Count Dracula

I love eating Loop De Loops on a warm Irish day. I could eat two in a row. We get long enough winters so I have no objection to anyone enjoying a good spell of weather for a few days. It is good for the soul.

I must admit I feel slightly disorientated with the All Ireland finals in July? I am not fully convinced just yet. I kind of liked listening to a match on the radio whilst nodding around the backyard faffing around with nothing and fixing stuff. Drinking cold bottles of stout and smoking fags. I don't know how I am going to fill the Sundays over the rest of the summer. I might go and get myself a woman to look after. Bring her to the park for a picnic, throw a rug on the ground and drink tea out of a flask with hang sangers. Maybe open a can of drink.

Don't forget to look around this evening at wild Ireland in full summer bloom. The smells and sights of wild shrub peaking out from behind a rusty gallon drum sitting in the corner of some supermarket carpark. Enjoy the chirping birdies and the Saturday night anticipation of bright moonlight forming over the horizon and floating like a lantern across the night sky.

Go out tonight for sure. It is Saturday night. Get out there, meet people, embrace, be a nice reflection of the warmth given to you this summer. Dance in the evening, dance in the moonlight , feel free and easy in the mercy of your means.

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119344267#Comment_119344267

The medja love calling attention to themselves and how they can save people from their vices like enjoying themselves in this so called summer.As stated temp will reach 32c(maybe)somewhere in the country in the next few days.Covid has disappeared from the headlines more or less.So,let's play the dangerous heat coming to kill 100's in one day,maybe two.

fryup

♫ Ireland in the Sun

That is what we are

No one in between

How can we be wrong?

Sail away with me

To another world

And we rely on each other, ah ha

From one lover to another, ah ha ♫ 😎

irishguitarlad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119344267#Comment_119344267

Yeah over in Spain we're fucked. Temperatures of plus 40 starting earlier and lasting longer. Like yes here in Seville we always get a few days over forty every year but this year and the last two years have been crazy hot summers. I was talking to the head of a well-known tractor company here in Seville and he told me the south will be a desert in a few years time as the reservoirs are nearly empty. He's already looking for a new job as he said to me that agriculture will be finished here. I'm thinking of investing in camels myself haha.

Strumms

And meanwhile anyone…any qualified person or otherwise who had a concern and wanted to tackle the primary causes of climate change head on were met by a wall of politicians, businesses and other assorted fûckwits who maintain that, no, people making obscene amounts of money is more important.

now the hilarious thing is a lot of businesses and industry whose operations were detrimental to the environment and directly catalysed on the climate change situation will feel it’s impacts …to fairly extreme degrees.

Burt Renaults

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335813#Comment_119335813

Think I'd rather be given horrible news over a mobile phone than via a message on national radio. Imagine what'd be going through your head while racing to a phone to contact home. Imagine if it turned out that nobody had died at all, and it was just something really trivial... like someone at home had locked themselves out, or they wanted to know of that lasagne in the freezer would be okay to eat.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345810#Comment_119345810

Tell him look up Allan Savoury and holistic management.

TooTired123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345903#Comment_119345903

I know? But I think RTÉ were only involved if it was a very serious matter.

AllForIt

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

The body acclimatizes to whatever climate but it takes some time. Onc can't acclimatize to hot weather by going on a holiday in Portugal for a week. Basically, you get used to it. If we didn't they'd be no populations in central Africa.

thefallingman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319734#Comment_119319734

I absolutely despise my neighbours who have bbqs, don’t know them but hate them, bbqs are horrible and generally undercooked

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119345810#Comment_119345810

Panic over in Espana.Sounds like a story for RTE.I'll call in the morning.Should need about 8 crew but not on Ryanair.

P.S. got relatives in Madrid.Not a bother on them,just used to it as it's a yearly event for yonks before climate,global buzzwords were heard of.

JupiterKid

The weather is beautiful and very warm - and unsurprisingly the OP and many other posters here have to be negative as usual.

FFS just go out and enjoy the good weather instead of sitting about and moaning about it! 😎🌞🌞🌞

The relentless negativity on boards would bring anyone down at times... 😏😒

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119349415#Comment_119349415

No, the temperatures are not normal in Spain this year. They already had an unprecedented heatwave earlier than usual in June. Portugal and Spain are at their driest in 1200 years and this is likely to be their driest year on record.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/environment/spain-faces-one-of-driest-years-on-record/2630704

beachhead

No bad to be able to go back 1200 but then again the Arab conquerors did keep excellent records.Any mention of the current evolving ice age which began in the 1500s in those records you have.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335813#Comment_119335813

I'd say you could change that to over 40. Yes, they sounded so eerie and ominous.

Just went out now - crikey it's hot. No energy draining humidity though, which makes a big difference.