Summer 2022 - General Discussion

There's nowhere in Ireland that be described as hot this afternoon and you won't hear any Met Eireann forecaster use the term "hot" in their forecast today. In a location sheltered from the breeze and where it's not too cloudy (more than half the country is covered in cloud), mild would be about as far as you could go with the description of the temperature. At the 14:00 report, all of the official Met stations are reporting temperatures in the teens. I would say that there a few favoured locations that have temperatures barely creeping into the very low 20's but even at that, mild would be most likely the best description for that......maybe warm if you can feel warm with those relatively low temperatures.

What about Kerry? While temps look very promising will we get the sun?

Jaysus .. meanwhile in Iraq .. over the 50 C .. above wet-bulb temperatures humans can endure

Lovely evening near Trim. Out the back enjoying the sun ☀️

I was due to go back to Spain on Monday but as Kerry is wonderful in good weather I'm seriously thinking of postponing to Friday. It's probably crystal ball stuff but would any of the weather experts here be able to give me a rough idea of how good the south west will be next week please? 21/22 and cloudy is hardly worth postponing for but 24/25 and quite sunny would be a runner. I need to move fast as right now the flight price is lower than what I paid so I'd only have the flight change fee but with Ryanair that could all change fast.

Beautiful blue skies morning in Dublin

Clouds seem to be rolling in 🙁

Fully cloudy in Trim, Meath.... Not too far from you. Sun has yet to make an appearance. Mild though, unlike recent times.

I think France has always had temps up to around 40 and higher. I lived for a few years in south of France and 33-42 were common place (especially inland places like Nimes, Avignon, Arles, Aix and other parts of Provence). Even Paris hits 40 or higher from time to time, I think Paris had 42 this year and 43 a couple of years ago.

UK hitting 40 has happened once ever in history, which was a couple of weeks ago, sure even Dublin hit 33 that week which is so unusual, those temps in Ireland more common in the midlands. I think hotter temps will become more normal but I still think what happened a couple of weeks ago will be very much the exception. It takes so many factors to come into play for Ireland to hit 33 degrees and for UK to reach 40.

In the likes of France, Spain and Italy it will become a much more regular feature.