a cool start to the first morning of summer but at least it's sunny after a very wet day yesterday.
Cloudy but 24c here I'm surprised, hotter than UK and all
Savage day again. Down in West Cork near Bantry for a few days before kids go back to school and it's unreal. What an August!
Earlier 25.9c exceeded by 26.4c at lunch time. Hovering around the 24c to 25c mark ever since as the sky turned hazy, partly cloudy and a bit of an increase in the wind too.
Super day in Galway. Feels so warm
Another stunner of a day. A brilliant day out at Fort Lucan, enjoying the last few days of summer before school returns.
2018 probably still stands out for me as best summer ever as it was so warm and sunny for weeks on end, but this summer has been best ever July/ August combined.
I still can't believe that it barely rained in Dublin for the whole of August.
Anyone else get the smell of bleach (the citrus flavoured one) outside at the moment?
As peaceful and warm a wakening as ever was... Not a whisper of wind, and making coffee in thin nightclothes... Sheer utter BLISS, and checking met ie....Ah wondrous day ahead. ENJOY!
The photo is recent and this will be the panorama today..from my garden.
Good morning from Greystones.
Another cracker of a morning here in Sunny Spai....sorry I mean Dublin
A beautiful morning here in Meath, enjoy it while it lasts, we will all be sick of the rain by this time next week.
Stunning day in Sligo 20c already.
London has been over 20c max for past 70 days and some parts of England nearly 90 days.
Finner has had 8 days above 20c in August but Oak Park has had 25 days and 3 above 30c.
I hope you did enjoy it as there's been a big change in the last hour, in Trim Meath anyway. Mostly cloudy now thanks to an area of cloud that has come down from the northeast and the breeze is a bit stronger now as well. Looks like it may be temporary although I see more banks of cloud in the north Irish Sea.
If I get clear skies at lunch hour, I'll be happy enough. The cloud has probably arrived because I put on shorts today so I have jinxed the weather. I think today is either the 4th or 5th time this summer that I've put on shorts first thing in the morning.
Another warm one out there, best in the west
Another stunning day in Dublin, warm and clear blue skies. Bliss
I think Dublin has been 20+ degrees for about 45-50 of the past 60 days. Remarkable stuff
Becoming more cloudy here in Meath and a fairly chilly breeze is getting going, had to put on a jumper for the first time since June.
Great day in Greystones - clear/sunny - but a chilly enough breeze off the sea. 17.7c atm.
Gone 24c in south Laois now... bit of a breeze going too. Todays temperatures are a more of a slow but steady rise unlike yesterday's surges.
Sunny with a few fairweather clouds about. Great day again.
Finally got out for a walk in Trim, Meath. Very pleasant day for walking..... Or running for that matter. Partly cloudy to my southwest but otherwise it's now mostly clear/sunny and the light, sometimes moderate breeze is pleasantly mild. I reckon I'm far enough inland that the nip in the on-shore breeze has been eroded.
Looking east:
Cracking day in Galway.
Thank you August 2022.
Family wedding this Saturday afternoon in north County Dublin. Any thoughts about what we may get, weather wise?
It is lovely to read so many HAPPY posts...
Out here now is seriously hot. A small breeze but sky and ocean ablaze with light and rippling with heat... and "mellow fruitfulness" is in full ripening.
Saturday and Sunday will be a washout. Much of next week is also looking very unsettled. We are flipping into a very unsettled pattern from Friday evening, it remains to be seen how extensive this unsettled pattern will last for.
I was hoping only Friday unsettled :(
BBC animated radar on their forecast is keeping the precip off the coast for Saturday:( Too good to be true.
Widespread rain for the whole of the country all day Saturday and Sunday?
Wouldn't be all day but on and off, will know closer to the time.
This evening in Durrow. Max of 25c. Down to 15c now.
The GFS has had this wknds low nailed on for nearly two weeks now. Its consistently had it hanging around like a bad smell for a week or more.
It's showing 7-10 days of muck from Friday onwards before HP starts building again around mid September.
I will probably open the Autumn threads tomorrow and yep the first half of September is looking like a write off if the GFS is correct. This could well be the wettest and windiest spell of weather since February. Around mid September may offer some promise of things settling down but that is along way off deep into FI.
Make the most of tomorrow and Thursday. We've been here before several times during the summer where the GFS brings 10 days of very unsettled conditons only for it to downgrade in an instant but this time around I don't think it will.
If the GFS was to verify some places could see up to 110mm of rainfall between this weekend and the following 7 days, especially southern and western coastal areas.
If I'm honest, I welcome all 100mm of it.
An rud is annamh is iontach.
What is seldom is wonderful.
Who would believe that 'seldom' is referring to 'Rain' in this case!! LOL.
At this stage, this drought in Bray seems like its lasted longer than the famous Summer 2018 one.
I'm not sure if a 10 minute moderate shower during the T&L a few weeks ago and a few hours of overnight drizzle a week later count as the ending of a drought here. Paths barely got damp. Seafront and Bray Head grass has been yellow and straw-like for months now. The only reminder at how green it usually is the patch of lush green grass due to spillage around the public drinking water tap beside Finbee's Coffee shop/Aquarium building.
