a cool start to the first morning of summer but at least it's sunny after a very wet day yesterday.
Each to their own. I suppose for meteorology we need defined seasons to compare with previous years and get average climate stats.
You can have beautiful weather in October. Calm, sunny and pleasantly warm at 16-19c. However for me it's not summer. It gets bright at 8am, as opposed to 5am mid summer. It gets dark at 6.30pm in mid October, as opposed to 10pm mid summer. Even after a warm October day your night time temps aren't summery, about 5-9c or lower with ground frost. Most of the summer flowers are out of bloom. You have leaves changed to autumnal colours, and they're falling because it's 'The Fall' not because of drought.
On the 21 October you are 4 months from the summer solstice. The same amount of time from summer solstice as 21 February.
October is far removed from summer but it can bring beautiful summer like weather in the daytime. Much like April isn't winter but can bring wintery weather.
I would rate this summer as slightly better than average. We had a disappointing June and a borderline poor July here but the fantastic August and the prevalence of dry conditions tips the summer as a whole into the above average category.
yep - I really hated that heatwave that we had (down here in Cork anyway) in July.. so hot and humid but just grey/white skies.. yuk.. August has been fab.. blue skies galore.. sunshine and air/breeze later on... been loving the weather the last 2 weeks in particular.. and the low sun.. lots of pretty colourful photos and big juicy blackberries had.. hmmmm
Was 95 as dry for you Danno by the end of August?
It was worse in the Bilboa area than this year. I see the Oak Park mean temp is 16.9c, 1.6c above average. Kilkenny had a mean of 18.9c for August 1995, 2 degrees warmer than this August. August 1995 was a freakish month, like December 2010.
Maxed at 22.9c in southern Laois today, August 31st. The cooling of daily maxes trend continues as we cross now on over into Autumn. We sent up a drone this evening to have a look across the dry landscape before the sun set on this amazing second half to Summer 2022. Some of the greener fields - especially notable in the last photo is nearby to us where 22.4mm was recorded on August 15th - quite the difference!
Ye even the end of july i noticed and was crazy
Absolutely makes a difference alright :)
And to think we hit 29.1c with a sun angle the same as 10 April! Of course heat build up on the land after a good summer and a feed from the south or continent hitting us helps.
totally - I noticed a difference Aug 4th...even shadows wer longer
That 15 degrees makes alot of difference
When they brought in the water ban a few days ago met Éireann was forecasting another 2 weeks of settled weather. I’m delighted that they were wrong. I’ve notice the iPhone weather app has been very poor this year forecasting, always rated highly.
Amazing to think that the sun angle is 60 degrees high in the sky on 21 June and 45 degrees on 1 September. You often hear people comment on the 'light appearing differently' by early September.
Lovely sunshine today in Dublin.
Rain for Friday ..... can't tell timing for a long drive cross country. Saturday SW Coast for morning looks OK but Sunday looks intense from south-west for return travel 😲 Following with interest. Will miss the peaceful amazing weather we have been having.
Few bits of weather history.
This day 25 years ago, 31 August 1997, the day Princess Diana died, witnessed very heavy rainfall across much of the country with flash flooding around Carlow.
I'm fairly sure 1st September 1993 was the warmest day that year, 24C in Kilkenny Met Eireann announced on the 9pm news that evening. One thing I'm sure of, the warmest day of the year won't be in September this year 😊 It looks fairly certain we won't do a 3 in a row of breaking the monthly all time record. The first 10 days of the month won't be conducive to it and you really can only break the record in the first week as you're losing 4min daylight a day.
Sryan will know but I remember as a 9 year old on 30th September 1985 the 9pm news telling us the 3 warmest days of the year reached 23C. One around the 23rd July before the weather broke on 25th, there were a few pleasant days before it. The other two were 10 and 23 September when 23C was reached.
Speak for yerselves over East! We are certainly not overdue rain here in the South West and certainly not the deluges forecast. While we've had a fair share of decent dry weather this summer here, especially in August, no way has it been so dry that you'd be craving for rain. We had wash outs for the August bank holiday and again after the early August heat wave and plenty of bits since. We're fine out rain wise thank you.
Joanna Donnelly said on weather after the news that there could be weather warnings issued for this weekend.
ECM Extreme Weather Index for 24-hr precipitation total on Saturday. It's a measure of how unusual the total is relative to the LTA for the time. A value of 0.7 means that up to 70% of years don't get the totals being predicted. So it's about a 3 in 10 event, not too unusual.
It won't rain all the time over the weekend. A washout to me is rain non stop all day. Bank Holiday Monday was the last one here and then only 12mm so bar the usual spots Saturday may not turn out too bad in some parts and we may get a lot of the heavy rain over with overnight Friday and then showery Saturday and Sunday.
Summer 2022 in Sligo started real bad but has improved. I figured early on that the 2nd half of July and August would see somewhat better weather and this is what transpired here in the Northwest. June was a zero for sun and warmth though. And the 3 days in a row of mist and darkness in July are best forgotten. August has been the best one since 2003 or 2006 here. The chill that comes after August 23rd annually never happened.
Lovely and warm in Carrick above 20c anyway, sun is shining
Well to many of us summer lasts well into September, even until October, has always will.... It cannot be tied down the same every year. Because the met office say so ... So summer goes on now
Oh definitely but I just for sorry for people when bad weather falls on weekend if they have been working all week.
Let’s be honest we are well overdue some rain, it’s been like 2 months since any sustained rain fell
Hopefully the GFS is just overcooking the rainfall potential over the next week. Still hoping for some kind of downgrade in the models between now and Saturday but it does generally look like it will be unsettled over the next week to 10 days at least.
Another lovely sunny day in Dublin. Will be sad to see the back of Summer 2022, one of the best in memory
I just can't foresee it being all that bad!
Tomorrow is another sunny day also Friday isn't looking too bad ,Saturday though could be washout in the east ,that's what currently being modelled anyway
What a beautiful walk to school on 1st day back.
Playground then this evening as we could be indoors all weekend by looks of it with all the rain that's forecast.
Today is the last day of summer and could be the last time I see sunshine for the forseeable future, going to spend the whole day outside. Models still showing more than a months worth of rain falling in places over the next week.
Autumn is coming....tomorrow! 🙂
15.4c atm in Greystones.
Quite a difference between some inland areas and coastal areas on the 7am WOW reports.
Just 6.4c in Ardee ACS whilst Glengarriff ACS is 16.0c
Across in the UK it's Manston in the far SE reporting a rounded 19c whilst Altnaharra in Scotland is a rounded 1c!
