With Summer officially around the corner, let's hope for a decent spell of weather.
Personally hoping for fairly pleasant and consistent rather than long spells of rain and odd hot burst! I can hope...
I'm not one of them as I love hot, dry weather but I love all types of weather. Its the volume of one type over the other that I dislike about our beautiful island.
Id have to agree with your point on a whole though. At the height of the heat on the East Coast there was multiple stabbings, heat definitely brings out the crazy in some people.
Sorry but my experiences are absolutely different.
The weather was stunning yesterday. In the course of my work I met around 50 people yesterday. Every single one commented about how wonderful the weather was. Also everyone was in great form.
Finally some prolonged rain in Galway. Well needed.
Normal service has resumed, a damp cloudy morning after some overnight rain.
It missed Sligo we had 1mm of rain for 20 minutes last night.
Heat is stretched to Sunday now. Maxes in the low 20s and mins in the High teens.
There would want to be max of 14c and low near 0c in the last week for it not to be our hottest June on record in Sligo so it's a given.
Vile morning in Cork, heavy rain.
29th April. I do not have a good picture of that so here's one from 16th April at Irishtown towards Poolbeg as it started to approach me from the bay.
Next time if you see a warm day and there's southeasterly winds forecast, don't be surprised to see an outbreak of sea fog at some point in the day.
Thanks. When did you last witness this here yourself?
Humid southeasterly winds, it's not unusual at all and happens during most days where the wind is southeasterly in Dublin.
Anyone know what's causing that really thick fog that's been smothering Dublin Bay since this afternoon? It's really unusual.
Going by Met Eireann data, the June has had over 140% of its normal sunshine for the period up to the 21st. Certainly, this must be one of the sunniest Junes in living memory by my reckoning.
Nights are drawing in........
There is something magical and even spiritual about a midsummer twilight. The long days are just not for me though, and for some reason, they seem to go on longer than the longer nights of the winter, even though it all balances out over the course of the year.
Unlike Cluedo Monopoly, I don't find that summer puts people in better form at all. If anything, the excessive heat of summer makes people more irritable and short-tempered. And from my own observations at least, it seems that people are a lot more calm and mellow and generally more relaxed when the weather is dull, dry and calm than when it is sunny, glarish and hot.
Same. Imagine finishing work on a sunny day and then it gets dark an hour later.
Not only are people in good form now, they also look great! The Irish look well with a bit of non-fake tan!
Yep, not a bit surprised. The farmers need rain for winter fodder purposes. Some of the large fields near me that usually produce many bales of silage have long grass that is turning to hay. I would guess they expected rain this week and got very little.
I love the long days personally. I would hate to be living in a country where it gets dark at 6 pm all year around. That said I do enjoy the long winter nights too. I like variety/ seasons. That's why I would find a place where you are guaranteed months of fine weather boring after a while. I think this is why good weather here puts most of us in a good mood and we seem to appreciate it all the more as we know it won't last.
23.5C on the car here in Co. Kilkenny. Lovely.
Stupid sea fog ruining the evening here. My least favourite weather.
25mm in Kildare after ducking and dodging the majority of the downpours over the past week
Farming commentary.
Soil moisture deficits (SMDs) currently range from 22 to 74mm across all soil types, with the driest soils in parts of Galway and the southeast.
Certainly is a novelty for Galway.
Just 12.8mm in Mace Head (Average = 82mm)
Belmullet has 21.5mm (Average = 72mm)
Claremorris 22mm (Average 74mm)
Very dry month for Connacht and especially Galway.
Beautiful day back in Kerry, 22C with a light breeze, perfect!
Cloud is building as expected, rainfall later but enjoying the sunshine and air going through the house for now.
Looking forward to the raspberries in a flan later ,picked from the garden this morning, combination of sun and rain giving the best crop ever 😀
Yeah there was hardly any breeze at Salthill this morning. Gorgeous swim, the water is unreal.
Roasting in Galway today, real heat in the sun and the breeze is a lot more subdued than recently.
June rain so far
Sligo 65mm
Finner 45mm
Markree 38mm
They mustn't have got the explosive storm the other day that gave us over 20mm in an hour
August 1997 was a very wet month in the southern half of the country, the Bank Hol saw about 4 inches of rain. (Met Eireann really got the movement of a low from Biscay wrong and had forecast the whole country staying dry and warm). It was a warm month and for some reason I mostly remember it for warm bursts of sunshine.
Looking like rain.. From Met Eireann below. The further east the better.
'SATURDAY: Staying humid with occasional outbreaks of rain, most frequent in western parts later in the day. Most areas will be cloudy with the best of any sunshine in the east and northeast. Highest temperatures of 19 to 24 degrees in light to moderate southerly breezes.'
Rain forecast upgraded to 104mm from now to end of June for Sligo. Apparently rain will intensify over warm ocean so there might be a few places that get 50mm on one of the days.
Another cracking morning in Galway. Wall to wall blue skies. Make the most of it!
84mm of rain predicted by Norwegian met for Sligo between now and June 30th. Thatl mean we will have 150mm of rain in one of our best June's ever. How Ironic.
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