Summer 2023 - General Discussion

This tune sums up the weather in north Dublin today.

That's awful to hear bet we'll have either a very mild winter or a cold one there will be no in-between

Went swimming in Mulranny in a storm of lashing rain. Floods down there a few miles back the way not a drop of rain.

I came back to Kerry yesterday from Spain and find it every bit as horrible as before I left 12 days ago. Spent today trying to clean up my garden. All concrete areas are filthy and mouldy from constant rain, geraniums are miserable, the poor things, they hate rain and got no chance this year and as somebody else said, there are leaves all over the place a good month too early. A very different story to last year when August behaved as August should.

Somebody commented that there has been little to no sitting out weather since the early June heatwave and that has been my experience too. Granted I've been away a lot, but while here it's been horrible, and family and friends tell me I've missed very little, bar that stunning day in Kerry on August 9th. People are welcome to disagree but I think this has been the lousiest summer in years. We have a little glass conservatory at the bottom of the garden, which is a nice little warm relaxing place with even a tiny bit of sun, but it's got almost no use this summer. With constant grey days there's nothing to heat it. Good luck to anybody talking up summer 2023! It's clutching at straws, imo.

Looking dry for the south and east of the country for the rest of the week so not all bad

The wind has been awful. The garden is saturated. I just gave up yesterday and turned all my tall plants in pots on their side. That way they’d suffer less damage rather than wait for the wind to flatten them. A complete wash out of a Summer, can’t remember one as bad as this. Colder air on its way and more strong westerlies on offer? September’s going to be much the same then.

As I was throwing in the last bit of turf , the other evening, there was a couple of lightning strikes out of the blue. I am a bit paranoid about being out in thunderstorms, since a farmer nearby was killed in a lightning strike. Anyway it looks like we are not going to get a sustained settled spell in September afterall. I think we could have fairly windy Autumn and winter this year.

Cloud all day. 17C. Windy. Showers earlier this afternoon.

Leitrim.

Beautiful bright blue skies.

Two minutes of sunshine before they return to school 😅

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