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Summer 2024 - General Discussion

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  • #782
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307351#Comment_122307351

    No it is correct for the majority. Most had the warmest weather of the year in September. The highest temperature in June 2023 was 28.8C at Oak Park on 13th June. 24 of the 25 synoptic stations had their highest temp of 2023 from that September spell - Oak Park was the single exception.

    The June warmth was purely down to persistence (the longest unbroken spell of 20C anywhere in Ireland since 1995). Station records were set in September, not in June.

    Oak Park had an AVERAGE max of 25.3C for the first 9 days of September. That's only 0.4C off its warmest month on record - August 1995.

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  • #783
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,942 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307386#Comment_122307386

    Wow I didn't realise that. Oak Park did really well in that Sept period. We've done alright in the bright months apart from the wet July/August 2023.

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  • #784
    Rugbyf565
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 978 ✭✭✭Rugbyf565


    do I plan a small sun vacation for July/august? Or risk an Irish summer?



  • #785
    sryanbruen
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307392#Comment_122307392

    Generally speaking, I don't think there's a month in the "warm season" that one could "objectively" say we've done completely terrible on as of late. There's been at least one of each that has brought an exceptional period or noteworthy "fine weather" statistic like sunshine, lack of rain or above average temperatures. Subjectively, I would like to say we're due a great July - though doesn't look like it'll happen this year (sigh) based on early prospects - because whilst July 2021 heatwave was outstanding, the rest of it was poor and the heatwave completely skewed the stats of that month, moreso than any other month I've ever seen. July 2022 whilst dry and very warm did terribly on the sun front with a lot of humid northwesterlies or southwesterlies bringing air around the top of the ridge of high pressure. 2020 and 2023 were horrific.

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  • #786
    sryanbruen
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    A diurnal temperature range of 20.6C at Magilligan today in the north ranging from a min this morning of 1.6C to a max of 22.2C this afternoon. More akin to mid-late spring rather than late June.

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  • #787
    Cluedo Monopoly
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307468#Comment_122307468

    Yeah I'd take a dry calm July, not too bothered about sun. It can't be wetter than last year.

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  • #788
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Just back from the city centre...it was packed with people sitting outside having drinks and food...Great atmosphere. Unfortunately that looks like it for a few days at least



  • #789
    pauldry
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307450#Comment_122307450

    I'd go on sun holiday. Early July looks brutal at present. The rest would be hoping for. Maybe it will but who knows.



  • #790
    dan575283578
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭dan575283578


    i really hope we're not in for a repeat of july/aug 2023



  • #791
    squarecircles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,343 ✭✭✭squarecircles


    A few days, a few weeks more like, the prime period of summer is now going down the tubes. Like a winters evening here, cold, dark and howling winds, with a gale out at sea.

    Latest gfs again is pure scutter again, with relentless muck spewing in from the Atlantic.



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  • #792
    mcburns07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭mcburns07


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122308349#Comment_122308349
    IMG_2141.jpeg

    I think you need to stop looking at the weather forecast for a bit 😅



  • #793
    Oscar Bravo
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    Rare to be reporting gusts in June but anyway 11pm

    Mace head 39 knots

    Newport 37 knots

    Belmullet 36 knots



  • #794
    esposito
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    My god that wind is annoying this morning on my commute to work in Dublin.
    I can’t stand windy days during the summer.

    At least it’s not raining.



  • #795
    wazzzledazzle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭wazzzledazzle


    Fairly blustery and that wind is not particularly warm. Cloudy 14c , N . Kildare



  • #796
    .Donegal.
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    Wet and windy



  • #797
    CruelSummer
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    I hate to say it but I think this summer is a complete disaster. If the pattern is cool and windy entering July, that usually sticks around for most of the summer.



  • #798
    wazzzledazzle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭wazzzledazzle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122308937#Comment_122308937

    Does it though? @sryanbruen is the only man for the job who could verify your claim. I'd have my doubts, if what you mean by "cool" is below average temperatures with lower value % hours of sunshine.

    Personally, here in Kildare, it has not b any means been a disaster. There have been some lovely spells of weather with some cool and wet days.

    My definitiion of a disaster of a summer would be a washout for the entire 3 months. But hey, different strokes for different folks

    Oh, we are only one third in to summer also 😛



  • #799
    Rugbyf565
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    was a great ol’ summer lads, got the winter coat out the wardrobe today—freeeezin



  • #800
    Oscar Bravo
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    Recent gust of 45 knots at Mace head



  • #801
    OldRio
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    Cool and wet morning. 12C windy. Muck. Leitrim



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  • #802
    Jinglejangle69
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    Global warming!!



  • #803
    Thelonious Monk
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122309003#Comment_122309003

    is something you clearly don't understand.

    anyway it's v windy in dublin, stuff banging around the garden, and the outlook is bleak for as far as weather forecasts can show us. it's the hope that kills you every summer, bloody depressing.



  • #804
    dockysher
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    Last summer looks great so far compared to this year and last year was a disaster lol.

    We got good few weeks of sustained sunshine in May/June last year and rest of summer was a washout.

    This year no sustained days of sunshine yet unfortunately.



  • #805
    Rugbyf565
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 978 ✭✭✭Rugbyf565


    Is there anything to be said for the possibility of a sunny august? Is it possible to get a sunny august in Dublin?



  • #806
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,150 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122309030#Comment_122309030

    August is usually really bad in Ireland. Usually we get a decent May and some of June is good until it turns into monsoon season until September. That's the pattern I'm most familiar with anyway.



  • #807
    Mapaputsi
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    Seriously blustery and showery day here in Oranmore Galway. Flower pots all over the place this morning, patio wrecked with compost. Did not see these gusts coming.

    I know I live at the coast (even though we are at the end of Galway Bay), but this year seems to be a lot windier than any year I can remember in recent history. Even during the recent dry spell we got it always seemed to be gusty outside. It kept the temps very pleasant but not nice weather to sit outside in!



  • #808
    timmyntc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122309032#Comment_122309032

    Thats not true at all.

    It seems a lot of people's perception about Irish summers is coloured by recency and other biases, and the fact that people seem to forget any dull spells in past years.

    Irish summers are not like the continent - we seldom get long clear hot spells. It is mild, it rains, it gets cloudy, but it is noticeably warmer than the rest of the year.

    It is far improved compared to spring, even when it rains it warm and pleasant. you need to adjust your expectations or you will be forever disappointed



  • #809
    fits
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    also. August 2022!

    I’m giving up looking at forecast. Sun is out frequently and it’s nice when it appears.

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  • #810
    Thelonious Monk
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122309272#Comment_122309272

    cloudy with some showers and 19c to me is no better than 13c and the same in february or march though. constant cloud cover and 5 to 15c in the colder months and 8 or 10 - 18c for most of summer seems to be the norm.



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  • #811
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,412 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Normal service resumed.

    Wet and windy.



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