A new thread for Summer general discussion.
Cloudy start in Greystones. 11.7c atm.
Decent enough day in Greystones. Mostly cloudy, odd gliimer of sun and dry. 19c
I know we had some ok and dry patches here and there but overall the weather has been muck.
Is there any hope for a decent dry spell and heatwave?
I still haven't opened and used the suncream I bought last year.
2 warm days in Sligo. 2.
I have a similar measure on my website, though with a cutoff of 21C, last month was pretty middle of the road in that regard:
However average temperature was definitely on the low side, 2019 is out on its own in the cold stakes for June:
2023 was pretty special overall.
My PWS N.Tipp
June 23: 23 warm days (A warm day 20°C or more)
June 24: 8 warm days
Then again June 22 looked worse 🙂
We usually say this about winter too in early January when there’s no prospect of cold and snow!
Replying to need more tea’s post. Reply function with quote still not working for me 🙃
Fine misty rain turning to persistent drizzle now in Celbridge, just as it's supposed to be clearing up! Damp, grey, and cool.
It was pretty OK where I was. Reached 18º in the late afternoon and stayed dry until around midnight. Bit of sun here and there.
I went out for a run in the afternoon on Dun Laoghaire pier. Was perfect weather for it. And lots of people were out in normal clothes just getting on with things and enjoying themselves.
Then in the evening I went to the Taylor Swift concert. It was actually perfect weather. Dry. Sun even came out. And around 17º. And lots of people were out in normal clothes (well, lots of Taylor Swift hats and t-shirts of course) just getting on with things and enjoying themselves also. Which you'd swear was impossible reading some of the comments on here.
Was it beach weather? Absolutely not. And nothing compared to the weather in Spain and Italy etc. But we rarely get that weather anyway in Ireland. With Irish weather you just need to expect the worst and hope for the best I think.
We could definitely have done with more sun over the past few weeks. But temp wise, in the East at least, it's been pretty close to average (I get it's been much cooler further West).
Sryan - what did the June daily high for Dublin end up as?
Despite all the cloudy days we've had another dry May (and June) just like in 2023. Some stats from around the country.
Average in Brackets
Dublin Airport = 30mm (66mm) = 45%
Cork Airport = 35mm (78mm)
Mace Head = 46mm (82mm)
Mount Dillon = 42mm (74mm)
I don't see any official station that broke the average. Most are well below.
same cold muck as the weekend, another grey, damp, cold, drizzlely day. 1/3th of the way through summer and nothing really to show for it.
Even by our standards we've been doing poorly, we just had the cloudiest first half to the year in 30 years since 1994 (Dublin Airport data).
nothing but grey grey grey forecast. it's incredible how little sunshine we get in this country.
This endless gloomy weather is so depressing! Cool and cloudy here in Dublin with a little bit of drizzle. I feel summer is running away from us even though we still have two months!
If you look at met eireanns forecast for rain it has 0mm per hour for waterford city for the whole day. Been raining on and off here since 8am. Weather forecasts are struggling to forecast within the hour these days.
We have had a pretty good run since January in West Mayo, it seemed like we dodged a lot of the bad weather that other places had, but the last week or so has been...challenging 😬
back home to the endless grey gloomy Irish excuse of a summer. As others have said it’s dark cold damp. Miserable.
Another interesting statistic about June 2024 is that it was cooler than May 2024 at Casement. I have no idea when this last happened if it even did. This is also the case for Ballyhaise, Belmullet, Dunsany, Finner, Knock, Markree (final figure yet to come in but 0.5C cooler than May as of the 29th, which is absolutely insane), Mount Dillon, Mullingar, and Newport.
100% cloud cover this morning.
Constant light drizzle.
Cool.
No surprise.
Yep. Was hiking near Glenbeigh Kerry yesterday, forecast was to be sunny and dry. It was dull, lots of drizzle and it was cold . I needed the layers and the gloves. Still it was great to be out and the mountains always give me a lift………..but still, this is meant to be Summer! I am nostalgic for those beautiful 2 Summers of Covid when it was so hot I had to buy "hiking sandals"!
New month.
Arctic July.
Temperatures for next 7 days for Sligo 13c to 15c still. In July!!! Rain all the 7 days. ALL.
Hopefully Hurricane Beryl can shift things around a bit after this. By week 2 in July days are getting shorter. Could be an even colder Summer than 2011 and 2015 at this rate.
Back from my run. Wet. Dark. Cool.
Leitrim
Autumnal morning. Cool, Dark, Bleak
10c, N Kildare
ECM Long range not showing anything of substance really. My positivity is waning………We'll know if the next 7-10 days anyway how most of July shoud play out but we could be relying on August at this stage…………
Besides that, all is great
EDIT
MT Gives some hope for second half of July
Officially 1st of July can't believe over half way through the year , nice and mild here in rathfarnham tonight rain is fairly light , pollen is actually killing me it's awful to be honest
The forecast seems useless at the moment, today was meant to be a ' nice day' with some sunshine and 18 degrees.
It was cold in Dublin with a light drizzle for a lot of the day.
I had planned for a dry day tomorrow, as forecast. But it's been drizzling for a couple of hours now and it now says rain on and off up to lunchtime.
Thank God June is over. 77.7mm rain but very cold and dull. Still 10c as it passes midnight but app has a few 20c days in July. We had 2 in June. 22c or 23c was the max here. Think my own station maxed at 22.6c
21⁰ here in Lanzarote at 0011. How will we go home to the four seasons.
June will be the fifth duller than average month at Dublin Airport. If the information I have is correct, then the last time this happened was June-October 2005.
Since 2018, our summers have become rather strange in that although notably good weather is happening more frequently than you'd expect, we're also getting more than our fair share of cloudy weather, with July being the worst offender.
For Dublin Airport, every June since 2019 inclusive has been duller than average except 2021, which was practically bang on average, and 2023, which was very sunny.
Since 2019, July 2020 and 2023 were exceptionally dull and 2022 significantly duller than average. 2021 statistically was a bit of a nightmare dressed like a daydream - 70% of the whole month's sunshine was contained within a 10-day spell, and so, the rest of the month was exceptionally dull. 2019 was a weird one in Dublin in that it was slightly duller than average at Dublin Airport but sunnier than average at Casement.
And for August, 2019 was sunny, 2020 record dull, 2021 would've taken the record from 2020 without the fine spell at the end, though unlike July, the fine spell didn't stop the month from being very dull anyway. 2022 was exceptionally sunny whilst 2023 was dull.
It's even raining there. Nowhere escapes.
