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Summer 2024 - General Discussion

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭pauldry


    So day 30 of June/"Summer" 26 days now colder than normal 2 slightly above normal and 2 well above normal. Hope July is better



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭pauldry


    In the Arctic Summer Ireland is experiencing in 2024 Met Eireann is predicting a max in Sligo on Friday of 10c . Would this be one of the coldest July maxes ever?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭PowerToWait


    I remember watching the forecast some time in the early 90s with some French people who were properly aghast at the idea of a 9 degree max in July.

    'It's never 9 degrees in the middle of July ffs" was the essential translation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,052 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    Yes. That assumes there'll be persistent rain all day long and it's plausible.

    1st July 1997 is the coldest July day of "modern times" and that day wasn't even rainy. It was just cloudy with a very cool northerly airflow.

    Some of the maxima that day:

    Casement 10.6C

    Clones 10.7C

    Malin Head 10.2C

    Mullingar 10.9C

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    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    A very chilly week on the way with temperatures struggling to make it much past 12C at times during the day. I'm completely fed up of the chilly temperatures already and just want temperatures where they should be for this time of the year (18 to 22C). In 2 weeks we will be at the midway point of summer and we've only had a few days warmer than 18C. We all know that the much warmer than average temperature anomaly will be back for good just in time for winter and northern blocking will be nowhere to be seen and a massive ridge of high pressure sits over Iberia for the entire winter.

    There better be a significant and prolonged warming trend appearing in the models over the course of the coming week from the middle of July onwards. Last summer we were sick of the deluges, this summer we're sick of the cold.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Indeed. Yesterday was a pleasant day in Sligo but if you weren't standing at the side of a building in shelter or walking really fast it was cold. 16c yesterday was actually one of our best days of June. That says it all really.

    Most of the first half of July won't be much better. I suspect the second half will be warmer as its rarely 14c then. (even in 2011 it got up to the 20s a couple of days around July 20th). Hopefully most of the heavy rain has run out as we did have that 9 month wet spell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭KanyeSouthEast


    now now Gonzo don’t be so “miserable” I’m sure it’s glorious somewhere in Ireland today.😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,985 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Very cold damp summer day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Rugbyf565


    It’s a reality now that Irish people have to fly to southern Europe for 7-14 days a year to get some sun/ vitamin D for health, well being and to ward off colds/flus. This feels like the cloudiest, darkest year I’ve ever experienced in Ireland. People mentioning that avg temperatures have increased but today at peak hours in Phoenix Park it’s barely 15 degrees with cold breezes.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    another rubbish day in Meath, cold, dark, cloudy and dismal, just like yesterday.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,894 ✭✭✭appledrop


    Yep, but I had to get the kids out today, the 2 year old was like a bag of cats after all the rain yesterday. Only got to max of 15 degrees here yesterday.

    At least today is only drizzly rain so we were grand in light rain coats in playground, but it's certainty not pleasant out there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    I'm frozen today! Feels a lot colder than 15C. So dull, but it is dry so still got a few garden jobs done. At least I don't feel guilty spending two full afternoons plonked in front of the Tour de France.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭Billcarson


    Don't mind the cool weather but I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that we will end up having the warmest autumn on record leading into another crap winter. Seasons are muddled.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzo


    I've completely given up getting excited over winter at this stage, too many busts since winter 2018.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,985 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Sun out now. Even some heat in it. ☀️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Rain at the moment. 11C.

    Leitrim



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Mr.Wemmick


    Arrived earlier today to stay at my mother’s house for the week and I’ve just been asked if I want a hot water bottle. That question sums up this summer so far.

    ““Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” - Robert Frost



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,494 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    A cold wet dark evening here in Mayo. Thank god for the Euros's on the tv



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭pauldry


    It's even raining there. Nowhere escapes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭Artane2002


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Kutebride


    21⁰ here in Lanzarote at 0011. How will we go home to the four seasons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭pauldry


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,894 ✭✭✭appledrop


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,564 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,186 ✭✭✭wazzzledazzle


    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

    Post edited by wazzzledazzle on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Back from my run. Wet. Dark. Cool.

    Leitrim



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭pauldry


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    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"!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,499 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    100% cloud cover this morning.

    Constant light drizzle.

    Cool.

    No surprise.



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