A new thread for Summer general discussion.
Cloudy start in Greystones. 11.7c atm.
Heavy rain
Kinda starting to rain here now , feeling fairly nippy now
😂😂
I'll answer this when the daily data for June 2024 gets updated to the historical database which should be later this week or early next week at latest I'd have thought. I cannot be bothered to select each individual day and log each daily mean wind speed at the moment from June. Would be much less tedious if the daily data page had a simple previous and forward arrow to go onto the next or prior day rather than having to select the date each time then press go and wait for the page to late. If I remember correctly, you're based in Dublin?
As with the above, await the Met historical database to update for June. However, Meteociel give 06-06 mean max values that give us a reasonable estimate though not all the time and can sometimes wildly differ to the official 09-09 or in the case of met.ie 00-00 values.
Dublin Apt: 17.8C (+0.1C above 91-20)
Casement: 17.7C (-0.3C below 91-20)
Back from a week in Lanzarote. Sooooo dull here. Raining now. Pretty depressing really.
14⁰ Meath
Thanks fits, mapaputsi and dominating for the well wishes. Just as regards the summer wedding in Ireland, it's nice to try something different and have it outdoors . Of course it's a toss of a coin on the day weather wise, but when you hire a country house 7 months in advance for a small wedding with lots of young kids milling around, it's worth a try. We are not totally dependent on this scenario as we can move it indoors up to 1 hours notice. Even with the Irish summer you would think you have a 60 to 70 % chance of having at least a dry few daylight hours in July. It just seems the jetstream has slipped south just at the wrong time for me. I'm still hoping for that little ridge of high pressure.
Rinse and repeat of the last how many days, except colder. Heating is on. 9c(Feels much cooler than that) N.Kildare
As you were again this morning except breezier.
No measurable rain overnight but dull again. Have a week off work mid month, fingers crossed I can spend most of it in the garden as planned!
Haven't had my heatng on since Mid-April and only then a few times since the end of March 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️. Can't get my head around this ' it's freezing' stuff. Yes it's colder then normal but 'it's freezing ' really in July???????
Is that 7 questions you're asking?
Anyway, i never mentioned it was freezing. It's cool, actually, in the house whe i woke up, it felt cold. Heating went on. House is now nice and warm. Jobs a good'un, heating now off.
Oh God, I picked a bad week to start a sea swimming course! I've been told learning the front crawl with your head in the water is difficult but the winds and the choppy water are making it extremely challenging. When I booked this course in February I was thinking of balmy calm sunny warm days! Even wearing gloves, boots and long sleeved swimsuit I had to get out early yesterday.
I am a regular year round swimmer so I'm used to the sea, but wanted to improve. Tomorrow there is a storm forecast as if the week hasn't been bad enough. I'm thinking of pulling a sickie ! (I'm in Kerry)
some people feel the cold over others. I for example love the heat so when I hear of people hiding indoors when it’s 20 degrees I find that equally strange. I wouldn’t say it’s cold per se but I was at a match last night everyone there was in long pants, hoodie/jumper and jacket and it was cool standing there. this morning is the same as every morning this week so far except that annoying wind is back.
Is there any sign at all of some description of summer like weather on the horizon?
No. Nothing.
Nada
Currently in maderia (funchal) its like ireland on a summers day but cheaper. Anyone looking for a nice summers day rather than an oven I definitely recommend this place
Lol. You can only laugh at this stage. And cry.
And I hate to say it but we are running out of road here.
Once August arrives it becomes less probable.
Off topic regarding irelands weather. Came across these images on netweather yesterday, thought they looked pretty cool. From a Hurricane hunter plane inside the eye of Hurricane Beryl.
so your saying there’s a chance?
there's so little sunshine this year that my tomatoes just wont ripen or kick on. very unusual for them to take this long. i wonder if the cloudier wetter climate that is predicted here will have big impacts on food production, probably.
If this yrs Hurricane season is very active ,I wonder could August be affected in some way here in Ireland. Could send plenty of muggy moist air our way later this summer. Or have some impact on disturbing the weather pattern here. Think it was a Hurricane last yr that shook up our pattern and led to that heat last September.
Beautiful place was there a few years ago. The whole island is worth exploring especially if you like a bit of hiking. The weather as you say can be a mixed bag, it has micro climates all over the place, but we were lucky when we were there and it was low 20s and dry for the week. Also some of the best food I've ever eaten was on that island, definitely going to go back there.
it has a ronaldo statue too
Another cold miserable cycle in this morning, you know there's something badly wrong when you see cyclists wearing gloves in July. God love anybody trying to holiday in Ireland, bad enough that you'd need another mortgage to holiday in Ireland, but then you have to put up with our awful weather. It really is depressing stuff, with nothing to give us any hope on the horizon.
not just my tomatoes looking forlorn ………..but all my flowers are sitting there with their buds still closed. Nothing is flowering except borage and calendula. There is no heat so they're staying closed, very little colour in my garden for July.
Cold, grey, and damp. I've also had to put the heating on for an hour the past two nights - couldn't sleep with the cold on Monday night/Tue morning so gave in at 2am. Recommended living room temperature is 20C. My living room thermometer is hovering around 17C these days - if I set the heating on thermostat it would definitely have kicked in during the day too.
My garden is also full of closed buds since May that just won't open. Nothing but geraniums in flower
Glad it's not just my garden too - just about everything planted is failing to thrive…. Weeds are doing OK tho
Farming here and grass growth is very slow. It's very tight and I'm not overstocked. Some farmers are already feeding silage. Already national milk supply is back 10-15% on top a a drop of nearly 8% last year. Silage supplies are back as the peak growth months of may and June have been poor. It's the cold air and the lack of sunshine that has really hit growth of everything
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