Summer 2024 - General Discussion

Kinda starting to rain here now , feeling fairly nippy now

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.

As you were again this morning except breezier.

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???????

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)

Nada

Lol. You can only laugh at this stage. And cry.

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.

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.

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.

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